General Mario Thread

I'd say the best Lethal Lava Land is NSMBW's World 8, where you get to outrun a pyroclastic flow, escape an erupting volcano, dodge waves of lava, and especially ride the Bonecoaster.

Corona Mountain

Actually, I don't think I do have a favourite Lethal Lava Land. Although I love New Super Mario Bros' Level 8-8. Dat Speed-runnin'.

EDIT: Wait! Does it have to be fully Lethal Lava Land? If not, my favourite is Freezeflame Galaxy.

edited 11th Nov '12 12:07:49 AM by MagcargoMan

I think my favorite was Melty Molten Galaxy. Great music added to a feeling of... immenseness, I guess. And oddly enough, I never minded dying a million times on that path to the second star.

I wish that they brought back a few of the old Galaxies from the first game to the second one. Really, Sky Station Galaxy was really meh and a Suspiciously Similar Substitute, complete with an extremely similar boss. Would have rathered Good Egg Galaxy with some extra new planets.

I got Paper Mario Sticker Star. ... Eh... not really enjoying it. Battle system started getting tedious and unfun. To the point where I actively avoided fights.

What happens if you run out of stickers? Are you helpless until the enemies beat you into a game over, is it an automatic game over for mercy, or does something else happen?

Your only option is to run. The enemy will disappear as if you had defeated it.

If you run out of stickers, you get one sticker each turn until you defeat the enemy or run away, I believe.

http://www.examiner.com/article/first-new-super-mario-bros-u-review-score-posted-game-length-revealed

The innovation saved for the final levels? Also, too bad it's easier than NSMBW, a game that was already really really easy.

Hang on, who said it was easier? From what I've been hearing, it's actually more challenging.

I'm currently replaying The Thousand-Year Door now in order to prepare for Sticker Star. Almost forgot how much I love this game. ^_^ I'm currently at that castle where you fight against that dragon for the first Crystal Star. I forgot it's english name, but in german, it's named "Lohgard" and it's a female. xD

I wouldn't be doing that if I were you. Sticker Star's pretty enjoyable. (took me until world 2 to start enjoying myself.) But it's not as good as TTYD. You'll just be setting yourself up for disappointment if you come straight from TTYD.

I don't think I'm so sure about that. My expectations of Paper Mario Sticker Star only consist of it being an enjoyable game. Nothing more. ^^

edited 12th Nov '12 10:50:22 AM by Jaryl

Is Paper Mario's move to a handheld supposed to be indicative of the recent move of JRPGs towards handhelds, since I've been noticing that trend.

That's good with me, since I tend to play more on a handheld than on a console.

Well, aside from that, I have a question for you guys: Which Bowser-battle theme is so far your favourite:

• Paper Mario 1: (Game-Version) (Soundtrack-Version) - yeah, interestingly, this one sounds different on the OST than it does in the game! I dunno, I like the version in the game a bit more, what with the electric guitars and such.
• Paper Mario: The Thousand Year-Door: link
• Super Paper Mario: link

Personally, I like the TTYD-theme of his battle a bit more, followed by the original one. The SPM-one is kinda meh, compared to the other ones.

It's been five years since Super Mario Galaxy has been released. I recently got the game and am up to the first Bowser battle, but I haven't gotten the Grand Star from him yet. I like the remixed Bowser's Road music from Super Mario 64 though.

Did you even read the link?

If I'm being totally honest, only some of it. I (unjustly, apparently) assumed that I got the gist of it with the first few paragrapshs and didn't even notice that the list of review points was there. My bad.

All right, having read the review points (or rather, read the sentence that said it was easier and skimmed the rest), I...don't have much to add. I was thinking about saying "well, one person's easier might be another's harder," but then I remembered that I haven't actually played NSMBU yet. Nor NSMBW, for that matter, so I can't really judge it on that front at all. I retract my previous statement.

I imagine it'll still be difficult for me, considering how bad at game I am.

edited 12th Nov '12 6:14:33 PM by Zarek

Here's a developer interview on Sticker Star.

Super Mario 3D Land was released November 13th last year, I like the Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 feel it has with the music from Galaxy also.

Anyways, should I get Paper Mario: Sticker Star? It would be an interesting feel in 3D, somewhat.

I still wish they would go back to the explorational style for the next 3D Mario (yes I'm repeating myself).

Eh, I'm perfectly fine with the gameplay of the current 3D Marios.

So I've been reading some info on Sticker Star...

Needless to say, this game seems disappointing, I really can't say i'm interested.

edited 15th Nov '12 1:40:49 AM by DavidtheMouse14

It's more fun than reviews suggest. It's definitely fun as a standalone title. However, if you're going in with expectations that it's like the past Paper Mario games, you WILL be disappointed. Personally, I don't think it's good as TTYD, but it's much better than SPM, and almost up there with the original Paper Mario. It does have it's fair share of flaws though.