/vr/ - Retro Games

i don't know why anons, i got no skin in this game, but 3 feels so much better than W. i mean W is fun great excellent game but let me ramble it out and see where i land.

it's like with SMB3, they took everything they'd learned and perfected the fuck out of it. it was a celebration of the ness/famicum, a climax, a swan song. graphics are the dopest shit, maryo pops out with his bold black lines and the style feels great. all the powerups are cool, all the lands are cool. everything feels solid as hell.

so with nothing left to perfect, all they could do was add or change. SMW is like when they started trying to be different for the sake of being different, not necessarily because it's better. and def part of this is artificial changes to make for a good SNES "tech demo." the graphics are softer, so it feels like everything is a bit softer, which is maybe a subtle detriment to platforming? i dunno. they're prettier, more detailed, but i find my preference in the bolder look. and the cape is more "rewarding" to master maybe? but i never had as much fun with it than i did with the P meter system. i do like much of the sound advances, but the sound design and music are so much better in SMB3. punchier, more striking.

Otherwise, all SMB3 needs is a save system, which is why I'm happy that normies gobbled up the nes classic, because it inherently solves this literal only flaw for future generations.