/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2883628
The real one is indisputably the actual Super Mario Bros 2, the Japanese one. That isn't really up for debate. The one we got here is the one most people mean when they say Super Mario Bros 2.

But it's all in the past now, and we got four Super Mario Bros games out of it.

For what it's worth, the USA version is my favorite of the 8-bit games. Including Super Mario World (since it was the last proper SMB game and also included in All-Stars + World), my ranking of the five games is:

SMW > SMB2 USA > SMB2j > SMB > SMB3

I was just never a fan of SMB3. Too many auto-scrolling levels, at least one on every world, always keep me from coming back. I just didn't seem to like the level design in general, though I'm not quite sure why. I can never stop replaying SMW, but SMB3 just feels so slow and dull to me.

I love SMB2 USA. It felt like a big adventure. Four unique characters, a solid game, intricate level design with a lot of variety and no water levels, and it wasn't afraid to toss convention completely out the window. People get way too attached to convention. Now we're stuck with NSMB style until the end of time. Riding on and picking up enemies, large open-ended level design without a timer, weird new enemies and environments, the charged super-jump, sub-con potions... it was Mario and friends, staring in a platformer that wasn't a Mario game, and it was all the better for it. One of the reasons I adored Super Mario Land, as well as "Super Mario Land 3" and "Super Mario World 2" which are a complete stretch to call Mario games and both spawned their own series (though poor Yoshi probably could've done with just the one), with Wario Land spinning off of itself and becoming a puzzle-platformer.

Super Mario Sunshine wasn't perfect. When you try something different, you're liable to fail, and in many ways it did. But I'd rather have a Mario game at least try to be different than imitate it's forebears again and again.

>>2586214
Your more than welcome! Thanks for reading it!