(04-21-2012, 10:43 PM)Kriven Wrote: What's wrong with the same gameplay? The only problem I have with the NSMB series post DS is the flat graphics, but I don't really see why it's so terrible to continue using gameplay that has proven popular and fun.
this might have been touched on before but, what is wrong with building upon the game play to make it seem, ya know. Different?
lets go back to the thing about SMB->SMB2(both japan and USA games)->SMB3->SMW thing
now when you look at the first two games they really aren't that different from each other. now this actually might have been acceptable at the time since Mario was just starting to get his own series. The only things different from the first one and the second one that came out in japan was an increase in difficulty and a few new things they threw in. I'm not going to touch upon SMB2USA much since that wasn't originally a mario game but I think it should be worth pointing out that since most people recognize it as a mario game it was drastically different from the original super mario bros and it seemed like nintendo actually built upon the original game formula and Shigeru probably realized he should build upon his games and thus we got SMB3.
Now heres where SMB3 separated itself from the last two. It actually built upon the original games, gave a complete overhaul to the graphics, and it also bothered to throw in so much content in your face that you could tell it was a completely different game from the original. This is a real sequel and not just some dumb expansion pack like the Japanese SMB2. You had so many new power ups to play with and you had drastically different levels, and a lot of the game play was significantly built upon that didn't look like the ones from the first two games.
SMW also built upon that, this time, they added in yoshi, gave mario new abilities (like spin jumping) and changed up the formula a bit to take advantage of the SNES's power. True, it may have not had as much levels as SMB3 did but you have to admit one thing. It definitely has proven that you don't need more levels and shit to prove that it's a good game. It had so much replay value just from it's gameplay alone.
When you look at the NSMB for the DS you get the idea that nintendo wanted to go back to the old school formula. Which was great at the time and it actually was, well fun. Then NSMBWii came out and it didn't really build on the NSMBDS one, but it certainly proved itself a decent single despite being another expansion pack and now this. Which right now seems like a straight out obvious expansion pack.
Like I said before, NSMB2 as of right now looks almost like the exact same thing with spinkles and whip cream on top of the ice cream.