Gauging Popular Opinions (Current: DiC's Mario Cartoons)

[Xiahou Ba]

Before Galaxy 2, all 3D Mario platformers was something distinct and unique that set them apart from each other. You should expect better than a 60 dollar expansion pack that also blatantly regurgitates concepts from Galaxy 1 straight back at you and retains all flaws Galaxy 1 has, especially with filler content.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

well if i'm giving my personal opinion, i absolutely adore the game because it was my first 3d mario so i have a lot of nostalgia, and i feel that even now it still has plenty of positive qualities that make it enjoyable to come back to all these years later

Ahyea nostalgia is a powerful thing. Understandable since it's all impressionable and early experiences can be powerful. It's funny to me though since I consider Odyssey to be better than the other Mario games I grew up with... Heck a lot of games I grew up I kinda just remembered all the bad experiences like Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Super Smash Bros. Brawl and even some of Galaxy 1, which I've condemned Galaxy 1 at one point. Still I grew up with New Super Mario Bros. DS and Super Mario 64 DS and I liked these two a lot. Maybe I was just an edgy teenager.

Probably because it's exactly that: an expansion to something that many consider a great game, myself included. If you liked a game so much, wouldn't you want more of it?

Yeah it's a tad frustrating that Galaxy 2 doesn't acknowledge the first game at all, but it doesn't detract from the experience. Koizumi pls give us Galaxy 3.

Figure so, kinda like my reveling at Odyssey but with a 2 but being repelled at a hypothetical Galaxy 3. Maybe I just didn't like the design of Galaxy that much having grown up with the sandbox nature of Super Mario 64 and then not enjoying Bowser Kingdom in Odyssey that much. I remember my expectations for Galaxy 2. Seeing Mario ride Fluzzard in E3 screenshots gave me the owl vibes from Super Mario 64 and exploring a lush jungle. Turned out to just be some gimmick. Pretty crushing.

Galaxy 2 just so thoroughly disappointed me because it removed the cool powerups too or didn't expand on their potential and somehow overrelied on past level gimmicks to a worse effect, and they put in a few too many 2.5D levels and tried its Super Mario World nostalgia tickling a tad too much that made it a confusing mes of what kind of platformer it wanted to be.

 

[Teedgee]

honestly, i prefer it when it's course based. some might argue that sandbox based games are better because the levels are bigger and have more exploration, and i can respect opinions like that, but i think the games being level based allow for more level variety. don't get me wrong, i really like sandbox based games, i loved mario 64, but eventually visiting the same world over and over looking for collectibles gets tiring and you wanna go somewhere else. granted, that's the point of different worlds in sandbox based games, but you get something new very quickly in course based games. Mario galaxy tho is kind of a weird case where it's both level based and sandbox based. you have the small levels with about one star that you quickly forget about, but you also have the big worlds where you can explore, such as honeyhive galaxy and seaslide galaxy, which feel like they belong in games like sunshine or 64. that's kinda why i love galaxy so much: it gives you short levels if you don't feel like exploring or it gives you big levels if you wanna look for stars.

so yeah i prefer course based games, but sandbox based games are very close to being better.

 

[forum user 3254]

Galaxy 2 is *the* most overrated Mario game of all time and probably among the most overrated game of all time. I still cannot grasp why people heap so much praise for it when it's just Galaxy but with a 2.

I mean you're right that Galaxy 2 is really just more Galaxy, but to me and many others Galaxy 1 was so great that more of the same isn't a bad thing at all. Plus Galaxy 2 was one of my first Mario games so there's that

 

[Mcmadness]

I like both.

 

[Noct]

I like both.

Ditto.

 

[winstein]

The results are in! These are the results of this poll:

1. Sandbox-based (64, Sunshine, Odyssey) Votes: 9 (60.0%)
2. Course-based (Galaxy, Galaxy 2, 3D Land, 3D World) Votes: 6 (40.0%)

Previously, I ran a poll where users can choose between 2D and 3D platformers, and clearly, the 3D platformers are preferred, therefore this is to build upon that. Since the majority of users based their opinion on 3D Mario as hardly anybody would think much on Donkey Kong and Wario's 3D platformers, the natural conclusion is to pick between the two types of 3D Mario games outlined by the developers back in January 2017 (when the Switch was first detailed). Of the two, the sandbox-style gameplay is clearly the preferred one, given how it's usually packed with detail in their levels in a way a course-based level lacks. Although there are some users who liked both, I would have appreciated if the opinion is elucidated. In fact, if the opinion is outside the scope of the poll, an elaboration would be very much welcomed.

Anyway, for our next poll, it would be related to voice-acting.

Thank you for reading.

 

[zel]

oh cant wait for voice actign then!! i skipped this one because um its hard to judge what i like better since ive only played odyssey ................
anyway i really really want a mario game with full voice acting. more like mario sunshine but actually let mario speak too! and not just remove his only two lines from the na version of the game!!!!! So basically like rayman 3

 

[Marceline]

i think voice acting is best limited to only a few effects, like mario jumping. sunshine is really the only mario game i've played with prominent voice acting, and i'm indifferent/slightly negative towards it. speaking from the lego series, i prefer those with minimal voice acting (i've played some which heavily feauture voice acting like marvel superheroes and batman 3, and others which have very little voice such as lego batman 1 and indiana jones 1 & 2)