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- Cape Feather Tier
Mario Kart (Series)
Super Mario World
Cape Feather
Admiral Bobbery
Super Mario Odyssey

- Kuribo's Shoe Tier
Rosalina
Luigi Wins Without Doing Anything
Kuribo's Shoe
Fire Flower: In a way, this is THE Mario power-up. I know you're thinking it's the mushroom, but the mushroom just makes Mario look normal. This is what gives him an actual superpower. This is the first actual magical thingy that gives Mario fantastic powers that make the game drastically easier. All other powers-up in Mario, and maybe even in general, extend from this thing. I couldn't find any explanation about what inspired the fire flower, so I'm going to just assume that Shigeru Miyamoto had been studying Amazonian tribal shamans and got the idea from that. And changing the characters' costumes is a great idea, not just to indicate to the player that you have a power-up, but also just to look cool. Alright, let's rank the fire flower costumes... No, they all look basically the same, never mind. Wow, Mario Kart Tour has way more characters than I expeted. Kimono Peach? Hakama Mario? Penguin Toadette? Detective Baby Rosalina? This is like... the dumbest trash. Hey. When I was a kid, I thought Mario was shooting fireballs out of his armpits. Like, I realized that didn't make a lot of sense, but the sprite for the fireball clearly starts in his armpit and not at his hand.
Super Paper Mario
Mario Tennis (N64): God, I played the absolute shit out of this game, and the later Tennis games. Sue me, I've never liked Mario Golf, and Party is only fun occasionally, or to watch. It's this and Kart for me. Like, seriously, Mario Tennis and Kart are like just fun embodied, I can't praise them enough. But I bet what para is waiting for is to see if I'll know that this is the game that introduced everyone's favorite character ever: Waluigi. I'll tell you this, I was once playing Mario Tennis in the living room when I was like thirteen, and my sister and her friends walked in. One of them said "Are you playing Mario?" and I said, "No, Waluigi." And that's why I have always been famous for being the absolute best at talking to girls.
1-1 Theme
Yoshi: I have learned recently that multiple people are not fans of Yoshi, considering him to just be "an extra hit" in SMW. You know who you are. Yoshi is the best. I'm still kind of unclear on if there's a THE Yoshi, the way there's a THE Toad, but Yoshi adds a lot of depth to the series in terms of gameplay. He's the first time in a video game I can recall using a mount? But obviously he also eats things, sort of flies, throws eggs, and in SMW, the different colors of Yoshis have different extra powers (with Blue Yoshis being the master race). Like, when Yoshi is utilized well, he adds a completely new dimension to what's going on... when he's utilized well. But a lot of the time, he either doesn't appear, or he's an NPC, or he's just poorly implemented (hello SMS). Like, the way I view Yoshi is as a way to temporarily add more controls. Essentially as the ultimate power-up. And the idea of many different colors of Yoshis gives the species a little more visual flair. Like, what do you want me to tell you, Yoshi is great and you suck if you don't like him. That said, I never use Yoshi in any of the spinoffs, he's never what I want to see in gameply terms.
Super Mario 64 DS
Minus World
Stretchy Mario Face (Mario 64): Listen, I realize that the term "soul" is overused a lot these days, but...
Culex: Fun fact, this was my introduction to Final Fantasy. Years later, I played FF4, expecting to find this guy, and was disappointed that I didn't. Such an odd decision, to make a FF reference that's not really a reference to anything specific. You could have easily plucked out any of hundreds of bosses or enemies from the first four games. But the idea of Culex, this mystical powerful being from one dimension, being like "hm I wonder what 3D is like, I'll fight Mario on the SNES," is obviously hilarious in retrospect, but still actually a good idea. Was this... was this Mario's first crossover with a non-Nintendo video game series? I'm looking up Culex in the remax, and yeah, his new 3D model looks faithful, although I guess he changes his shtick to turn himself into 3D to test the dimension? Fine. I played Mario RPG a million times as a kid, and beat Culex every single one... but I still never got anywhere close to 100 super jumps in a row.
Count Bleck
Bowsette
There Will Be Brawl: I remember bringing this up to my friend when it was new, and he was just like "Its only joke is just acting like Smash is serious." And that's not really true. It actually does tell a coherent, sort of interesting story, even if some of the jokes/atmosphere settings are a little over the top (I vividly remember the 'Luigi fucking a sock' part from the first episode). Recontextualizing Smash as some kind of serious murder mystery set in a shithole modern city is a good idea, and SOME of the character interpretations are good. The best ones are Captain Falcon and Pit reimagined as gay club owners, and the use of Ness, Lucas, and G&W is perfect. But some of the character uses are a little pathetic, like Samus as a stripper or Waluigi as a mentally disabled person, or they're just edge for the sake of edge. Like, Kirby as basically just being Hannibal Lecter, I don't know about that. But, ugh, what's good in this series is REALLY good. Link and Zelda, Olimar, and some of the writing. It does have some lows, but it's mostly highs, so I've got to give it credit where it's due. That said, they made the correct decision in never continuing this.
Luigi
Bayonetta Nintendo Content
Thwomp
Charles Martinet
Hammer Bros.
Glitzville
Pirahna Plants on Parade (Level)
Super Mario Maker 2
Hexagon Heat
Mario vs Chrono Rivalry