LogFAQs > #978920396

I'll level with you guys, you have not been nominating the things I expected.

- Cape Feather Tier
Mario Kart (Series): This is definitely the best Mario spinoff series, and also technically the most popular Nintendo series without a fighter in Smash. Who would you even include? Waluigi in a kart? Anyway, it's incredible that the most popular game in the racing genre is just Mario in a car. No one has been able to make a racing game even half as popular as Mario Kart, and that's for reasons that extend beyond the Mario branding. The games are just good. They're always fun, they're always semi-balanced, they're always easy for less-skilled players to understand. Mario Kart is just a really good series, and that's really all there is to say. Definitely far superior to Mario Party as a silly dumb party game.

- Kuribo's Shoe Tier
Rosalina
Kuribo's Shoe
1-1 Theme
Bowsette
Luigi
Bayonetta Nintendo Content
Thwomp
Super Mario Maker 2
Hexagon Heat

- Hammer Suit Tier
Paratroopas: Up, down, up, down. Sometimes they jump, sometimes they hover. Everyone loves paratroopas. Such an odd decision to make them koopas, too. There's nothing that links turtles to flying, they're completely disconnected ideas. This could have easily just been some kind of evil bird serving Bowser, he already has turtles, fish, mushrooms, beetles, plants, and whatever Lakitus are, so why not birds as well? But someone said "let's put wings on an anthropomorphic turtle," and then they just did, the absolute madmen.
Hammer Bros.: I hated these things as a kid, I could not get the timing down to get past them at all. And again, such an odd concept. No one associates hammers with throwing. If they were throwing axes, that'd be one thing. Everything in Mario is so cartoony in a way that I don't think any other game series can quite match. That's why the realistic humans in Mario Odyssey were so offputting. They work really well as the strongest generic enemy in the early games, but that's about all they are. It's sort of interesting to compare the Mario enemies to Zelda enemies. You would expect that the slightly more serious and realistic Zelda series would have more complex enemies, but it really doesn't. They both mostly just have goofy monsters for the hero to fight, and if we're being honest? The Mario ones at least have an explanation for why they're fighting you, in that they work for Bowser.
Dr. Goomba Tower
Chris Pratt
SupperMarioBroth
Beep Block Skyway
Hell Valley Sky Trees
Smash 64 Commercial

- Super Mushroom Tier
Staff Roll Theme (Mario 64)
Sheelcreeper: I hope you weren't expecting much here. It's just the prototype Koopa Troopa. They're grosser than regular Koopas, though, and more real-world turtle-like. I was going to speculate that they were inspired by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and that's what made turtles big at the time, but to my surprise, TMNT released the year after Mario Bros, so I guess it was just a weird coincidence that two different companies on opposite sides of the world made fiction about turtles in the sewers of New York.
Hide and Seek mods
Puzzle Plank Galaxy (Theme): This would be a great theme for a redneck stage. Let me just check what this stage looks like-oh.
Starman
Donkey Kong (1981)
Rainbow Road (Bearded Fat Guy Song): This is fifteen years old? Goddamn. Goddamn. 4.8 million views on an account with 7.76K subscribers, huh. Anyway, this is good and everything, but I have a much higher standard for intentionally bad internet music. I was going to link the Clock Song there from DHMIS, but I couldn't figure out how, so oh well.
Gust Garden Galaxy (Theme)
Tonkachi Mario
Talking Flowers
Trials of Death
Anya Taylor-Joy
I'm a Chuckster: So, are chucksters a job on Delfino Island, or just a hobby? It's too bad that Delfino Island never returned outside of Mario Kart stages. It could have easily been a random stage you visit in Odyssey or something. I guess no one really cares about SMS. Even I don't. It just feels like the most obligatory Mario game. Like, we have a new console, guess we need to have a new Mario game on it. What happens? I dunno, Mario goes on vacation and talks to a water gun. The most important thing about that game is actually the introduction of Bowser Jr, the worst major Mario character.
Kublai Khan
Tetris Attack
Toaster
Backwards Long Jump: Look man, I don't care about speedrunning tactics at all unless they're super weird and interesting. This is just like wavedashing in Melee. I never cared enough to learn how it works, and I never will, and I'm not particularly bothered by the fact this means I'll never reach the highest levels of play.