FLYINGJESTER'S PROFILE

You are a very positive person.

author=Mirak
Oh so it's a reboot? It's not a continuation? Sad.

It doesn't matter. Reboot or continuation, it's more Samurai Jack.

I mostly just wonder what the 'A' stands for.

author=Mirak
I had to play most popular n64 games in an emulator because i didn't own a console and the games i played in the rentals were multiplayer games like mario party and starfox

Starfox 64 is like 90% single player and 10% multiplayer, though. Sometimes I play it with friends--which almost always entails taking turns in single player :P

author=Pizza
Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie? Now those are the platform games that deserve SM64's recognition. Fucking masterpieces.

The faithful still trust in Grunty's last words, and patiently wait for Banjo Threeie. I would buy an XBox One (or Zero, or negative one, or however Microsoft forgets how to count in new and exciting ways) just to play it.

I really liked SMS, too.

I think the idea that it "broke with tradition" is a bit insane, and I thought that back then, too.

In Super Mario 64, coins heal you. You surf on top of koopa shells, you punch goombas. Almost every character that returns from the 2D games acts nothing like it did in the 2D games.

But then again, the 2D games are all over the place, too. In SMB2 (USA), you pull up vegetables from the ground. SMB3 is probably one of the closer games to the original (even counting the handheld games). And you fly using a raccoon tail as the main mechanic in that game. It features an almost entirely new cast of enemies, and the styling is fairly different, too.

Mario games have always been sort of all over the place. Every new game is very different from the last. There is not really a "mario formula", except "run around a bunch of levels, get stars or flagpoles or all the way to the end, rescue princess". And if you are willing to let Shine Sprites pass as stars, Super Mario Sunshine adheres perfectly to the formula of the previous games.