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What's Mario's best jump?
- Thread starter KartuneDX
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I'll always love the triple jump most, that simple requirement to time three jumps consecutively, making those jumps a simple game game in itself. It's brilliant.
Shout out to the somersault though, such a great feeling and looking jump.
Shout out to the somersault though, such a great feeling and looking jump.
This is it.Handstand Jump from Donkey Kong '94.
The most satisfying jump ever made.
Long jump because it easy to use and satisfying to master in situations that need it. The somersault is also nice because of the quick verticality but is not as easy to input as long jump.
The backward jump is easy to implement for verticality but not as quick as the somersault. Same to ground pound plus jump right afterwards.
The backward jump is easy to implement for verticality but not as quick as the somersault. Same to ground pound plus jump right afterwards.
I'm going to go with the Triple Jump.
It isn't always the best move for the situation, but when you DO get a solid triple jump full of cleared obstacles it feels so good.
It isn't always the best move for the situation, but when you DO get a solid triple jump full of cleared obstacles it feels so good.
In 64 and sunshine, if you combine somersault with dive immediately in right timing, it looks like Mario is flying backwards. Useful in Sunshine's secret levels.
The Spin Jump from Sunshine is my favorite jump of all time. Mario is the happiest when he performs it too. It's also the closest thing to a Long Jump in Sunshine since it doesn't have it.
IMO, I think you should have put down Back Flip Jump instead of Ground Pound Jump.
IMO, I think you should have put down Back Flip Jump instead of Ground Pound Jump.
The long jump and somersault are my favorites, but Odyssey's mid-air dive into cap jump is also top tier.
The thing is, cap jump is best when joined with a long jump. I voted triple jump though cos I'm replaying Mario64 and my favourite thing to do is time it right to triple jump into portraits. Long jump is more functional, triple jump is more fun IMO.
Long jump is useful but most of the time just feels like a way to traverse distances faster, where as somersault feels awesome for actual platforming to high areas.
I do think cap jump is highly underrated in this poll though. Especially the dive onto the cap move, one of Mario's most mechanically neat tricks.
I do think cap jump is highly underrated in this poll though. Especially the dive onto the cap move, one of Mario's most mechanically neat tricks.
Somersault, long jump, double/triple jump, and dive is truly an unbeatable move set.
I think it's the mode of input. Flicking the stick is way more fun to me than having to spin it around.
I think it's the mode of input. Flicking the stick is way more fun to me than having to spin it around.
The immediate answer that came to my head was actually the triple jump in the NSMB games. Those games aren't perfect or anything but the feeling of jumping in them is delightful.
My actual answer might be the cape jump in SMW or the long jump in Odyssey, but I'd have to go back and try everything out to decide.
My actual answer might be the cape jump in SMW or the long jump in Odyssey, but I'd have to go back and try everything out to decide.
It's just not that prevalent in the 3D games, which seems to be where most people are coming from.
Sunshine by far did it the best, but by nature it feels rather loosely controlled and if you're doing levels in a sane way it's never really needed over somersault + hover.
If you know what you're doing with it, though, it's in between a double and triple jump and can be performed on the spot. Very, very effective in tight spaces, and you sacrifice just a little of the somersault's height for so much more momentum going into a hover (and it's a longer jump to start with). It's also still available while riding Yoshi, where it goes way further by default and can be augmented by a flutter. Seriously, I'm pretty sure you can jump further with a Yoshi spin jump than a Mario jump + hover. It's nuts, and you can go virtually anywhere with it.
Somersaulting is just easier though, and still very satisfying.
I think there are three backflips in that GIF (even though the first could have been replaced with the third jump of the handstand sequence). Though I guess doing the third jump of the handstand sequence makes Mario pause a second for applause so this is faster.
This and the backflip in the same game.
It's interesting how the handstand behaves differently based on your timing, if you do it slowly or stand around in the handstand pose your second jump is 3 tiles high, if you jump immediately upon landing you get a 4 tile jump. And of course the third jump only happens if you jump immediately again.
If it's to do something akin to Mario Vs Donkey Kong (with its awful musics and art direction) they shouldn't even bother.
I consider DK 1994 being perfect.
Long jump feels the best, but I always felt like the triple jump is just a cool, creative idea that really opens up the movement in interesting ways. Odyssey kinda negated it with the ground pound jump, but in SM64 & sunshine, it is a major reason why high level play of those games is so interesting. Locking the highest possible jump behind a quick succession of jumps leads to lots of unique on-the-fly decision making, and allows players to skip large portions of the stage if they have the skill to pull it off. It's just a really cool piece of game design IMO.