General Mario Thread

Does anyone else find King Boo's design a little boring? Bowser looks like a Koopa on horse steroids, but King Boo is just a bigger Boo with a crown.

Edited by ThriceCharming on Oct 16th 2019 at 9:47:02 AM

And...that's always what he was.

It's why they gave him some heavy eyeshadow and red eyes.

King Boo is more interesting and cool in the Luigi's Mansion series, y'know, the series of games where he has a unique design.

That's the design he always has in the Luigi's Mansion series, starting with his debut in the first one. Yet in all of his other appearances (Super Mario Sunshine aside), for some reason they instead portray him as a regular Boo with a crown. I wish his Luigi's Mansion design would just become his de facto look already.

According to the Mario Wiki, Super Mario Sunshine's King Boo is a different Boo than the regular King Boo.

EDIT: Huh, apparently the Sunshine enemies are all made of goop. "This game's enemy characters are created by Bowser Jr.'s scribbling. That is why they are weak to water, and differ slightly in design from the rest of the series. Yoshi also vanishes if he falls in water for the same reason."

Edited by lalalei2001 on Oct 16th 2019 at 10:25:35 AM

He's Big Boo with a Crown.

But the Yoshis aren't made by Bowser Jr are they? I think it's just a gameplay mechanic to keep you from crossing water with Yoshi, which could potentially be a Game-Breaker.

He had to have got that egg from somewhere.

Bowser Jr. has real talent. Imagine what he could do with an art class!

Did you guys know October is the Month of Luigi? I didn't! I feel bad now!

Luigi’s Mansion 3 ‘ScreamPark’ multiplayer modes gameplay

GameXplain answers 50 questions about Luigi's Mansion 3;

This is interesting—a seemingly unused feature in Paper Mario: Color Splash would have drained people's colors with black paint, and if you mod Mario's hammer to use black paint he can drain others' colors.

Edited by lalalei2001 on Oct 23rd 2019 at 8:25:04 AM

A video on playable Mario in Luigi's Mansion.

I still haven't played a single LM game, but I find it an interesting series. I remember it being a loathed Cult Classic until 2009-2011 but now everyone likes it.

'Commercially, Luigi's Mansion is the most successful Game Cube launch title and the best-selling game of November 2001. Despite meager sales in Japan at around 348,000 units in total, it became the fifth best-selling Nintendo Game Cube game in the United States.

Luigi's Mansion received generally positive reviews, and reviewers praised the game's graphics, design, and gameplay. Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon received critical acclaim, gaining aggregate score 86/100 on Metacritic.'

Edited by lalalei2001 on Oct 23rd 2019 at 3:14:37 AM

Thank goodness for Save States.

I had never beaten an NES Mario game before 2018 but thanks to NES games on the Switch I was able to use save states and beat 4 NES Mario platformers (Super Mario Bros. 1-3 and Lost Levels)

I had beaten Super Mario World twice through Wii virtual console and beat it a third time on The Switch

Congrats!

Be careful, looks like someone received Luigi's Mansion 3 early and spoilers are out and about.

(x4) Critical Dissonance is a trope. For years fans either disliked it or considered it So Okay, It's Average. I think the backlash was because people wanted a main Mario title at launch, not a spinoff. Eventually its reputation improved.

(x3) I've beaten the first and third game thanks to save states (well, technically I first beat the Deluxe version of SMB 1, which saves often). I still haven't beaten the international version of the second game. As a kid, I couldn't get past the first world after beating Birdo. The masks always killed me.

Edited by Pichu-kun on Oct 27th 2019 at 6:26:20 AM

For me, it was because it suffered a lot from being It's Short, So It Sucks!, so playing it over and over constantly (what do you expect? I was very young at the time and couldn't buy more games) diminished my opinion of it.

Really, it's one of those games that's fun to play from time to time, but doesn't gain much from New Game Plus. The 3DS version almost got it right, except that it went way too hardcore and removed any health pickups.

I'm stuck in Paper Mario Color Splash's postgame and don't know where to fight a Rocky Wrench in the Sunset Express.

I'll try getting Battle Cards from the Spinning-Door games, since I found the Shy Bandit's card that way.

Edited by lalalei2001 on Oct 27th 2019 at 10:31:00 AM

Oh, someone's doing a walkthrough.

Though, usually walkthroughs are done by people who...know what to do.

Edited by randomness4 on Oct 27th 2019 at 4:32:18 AM

I found the Rocky Wrenches on the train! They're on the left side on top of the train cars and you need to use Cutout to get there. :)

Also, Luigi's Mansion 3 broke the street date, so beware of spoilers!

What kind of hotel has a fucking medieval castle on the sixth floor?

A really cool hotel!