Blacksaber on 15 January 2010
| TWRoO said: Well I don't know about NSMB as I haven't played it... but I can certainly speak about being blinded by Mario. Back in the late 90s to early 00s I thought platformer was one of the dullest genres, my experiences with Crash, jak & daxter, Spyro and Ratchet & Clank on PS1+2 being very dull... I kept away from Mario platformers on my own consoles partly due to the other platformers, and partly because I have a natural tendency to ignore whatever is popular (I was introduced to Zelda OoT by a friend... if it hadn't been for that I wouldn't have bought that either). But with the Wii I became mildly interested in Mario Galaxy... and someone on VGC reccomended I try SM64 on Virtual Console as a tester, I did so and loved it... the first platformer I properly enjoyed. As such I bought Galaxy and loved it even more so. Whether this IGN writer is just being an ass or not I can't tell, perhaps 'Splosion man would be better to me than NSMBWii as well, I will likely not play either and find out. But my guess would be he is just trying to downplay Nintendo like many game "jounalists" do... because I have found Mario is usually in a league of it's own for platformers, and I have no nostalgia factor helping me enjoy Mario games. |
Pretty much same thing happened to me instead it being SM64 for the DS...
Former something....
