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Which 3D Mario Style Do You Prefer?

Sandbox Style 74 50.00%
 
Course Clear 30 20.27%
 
Both 41 27.70%
 
See Results 3 2.03%
 
Total:148
Leadified on 16 January 2017

*Thanks Twitter for the translations


This image has been floating around for the past few days and it seems like Nintendo considers that there are two types of 3D Mario games.

With that in mind, do you prefer the sandbox levels of Super Mario 64 and Sunshine (Sandbox Style 3D) or the course based levels of 3D World and Galaxy (Course Clear 3D)? This is NOT the thread to debate this classification, if you would like to do so then there is already another thread for that.

Personally I am quite divided, but if I had to choose I would probably give it to Course Clear 3D. I grew up playing 2D Mario games and Super Mario Galaxy/Super Mario 3D World are the closest games in strucure to 2D Mario, ultimately nostalgia wins out for me. They're all excellent games though so you can't go wrong either way, what do you guys think?



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 16 January 2017

Third choice:

Galaxy 1, Galaxy 2, Mario 64 and Mario Odyssey. I call it... The True 3d Mario group



                  

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Pavolink on 16 January 2017

Nintendo confirmation that 3D World is not the same 3D as 64.

And before people mention Galaxy, Galaxy is a classic.



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Slarvax on 16 January 2017
Captain_Yuri said:
Third choice:

Galaxy 1, Galaxy 2, Mario 64 and Mario Odyssey. I call it... The True 3d Mario group

Rip sunshine?

OT: I like 3D Land the most. But haven't played a Sandbox type since 64 DS, so I'd like to have more of those.



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Goodnightmoon on 16 January 2017

Without a doubt the one that gave us the Galaxy and Land series, the only ones with actually great gameplay.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 16 January 2017
Slarvax said:
Captain_Yuri said:
Third choice:

Galaxy 1, Galaxy 2, Mario 64 and Mario Odyssey. I call it... The True 3d Mario group

Rip sunshine?

OT: I like 3D Land the most. But haven't played a Sandbox type since 64 DS, so I'd like to have more of those.

Sunshine never felt like a Mario game to me... Cleaning up other people's shit around the street... Boringggg

Also Voice Acting



                  

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ARamdomGamer on 16 January 2017

I love all of them so either works for me.

I do tend to replay the course clear more than sandbox style tho.



Jpcc86 on 16 January 2017

3rd choice: Both?

Super Mario World is awesome.
Super Mario 64, despite being horribly overrated, is still awesome.
Galaxy 1/2 are awesome.
Super Mario 3D world is awesome.

The idea that only "true 3d bla bla Mario games" are the good ones only makes it hard for me to take those opinions seriously. Both styles can work and be great.



Leadified on 16 January 2017

Updated the poll.



celador on 16 January 2017

They are all great games, but I would go with the course based games as there is less repetition. It can be a bit tedious in the open games walking between levels, or having to get to a similar part of the same level to do different tasks.