I don’t know if they were worried about the Mario continuity, and felt that all the crazy new power ups and air ships and everything would clash with the established canon from the first two games. Instead, everything was some kind of play being acted out for an unknown audience (a conceit that would, weirdly enough, crop up again in the simply magnificent Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door). And most of all, I didn’t question why I was somehow winning the game even though my controller wasn’t plugged in (my Dad knew I would get frustrated as a wee lad because of how terrible I was, and would “play the game for me” while I remained blissfully unaware that I wasn’t actually playing).įor some reason, some crazy bastard at Nintendo decided, like the American version of 2, none of the events in the game were real. I didn’t question why Mario was able to drop down behind certain parts of the scenery.
I didn’t question the red curtains that lift to reveal the game’s title screen and Mario and Luigi doing shenanigans with the game’s various enemies and power ups, a few of which we hadn’t seen before like the now iconic Super Leaf. It’s Not Real, Again At least this time we know nothing that we do means anything going into it.Īs a kid playing this game, you kind of take the game’s strangeness in stride. But that weirdness is what makes the game great, and looking back on it from the modern day, it’s clear that this is one of the greatest video game sequels ever made for a variety of reasons.
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This game introduced an almost endless list of things that have been series staples ever since, and when given a second look considering the context the game was made in, it’s rather jarring just how flat out weird this sequel is. The answer is by throwing literally everything at the wall and making it all stick. How do you follow up a game that wasn’t just popular, but a certified worldwide phenomenon? One can only imagine the pressure that director Takashi Tezuka and the game’s creative team were under. As we have covered before, the American Super Mario Bros 2 was aped from another Japanese game that had nothing to do with the mustachioed plumber, and the Japanese Super Mario Bros 2 was more of an expansion pack for the first game that made everything comically unfair. While the original Super Mario Bros is an absolutely landmark title for the gaming medium, and is still solid fun to this day, there are definitely elements of it that haven’t aged well, and it’s all because of Super Mario Bros 3, the first real sequel to the original. 3, the last (and unquestionably best) of the NES trilogy. Each week, we’ll take a unique look at each game in the series, and discuss aspects you may not have considered. Here at 25YL we’re jumping, stomping, and diving into the most iconic and popular video game franchise ever, the Super Mario Bros.
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