Snow Ghost
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Either the Mario and Luigi series or the Paper Mario series. I technically love the Paper Mario series more but all of the Mario and Luigi games are great whereas only the first two Paper Mario games are great (Super isn't bad, it's just not as good).
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Paper Mario series. Mario & Luigi is just a tad bit too hard for me to beat any game in general. Only Sticker Star gives me some trouble. Super Mario RPG is fun, though.
For Sports, Golf(64 specifically). Although Kart is a good secondary. It just keeps screwing up the roster or course count for me since 64 to prefer Mario Kart to Golf. Tennis was okay.
I still find the Edutainment games fun, though.
My favorite is Mario Tennis. I'd get more of the games if I had time.
Paper Mario and the sequels were good, and probably Super Mario RPG if I had gotten it.
The Mario and Luigi games were good, but they started getting so gimmicky. And I keep having trouble with the final bosses.
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if people consider Wario Ware to be a "spinoff" (I don't, but that's beside the point), that no doubt.
Otherwise... Paper Mario, I guess?
Paper Mario, because I found the artstyle and story to be better than the Mario And Luigi Series.
edited 2nd May '14 11:11:02 PM by AfroWarrior27
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Mario Kart or Mario Golf. I just never get tired of them.
Of the RPGs, definitely the Mario & Luigi series. Loved the first one, third one let you play as Bowser, and the fourth one has some of the best bosses.
edited 3rd May '14 1:00:06 AM by Folt
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What about the second one? No pain please...
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Never played the second one.
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Ah, I see. I thought you skipped the second one because most people who played it didn't like it.
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I can't really have an opinion on the second one see, but even if I wouldn't like it, that's still 3-1 to 2-2 if we compare the Mario & Luigi series to the Paper Mario series.
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I'm just wondering, why can't we get more Mario games like this;
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I hope in the next Mario RPG they could do something like partners in time and maybe incorporate the Wario Brothers into a story along with Mario and Luigi
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That commercial makes Mario Galaxy look like a Final Fantasy game and really makes me wonder what a Mario game would be like with that kind of plot. I think it'd be worth doing once.
Also, that music is beautiful.
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Yeah, Super Paper Mario's plot had a lot of heart to it!
edited 3rd May '14 7:07:55 AM by AfroWarrior27
Snow Ghost
The concept of Partners in Time was good, the execution was accepteable, but I really didn't like the way it was structured and just ended up finding the game boring to play.
Both times.
edited 3rd May '14 9:21:17 AM by Randomness4
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My issue with Partners in Time lies in how much health a lot of the bosses and enemies have, otherwise I like it.
I can't be mad at the game that brought us Piranha Planets.
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Snow Ghost
Surprisingly enough the "too much health" was the least of my problems...I'd imagine that if I had gotten to the Final Boss then it would be a problem.
(So much health and multiple gosh dang phases too)
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The Final Boss wasn't too bad, so long as you're good at the Copy Flower (I think that's what it's called) and the other powerful Bros. Items. Same goes for the Final Boss of Bowser's Inside Story.
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The health thing is only an issue with the NA version. The PAL and Japanese versions were more reasonable. For reference, the final boss of the NA version has 3000 HP. The final boss of the PAL version? 1800. Yeah, and it's not like that just for the final boss, but for EVERY ENEMY IN THE GAME. Oh and the NA version came out first, around November. The PAL and Japanese versions have like extra stuff. Seems like that game was rushed out for the holidays.
edited 3rd May '14 9:55:33 AM by Marioguy128
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Every M&L game is harder in for the US release than the others, I do believe.
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I really don't see a legit reason to why they thought to up the enemy health so dramatically, they aren't even any harder, its just making them annoyingly longer.
I think its just Pi T, Bi S is way easier than that game, SSS is about average difficulty.
edited 3rd May '14 10:03:27 AM by Randomness4
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They probably didn't finish balancing the game, and sent out the game as is for the holidays. They had extra time to add more stuff in the PAL and Japanese versions, as well as rebalance every enemy.
Not to this extent. And even then it's just really small differences. There was only one change made in BIS, and none in Dream Team. Also the Japanese version of SS had more expensive items.
edited 3rd May '14 10:04:54 AM by Marioguy128
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So what's everyone's favorite Mario spin-offs? I like plenty of them, but my favorite is probably the Mario and Luigi series. RPG's are cool, and it doesn't need quite as much precision as Paper Mario.
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