03-10-2014, 10:46 PM
I completely lost all love for Mario for a long time when NSMB came out. It looked ugly, it's music was awful and it was easy as hell.
Mario has always been a "kids" game - but well, you put a 6 year old in front of a NES and tell them to complete SMB 1 or 3...
Although I had played Mario games in the past I think the ones I really "played properly" was the gameboy titles. SML 2 was pretty intense back in the day trying not to panic when fighting Wario and losing all your coins. Wario Land was also just fantastic, even if technically it isn't a Mario game. I gave All-Stars a good bash on the SNES but beating SMB 3 at that age was just out of my league (and we mostly just played Vs... like, a lot).
I played Mario 64 when I was 10. It's a shame Mario seems to have moved away from the "open course" design lately (not that Super Mario 3D World or Land are bad games, I liked them both). I also thought Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 were good games (2 more so) even if the play style was a bit more arcadey/casual (I never felt I ever had to be that careful except with specific "Look out! Platforms!" bits).
I think my best "Mario" memory is beating SMW 2. It was the first game I completed what my older brother couldn't (he sucked at the final boss) and the music when taking down Bowser was just epic. Why the shitty GBA version of SMW 2 is available but not the 100 times better sounding and 38% better looking SNES version is just terrible.
Yoshi's Island is pretty much the perfect platformer, and it's only ever real contestant to the throne has been Rayman Origins.
Mario has always been a "kids" game - but well, you put a 6 year old in front of a NES and tell them to complete SMB 1 or 3...
Although I had played Mario games in the past I think the ones I really "played properly" was the gameboy titles. SML 2 was pretty intense back in the day trying not to panic when fighting Wario and losing all your coins. Wario Land was also just fantastic, even if technically it isn't a Mario game. I gave All-Stars a good bash on the SNES but beating SMB 3 at that age was just out of my league (and we mostly just played Vs... like, a lot).
I played Mario 64 when I was 10. It's a shame Mario seems to have moved away from the "open course" design lately (not that Super Mario 3D World or Land are bad games, I liked them both). I also thought Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 were good games (2 more so) even if the play style was a bit more arcadey/casual (I never felt I ever had to be that careful except with specific "Look out! Platforms!" bits).
I think my best "Mario" memory is beating SMW 2. It was the first game I completed what my older brother couldn't (he sucked at the final boss) and the music when taking down Bowser was just epic. Why the shitty GBA version of SMW 2 is available but not the 100 times better sounding and 38% better looking SNES version is just terrible.
Yoshi's Island is pretty much the perfect platformer, and it's only ever real contestant to the throne has been Rayman Origins.