It's still Super Mario 64. Yes. That good old game with Mario running around in 64 bits and 3 dimensions that we all remember as if it was yesterday. That's because it was yesterday - on Wii Arcade that is. Super Mario 64 stars Mario. Only one Mario, which given the title is disappointing, but he is super, I will give him that.
As a henchman for the plumber's union you travel to an uncharted island to take care of the plumbing for your client, Bowser. Bowser, however, refuses to pay the additional costs needed to provide Mario with a proper HMO, and seeks to exploit the fact that he is an illegal immigrant, so instead of taking on the insane amount of plumbing needed in Bowser's castle (seriously, there are entire levels underwater) Mario decides to go on strike.
While on strike he finds out that Bowser is employing animals (PETA, look out!) as well as holding a princess captive. Being an Italian, Mario pays no attention to the tormented wildlife, but decides to deliver his union's demands to the princess instead. But first he has to find the princess, and thus begins the story of Super Mario.
It ends with Mario rescuing the princess.
The gameplay is incredibly fun. Lots of variation in both setting and gameplay makes for a tasteful pasta salad of a game - one that I am sure Mario himself would appreciate if served to him back in his hometown of Naples. But Mario is no vegetarian (again PETA, please get involved) and the experience has got some meat to its bones in terms of great music and memorable characters. My favourites including Michael, Sonny and of course Don Vito Corleone. Indeed a man of visions.
But how does the game hold up in 2012? Well, you'd be shocked to know that the game hasn't changed a bit! I would think it would be completey different. That up would be down, right would be left and left would be Tony Danza. Unfortunately the rest of the gaming world has changed, and Super Mario 64 now looks like complete crap in comparison. So, yeah. Try working on the graphics next time, Nintendo. But for its time the graphics were really good. Colorful and cheerful. I'm really quite surprised that the Wii can run it so smoothly.
So should you buy it? No. You should focus on paying your debt instead of making yourself entitled to play another game. But when you're debt free and freedom and liberty rules the world again, then maybe you can buy the game. Meanwhile I'll be having the best time playing this game.
/An edited sample has been posted on pixelcourier.com
Releasing the Nintendo Switch 2 with a Super Mario 64 remake would be the perfect way to unleash the console to the world.
If they ever did I hope they would add onto it, there's so much you could do with Princess Peach's castle alone
Or just make the Mario 128... the cancelled sequel that sounded amazing (or was it just an amazing tale).
Funny that after all these years, we still use 64 bit CPUs, so it wouldn't make sense to call it that.
Each level is pretty small today in the original game, I don't like huge levels but I think they could be at least 2x bigger, or close to it and more of them, with more things to do.
They could do a mix of having open levels and more linear ones like in 3D World or Land, I doubt they will do that but it would make a change.
I mean Odyssey's levels weren't massive, but requiring you to do different things in each world is what made the levels feel bigger than they were.
I'd prefer a Oydessey 2 or Galaxy 3. Besides the DS
game was a Mario 64 remake complete with more playable characters, stages, bosses and muti player content.
I did not like Odyssey i found the idea of ot lame.. i find it boring to just look for moons instead of exploring and enjoying the levels. Let’s not talk about the extremely repetitive and ridiculously easy bosses. Level design is so meh most of the time. Galaxy 2 is a far better game so Galaxy 3 anytime!!!
Agreed. I enjoyed Odyssey for a while, but it quickly became very formulaic where each level felt like a checklist of things to do with WAY too many moons to find. The Galaxy series were the best, as they took some of what made 64 great and juiced it up perfectly.
Yes! Let's release an almost 30 year old game to kick off the next generation for Nintendo...
I'm over re-releases...FEED ME NEW MARIO!
A Minecraft player has astounded the gaming community by sharing an extraordinary recreation of Super Mario 64's castle within the world of Minecraft. This remarkable tribute captures the essence of one of gaming's most iconic locations, Peach's Castle, complete with meticulously designed interiors. Despite Minecraft being over a decade old, its dedicated community always impresses with its boundless creativity. Fan creations like this are a testament to the endless possibilities that Minecraft'
From Kotaku: "Good morning, and welcome to what feels like the 1097th episode of “Nintendo Gets Some Cool Shit Taken Off The Internet”, only this time we’re not even talking about a tribute game or piece of fan art, but a harmless old book.
Last week we shared some images of the Super Mario 64 Complete Clear Guide Book, a tome released in Japan alongside the game that was notable for the fact that, instead of just telling players where to go, a series of incredible real-world dioramas were commissioned to serve as 3D maps. It was cool, we all enjoyed it.
To be clear, this book was released in 1996. In Japan. It was never released in the West, has never been released anywhere since, and has not been commercially available for decades. The only place you can purchase a copy, if you had the cash, is to spend hundreds on one via resale on eBay or Yahoo, from which Nintendo wouldn’t see any proceeds. Oh and also these scans weren’t making anyone a cent."
Good old short sighted Nintendo. Ordering the takedown of something that falls well within fair use, from one location, just for hundreds of people to reupload it all over the internet in retaliation. Now the thing they wanted gone is more visible than ever, and they cannot do crap about it.
Streisand effect at work. I never knew this existed until Nintendo had it removed. After hearing this news I looked it up for the first time.
Nintendo sure sucks the fun out of the room when people are trying to have a party. This book is a piece of gaming history and fans of Mario will be curious to see this since it never came to NA. Nintendo is focusing their time and effort in the wrong area. Take down rom sites, take down emulation, take people to court, now take down screen shots of a book. No wonder why the Switch Online lacks key features like a party chat system, message a friend, drop the stupid code to add a friend, NES and SNES libraries are rarely updated. Focus less on what other people or the fans are doing focus more on your product. A person showing a screen shot of an old book is not going to hurt anybody if anything it will build more hype.
But Nintendo cannot or just can't take down any torrent sites or pressure any torrnet sites to remove any roms. I love that 🤣 I even went so far as to link a collection of Nintendo roms to their twitter account, and say ok Nintendo what can you do now about these torrents? Nothing that's what and I laugh in your face. I'm sure someone monitors all posts so I hope they read it. 🤣
It is their full legal right to protect their IP in the ways they think. So many fans criticise companies for doing this but how many of you who actually had money makers would not take the same action?
My tin foil hat: every single one of you here would do the same because it prevents your own book from selling.
I would understand if it was a book that was on sale now but not one that has been out of print for 25 odd years
"because it prevents your own book from selling"
Whaaaaaaaaa
You can't even buy the book, much like how you couldn't buy the majority of the old NES/SNES/Gameboy games on emulation
This is what happens when the legal department is too big and the lawyers are trying to justify their cost. They seek out nonsense like this so they can look busy.
https://drive.google.com/fi... here if you want it.
Now I have it and Nintendo can go fuck themselves LOL. So all the ROMs to all Nintendo consoles up on archive.org are fine to host but not this guide? LMAO. I want to see Nintendo try to take down any torrents or even try to pressure a torrent site. Yeah good luck with that, we all will have better luck winning the lottery 🤣
For a company that is supposed to be all about fun and prides itself on the strength of its history, Nintendo has some weird, authoritarian tendencies. What is the harm here?
Their ego. Being number 1 allows them to do whatever they want, at least for now. I haven't bought a Nintendo system since the 3DS (which I sold). I'm mystified as to why people continue to buy their systems.
Oh man you should have kept the 3DS was it the New 3DS? That little system is really good at emulation. It's very easy to soft mod it and put emulators and thousands of roms and 3DS games DS etc. That's what I did with mine. 😁 100 3DS and about 100 DS games on it. An example of Neo-Geo on it: https://ibb.co/cbhGPn5
Nintendo is a joke.
Thank God you have good IPs, because everything else you handle sucks.
Eh, I actually like their hardware. For me, it's been super reliable (my NES still works; the only issues I've had are joycon drift and I had to send in my Wii because of that dual layer disc issue) and it's unique. I'm actually glad they're not chasing power. I'm not really much of an online gamer either so I don't care about that... However, charging for their online service, the poor quality control for released content on their network, under-utilised rumble features, abysmal customer service, budding authoritarian tendencies, anti-consumer practices, overreliance on established IPs, unwillingness to preserve their own history, obstinacy regarding modernization of features (e.g., an achievements system), and horrible online subscription tiers are enough to criticize.
I get where you're coming from.
I grew up on Nintendo. My first console was my brother's Super Nintendo until I got a shiny new N64 for Christmas when I was 7 or so.
Still consider the N64 one of the best consoles released.
Loved my Wii U.
They're just not ... evolving in any real way. Third parties want less and less to do with the Switch, simply because it takes so much more effort to work with the hardware and get solid results.
Even in 2022, Nintendo has no idea how to handle decent online functionality.
And even with their legacy releases, instead of offering a comprehensive backlog of reasonably priced games, they're now putting most behind a subscription service they only cherry pick games from and then drip feed them to people.
I want to love Nintendo again, and I defended them for a good long while, but they're not in my good graces anymore. They wore it out.
TheRealTedCruz,
Certainly. They really do deserve the grief people give them, despite the great memories people have with them. It's genuinely irresponsible to give any company a pass, especially Nintendo, in a situation like this.
For them, there is an astonishing lack of humility. It genuinely felt like they were coming around with the Switch, then it turned into this. Imagine the frustration of many uninformed gamers who played online for free when it launched, only to be hit with a pay wall for that very same feature some time later.
That said, I enjoy my Nintendo devices, but I am tempted to skip next time around to express my disapproval. Sadly, it hardly matters. They will always have enough devoted consumers to to look past that stuff.
Henchmen for Plumber Union. Love it :)
What's with all the "funny" review postings lately?
Review comes off as trying to force stereotypes, stupid humor down your throat, and the occasional Nintendo jab in there. I'm not fan of Nintendo and don't own a Wii, but reviews that at 90% filled with crap aren't really reviews.
@UnderageSalmon
Thank you! Greenpace ought to keep their noses to themselves though.
@coolbeans
Yeah, and this is what happens in every Mario game!
@SilentNegotiator
There's nothing funny about employers exploiting cheap labour.
@C_Menz
Well, while the review certainly is trying to force offensive stereoypes and stupidity, N4G does have guidelines I have to follow. Don't know if I needed as much as 90% crap, but 40% seems to be the minimum standard for the hottest articles on here.
You are clearly insane but this is great.