New Super Mario Bros. - Wii

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Originally Posted by Glass Joe

I'll take 10 NSMB Wii games before I take another Super Mario Galaxy.

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I don't know. Both games are good, but Super Mario Galaxy is really fucking good. I actually think it is a better game than NSMB Wii.

I think Galaxy is pretty brilliant, myself. Too easy of course but that might actually be fixed by Galaxy 2! God bless the Super Guide.

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Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

Why? They're working on the less popular Galaxy. If NSMB becomes the torch bearer for the franchise over the 3D Marios, wouldn't that free EAD up?

If you're implying they'll be drafted to do 2D Marios, then shit, awesome. Their projects have the unique style NSMB desperately needs, and DK Jungle Beat proved they can do a 2D platformer better than anyone. And that was with bongos, imagine what they could do with real controls!

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I thought EAD Tokyo did make NSMB Wii because various sites list them as the developer. I haven’t beat the game yet and seen the end credits so maybe they’re wrong and it was made by Tezuka’s team that did the DS game. Either way, I loved Jungle Beat and Galaxy, and would love to see EAD Tokyo make a new franchise.

According to wiki, EAD 4 (same team that did the DS one) did NSMBW.

It's slightly offensive that anyone could mistake a game as stylistically bankrupt as NSMBW as coming out of EAD Tokyo.

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Originally Posted by elfneedsfood

I don't know. Both games are good, but Super Mario Galaxy is really fucking good. I actually think it is a better game than NSMB Wii.

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I didn't, I really hated the small planet design. It is the only Mario game that I never bothered finishing. Don't get me wrong, I think it's better than Sunshine but at least Sunshine had full sized worlds/areas. Running around a globe bored me so much I stopped playing it.

I thought the linear planetoid design made it by far the closest a 3D Mario has come to a point-to-point sidescroller. The exploration bullshit in the other two 3D games doesn't interest me at all.

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Originally Posted by epmode

I thought the linear planetoid design made it by far the closest a 3D Mario has come to a point-to-point sidescroller. The exploration bullshit in the other two 3D games doesn't interest me at all.

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Totally agreed. Platformers are all about every stage being its own unique linear thing to me, the concept of playing 'hunt for the doodad' in the same stage 7 times over is the worst possible thing to ever happen to the genre.

Mario Galaxy is hands-down the best 3D Mario game ever, by a good amount. I loved every second of it and went back to 100% it again with Luigi.

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Originally Posted by epmode

Stop being stupid. You know what I mean.

Actually, judging from your previous Nintendo-related posts, maybe you don't.

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No, I do know what you mean - but it's still over-exaggerating something for the sake of. I just took that metric and applied it to another game to show so.

The way I look at it, derivative or not, I'll take a game I like over a game I don't. that means I can have my cake AND eat it too - I can like Modern Warfare 2, NSMBWii, Dragon Age AND sleep soundly at night without thinking I committed some gamer's sin by allowing 'derivative' games into my home.

See? If you can over exaggerate so can I. It's fun!

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Originally Posted by epmode

I thought the linear planetoid design made it by far the closest a 3D Mario has come to a point-to-point sidescroller. The exploration bullshit in the other two 3D games doesn't interest me at all.

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Likewise. Going back to Mario 64/Sunshine just isn't as fun as going back to Galaxy.