Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab

Originally posted by: C3PX
SMW2: Yoshi's Island on the other hand is far too annoying of a game to be worth playing at all IMHO. Super Mario 64 for me was SMW all over again, nothing short of amazing.

Huh? SMW2 isn't as good as the first, but it's still a great game and well worth playing. I missed the SNES version, but when it came to GBA, it never left my system for a solid month.

Perhaps I have never given it enough of a chance. I always just found it such a departure from the usual formula (which isn't always a bad thing) that I never felt like I was actually playing a Mario game. And every time you loose the dumb baby off your back it is such an annoyance. I have played through a few levels of it, but I just really never enjoyed it at all.

One non-major Mario game that I thought was a lot of fun and incredibly well done was Super Mario RPG. I am not too big of a fan of turned based RPGs, but I had no problem putting up with it for that game. I loved being able to go around the Mushroom kingdom and other worlds and talk to everybody. The villiages and kingdoms in that game really had a very quaint design to them, it turned what has always been a 2D world that we know very little about into a vast 3D fantasy world wide open for exploration.