As a console Nintendo, GameCube, of course, included many games about Mario. But which of them were the best and worst?
Over the past years, many games about Mario came out. We are not sure that people are fully aware of their number, but the Italian plumber participated in more than 200 games, and this is only our approximate estimates. This guy was a painter, a plumber, street cleaner, a referee, a party to death, a rider and almost all other professions, which you can only imagine. So why don't we narrow the topic and do not talk about the old Good Times of Mario on GameCube?
Updated January 18, 2020 Patrick Moochella: Although Nintendo Gamecube was far from the most successful console of Japanese Jaggernaut from a financial point of view, this console is still looking with tenderness because of its star list of games. In just five years, the existence of the Nintendo console has released at least 14 games with the sucked red water pipes and / or its characters. And although none of them is truly terrible, among them there are those that stand above all, and those that surpassed everyone. They were about fourteen, but we will talk about everyone, dividing them to the best and worst. Super Smash Bros. MELEE will not be included, as the game is devoted to Nintendo as a whole, and not just mario characters.
13. Best: Luigi's Mansion
At one time, Luigi's Mansion was released as a starting game for Gamecube, and although it is not the most ambitious game about Mario on the console, it is extremely unique and is a refreshing change in the pace.
Luigi's Mansion surprises gamers on every corner, ranging from the name from Luigi starring and ending the aesthetics of horror. Its mechanics and gameplay, despite their simplicity, still deliver pleasure from the game, and the graphics are preserved very well for the starting game of 2001. This is a game that deserves more respect.
12. Worst: Mario Party 7
With such a long line of Mario Party games for Gamecube, it is difficult to attribute them to the category of the best or worst. However, if you consider that Mario Party 7 has become the fourth game on the system, it becomes clear that she was a sign that the franchise exhaled a little.
Boards in Mario Party 7 tend to be more fancy than in previous games of the series, and if you do not have a microphone complete with the game, the landing in place with the microphone will be absolutely useless for you. The game deserves some praise for bringing 8-game Mario Party on GameCube, but this is not enough to save it from mediocrity.
11. Best: Super Mario Sunshine
First of all, this is the first Super Mario game on GameCube, Super Mario Sunshine. At one time, this game caused a big resonance among fans simply because she was different in style, gaming mechanics and tone from Mario 64. Now Mario does not just run and jumps into paintings, he has a job, and this work is cleaning the island of Dolphino.Regardless of whether you are a fan F.L.U.d.d. Or not, Super Mario Sunshine is still able to offer a lot and is one of the best games for GameCube.
10. Worst: Mario Kart: Double Dash
The point is: Personally, we like Mario Kart: Double Dash. It was a pretty cheerful game Mario Kart, in which the same joyful injustice was felt, as in all other. And although there are many unique participants with funny dynamics in Double Dash, it has several flawful flaws, because of which it is difficult to put on one step with Mario Kart 8 or Mario Kart Wii. The items specific to the characters duets were a cool idea that fell on the root, and the net shortage of new tracks led to the fact that many were forever stamped this game as "one of the bad." And although it is not always fair, just look at the Baby Park route to understand what they are clone.
9. Best: Super Mario Strikers
This football game seems one of the most risky Nintendo solutions in terms of style and total tone. The MARIO series infrequent games go to a big risk, but this game and Super Mario Sunshine are the two best examples that we can remember. Mario Strikers is an incredibly exciting football action, according to the level almost reaching the classic Shaolin Soccer film.
The artistic style they used, gorgeous, captains, each of which has their own friends, give each team uniqueness, and the game itself is just fantastic! Sequel Games Mario Strikers: Charged fell a little in quality, but in general it is one of the Mario sports games that we would like to have more.
8. Worst: Mario Golf Toadstool Tour
Honestly, it is difficult to call any of the games in this list is bad, but Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour comes up to this pretty close. The game itself is not distinguished by poor quality, it simply does not develop a cult classic, which was Mario Golf on N64. Perhaps they feared that it would be similar to the re-invention of the wheel, but Nintendo risked very little with this continuation, feeling too safe. In the game itself there was a good curve of complexity, a lot of content and a great composition of players in golf. But we simply can't pass by the feeling that it is again Mario Golf, and not a sequel, which develops the original.
7. Best: Paper Mario and The Thousand-Year Door
The Paper Mario franchise had a long and tragic career that began with OG Paper Mario on N64. This game was wonderful in my own, but only after the release on the Gamecube Sicvel Paper Mario and The Thousand-Year Door, people really noticed how unique this series was, especially if you consider how exciting and complex the gameplay itself was.
6. WORST: DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION: MARIO MIX
We really tried to draw up a list of ten games in which Mario and his team appear, so Super Smash Bros Melee was excluded. As a result, we had a good catalog of innovative and fun games about Mario, half of whom we will have to throw the shadow. And, oddly enough, Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix is also fantastic, just she is not as good as other full-fledged games about Mario in this list. This does not mean that DDR: MM is poorly done or that there is no innovation in DDR mechanics, because it is.It's just hard to compare something like Mario Sunshine and a DDR game based on Mario or put them for one level "quality".
5. Best: Mario Party 5
After Nintendo made a bet on Gamecube, presenting a classical series of desktop games Mario Party 4, Mario Party 5 is the place where Hudson Soft really showed what can be done on a purple console.
Unlike other games of the Mario Party series, players must pay for the use of items, which can be polar, but makes think about what items it is really worth using. The boards are more inventive than in other games on the system, but do not resort to cheap tricks. The game has several wonderful mini-games, such as "Dodge Bomb" and extremely tense "Night Light Fright".
4. Best: Mario Power Tennis
And again, the Gamecube era became time when Nintendo decided to try himself in the sports game Mario Sports, and fortunately for us, fans, it turned out. We have already talked about racing in karti, golf and football, but what else do you have games? Well, the first to mind comes Mario Power Tennis, since in Mario Tennis Aces we see that this sport is very like fans. Something in tennis is so well combined with Mario characters, and the variety of types of tournaments, characters and game modes made it possible to create one of the highest quality sports games on GameCube.
3. Worst: Mario Superstar Baseball
It is very difficult to call any game about Mario bad. Since Mario is a golden goose Nintendo, they always pay time and money to His games, so they all have a certain level of quality. And if Mario Power Tennis is fantasy, MARIO Superstar Baseball is just "good." She is not amazing, not a breathtaking, it's just a good baseball game with the heroes of Mario.
This is especially clearly visible on the example of how much more beloved was the game of Mario Super Sluggers on Nintendo Wii, in which the combination of MARIO and baseball mechanics was implemented much more workively than in this still enough good game for GameCube.
2. Best: Mario Party 6
As the third Mario Party, released on the system, you might think that this game will be uninteresting, but it would be underestimated.
Thanks to the unique cycle of the day and night, changing the boards depending on the "time of day", as well as the magnificent collection of mini-games, Mario Party 6 is the best pastime with Mario and his friends on GameCube.
1. Worst: Mario Party 4
In terms of graphics, the first game Mario Party on Gamecube was a huge jump forward for the franchise. But everything else in the game will not leave you indifferent to the continuation on this system.
Boards in Mario Party 4 tend to delay and delay, without having a single workaround, which can become tedious. Mini-games merge together, none of them is terrible, but at the same time none is distinguished from the crowd. Given the presence of Mario Party 5 and 6, there is no reason to take 4.
