maRIO

[ncba93ivyase]

have you played any mario games lately

I just re-beat Sunshine today and it's about as good as I remember. My only real complaint is the overall bugginess. I can't count how many times I fell through walls or suddenly warped under the level after a shine appeared. And that camera, oh god.

I also beat the main story of Super Mario 3D Land which is infinitely better than I'd expected. It's what Galaxy should have been. I was satisfied with the main levels, but after beating the first run and seeing that the world number doubled I nearly shat myself. I guess my only complaint is that there isn't much freedom to explore and levels can be short, but there's a tremendous number of them so no big deal.

[bluaki]

Though it's been quite a while since I last played Sunshine, I don't remember falling through any walls

I actually like the Galaxy games

Because of not yet having a 3DS or Wii U, the last Mario platforming game I played was Galaxy 2.
Just before that, NSMB Wii, which I liked much better than the DS one. I've heard the Wii U one is better yet.

3D Land will be among the first 3DS games I get.

I guess my only complaint is that there isn't much freedom to explore and...

Isn't that the main reason you hate Galaxy?

[Snowy]

I've been playing a bunch of Super Mario World lately.

[Mando Pandango]

I keep meaning to replay Sunshine. Like I'll be on the verge of actually really doing it and then I'll get sidetracked with something else. One of these days...

[ncba93ivyase]

3D Land will be among the first 3DS games I get.

if you get an xl now and luigi's mansion or some pokemon game then you get 3d land free

Isn't that the main reason you hate Galaxy?

Yes.

the difference is that 3d land is level-based and galaxy is world-based. it's to be expected that short levels don't have much freedom, but i hate how galaxy locks you into one path when 64 and sunshine let you grab shines out of order and while doing other missions.

[Patrick Stickles]

my problem with sunshine is the crazy number of shines there are per level. plus some of them are just cruel and artificially difficult so it's like ugh

i really love galaxy 2 because of the number of levels but i'm currently at 90 stars and am struggling to find motivation to continue

[Nyerp]

3d land is a game with no challenge or anything remotely new or interesting gameplay-wise. it's a somewhat 3d version of an nsmb game. if galaxy had 3d land's degree of unvaried level design and nsmb-like problem of always making the player have a power-up, it wouldn't have gotten the accolades it did. whereas galaxy had problems of linearity, it always made sure the player was doing something new. the galaxy games actually brought something new to the table of 3d platforming with its gravity-based level design; 3d land has nothing but a bunch of samey levels and bland power-ups.

[ncba93ivyase]

3d land is a game with no challenge or anything remotely new or interesting gameplay-wise. it's a somewhat 3d version of an nsmb game. if galaxy had 3d land's degree of unvaried level design and nsmb-like problem of always making the player have a power-up, it wouldn't have gotten the accolades it did. whereas galaxy had problems of linearity, it always made sure the player was doing something new. the galaxy games actually brought something new to the table of 3d platforming with its gravity-based level design; 3d land has nothing but a bunch of samey levels and bland power-ups.

3d land's special levels are relatively difficult

while galaxy is visually interesting, it consists of nothing more than moving to the next point that launches you to another planet. it's more difficult than 3d land, but it feels like there's somehow less thought involved.

and just because it was constantly doing something "different" it didn't do anything well. it was a bunch of "hey you'll only experience this cool thing for 15 seconds and then it'll be gone forever and it'll never be interesting enough to revisit"

[silvertone]

ma rock in opposition

[Nyerp]

so i was trying to beat the special levels in this shitty game, but then i got to world 8 and realized that it was starting to charge me 10 more star coins or whatever per level

fuck this

[ncba93ivyase]

so i was trying to beat the special levels in this shitty game, but then i got to world 8 and realized that it was starting to charge me 10 more star coins or whatever per level

fuck this

maybe it's because i like collectathons but i enjoy finding all the special coins

that's a big reason why i like the game

[me003]

I was playing Mario All Stars lately. Trying to beat all the originals.

[Dullahan]

I kinda wanna play NSMBU, but I don't see the reason in buying a whole new console just for that.

[me003]

dammit my Mario All Stars cartridge needs a new battery, all my saves got erased.

[crystalpepsi]

 I got 3D Land I am really enjoying it. I got all of the Star coins and now that I have luigi I will be playing all the harder levels now and collect all the star coins as well. My only complaint is that they are way too generous with lives, I have about 140 lives making me more careless.