What Mario game do you think has the best storyline?

Mason said:
I will say one thing. The storyline for Super Mario World was mindblowingly stupid. The GBA port didn't help.
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Per, and I think not even the instruction booklet story helped.
 
In the instruction booklet, the description makes me want to barf. "Magical" Dinosaur Land? "Beautiful" cape? Sounds like a girl's story.

Super Mario World is now another example of an overrated Mario game with a bad story (the other being Super Mario Galaxy 2)

Nintendo really needs to make a little deeper story.
 
Mario games don't need to rely on story to be good, but sometimes, a corny story like SMW's kind of stops me.

NSMB's story should be taken into account of its atrocious story too.

(BTW, I find it ironic that this topic is about the best storyline when we are basically talking about the worse storylines)
 
Cosmopolitan said:
Mario games don't need to rely on story to be good, but sometimes, a corny story like SMW's kind of stops me.

NSMB's story should be taken into account of its atrocious story too.

(BTW, I find it ironic that this topic is about the best storyline when we are basically talking about the worse storylines)
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I guess it is easier to talk about the worst stuff than the best stuff.
 
Most Mario games that aren't RPGs don't really have great stories. Yeah, sometimes the platformers such as Super Mario Galaxy has epic moments but the story it was based on was meh. Speaking of Super Mario Galaxy, I liked my first impression of a giant UFO lifting Peach's Castle to the sky. It looked really impressive. The rest of the story was meh, except for the final battle.
 
Do you know any good Mario storylines that aren't RPGs? Not excluding RPGs or anything, but they tend to have better stories than the mainstream Mario games. Just wondering.
 
Yeah, it includes RPGs. The title didn't say, "Main Mario game", it just said "Mario game".