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The inclusion of Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island to Nintendo Online made the idea of buying NSMB DX from a tentative to a definitive no.
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We got all sorts of hot takes in a hot take thread. All kinds. Medium, Scolding, hot pocket scorch! Every kind of hot take on mario games right here.
Baby Mario alone makes this wrong.
And NSMBU Deluxe has the best level design of any 2D mario game and the best Bowser Castle music (which is similar to the Wii version)
The game got too much hate for coming out "too close" to NSMBWii when the gap was longer than between SMB3 and SMW
I think SMW has fantastic mechanics, but the level-design is all over the place.
As if buying/playing SMW1+2 would make NSMBW DX a worse game.
Just say you weren't really interested in the first place and let it be.
And regards Xenoblade:
DUUUUUH of course play the first one, since the second one has actually story connections.
Doesn't mean you wouldn't ever play the 2nd one
Just say you weren't really interested in the first place and let it be.
And regards Xenoblade:
DUUUUUH of course play the first one, since the second one has actually story connections.
Doesn't mean you wouldn't ever play the 2nd one
That one's been broiling for almost 30 years.
I bought NSMBU at launch for Wii U and(stupidly) rebought it for Switch in January. Is the game similar to 3D World in that the later levels are MUCH more challenging/fun than the early ones? I've gotten to the 2nd or 3rd world both times before I became bored out of my skull and dropped it. Is it worth jumping straight to NSLU content if I'm bored by the game?
I regret buying it once...
It just couldn't get into it. Played it until World 3ish and every level felt like a slog. I had to take breaks after ever 2-3 levels to not get sick of it even earlier.
That's like saying "I can play SM64 so I don't care about any other 3d Mario game"
PS: NSMBU is not ony a great game, it's the best 2D Mario game I've played, and I grew up playing SMB3 on NES.
PS: NSMBU is not ony a great game, it's the best 2D Mario game I've played, and I grew up playing SMB3 on NES.
The gap between NSMBU and its immediate predecessor, NSMB2, was 4 months
NSMB2 was a strictly portable game not targetting the same demographics
SMB 1–3 are also better than U, and those have been available on NSO for quite a while. If you're a Mario fan though, U is definitely worth playing at some point. In fact, it's the only game from the NSMB series I can genuinely recommend.
Yoshi's Island is still the cream of the crop when it comes to 2D Mario though, with World in a close second. I too am thrilled that we're finally getting them on Switch!
Yoshi's Island is still the cream of the crop when it comes to 2D Mario though, with World in a close second. I too am thrilled that we're finally getting them on Switch!
No joke, Yoshi's Island is amazing.
I played it for the first time in my life on the SNES Classic and I was gobsmacked. Game is legit one of the best games I played in my life, it holds very well even in 2019 and it's better than most platformers that exist today.
Certainly leagues better than New SMB U, that's for sure.
I played it for the first time in my life on the SNES Classic and I was gobsmacked. Game is legit one of the best games I played in my life, it holds very well even in 2019 and it's better than most platformers that exist today.
Certainly leagues better than New SMB U, that's for sure.
Yoshi's Island is certainly a good 2D game, but I don't really even consider it a Mario game—at least not in a gameplay sense (and yes, I am aware it has "Super Mario World 2" as a subtitle).YI plays so much differently that it spawned its own series, and nobody really considers those "Mario" games.
When all is said and done, if you are actually a fan of 2D Mario games, the NSMBU DX is a must have, and if anything were to make it irrelevant it would be Mario Maker 2, definitely not two games that most of us have played dozens of times at least.
So you just don't want to pay for games?
I don't understand what NSMB and Super Mario World 1 & 2 have to do with each other.
I don't understand what NSMB and Super Mario World 1 & 2 have to do with each other.
I mean you do you but that is some faulty logic right there.
Yoshi's Island doesn't even play like the other 2D Mario games.
Yoshi's Island doesn't even play like the other 2D Mario games.
Funny you should say that because I have Mario Oddysey and don't like it, yet I've been eyeing NSMBU for quite some time now because it looks like a much more fun platformer for me.
Speaking of, does anyone know when I should wait to buy Switch games? Is a major sale coming up soon? Or is the next one around the winter?
Speaking of, does anyone know when I should wait to buy Switch games? Is a major sale coming up soon? Or is the next one around the winter?
This is the case with quite a few games. Personally I enjoy trying new things on occasion, and don't feel bad about paying for them either.
It's a much better platformer. With Odyssey it basically comes down to whether you prefer exploration to platforming. I like platforming more too.
In a ranking of 2D Mario games, Super Mario World probably fits square in the middle, if not in the upper third.
But that doesn't make it bad, since the baseline 2D Mario game is better than most games in existence.
Those two things don't have anything to do with each other and you don't even connect them as being related in the OP. This is a pretty trash thread, though, thanks.
NSMB2 was a 3DS game made by people who had never worked on a Mario game before; NSMBU was made by series veterans. The gap in quality between it and NSMBU is astronomical. You might as well count Super Mario Land coming out 6 months before SMB3 in the US, then.
Everyone I've seen cite NSMB burnout as a factor for NSMBU and/or Wii U's relative failure did so in the context of NSMB2 being a recent release at the time. The quality gap (however much that or little that may be) isn't a meaningful factor. And even if it were, times change, especially when those periods are 30 years apart
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