Gaming The Super Mario Super Thread!

The Angry Video Game Nerd has the best quote about Wario Land: "I wish I could say it sucks, but it's actually a good game. Damn good, in fact. But, only one problem: it's on Virtual Boy."

 

yup. That might be the only really good game on the system, although Mario Tennis is pretty good. The system ony had about 22 games.

 

Ooo, I kinda want to replay this...but then again I kinda don't. That one horrible, horrible tower that I think was in World 8.....

I also did not play Mario 64 back in the day, and only got around to it with the DS version. And that game too was incredibly rage-worthy.

 

The Virtual Boy died forever young.

 

I also missed out on 64 back in the day. Never owned an N64, so the first time I played it was on the recent 3D All-Stars package. I didn’t get very far. After playing the masterful Galaxies and the slightly lower tier but still fantastic Odyssey, 64 is just really tough to go back to if you don’t have nostalgia for it.

 

They should port Wario Land on the VB to the Switch. Maybe put the Game Boy Warios on there too.

 

I don’t think Nintendo wants to acknowledge the Virtual Boy library existed. Even the Virtual Boy barely gets nods in, like, Smash trophies.

 

They rarely parody it (and are usually self-aware about it). Like in Luigi's Mansion 3, Luigi communicates with E. Gadd through the Virtual Boo, red graphics and all, with Gadd saying it would probably sell well.

 

I played Wario Land for VB on my tv. The 3D stuff still worked, you can go further away into the screen to unlock things, and there are holes in the screen with stiff behind it, creating a cool 3d effect like in old movies like the original King Kong, where they would paint the jungle on panes of glass for a 3d effect.

 

I got all 100 Cat Shines in Bowser's Fury today. I started it about a week ago and put in maybe an hour a day. It was a lot of fun, and I recommend it, but now I understand why it's not worth the purchase in itself without playing through the more robust Super Mario 3D World, which I did back on the Wii U back in 2013. Good thing it was a Christmas present so I don't have buyer's remorse.

Personally, I still prefer the Galaxy games with the constraints of gravity verses having no gravity in these games and games like Odyssey. Jumping with no restrictions is more risk than reward. I almost feel like I had more controlled jumps in Super Mario 64 than I do in these newer games.

 

Really, really hoping we get some news on an Odyssey 2 game.

 

If it was gonna happen we’d know about it already, plus it’d almost feel like a step back after Bowser’s Fury.

But may I interest you in another Nintendo 3D platformer that focuses on different abilities and looks like an absolute blast that comes out in just over two months?



Just pretend like Kirby is Cappy and you’ve got your Odyssey 2 right there.

 

Nothing like getting close to 100 coins in a Super Mario 64 level, dying in some bull **** way, and getting sent back to the castle to start over from 0.

This is an objectively bad video game that I’m hate-playing in some masochistic attempt to get through all the mainline games in the series. It doesn’t help that I’m alternating between this and Yoshi’s Island, another bad video game. I’d rather be replaying Odyssey or the Galaxies at this point.

 

Why have they never rebooted Captain N as a gritty, serious action drama?

 

If you’re playing it on the Switch, doesn’t it have a rewind or save state feature?

Also, talking about Yoshi’s Island that way is a bannable offense.

 

Not on the 3D All-Stars version. Probably should’ve just played the NSO version with save states, but I’m in too deep at this point. Gotta do it legit, ugh.

 

I never owned a Nintendo console outside of a Gameboy/Gameboy Advance; but of course I played the systems over the years at friends' houses. I remember playing Mario 64 at my college dorm room in mid 90s.

 

By Nintendo? No. But it exists unofficially. I have VB games on the Super Console X Pro.

 

So… maybe some of my previous words on this game were a tad harsh. Though it wasn’t without its frustrations, I kept coming back to Super Mario 64 for more. I got to 70 stars in the basement, which is certainly the weakest section of the game where most of the frustration lies. So defeating Bowser for the final time after that, I wasn’t a huge fan of the game and even called it the worst game I’d ever finished (to be fair, I don’t typically finish games I don’t enjoy).

Then it started to bug me that there were some levels I hadn’t even seen. I figured I at least owed the game that much. So I went back to it. And simultaneously I started watching the MinnMax Deepest Dive series on the game, and that sort of commentary helped me understand the game a little more, what people saw in it. It’s a very enjoyable watch.



And I have to say, that final section of levels on the upper floors really turned it around for me. Specifically the straightforward design of Tick Tock Clock and Rainbow Ride (level based Mario is still my preferred style). Yes, there were some stars that were pretty frustrating to get, but I was determined to get all 120. And I did!

And I think I kinda love Super Mario 64 now. I do my best to think about it in the context of the time it came out, and it’s mind blowing to see all those innovations on display. The leaps they took with this game. Yes, the camera is bad. Yes, sometimes the way Mario moves can get in the way. But overall, I think it still holds up. And even when it’s bad, it’s still interesting, which is more than I can say for many modern 3D platformers.

 

SM '64 brings me back to my college days in the mid to late 90s. I never owned a Nintendo console outside of a Gameboy (which I believe was the law during the 90s), but my college dorm roomate owned the Nintendo '64 and I'd play the SM game just to lay of steam in between studies and homework. While the graphics were interesting, I never really grew too accustomed to the controls.