Which 3D Mario game is the most fun?

[tendoboy1984]

Which 3D Mario game is the most fun?

[mariomaniac45213]

I voted for SMG1, SM64, and Luigi's Mansion (though I don't think this one should count as it's a spinoff, but whatever).

SM64 still holds up really well over the years. I replay it on the VC from time to time.

SMG1 was also very fun. One of the best games I have played of all time. I have played through it at least 4 times since I got it in April of 08. I must admit I haven't played it much or at all since I got SMG2. The problems I had with SMG2 was

-too many minigames (more platforming and less kill certain amount of enemies in certain time limit)

-Green Stars (they just weren't very fun to collect to me)

-more galaxies but less stars to collect in them (they have 1 or 2 "regular" stars in each galaxy, I was kinda dissapointed)

-Too much reused stuff (6 bosses completly unchanged, a LOT of reused music from the first Galaxy, A couple of rehashed stages (2 from SMG and 1 from SM64)

-Less Epic (the opening/ending weren't as good IMO and the Bowser battles weren't as fun to me)

-No HUB ( I love to goof around in HUB worlds. Starship Mario is just too small. granted SMG's HUB was weak and small but I still found fun in using Fly Mario, and jumping down from the top of the obsevatory)

and for those reasons that is why I didn't enjoy SMG2 as much.

Luigi's Mansion is a great game and wish they would make a sequal.

[AndyTheZombie]

I voted for Mario 64 DS, Mario Galaxy 1 and Mario Galaxy 2. I would have voted for Luigi's Mansion but it's not really a Mario game more of a spin off and I would call it a Luigi game. I didn't vote for the original Mario 64 cause the DS version has more stars and more characters to choose from. Mario Sunshine is very fun but I just couldn't finish it.

[Ngamer01]

I loved Mario 64 as there were vast worlds, there was hardly any linearness, and you could take the game at your own pace in your own way. Don't feel like freeing the Chain Chomp in the first world? No problem. Go on to Whomp's Fortress and comeback to the Chomp later when you feel like it.

I would have loved Sunshine more if it's difficulty wasn't so uneven and certain elements being so tedious, you'd throw a controller at a wall. One example is you had to take Yoshi on Isle Delfino and use boats to guide him across the water to an island with a blocked pipe...without Yoshi hitting the water or starving.

And when you unlock the pipe, you enter an Kaizo-inspired course in which hitting the water is an automatic death just like falling out of bounds is an automatic death. I started that level with over 50 Marios. I escaped on my final Mario. Plus 200+ Blue Coins. Ugh that is one fetch quest that goes on way too long.

The Galaxy games are basically what if you combined 2D Mario with Kirby 64. They weren't the best, but they weren't horrible either. I liked the

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Green Stars

in Galaxy 2 since they do encourage more exploration which Galaxy 1 lacked. Galaxy 2 was also more challenging at times despite both Galaxy games being linear.

[Mako]

While I will always say 2D Mario games are more fun than 3D Marion games.... I think SM64 is the most fun game out of the bunch you listed. Things like racing the penguin, going down the secret slides, finding the secret winter course in the wall for the first time, the memorable levels, etc, etc. I loved playing that game. It was vast and open in the levels and you could get whichever star you felt like. SMG is too linear at times and Sunshine didn't feel like a conventional Mario game to me, even though using Fludd was fun.

[TYFIGHTER]

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is the most fun, but I have fonder memories of SM64 and Galaxy 1.

[Popple]

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is my pick. But I have so much fun with any of them - if I just picked one to play at random, I'd have nothing to complain about.

[EXMGX]

super mario galaxy ..i still didn't play SMG2 yet so my opinion might change once i play it