Unpopular opinions about the Mario series

I think part of the reason the plot of SPM is played straight is because it's satire on different literary cliches and isn't supposed to be taken seriously

I think the satire is pretty poor. There's riffing on literary cliches, and there's just using them, in which I feel Super Paper Mario really does feel like the latter. It also has mood whiplash, in that it attempts to keep the humor from previous Mario series: you simply cannot have a scene with O Chunks farting away and the next scene with characters seriously talking about destroying the world with an ancient prophecy.
 
Super Mario Advance remains the king of voice acting in a Mario game, because not only are the playable characters voiced, the bosses are also voiced. For example when a character carried a crystal, they said "A crystal!". The best part is that they said something instead of making grunts and noises! Sadly the follow-up Mario Advance games didn't have the extensive voice acting that the first one got, since for example bosses never made any quips.

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toad got the worst voice in that game though lmao he screeches in like. every single voice clip
im glad it seems to have gone smoother since
but yeah all these phrases themselves is pretty neat. wish more games had something like that and sunshine
 
I'll miss times where characters say "JUST WHAT I NEEDED" whenever they grabbed a power-up.
 
I quite enjoyed Chapter 4 of Thousand-Year Door. Yes, the level design was utterly horrid and those stupid Crazee Dayzees need to die, but playing as a mere shadow of Mario and the quest to find the letter "p" just felt amazing. It was probably one of my favorite chapters in the game, in fact, just because of how unique it felt.
 
They could have removed the third time traveling back to the Creepy Steeple, since it didn't really add anything. But when playing as fake Mario going back to the town, it is a nice bit of challenge in battles since there's no partners. I played the game so much I could actually avoid the Crazee Dayzees even in the tight spaces most of the time.
 
.I prefer the Mario and Luigi games to Paper Mario Yes, Mario & Luigi > Mario + underdeveloped partner
.Yellow Gooigi is the best Gooigi Yellow Gooigi is cool even though I prefer green
.Boodonkulus should be a regular in Mario Spin-offs ...I feel like there's some joke going over my head right now because there's no Boodonkulus on the wiki
 
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The voice clips in Mario Party 1 and 2 are AWFUL.

Luigi and Wario don't have their italian accents.

Instead Luigi has a screechy voice that sounds more like a blooper.