/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9636981
Yes but you'll find a way to say it dosen't count for some reason.

>>9636981
Goemon 2 on SNES is the only one. Some brilliant platforming, better bosses and great vibes throughout

>>9636981
In terms of polish and level design none. In terms of visuals and music a fuckton

>>9637019
Retro Nin games weren't even that polished. A reason why they had soul

>>9637006
Weird 2D Mario games never tried hubs and villages

>>9637032
They actually were, especially compared to their peers. I mean, we can still enjoy Zelda 1 today (with a guide at least) but holy shit are most of the other action-adventure games from the 80s borderline unplayable nowadays

>>9636981
>Does any single retro platforming game come close to the SMB3/SMW?

Unfortunately not but if you raise the bar a little more you would reach pic related.

James Pond 3

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>>9636981
Well Donkey Kong 2 occasionally

Most platformers are better to be honest. This game only gets attention because it's made by Nintendo.

Easy answer, Yoshi's Island and Donkey Kong Country 2 on the SNES. Both two functionally perfect games.

>>9637006
Correct if you can remove the slowdowns
>>9637145
>those abysmal controls with elevator jumps and no reverse scroll
>years after MM1
>>9637163
>bootleg Sonic that entices you to run fast just to make you run into obstacles impossible to see coming because that's why
>>9637164
>random shit
>>9637172
Correct

>>9637176
>the game that made Nintendo only gets attention because it's Nintendo

>>9637178
Why do people have to tell Yoshitards what is wrong with YI in every thread just so they can pretend the conversation never happened in the next thread? It's a slow and piss easy puzzle platformer and it needs a romhack not to be annoying as fuck and make red coins work as intended

>>9637164
This is the only game I can think of where you can walljump so fast you over-accelerate and die on impact with the ceiling. It's great.

>>9637210
Not a platformer, its Metroid on caffeine and it was made by a hack who never made anything else that's even supposedly good
>literally Floigan

>>9637204
>bootleg Sonic that entices you to run fast just to make you run into obstacles impossible to see coming because that's why

>filtered halfway through level 1

>>9636981
SMB5/SMW2/YL1

Kirby does all that

>>9637039
Villages rarely create an authentic feel in /vr and usually age poorly. Better without them imo

>>9636981
Smw is good don’t get me wrong but I wouldn’t put it in the same tier as Mario 3.

>>9637210
I dream of a platformer with gameplay as good as Mario and atmosphere as good as Sonic

>>9637212
Meds, auster

>>9637214
sounds annoying as fuck

>the way each individual level is well thought out and designed
Nope. Even many modern Nintendo platformers go the 'maze-route'. The old Megaman games as-well. But you shouldn't dismiss older mario games like it seems you attempted to do in your post. They also have good level design.
Donkey Kong Country games also.

>>9637164
>grab the coins, do the chore
>enemies are generic insta deaths, not much AI there
Good example though. What makes for good level design is how the obstacles act.

I see, unfortunately, a lot of bait itt.

>>9637562
Nobody is arguing this. Who cares which is better? They're both incomparable and they both work as a base for something bigger. Play romhacks so you will have to stop worrying about this tribalistic mindset.

>>9636981
I enjoyed super Mario bros 3 so much more than SMW I wouldn’t even put them in the same category

>>9636981
Id say SMB3 is way better than SMW. The first two Sonic are close. DKC2. Wario Land 2.

>>9638069
>>9637957
>>9637562
Holy shit stop samefagging
>not a single post arguing about SMB v SMW because it's not the topic
>suddenly 3-4 posts about it in a row
What is up with this board and blatant samefagging?

And no, SMW is obviously better. Objectively better controls and jumps no longer retardedly high, much better visuals, more content, way more variety, Yoshi, no tap to float

>>9637212
What's wrong with red coins? Don't they work exactly like they do in SM64? Or the dragon coins in SMW?

>>9638157
Snoys trying to derail the thread with divide and conquer. You fell for it

>>9638227
Much easier to differentiate from the corner of your eye in World and obviously 64

donkey kong country

>>9638276
>>9637172

DKC games aged like milk and look revolting.
The gameplay itself is about as mediocre as you can get for a platformer too.

>>9637841
It can only happen if the level has two walls with a one tile wide gap between them and YOU as the player must smash the jump button really quickly. Like the only way it'd happen is if you're mashing just to see how fast you can go.

>>9636981
Donkey Kong Country 1/2/3

>>9638289
you're wrong

Sucks that in most platformers, the enemies rarely go beyond being just a walking hitbox, which may or may not throw some projectiles. In SMW, we have: Chargin' Chucks, shell-kicking blue koopas, kamikaze koopas... Why can't we have some more complex enemies?

>>9639096
Sprites are too big. The dumb barrel cannon gimmick is very lame and turns the game into an annoying rhythm game.

>>9636981
castlevania 1 and 3
>>9638227
yeah pretty much, they're tinted and if you're not barreling past everything or just colorblind it's easy to see it
occasionally there's no tint though for some reason

>>9637215
Awful take