Wii U, the only Nintendo home console without a must have Mario platformer?

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Ka-pi96 said:

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The second half of Mario 3D World is basically Mario Galaxy 3. It even has quite a few space themed levels.

I think people take the title as throwing them too literally ... EAD Tokyo should've just called it Super Mario Kingdom or something. It has as much in common with the Galaxy games as it does with 3D Land.

Super Mario Sunshine is really the odd ball of the 3D Mario games.

And blaming the Wii U's suck on Mario 3D World is really unfair ... the system was a lost cause conceptually, Nintendo was so out of touch when making this system, that pinning it on one game (that was one of the best games Nintendo's ever made) is silly.

Mario Kart 8 is a great game and it's failed to keep the Wii U even selling above 100k a month in the US (not even GameCube level). Why not blame MK8 while you're at it?

So... even if that's true... why wasn't the first half that good then?

The first half is designed primarily for kids/family play. I don't know if you remember being a kid, but you might recall that being a pretty key demo for the Mario games. It's not like the first half isn't good, it's just the game ratchets up to "god tier" game design/orchestrated music/level design/post game surprises/challenge up the wazoo in the second half. 

It's more akin to a great athlete who plays pretty good in the first half, gets the sweat going, and then totally takes over and dominates everyone else in the second half and show's why he's the motherf**king king.