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Then remember this, everyone who has yet to play a Yoshi's Island game: begin with YNI and it wont disappoint. Begin with another game, and...Mcmadness said:
Unpopular opinions about the Mario series
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Fair, especially the Luigi > Mario one, but I have heard a lot of people say that a) MG2 is better than MG and b) MK8D is a waste of money. I actually believed b) until I played the battle mode, and here's another unpopular opinion:Propeller Knight said:
Battle Mode is the best Mario Kart mode.
Roller said:
I agree that Bowser is a villain that could take a rest, but I am sure a few folks would greatly disagree with that. In fact, Mario & Luigi is a series in great need of a villain and final boss that excludes Bowser, since every final boss has always have Bowser's involvement.
I know others have already commented on this, but I want to show that if there were to be a poll between Mario and Luigi, you can see that Luigi is greatly more popular than Mario. It would thus be a more unpopular opinion for one to say that they like Mario over Luigi. Link: https://www.marioboards.com/index.php?topic=39261.msg1974128
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I agree with this. It might not be considered the best since the characters have rather exaggerated voices, so does not lend well to voicing full sentences, but I liked that they provide some voice acting to lighten up the mood. If I would like to provide my unpopular opinion on this, Bowser's portrayal is the best in this game, as opposed to the others which are just roaring. Even Bowser Jr's voice is consistent.
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I also heard a lot of people say Galaxy 2 is better than Galaxy 1, which I disagree, and as far as I know, quite a few on the forum also have my stance.Roller said:
I don't think Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a waste of money, but I think it's overpriced for what it is. I think it's a great standalone game and its battle mode is completely reworked to be better, but not amazing (the sliding braking thing is obnoxious and annoying; the character icons on the minimap take up way too much space; renegade roundup is very meh).
I definitely agree about Battle Mode. It's annoying what they did to it in Mario Kart 8 though. Battle Mode was great in 7. It's Mario Kart Wii's but better, essentially, aside from the obnoxious Lucky 7. If only it had more arenas and a way to choose which opponents show up...
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No offense whatsoever, but I feel 17 people is quite a small sample size. I'm sure if you considered all the little kids who play Mario, Mario would have an edge up on Luigi.
But regardless, Toad is the best playable character so
Don't get me wrong, I know it's small because my topics tend to attract few people (not to mention how my topics are not that sensational) but I can see that people in this forums are more inclined to Luigi as opposed to Mario. I can see that a Twitter poll will also trend towards Luigi, but I am not the right person to make it since I am not all that popular.
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I dunno, I'd call Dimentio well done enough as a "minion behind the boss" character. I'd call Bleck worse for how awkward his (and the rest of Bleck's posse besides Dimentio) redemption arc was and how under-explored him apparently being a separate persona from Blumaire that was channeling the Dark Prognosticus's desire to destroy the universe was.
Since we're on SPM, I bluntly claim that for all its flaws, Color Splash was closer to the spirit of the first two PMs. SPM in many ways just comes off as a random game with Mario characters shoved into it.
Since we're on SPM, I bluntly claim that for all its flaws, Color Splash was closer to the spirit of the first two PMs. SPM in many ways just comes off as a random game with Mario characters shoved into it.
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Of course Dimentio is a terrible villain. If he was sweet and kind, he wouldn't be much of a villain :P
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I still think Sticker Star's version of Bowser is the worst villain in the Mario RPGs. Vanishes after a very brief underwhelming intro, then no presence until the end, only mentioned by other characters and when he finally does appear he's just a generic roaring monster that never utters a word even after he's defeated. Dimentio provided some parallels with M&L's Fawful in his dialogue and had a plan that is slowly made apparent throughout the game. I'd vastly prefer that to "bad guy is bad, he'll try to kill you at the end kill him first" in an RPG series, especially this one that I only got into mainly because of the characters and plots.
I can't comment on what Dimentio's apparently a ripoff of, but there's a lot of things that reuse ideas and that's not inherently a bad thing (TV Tropes is full of examples of recurring tropes in media). These things are common because they work, and in SPM's case it applied these things in a universe where you wouldn't expect it to great effect.
I can't comment on what Dimentio's apparently a ripoff of, but there's a lot of things that reuse ideas and that's not inherently a bad thing (TV Tropes is full of examples of recurring tropes in media). These things are common because they work, and in SPM's case it applied these things in a universe where you wouldn't expect it to great effect.
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Well, to be fair, Bowser had literally no dialogueFawful with a Monster in Peach's Castle said:
The problem with Sticker Star Bowser is that he's implied to have been driven insane by the Royal Stickers... but it's Tell, Not Show. Bowser doesn't really act all that much different, neither Junior nor Kamek notice any difference in his behavior and overall the bosses get the point across much better than Bowser himself does. He even tries to touch the comet again in the end, showing that he was in control of his actions to some degree.
Even the whole "feeling his presence through the environment/enemies" thing falls flat since Kamek and Megasparkle Goomba are the only ones that do it effectively: We have no indication that Bowser influenced the bosses, you can remove Bowser Jr. from the game and lose nothing, overall it's very messy (not helped by Sticker Star being more non-linear and having a much looser plot).
Long story short: The Black Paint from Color Splash is basically a more malevolent and fleshed out version of what Sticker Star was trying to shoot for.
As for Dimentio, his character archetype isn't really original. The Kirby series kinda did it with Marx but Kefka is the example that comes directly to mind if I were to make a comparison. I think that second bit especially hurts him since I can't recall a Mario RPG villain being that much of a dead ringer for another video game villain.
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You'd have to be pretty genre blind not to see what they were going to do with Dimentio.
And had they actually played that for laughs and not a big "OMG I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING" moment I probably wouldn't even care.
As a result when it happened it felt more like this.
And had they actually played that for laughs and not a big "OMG I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING" moment I probably wouldn't even care.
As a result when it happened it felt more like this.
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Smithy is...bland.
Like, my favorite villains are the Shroobs, though it could be my bias tinting it. A lot. Bowser is also my favorite villain in Mario Party, mostly because he knows he's an asshole and he loves it.
Like, my favorite villains are the Shroobs, though it could be my bias tinting it. A lot. Bowser is also my favorite villain in Mario Party, mostly because he knows he's an asshole and he loves it.