Unpopular opinions about the Mario series

Baby Luigi said:
Most of us can agree that Mario Kart 8 has the best tracks
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personally I probably would put it in the bottom half, at least based on new tracks

SMK and SC easily have the worst track lists though
 
Lucas said:
funky bike wii had fantastic nitro courses, but the retro tracks sucked ass
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that's not an unpopular opinion

Glitchy said:
Wii had some awful retros, but I enjoyed a large number of the new courses. Especially the ones in the star cup.
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neither is that
 
Riki said:
Baby Luigi said:
Most of us can agree that Mario Kart 8 has the best tracks
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personally I probably would put it in the bottom half, at least based on new tracks

SMK and SC easily have the worst track lists though
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pretty sure she's talking about retros but idk

anyway i think that super circuit is overhated and i've said this before
 
Lyn said:
Lucas said:
funky bike wii had fantastic nitro courses, but the retro tracks sucked ass
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that's not an unpopular opinion

Glitchy said:
Wii had some awful retros, but I enjoyed a large number of the new courses. Especially the ones in the star cup.
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neither is that
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not like responses to unpopular opinions have to be unpopular themselves

Lucas said:
pretty sure she's talking about retros but idk
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she said that before retros came up so I assumed she meant overall, but I don't think I'd agree with that either anyway
 
Lyn said:
Riki said:
not like responses to unpopular opinions have to be unpopular themselves
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smasher please you're a mod

popular opinions = derailing the thread
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icemario please i'm the thread owner

popular opinions in response to unpopular opinions = allowed

[me=Smasher]locks you outside[/me]



of the three major Nintendo platformer series (DK, Kirby, Mario), Mario is overall the weakest
 
Kirby platformers >>>>>>>>>>>>> Mario platformers

I haven't played much DK so idk about those games.
 
I find Kirby to be the weakest due to the fact that there appears to be zero incentive to playing well. There appears to be zero real punishment the game deals out for failing. If the game is not interested in punishing me for playing badly, then I have no interest in playing well. I've tried a couple of Kirby games (Amazing Mirror and Epic Yarn), but none of them appealed to me in the slightest. Meanwhile, Mario has tight mechanics with levels that reward quick manoeuvring around obstacles and the like, and the Donkey Kong series (at least Donkey Kong Country) has loads of mechanics that are just waiting for the player to learn, use and eventually master, like the roll jump and similar mechanics.
 
Some of the sub-games in Superstar and Superstar Ultra are quite difficult.



And I think Metroid can be considered a major Nintendo platformer too.