Let's see... for underrated games they are too many to list, so I will be going with 3:

3. Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz for the Wii. Many people hates it because it switched design to a more cartoonish one. While the old design was better, this one doesn't look that bad. Also, the controls aren't that hard to get down once you get used to them, and the later levels are pretty cool, and the music is catchy.

2. Frogger: He's Back on the PS1. I've heard how people hates this game because it's too damn hard and its not like frogger anymore (except the first 5 levels). While is it indeed damn hard, I don't see the issue. It takes practice to get used to the game, but once you get it down, you can tackle the difficulty. The levels (except the first 5 which are the same as the arcade one) are pretty creative.

1. Mario Kart: Super Circuit. Yes, this game that many people hate because of its slippery controls. It just takes time to get used to them, and once you do, the controls are really flexible, so much in fact you can do stuff you're not even supposed to do. With 40 tracks to play on, this is the best single player Mario Kart out there.

Now, lets go to the overrated ones. Basically, I generally dont care of overrated series like fnaf, minecraft, and others. However, these 3 games are the ones that really set the bar because on what I hear of them, and after I played them, I never saw the thing in them. Do note that I played them all on the date their console generation was on.

Now, lets go, and lets see how many salt and disagreement I will cause

4. Super Mario Allstars. Now, this game sounded great at first. 4 remakes of the previous mario games. How it could go wrong? Well, for starters, SMB1 and TLL have this annoying physics bug when you hit a block when running. On all the other 2d mario games, you would continue moving horizontal without losing speed. Here, you COMPLETELY STOP and move a little bit up/ It disrupts gameplay, especialy on the underground levels.

Now for the other complains, TLL have the same graphics as SMB1. Was it so hard to update the unique trees and fences of the original FD game? I'ts not like theres no space. The game has a separate graphic bank for TLL, but instead they decided to copy paste them.

The other gripe is the level themes. Previously, on TLL and in SMB3, you had more variety and more palettes for the levels to feel different. TLL had the red levels and the grey ones, and SMB3 had sunset palette for the ocean world and that cool dark one for 8-1. Guess what? SMAS removed all of these and instead threw the generic ones already used in the game. Now theres no uniqueness, and all the levels feel the same. It may look pretty, but the setting and theme is another part of the game.

SMB2 was fine though.

3. Super Mario World. Yes, this game. Back when it came out, it was cool. However as the time progressed, I noted how it had some severely lacking in stuff compared to SMB3. The oveworld was great, and with hidden paths too. But, for th elevel themes, you dont have much. SMB3 had giant, snow, ocean, desert... while SMW just had the same theme with different palettes (grassland, 'choco island' which is just the same as the grassland tileset with a different coloration, cavern and forest)
Also the level design was bland for the most part. It didnt get interesting until that level in choco island in which you go somewhere else depending on the time.

All in all, its overrated. Not much to look into (other than yoshi and the cape), mainly because it was rushed as a release game.

2. Super Mario 64. Yes, you heard that right, I dont care what you think now, but this game already wore off its novelty a long time ago, its only the nostalgia bias keeping this game afloat. I remember when this came out. Me and my cousin were really excited to play this. The day came and we played it all day. It was great. However, after much better 3d platformer games came out, like Banjo kazooei, SM64 started to lose what made it special. Now, it really doesn't hold candle, and most people still hype about this game for some reason. The levels were mostly just giant cubes with stuff in the middle. Only nostalgia keeps this game afloat.

SM64DS was a bit better. With more areas and more characters to play on.

1. Mario Kart 64. This game... seriously. This is another of those games that nostalgia bias keeps this game afloat. I played this when it came out and the only good thing it has is the multiplayer, and just that. Single player mode is BS. Rubber band AI. Not to mention the game isnt well made. The red shells don't work on a lot of stages, the miraid of glitch shortcuts this game has, making things like wario stadium a race to see who can jump the wall first...

Thats the problem, atleast in super circuit, you can play alone, here, you need someone else. Oh and not to mention this Rainbow Road is the most overrated one. The music might be good, but the track itself sucks hard. Its prolongs too much, theres nothing else to worry about (other than the chomps), which makes it boring.


BTW, there should be a checkbox to disable the post layout :v

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Posted by MercuryPenny

Post about SMB3

I see.
This is the first time I see someone complain SMB3 is slippery. I wonder what other mario games you played before though.

But its true, the difficulty curve can be quite ruining experience. On a note about the chain chomps, they mostly only appear in world 2-5, in which is a level you can skip. As for the fire snake, you can just either go to the top of the pyramid blocks in 2-3, or jump high and move away in 2-1.

Perhaps is for the best then that you don't finish the game. World 6 and 7 might incite you to break everything around you

Posted by MercuryPenny

Post about MK:SC

Yeah, I suppose I can agree on that. It uses the SMK engine modified to fit in the GBA. I mean, the turbo glitch after hitting a wall with a speed boost and then stopping accelerating is in.

They should have used the drift system of MK64 though. Its the same as in all new games. You can rock left and right to charge.

And yeah, some tracks needs to be wider, but I didn't found a issue on the Super Circuit tracks for the most part, except in the bowser castle.

But I do wholly agree there with the SMK tracks. They feel so small, if you are using bowser you need to be perfect. Things like the ghost valley and vanilla lake tracks feel too small.


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Posted by Yoshimaster96

Super Monkey Ball is completely underrated. The DS version and the GBA version very much so.

Well, perhaps the DS and GBA version.

I found out the first 2 games aren't that underrated and many people have at least played and liked the games.

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