Super Mario World (SNES) - Your memories... - The Bear and Badger

retroking1981

It was awful, literally a ROM dump on a disc.

It didn't even update the pad button options screen from SNES to Wii.

Moot_Geeza

retroking1981 wrote:

Funny how sequels took more risks back in the day. Super Mario, Zelda and Castlevania spring to mind as sequels that gave no fucks about trying something different.

It's true, plenty of 8-bit franchises had instalments that were quite different, same with Sega.

Bob

Wasn’t the pal version of smb2 a different game reskinned not sure that counts as a golden age of risk taking sequels

mk64

best 2d mario is mario maker

davyK

Bob wrote:

Wasn’t the pal version of smb2 a different game reskinned not sure that counts as a golden age of risk taking sequels

Yup. SMB2 was originally a disc game for the Famicom which we in the West know as Lost Levels.

For some reason we got a game called Doki Doki Panic based on a JP TV series licence that didn't sell well reskinned as SMB2 in the West. Maybe because the disc drive didn't get a Western release. There's also an opinion that the original SMB2 wasn't considered different enough and was also painfully tough.

So Nintendo tried doing something different with a different IP and style of gameplay and it tanked. They recovered it by reskinning it. I suspect it was a lesson learned.

ChopperByrne

The SMB2 game we did get is a damn good game though.

The real SMB2 is rock hard.

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