Worst Mario Roster

[RandomGuy]

I'd say that NSMBW sort of lacked a creativity with the playable characters. I mean, why couldn't they just use ONE Toad?

 

[Dorayaki]

Unusual, but it included Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser... I wouldn't think the Wrecking Crew '98 roster is bad.
Mario Tennis Power Tour is up there with the worst roster, but Mario Party GBA had an even worse roster.

I haven't played that game, but this game seems not like a formal spinoff and only Mario is playable, though other main characters can still be in the final scene. Those original human characters are weird indeed, at least we know where club athletes live.

Tennis 64 had a good roster because they allowed some characters recurring (Daisy, Birdo, Baby Mario) and created Waluigi, improved from the previous Mario Golf 64. It's weird Power Tennis got a worse roster.

I thought the handheld Parties only gave few characters. Good or bad rosters are usually medium rosters.

...are you implying that Wario and Yoshi aren't as important as Daisy or Birdo?

? that's two things in that relpy. I simply meant inenough and enough appearances for the two groups.

Daisy or Birdo are less important than Wario and Yoshi.
Birdo wasn't playable in Mario Power Tennis.
and Daisy was not appeared only Tennis is Mario Tennis: Power Tour.

I'm not determined with Wario, after all he's the latest of these ones and further from the main story (he has better performance in his own series), while Daisy is a close friend of Peach. After all, there are no needs to compare their importance.

 

[Toad Eightyfive]

I'd say that NSMBW sort of lacked a creativity with the playable characters. I mean, why couldn't they just use ONE Toad?

 

[MCD]

I'd agree with Mario Tennis GBA having the worst roster.

As for NSMBWii, why couldn't they have gone with zero toads?

 

[Xiahou Dun]

One Toad is fine. A palette swap isn't.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii's stuff isn't exactly what you call a roster, but Mario Party Advance had the same amount of characters.

 

[Magikrazy]

Unusual, but it included Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser... I wouldn't think the Wrecking Crew '98 roster is bad.
Mario Tennis Power Tour is up there with the worst roster, but Mario Party GBA had an even worse roster.

I haven't played that game, but this game seems not like a formal spinoff and only Mario is playable, though other main characters can still be in the final scene. Those original human characters are weird indeed, at least we know where club athletes live.

Wrecking Crew '98 had more than Mario playable.

Eggplant Man
Koopa Troopa
Gotcha Wrench
Foreman Spike
Bowser
Luigi
Peach
Onigiri (a ball of rice)
Onnanoko (a girl)
Oyaji (a middle aged man)
Dogu (a clay figure)

 

[Toad Eightyfive]

Onigiri (a ball of rice)

WHY.

 

[yoshidude99]

All the Mario games with loads of Humans in the Roster

 

[Yoshiwaker]

To me most rosters are not good due to lack of proportion or rotation, if I have to say, in many early games Daisy and Birdo didn't appear.

Mario Tennis GBA.
36 characters with only 6 Mario characters and rests were just human characters.
No Wario, Yoshi and Daisy. Mario characters are 1/6.
and No Mario-theme courts.

? I have no comment on Wario or Yoshi's absence, after all they're not protagonists and must-have. But indeed the use of excessive original club athletes is totally weird, we can trade them for almost all main characters playable.

Actually if some club athletes can be recurring in all sport games, the problem is not serious. That's another topic.

...Yoshi isn't a protagonist?

Actually, Dorayaki's correct. He isn't one.

He's something called a deuteragonist. A helper or assistant to the protagonist(s).

In some games he's a protagonist, though.

Like Yoshi's Island.

 

[Magikrazy]

To me most rosters are not good due to lack of proportion or rotation, if I have to say, in many early games Daisy and Birdo didn't appear.

Mario Tennis GBA.
36 characters with only 6 Mario characters and rests were just human characters.
No Wario, Yoshi and Daisy. Mario characters are 1/6.
and No Mario-theme courts.

? I have no comment on Wario or Yoshi's absence, after all they're not protagonists and must-have. But indeed the use of excessive original club athletes is totally weird, we can trade them for almost all main characters playable.

Actually if some club athletes can be recurring in all sport games, the problem is not serious. That's another topic.

...Yoshi isn't a protagonist?

Actually, Dorayaki's correct. He isn't one.

He's something called a deuteragonist. A helper or assistant to the protagonist(s).

In some games he's a protagonist, though.

Like Yoshi's Island.

But that's the Yoshi series. We're talking about the Mario games.