The 8 year old me would be overjoyed! This was one of my favorite NES games, and there were enough good NES games that the title of “one of my favorites” means it was actually cream of the crop.
The 45 year old me would probably not be as happy, since I’d rather go to bed at a reasonable hour and crappy quality fast food pizza sounds like it’s going to make me feel miserable if I have more than a slice or two anyway. Plus as awesome as SMB3 is and was, there are modern games I’d rather play at the moment if I were going to stay up all night.
Super Mario World was peak SMB for me. It took everything they did in SMB3 and refined it.
The only thing I think SMW was lacking was variety of powerups. You had fire and cape, plus Yoshi stuff. SMB3 had fire and raccoon, but also the weird, rare stuff like hammer, frog, tanooki, and the boot.
I’ve been following an indie dev working on a Mario-3-ish-clone and nothing excites me more than that it seems like they brought Kuribos boot back. Why is that stupid fucking boot power up from one level in SMB3 still so beloved? I don’t know, but I feel it.
The 8 year old me would be overjoyed! This was one of my favorite NES games, and there were enough good NES games that the title of “one of my favorites” means it was actually cream of the crop.
The 45 year old me would probably not be as happy, since I’d rather go to bed at a reasonable hour and crappy quality fast food pizza sounds like it’s going to make me feel miserable if I have more than a slice or two anyway. Plus as awesome as SMB3 is and was, there are modern games I’d rather play at the moment if I were going to stay up all night.
Super Mario World was peak SMB for me. It took everything they did in SMB3 and refined it.
The only thing I think SMW was lacking was variety of powerups. You had fire and cape, plus Yoshi stuff. SMB3 had fire and raccoon, but also the weird, rare stuff like hammer, frog, tanooki, and the boot.
I’ve been following an indie dev working on a Mario-3-ish-clone and nothing excites me more than that it seems like they brought Kuribos boot back. Why is that stupid fucking boot power up from one level in SMB3 still so beloved? I don’t know, but I feel it.