Anyone else dislike Super Mario World?
 

I grew up playing Super Mario World for the SNES but I never really liked it. In fact, in some ways I hate the game and it is probably the only major Mario release that I don't really care for. I can at least say that the level design was good and being able to use Yoshi with his powerups was cool. What I really didn't like about Super Mario World was the style of the game. For starters, I didn't like the music in the game. I didn't like the heavy use of the midi piano and the prehistoric type sound that the game had. I also didn't like the way that the levels looked.

I suppose I am comparing Super Mario World to Super Mario Bros. 3 which has always been my favorite Mario game. To me, the music in Super Mario Bros. 3 was better, the levels looked cooler and were more fun to play, and there was more variety both in the music and types of levels.

Anyways, I am probably in the minority, but just wondering if anyone else felt the same way?

Super Mario Bros. 3 was the best classic Mario game, but Super Mario World was great as well. Well designs levels, liked the addition of Yoshi, cool secret exits to find.

It's also hard to believe World was the last 2D Mario game all the way till New Super Mario Bros on DS in 2006...if you don't count Yoshi's Island. That was a nearly 15 year gap between 2D Mario.

Can't agree with you. I loved Super Mario World. My favorite part was star road and then going to the special zone and changing the map up and koopas up. Only thing I could never get to was some fortress in front of Bower's castle..

But yeah, I loved that game.

Super Mario World was the first video game I ever beat, so I do have a soft spot for it. Compared to the previous game, Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World does feel a bit like a letdown. There aren't as many powerups, there aren't as many levels, and with many of the sprites having wrong colors (Yoshi's arms are orange, Ludwig’s hair is white instead of blue, etc) it feels incomplete compared to the previous Mario games. I've always found the game too easy, but that might be because I've been playing the game for over twenty years. I personally find Super Mario Land 1 and 2 to be more memorable.

But still, it's an excellent game on its own. I think that after how big and grand Super Mario Bros 3 was, no game they could've made would've been able to match it. Also, Yoshi. No other 2D Mario game has been able to match how awesome Yoshi was in this game. Seriously, why can't you take Yoshi with you in the New Super Mario Bros games?

I agree somewhat with the music, but the castle music was wonderfully creepy and the final boss music might just be one of the greatest Bowser themes ever made.

SNES was my first console, Super Mario World my first game, I loved it and still do !!

I noticed that the Bowser theme in Super Mario World sort of sounds like the Super Shredder theme in Turtles in Time.

I've always felt I was in the minority too but I also prefer Super Mario Bros. 3 to Super Mario World. I always for some reason felt that the graphics, well sprites I guess is what I really mean, were just a bit off-looking to me in Super Mario World. Everything seemed little kid-looking in my opinion. And besides the Castle Theme, I also didn't care for the music much either. I've always felt that way and most disagree with me too.

I don't think I dislike any of the general Mario platformer series (some of the spin-offs are a different matter, however). I do say though, that I generally prefer SMB3 over World, but that may be due to limited exposure to the latter as a lad. Although I had an NES, my friends and I all had Genesises (Genesi?) and only one kid that I knew had Super NES. The only time I ever got to play World before I got into emulation in middle school, was at his house.

Isn't it a little early for an April Fools thread?

I never liked it as much as Mario 3.

I did have SMW but Mario All Stars saw the most action.

I also like the Ghost house theme.

I really like Super Mario World. IMHO, it's one of my favorite Mario games, with Super Mario Bros 3 probably being my all time favorite Mario game.

I've always liked SMB3 more, and that's a fully endorsable opinion, but to dislike SMW if you're a fan of 2D Mario games? I've never heard that before.

Not me. It was one of my favorite games back in the day.

My better memories lie with SMB3, but SMW is still good to play.

World is my favorite Mario game, close behind are both SMB 2 and 3.

It does seem like an odd unpopular opinion post to make. Like... you don't see me making a topic about how boring I find Ocarina of Time. It's just kind of a jerk move, I think.

I'm kinda in the minority, since I actually like World more than 3. My better memories, however, lie in the 3D games.

There should just be an unpopular game opinions thread so we can yell and fight with each other all the time. Just like it used to be around here, before all this friendship and agreeing to disagree and UNDERSTANDING nonsense! Ugh! VG Section what happened to us!?

Nah, it's okay. Not everything is going to stick with someone. I think it would be much different if he was saying the game was terrible, but he just doesn't like it for his own personal reasons.

Well, I don't like any 3D Mario games.

What?!?

And I don't like any AT-Man's! AM I RIGHT, GUYS!?

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Super Mario World > Super Mario Bros 3

But it's close. SMW removed all the annoying bits of SMB3 and made them all better. And my girlfriend actually knows most of the SMW music heh...

What were the annoying bits of SMB3?

That f*ckin' fortress level on World 8 comes to mind.

Well, if removing difficulty from SMW makes it better then I can't say I agree, because I didn't find any part of SMB3 grating, but spots of World 8 could be a little difficult. I actually think, even at the time, the complete lack of difficulty in SMW was one of the reasons I didn't love it as much as SMB3.

That's why Princess Peach gives you Lakitu's Cloud after you beat World 2.

Yeah. I still haven't beaten that level without having to use a cloud item. Other than that, the game is awesome.

I need to play it all the way again and finally redeem myself.

Getting the SNES with SMW was one of the best Christmases ever. Top 3 for sure. I'll admit a smidge of bias. But I do love that game. It is a bit on the easy side compared to SMB3, but to this day, I love just popping it in now and then to get that 100% and see how fast I can do it. I really liked how the map worked, almost taunting you with those red pathways between stages you didn't "really" beat. "You missed the hidden exit, f*cker! Go find that Key!" :lol: When I was little, knowing there were all these hidden paths and stuff made it a lot of fun to explore the levels, where in older Mario games, I mostly just wanted to beat them. It was a fun new wrinkle for me. I only had a handful of games back then, so other than weekend rentals, I had to play the same stuff over and over, and somehow, I never got bored with or sick of that game. I had a Game Genie, too, so whenever playing it "for real" wasn't appealing, I loved trying to force goofy sh*t to happen by mixing up all different codes. :lol: Good times.

I'm amazed how much of that game sticks out in my memory, still, because it's one of those games like Turtles In Time for me that I don't even have to think about playing, your hands just kind of Do It through muscle memory, y'know?

It's all good though, obviously not everyone had the same experience with or nostalgia for that game as I do. That game, though, legit, helped get me through some really rough patches in my young life. Parents splitting up, forced relocation, all that mess. So I have absolutely nothing but love for it. :)

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But I never had a snes and have only played a few levels. Pretty good from what I've played. SMB3 is awesome though.

Ditto. Christmas of 1992 for me.

Super Mario World is amazing. While I haven't kept up with each new Mario game over the years, of everything I've played, I don't think I've seen it topped.

It's hard to communicate just how amazing this game, with all its quirks and secret levels, was as a kid. It has a sense of adventure and mystery I don't think I've seen matched in a platformer. And it has some genuine challenge to boot, though I admit it feels a bit easy going back to it as an adult.

One of the best parts of SMW is the remix music when you ride Yoshi. Also, when you jump on enemies that make that "BWOWN!" noise, which they brought back for the Charging Chucks in SM3DW.

My greatest satisfaction in that game was beating the Tubular level in the Special World.

Ugh, mine too.

Tubular is a god-damn monster. It's total trial and error.

Has anyone ever tried to play Groovy (level in the title screen) just like it was played in the demo? Haha.

As a 10 year old I hated that level with a passion. Even now I still do.

I think I remember being stuck there for months and being upset that I couldn't skip it to play the rest of the levels in Special world. I don't know why they made that level the second one of the world, since it was much harder than all the ones that came after it.

Special World wasn't that hard now, cummon heh... okay, maybe apart from Tubular...