I think I'd have to go with SMW
3 over World, but SMB2 is the best Mario game on the NES.
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SMB2 is the best Mario game on the NES.
This is like people who prefer Star Trek IV over II or VI, and I respect the off-kilter energy.
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The meme options should have been B then A
Tough choice but I’m reluctantly picking World. It’s probably because as a kid I had a NES, but never a SNES, so all my SMW play was at friends or the demo kiosk at the store.
Not until I was a 20something when I traded a used motherboard for an old SNES and played the shit out of it.
The Best Buy demo kiosks added an absurd amount of shine to unworthy consoles. I'm still waiting on my $800 3D0. It can't suck if it's that expensive!? I played the Road Rash demo, mind you!
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I'd pick SMB3 on the SNES/GBA vs. NES over SMW.
I'm gonna go apparently against the grain and agree with OP. Choosing is hard. Both amazing games.
I liked 3 a lot, it introduced a lot of new elements paving the way for world. But world IMHO is better.
SMB3 has gotta take this but just barely.
SMB3, it's simpler.
I can never remember how to hold stuff in World.
You hold the "run" button, exactly the same as in 3.
You can hold stuff in 3?!
Have you played/finished the games?
Hast thou considered: while holding an item, hold up on the D-pad, then release B, then jump up in front of a climbable surface like a vine or a fence and hold B in time to catch the item. Now you're climbing with the item.
SMB3 is peak Mario, but Super Mario World is probably second place.
Me: pencils in SM64
Teacher: “I have nothing left to teach you.“
That funny. I love smb3 and smw. My girlfriend and I beat them both doing every thing loved them. And SMB 2 and yoshis island.
Then we tried Mario 64 when it came out. So boring we quit. Hated the design, the repetitiveness, the movement, the sound, Mario as well.
That was the end of Mario as far as we were concerned.
I find it strange to this day that it is so well liked.
Why choose when you're an All Star, baby!
Edit: oh right. Only one version of All Stars included SMW, hehe
World. 1000%
Between those two? SMW. Of all Mario games? That's a much more interesting question.
Personal preference, but if you asked me "of all Mario games", it would also come down to a decision between these two.
I realize it's comparing apples to oranges but Paper Mario and Odyssey have to be in the discussion.
Is no one in this thread going to mention Sunshine? Clearly the best SM game without a doubt
Sunshine had some cool ideas and introduced Bowser Jr. but I wouldn't put it over Galaxy or Odyssey as a 3D platformer.
Why would you rank those two as better platformers? I reckon FLUDD introduced a lot of fun ways to solve the level puzzles and the hub world is the best designed next to Mario 64.
FLUDD is pretty well done but, pun unintended, they still hadn't nailed the fluidity of movement that the later titles have. (The existence of a hub world is pretty neutral for me, they mostly serve as a way to soft tutorial the controls.)
I think you're right with odyssey, that game played beautifully but galaxy (the first one at least) felt as jank if not more jank than sunshine. The wiimote never felt good for platforming and the switch adaptation also struggles with awkward camera angles.
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For this, SMW. Of all time? SMB2 on Gameboy.
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