How Is Your SNES Gaming Going?

[Gunstar Green]

Yep.

To clarify, all of my friends' undying love of SMB3 is one of the reasons I hated it, because they ignored the good stuff like Mega Man. Mega Man was absolutely my favorite series of games on NES back in the day, and MM2 is still one of the greatest games of all time.

My favorite platformer on the system is Kirby's Adventure, though. Fight me.

I feel like they all scratch different itches personally. Mario and Mega Man may be the same genre on a basic level but controlling Mario and controlling Mega Man are two vastly different experiences.

[marurun]

The solution is to finally develop Mario Man.

[MrPopo]

Isn't that what's happening in that Mario x Rabbids game?

[Sarge]

Yep.

To clarify, all of my friends' undying love of SMB3 is one of the reasons I hated it, because they ignored the good stuff like Mega Man. Mega Man was absolutely my favorite series of games on NES back in the day, and MM2 is still one of the greatest games of all time.

My favorite platformer on the system is Kirby's Adventure, though. Fight me.

I feel like they all scratch different itches personally. Mario and Mega Man may be the same genre on a basic level but controlling Mario and controlling Mega Man are two vastly different experiences.

Oh, yeah, I completely agree. I mean, I still loved all sorts of different experiences, I just wish I could have gotten them even slightly outside of their comfort zone.

[Tanooki]

Or how about Super Kirby Bros? Looks like Mario but with a pair of vacant eyes, totally pink, and instead of coins you eat some little tortellini? He eats up everything in sight and eventually finds a special item where he kind of goes into a diabetic shock flashing like crazy and kills everything in side flopping all over the place like a star man hit.

[Xeogred]

I'd easily take Mega Man over anything. Mega Man was my iconic hero growing up as a kid and probably cemented my love for all things metal and sci-fi decades later.

Couldn't get into Bionic Commando. I hate not being able to jump and grapple hooks are always awkward. lol

NSBM U is the only one I really liked, along with the Luigi expansion thing. Otherwise this line feels like it has no identity. It tries to be more like SMB1 with a few elements from the later games mixed in. But it looks ugly. Never feels totally right. The ghost house levels are an atrocity. The music isn't too special. And they kept them going forever. I seriously hope Mario gets a facelift soon. This stuff isn't great. Again, I liked the U one though, but for comparison sake... something like Tropical Freeze kills it.

I'd like to see this discussion keep going... what's more or less of a Mario game?

Yoshi's Island vs Super Mario Bros 2

[MrPopo]

I don't feel right calling Bionic Commando a platformer when there's no jump button.

[Gunstar Green]

I don't feel right calling Bionic Commando a platformer when there's no jump button.

But the most difficult parts of the game are still platforming challenges. It's just the method of "jumping" is a unique one.

[Exhuminator]

I don't feel right calling Bionic Commando a platformer when there's no jump button.

Instead of jumping to gain air, you swing to gain air. Still involves carefully landing on platforms.

my love for all things metal and sci-fi

Then you should love Bionic Commando.

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As for NSMB, thoughts on the ones I finished:

NSMB DS = Great reboot, I loved it. A ton of fun and very tight design.

NSMB Wii = Pretty good overall, some level design was so-so, co-op was borked by players not being able to ghost through one another, awesome final boss sequence though.

NSMB2 3DS = Bleh. Total focus on collecting coins because why? Level designs were boring, boss fights were boring, game was boring, I didn't enjoy it much.

[BoneSnapDeez]

I don't feel right calling Bionic Commando a platformer when there's no jump button.

There are plenty of older platformers with no jumping (Space Panic, Popeye, BurgerTime, and so on) and those feel okay, but a NES game like Bionic Commando feels really really odd with no jumps. Could never get into it.