The Mushroom Kingdom

jokool wrote:Mario Party 2 (still my favorite (even though I've only played it and 8))

Paper Mario (Vizzed, but it was glitchy, so I stopped playing it)

Mario Power Tennis (had this at my dentist when I went there, so I'd played it as much as I could)

Yoshi's Story (have this still on my N64)

Caprizant wrote:
To be fair, I'm kinda iffy about the battle system in that game too. Subsequent Mario RPGs definitely improved on the battle system immensely Sticker Star is an outlier and should not be counted :U

I think you made a typo here Super Paper Mario is not bold royal purple like the others >:U

• I wasn't as fond of the new battle system (even with the imaginative 3D flipping), though after awhile I got used to it.
  
• Pixels were a major downgrade from past partners.
  With the exception of Tippi, who I love, you only had the few text boxes from their introductions for their personalities and that was it. It's been a few years since I played the game, but I don't recall any of them interacting with Mario and engaging him in small dialogues. That, combined with the nature of being pixels/inorganic beings, made them seem more like tools that were just there instead of partners with their own lives to go back to after the events of the game. The partners were a big part of why I enjoyed the first two games.
  
• I wasn't as big of a fan of the story?
  Question mark because I can't think of how to properly word it, especially since the first two games didn't have original stories either. (And TTYD also had inanimate objects you were questing for so I can't say it's because you had more of a reason to search for the MacGuffins.) They just... seemed to come more alive to me?
  
  And tbh I'm not really fond of Dimentio DON'T KILL ME

• The battle system was very imaginative with the flipping.
  
• The pixels did perform useful functions to help the player progress through the game just like past partners, and they had punny names.
  
• As cliched as it might be the story of Blumiere and Tippi did engage me because the tragedy of lovers torn apart (and that little clip of them being reunited at the end of the credits, ugh, got me right in my blood-pumping organ)
  
• The design of each world being unique.
  World 3, my favorite, gets a special mention for being made out of bits.
  Another to World 6 being completely destroyed into a landscape of nothingness, that was quite the turn. And then World 7 because I was endlessly amused by the Underwhere and the Overwhere, both for their names and inspiration from Greek mythology.
  
• The humor of the first two titles carried over to this one.

At least they're still acknowledging the series with Paper Jam ;w;

Ahhh I loved that game!! :D Such a cute little game that needs to be talked about more.

And now it's my turn to talk about Mario games I've played! :D

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (Come to think of it, I don't remember getting very far in this game either... I just know I love the aesthetic and gameplay and I think I've just absorbed most of the stuff I didn't get to through osmosis :V Might do a semi-blind LP of it one day)

Mario Party 2 (I cannot say enough good stuff about this game. I distinctly remember playing this game with our old neighbors, probably around the very early 2000s, and I loved it so much and was so excited when we got an N64 and this game you don't understand it was literally my favorite thing ever and I still play it very often to this day it hasn't gotten old ;w;)
Paper Mario (I haven't logged as much time in it as TTYD or SPM, but I've still spent a heckton of time in this game and it really is fantabulous. The settings are great and the story is great and the gameplay is great and everything is great. I remember my favorite thing when I was little was buying all those little piglets ;w;)
Mario Party 3 (Little kid me was a bit prejudiced against this game since it wasn't MP2, but I've heard a lot of good things about it so I'll probably try it again someday :V)

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Gamecube has a lot of nostalgia games for me and this is one of the biggest ones :V)

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (All those good things I said about the original? THIS ONE WAS A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER. SERIOUSLY. I freaking love this game. I've beaten it over and over and over and it never gets tiring and there's something new every time and it's hilarious and amazing and the plot is amazing and the settings are beautiful and the intro is beautiful and the mechanics are brilliant and the audience is the best thing to ever happen to Mario RPGs etc. etc.)

Super Mario 64 DS (This is why the original 64 isn't bolded above. Honestly even more perfect than the original.)

Mario Party DS (I remember playing this with my friends on the bus ride to school :D)

TheCapsFan wrote:Here's my list of Marios I've played; beaten ones are marked with a * and bolded ones are my personal favs! Probably not as expansive as yours, but whatever. I'm younger, that's my excuse. I'm counting ports and stuff like that.

for a young'in

*Super Mario World (probably my favorite 2D Mario, there's so much nostalgia in this game for me, as the GBA port was one of my first games ever.

*Mario Kart: Super Circuit (I remember opening this one up on some Christmas Day when I was very young and almost crying with happiness)
*Mario Kart DS (Too much fun was had with this game. This was that one game that every kid had at my elementary school. Virtually every Friday afternoon during our free time we would all bring them and play 8-player infared games which were the most fun moments of my elementary school years.)

*Mario Hoops : 3-On-3 (I loved the hidden FF characters in this game.)

Caprizant wrote:

jokool wrote:Seeing a lot of negative stuff about sticker star. What makes it so bad compared to the other paper Mario games?

Ohhhhh boy.

can of worms:

• Lack of Partners
  I mentioned earlier that one of the main attractions of the first two games for me was MArio's partners. I also said that I felt SPM was lacking in this area compared to the first two games.
  
  But at least it had multiple partners. You only get Kersti in SS who, while potentially being one of the only redeeming points of this game, is not enough to prop this game up.
  
• Length
  The previous games had more than six chapters, and as Cap already covered in his Plot point, they were more tied together than what we got in here. I feel like SS was trying to emulate SPM emulating earlier SMB titles with its World format, but outside of World 3 really failed to connect each world's courses together. And you can feel it while playing the game too, it's just so... hollow.
  This might actually be a blessing though; that one doesn't have to suffer through more of this game than they already have to to complete it.

• The basic idea of incorporating stickers or other things connected with scrapbooking was creative and in tune for the series. I just wish it would have been done better.
  
• The Sticker Museum. This was one of the things driving me to complete this damn game. (Gotta collect 'em all!)
  
• Perky Toad, owner of the Sling-a-Thing stand. Tied with Kersti for best character in the game. (I also liked the backdoor dealings thing they had going on with the stand next to Sling-a-Thing.)
  
• Like in all previous PM games, Chapter/World 3 remains my favorite. It was a bit tedious finding the Wiggler segments at points, but overall I thought it was a good way to tie all the courses together. It also brings back memories of Chapter 3 from PM1, which, again, was my favorite chapter from the first game. A bit different due to the use of stickers, but 3-2 (The Bafflewood) was basically this game's Forever Forest.
  (One could argue that the developers were just scrambling for any ideas and were lazy for reusing it
  but I took anything I could get to make this game more enjoyable lol)
  
• World 4-3: The Enigmansion
  This was the course that gave me hope that the rest of the game would get better.
  
  It didn't, but that doesn't change that this particular portion of this World is really well done. Again, I show my bias for Chapter 3 of the original game, because this course is basically the mansion portion of that game.
  
  You got the cool setting (literally, given that it's a mansion out in the middle of a frozen tundra), the engaging puzzles (for this game anyway), the Boos, the connection to Decalberg, it felt like playing the previous games.

Caprizant wrote:

Lief Katano wrote:The battle system part.

It seems to be, more or less, the same type of battle system as in the Mario and Luigi games, but with a shared "MP" pool between all characters, like in Paper Mario.

The Mario & Luigi system is a bit more intricate. I think the big thing is the action commands are a lot more intuitive. In Super Mario RPG, it's a bit harder to tell when you're supposed to time your hits without checking out the descriptions. It helps that the battles are a lot more dynamic in M&L.

I dunno, I just feel like Mario & Luigi and Paper Mario involve more engaging combat systems :V

jokool wrote:So it's basically Paper Mario GET ALL THE STICKERS AND GO MAD USING THEM Star......Wow... That's just absured... *strikes it off of his list of 3DS games to get*

Spiky Nopon wrote:also loved cap's level, though hated how many yoshis had to die ;A;