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- Super Mushroom Tier
How Many Super Mario Games Are There? (Video): Stop posting 45 minute videosssssss but I actually did watch it, and there was some mildly interesting information in it. Here is the Official Anagram "Mainline" Mario Game List, excluding remakes and such, no one is allowed to dispute its authority: SMB, SMB2, SMB:LL, SMB3, SML, SML2, SMW, SM64, SMS, NSMB, SMG, SMG2, NSMBW, SM3DL, NSMB2, NSMBU, SM3DW, SMO, and SMBW, with New Super Luigi U being borderline, but all other games starring Luigi, Yoshi, Peach, and Wario being clearcut as not counting. I'm glad this question has finally been put to rest.
Luigi's Up-Taunt: Your link didn't work for me, so I found a youtube video of every character doing his up-taunt. I'm actually kind of surprised that so many have scared faces to do it with. Pichu pulling off its head is hilarious. Oh man, Chrom is in this game. Remember Chrom? I wonder why it doesn't work for ROB. Or did you mean his up-taunt in general? Because it's a very solid taunt. Luigi is probably the character who's changed the most since Smash 64, and mostly to his benefit. Or maybe not? Let's check the Smash tier list. He was dead last in Smash 64, and in Smash Ultimate, he's 39 out of 82. Looks like the highest he's ever been is B tier. Poor light, floaty, slow Luigi. Better than Mario in Melee and Brawl, worse than Mario in woah wait a second, how the hell is Mario #22 in Ultimate, but Dr. Mario is #78? They're like the exact same thing!
Staff Roll Theme (Mario 64)
Super Mario Strikers (2005)
Shellcreeper
Bowser Meets Bowser: It is obviously funny that Nintendo of America's new president is named Bowser. It was right of them to poke fun at the idea. I didn't even realize Bowser was a real name. Too bad there's no one named Koopa for them to make that joke in Japan with. But like, although the fact that this guy's name is Doug Bowser, this is the most not a joke joke ever. It's just him telling game Bowser that he's not the new president, and telling him to leave. I feel there was a lot of missed opportunity here, like with Mario busting down his door to save Peach, only to realize there's been a mistake, and then cutting to Peach wondering why Mario is taking so long to rescue her.
Hide and Seek mods
Bowser Theme (Super Mario World 2)
Mario Quiz Cards
Puzzle Plank Galaxy (Theme)
Bah (NSMB Music)
Mario + Rabbids: Do you like X-Com? ... I actually don't, I'm very bad at it, which I'm slightly ashamed of, because I do like tons of games adjacent to it. I think what makes these games stand out to me isn't the rabbids themselves (I have never liked rabbids) or any of the gameplay, it's that it managed the impossible task of making completely believable Mario-style guns for the heroes to use. Like, imagine Mario with a realistic gun. Doesn't work, right? These games came up with several different guns that completely fit into the Mario aesthetic. But boy oh boy, I don't really like the rabbids, and I suspect no one does, because the game just forces you to always include a rabbid on your team. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that I'd like the game more if instead of rabbids, it just had Rosalina, Daisy, Toad, and uh... God, I need two more human characters... Wario and Baby Mario, I guess. I'm sorry, does anyone like Rayman? He's like the most forgettable major 90s platformer protagonist. Him and Earthworm Jim. I'll say this for Sonic, his games usually are better than Rayman and Earthworm Jim.
Starman
Donkey Kong (1981)
Wreck-It Ralph
Mushroomy Kingdom
Rainbow Road (Fat Bearded Guy Song)
Jim Carrey as Wario in SMB2
Gust Garden Galaxy (Theme)
Tonkachi Mario
Talking Flowers
Trials of Death
Mary O: Completely fine tutorial person. It was either this, or making it like Daisy or something. Can you imagine writing a ton of in-character tutorial dialogue for Daisy, or Kamek, or something like that? Mary O is a good pun name, at least. She deserves to show up in a Smash Mario Maker level.
Dennis Hopper
Anya Taylor-Joy
Angry Sun: So, is it really the sun, or just some entity that looks like the sun? I really want to believe that even in the Mario universe, the sun can't be destroyed by a koopa shell. And this just raises way more questions once you factor Mario Galaxy into the equation. I know a lot of people really like the angry sun as an enemy, but like... it could equally just be a bird. It's just a sun with an angry face. I sort of like the SMM2 version of it better, because at least it has a weird, ugly Aztec theme going on.
I'm a Chuckster
Do the Mario
Super Mario Bros Super Show: I watched this like four times as a kid. I don't even know what channel it was on. I remember literally only one thing from it, which was when my mom walked in. Mario was playing poker with someone, and every time Mario won, it played the coin collecting sound, and she laughed at that.
Kublai Khan
Tetris Attack
Toaster
Super Mario Bros. 2: See, I think the key difference between Mario and Zelda is that Zelda focuses on problem solving. There are puzzles, you have a set group of tools to solve those puzzles, you get more tools as you go along, and some of the puzzles are actually enemies who will try to stab you to death, but some of your tools let YOU stab THEM first. The challenge of Mario is not puzzles, it's just your prowess at platforming. How good are you at making precise jumps, or dodging things? There's rarely a lot of intense thought put into a Mario game on the part of the player, it's purely about your ability to time things. Mario doesn't really get new tools as he goes along, either. He just has his skills of running and jumping, and instead just gets temporary power-ups used to let him access new challenges reliant on timing. Unlike Zelda, it's always usually clear what is expected of you, and the question is just if you can do it. Which is why this game is so weird. The platforming segments are completely different because of the weightlessness of everything, there are way more mazes and puzzles and bosses that require a second to figure them out, there aren't really power-ups, and many of the challenges are about finding ways into or out of things while being chased. And we all know why this game is the odd one out, so I won't go into it. I will just ask, is this the only successful use of "it was all a dream" in video games? I can't think of anyone else trying it, even LA implies that at least something to what happened was real. It's crazy how much this game impacted the series. It gave us character selections, the idea of everyone having different advantages, playable Peach and Toad, Luigi's high jumping, Peach's floating, Mario being the well-rounded guy, it gave us shy guys and bob-ombs and Birdo, it established that there's a THE Toad... It's honestly more consequential to the series than probably any other game besides SMB1. Too bad it's not actually that good to play!
Backwards Long Jump
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