mario 2 usa i think was a pretty good game, i remember liking it decently as a kid. but i could never get into it all that much. mario sunshine is grossly underrated based on the opinions i'm seeing on here. if you look at it objectively and not in comparison to other mario games then it is amazing. compared to other mario games it is not quite as good, but that in no way means it's bad or anything less than very good. i think most people just expected another revolution in gaming like with mario 64, but those kind of games are very rare. Mario bros 1 was revolutionary, as was mario bros 3 and mario 64. galaxy might do it again. and while the two snes mario games were amazing like sunshine they just added and improved things rather than taking a revolutionary step, but it doesn't mean they are bad.
the water pack was a cool new twist in how you had to manipulate yourself mid air and use bursts of water to change your jumps and whatnot. it added new platforming techniques. but because you always had to have the water pack except for those little bonus stages it was also missing a lot of the mario feel from all the previous games. it was a nice departure from the classic mario but at the same time they didn't include enough from what we know and love in mario games. anyway, i'd rate them like this:
super mario bros. 10/10
super mario bros. 2 usa 7/10
super mario bros. 3 10/10
super mario world 10/10
super mario world 2 9/10
super mario 64 10/10
super mario sunshine 9/10
i haven't played the lost levels (but soon will once i get it on the VC) so i didn't rate that. from what i've read and seen for mario galaxy i think its gonna be for 3D marios what smb3 was for 2D. i cannot wait to get my hands on galaxy.
end of '08 predictions: wii - 43 million, 360 - 25 million, ps3 - 20 million
Games I've beat recently: Super Mario Galaxy, Knights of the Old Republic, Shadow of the Collossus
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