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#65





Years of release: 2013 (Wii U)
Beaten?: No...

I have a really awful confession to make to you guys. I know I said I'm a Nintendo shill, but I'm the worst Nintendo shill in the universe; I haven't been keeping up on my Mario games.

Super Mario Odyssey? Well, I already told you guys the tragic story of how that game got lost somewhere in the house and I haven't played it yet. This one's killing me. I need to play this one so bad but I just can't suck it up and buy another copy for some reason.

Super Mario Galaxy 2? That one isn't lost. I just haven't played it. I own it. I've played like, about an hour of it, not enough for me to judge whether or not to put it on the list. No, I didn't forget that it happened this decade, I know it's a 2010 game. I just... haven't gotten around to it. I don't know why. I can't tell you why. There were a few years earlier in the decade where I just didn't get around to playing some of the console games I should have - it's complicated.

New Super Mario Bros. U? Nah, didn't play that one either. I'm sure it's really fun, but, uh, how do I say this? I didn't play New Super Mario Bros Wii either. I mean, I played a little, but not that much. So I didn't get around to U either.

And now this? Super Mario 3D World?

I DON'T EVEN OWN THIS GAME.

I really can't even begin to tell you how much I consider this a black mark on my Nintendo cred. I mean, aside from Odyssey, it's one of the best Mario games in years. I know that, everyone knows that, and yet, I do not own this stupid game.

I don't know what happened. I don't know why I've just been mysteriously, bizarrely avoiding playing every Mario game in the goddamn universe. It's like some kind of weird block, like I'm trying to avoid some past trauma. I still love the Mario series! I didn't grow out of it like I did with Pokemon. I still play Super Mario Bros 3 a lot. But all these new Mario games, at some point, I fell behind, and I didn't catch up with them, and... god. I need to make this a New Year's Resolution, all-caps - catch up on my damn Mario games.

Why is it on the list? Well, I still played enough of it. Bits and pieces, here and there, at the houses of various friends. The rest, I watched the Game Grumps play it. That was enough for me to draw what is probably an obvious conclusion to everyone who HAS played this game - it's really fucking good. It's probably the greatest culmination, in my opinion, of BOTH the "New Super Mario Bros" style of games (even though this lacks the "New" qualifier) and of the multiplayer Super Mario Bros games. I don't know if you could do much better than this.

It was a hard one to rank. I could have left it off, but I'm familiar with it ENOUGH that it wouldn't have felt right. This game is too good to get left off. If I spent a little more quality time with it, it might have ranked a lot higher. I'm sorry, Super Mario 3D World. I have done you wrong.