Lets give SMB2 its flowers (sub thread: Nintendo needs to come out with a co-op Mario game every generation)

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

(Before we even start…idgaf if it was Doki Doki Panic, or if Lost Levels, by far the most forgettable Mario game, is the real mario 2..nobody cares)

Mario 2 was probably the most influential mario game after 3 and 64 (and i’d say as or more than 64…fight me). It did the following:

• Created the difference between Mario and Luigi. I cannot stress how important this is to mario history. Uigi is just a pallate swap, and mario 2 made him an actual character
• Gave agency and a unique skillset to peach. Immeasuarbly important, and those of us with sisters it actually made the game more fun if you were mario or toad and she was luigi. It was really important to the following:
• Made mario a full family fun game. With no mario 2 there is no mario party and girls especially don’t get into nintendo as much. We had no idea samus was a girl unless you beat it..peach was BETTER than mario
• It has absolutely iconic music that became pure mario canon i’ll put these songs over anything mario that followed:

Spoiler: Songs

• It was the first co-op platformer i can think of. It was really fun in 2 player…mario is BEST in 2 player imho. Super mario 3D world with a friend or your kid is infinitely more fun odyssey

Mario has only really revisited this a couple of times (2, 3D world, maybe New U?) and i love it every time. The second mario game in a new series or console should have mario, luigi, toad, and peach. I’d love to also be able to play the same levels with secrets as waluigi or yoshi. And WTF happened to WART?

 

[ball15life]

Solid points

I'm still putting SMW music over it, but it's personal preference.

They should DEFINITELY have a co-op game every generation.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Solid points

I'm still putting SMW music over it, but it's personal preference.

They should DEFINITELY have a co-op game every generation.

I think the main theme for mario 2 and the underground theme (there are only like 4 songs in the whole game lol) > almost all songs on SMW with the exception of star world and the forest of illusion (super classic)

 

[Juggalo Fred]

The most unique Mario game and still very entertaining with replay value three decades plus later

 

[ball15life]

I think the main theme for mario 2 and the underground theme (there are only like 4 songs in the whole game lol) > almost all songs on SMW with the exception of star world and the forest of illusion (super classic)

Star Road definitely >

But the athletic theme is slept on too

 

[Detroit Wave]

Agree on everything except the music.

Smb3 soundtrack >>>>

 

[daze23]

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

All versions of this song are fire

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

How was it co -op ?

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Princess was the GOAT in that game, fight me on it

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

How was it co -op ?

How was it competitive

 

[boogers]

i love the use of fourth intervals in this song. theres another song from SMB3 that uses fourth intervals super liberally and im wracking my brain to remember which one. koji kondo is a serious contender for GOAT composer of the 20th century. dude took video game soundtracks from bleeps and bloops to actual songs. his work on the mario series alone makes him a contender. here's part of the sheet music for 'cave theme' from super mario bros 2. since i opened the thread ive been playing it on my bass guitar and its fun af

since it loops infinite times you can stop after the sixth measure

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Princess was the GOAT in that game, fight me on it

nah, that game was the epitome of 'uigi time

 

[Tetris v2.0]

nah, that game was the epitome of 'uigi time

He's got that high jump, but he's slippery as fukk in the later levels. Princess makes those precise platforming sections a joke.

I never touched Mario or Toad

 

[Tetris v2.0]

I also thought some of the characters like Wart and the mouse with sunglasses should've got more love. Birdo and Shy Guy became staples