curl-6 said:
I'm not saying it's not quality; it is a polished and enjoyable game. I simply feel that it doesn't quite have the imagination or depth to put it on the same God-like tier as Galaxy, 64, or Odyssey. |
I also blame bad timing for this. 3D World came out a year after NSMBU, the last game of a serie that had already dried up and created fatigue in the 2D Mario franchise (4 very similar games in 6 years!!) So it presented the same progression, conceptualization in gameplay, with just more ambitious setups.
Had the NSMB games never existed, I believe 3D World's reception would have been warmer. It would have offered multiplayer for the first time. But now, NSMBWii had already done that, and NSMBU too.
Personally, I never could savor 3D World effectively because it was constructed like a 2D platformer and I had my share of average platformers for the past 6 years.