“Not only does the game obliterate every platformer before it in terms of visual finesse, it plays just as well if not infinitely better than previous 2D incarnations of the Mario franchise.” In our original review, IGN gave Mario 64 a score of 9.8 saying:
Super Mario 64, originally released on the Nintendo 64 in 1996, is easily one of the most important games in video game history as it essentially wrote the book on how character movement and camera controls work in a 3D space. If Super Mario 3D All-Stars is truly part of a bigger celebration of Mario’s 35th Anniversary, where’s the fanfare? Why not put in the extra time to really make these games, err, shine? Also, the baffling decision to offer Super Mario 3D All-Stars for sale only for a limited time (until March of 2021) is absurd and feels decidedly anti-consumer.įor further analysis, let’s take a look at each of these games individually.
But taken as a whole, Super Mario 3D All-Stars is about as barebones a package as you could get.Įven the physical packaging is lackluster, without so much as a manual included in the box – just a handful of screenshots stitched together on the inside cover. Granted, 3D All-Stars also includes the soundtracks to each of the games included, for a total of 175 tracks, which is nice. This time around, we get Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy, and… that’s pretty much it. All of these painstaking little tweaks, in addition to an entirely new Mario game (well, new for the US) were packaged up with the intention of delivering the best possible versions of Mario’s bygone adventures.Ģ7 years later, the spiritual successor to that historic collection has arrived in the form of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, but it lacks the same spirit of celebration. When the original Super Mario All-Stars was released for SNES in 1993, Nintendo capitalized on the opportunity to create a “Mario Extravaganza.” Harnessing the raw power of the Super Nintendo, all three of the original NES Mario games received major overhauls: sprites were completely redesigned, backgrounds were redrawn with more color and detail, sound effects were upgraded, bugs and glitches were fixed, and (for better or worse) mechanics were re-tuned to closer resemble the feel of Super Mario World. Before I even fired up this new collection, I have to say I was a little bit disappointed in the lack of effort Nintendo has put into it.
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