All Mario Games worst to best.
What's a Mario game? Any game where you play as the one and only Mario Mario, and primarily you'll be doing the platforming. So not Mario & Luigi (mostly RPG), not Smash (mostly throwing items at each other), not 3 on 3 Basketball (tho it does have a lot of jumping).
Why? Because I hadn't done it before, I'm bored, and I wanted to know how far up Super Mario Land 2 would be cause that game is fuckin great.
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26. Mario Bros. It's shit.
25. Super Mario Run. The worst thing that a Mario game can be is Mario Bros. The second worst thing a Mario game can be is an endless runner.
24. New Super Mario Bros 2. The third worst thing a Mario game can be is so boring that I wouldn't even play it if you gave it to me.
23. New Super Mario Bros. Wii Designing a Mario game around multiplayer sounds like a good idea until you realize people are assholes.
22. Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels Designing a Mario game around cut features sounds like a good idea until you realize game designers are assholes.
21. Donkey Kong It's okay. You know, it's *early*. It's got those early game jank, where it doesn't quite feel right or could be improved by, I don't know, a sequel/remake 13 years later.
20. Super Mario Land Speaking of jank, Super Mario Land is stinking of it. It's got the jank coming out of every pore. But it's still oddly amusing and has halfway decent music.
19. New Super Mario Bros. From jank to junk. New Super Mario Bros. is the video game equivalent of a ironed out, dewrinkled, uninteresting, flat white t-shirt from Wal-Mart that came in a package of 11 others just like it.
18. Super Mario Galaxy Tim Rogers (now at Kotaku) once described Galaxy in his review as "a game about looking for parking spaces" and that has stuck with ever since I played and beat Galaxy. You're on a planetoid and your only goal on that planetoid is to find the thing that you have to do to get from that planetoid to the next planetoid. You repeat this until you are done the game. Looking and listening to Mario Galaxy is a joyful jaunt through space, but playing it is like a cold, repetitive, cubicle office job nightmare.
17. New Super Mario Bros. U Turns out that adding more screen real estate allowed for the game design to both be not as insufferable in multiplayer or as boring in single player. The key being "as boring". It's still boring.