Super Mario 3D Land’s packaging has an interesting surprise in Japan — as with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, it appears this game won’t include a full manual. Instead, it has a sheet instructing you to access its electronic manual by selecting the game’s icon on the Home Menu, and hitting the new “Instructions” button.

Three other notes unrelated to the manual:

• The Tanooki Mario cartridge art is cute
• The windows on the eco-friendly box feature some Super Mario 3D Land-related lineart — as usual, we probably won’t get this in North America
• FART

How do you feel about Nintendo’s move to start doing away with paper manuals for its games?

Buy: Super Mario 3D Land (November 13), 3DS system

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See also: More Super Mario 3D Land stuff

[Via Chris1964]

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