As said, it seems that every Super Mario game is either a stage play or a TV show on its own. I mean, check out everything with Super Mario Bros. 3 (which had its 30th birthday yesterday) and you will find out several stuff that really shows it's a stage play. The curtains open, the checkered floors, casting shadows where there's supposed to be no shadows (though the SNES update corrected that) and the exit stage right where you got the cards. But I didn't mind anyway -- Super Mario's cast are what they are -- they are actors who are set to different roles one after the other!
Super Mario 3 started to establish a retelling of the Mushroom Kingdom story and may have ignored events in the first three games -- Super Mario Bros., The Lost Levels and Super Mario Bros. 2 (which was a remake of Doki Doki Panic) for an entirely new retelling of a story. The script focuses on King Bowser bringing his seven Koopa children which leaves us wondering if they were simply adopted or they were his children from a late spouse. The seven Koopas turn several kings of the Mushroom Kingdom into different animals and Super Mario must grab them to change them back!
This was the first one to give us different suits though it had some weirdness. Super Mario turns into a flying raccoon or tanuki which flew for limited periods of time. Weird 80s isn't it? He also donned several new costumes such as a hammer suit (found in World 6), frog suit for easier swimming (found in World 3) and tanuki suit which an turn him into a statue (found in World 5) aside from the staple Fire Mario suit. All these suits had their advantages and disadvantages. You would go to mushroom houses and get a random suit for later use. You could press B and select whatever power-ups were chosen from the Mushroom Houses or Hammerheads along the journey.
The game sold a lot of copies that it was eventually upgraded into the Super Mario All Stars for the Super NES. It was fun to think how you were part of the great stage play narrating the events of the Mushroom Kingdom. Not only were you a player and an audience but you also controlled the main actor himself. It's still a fun game perhaps for many older gamers though I wonder how this will click to the new generation?
This was the first one to give us different suits though it had some weirdness. Super Mario turns into a flying raccoon or tanuki which flew for limited periods of time. Weird 80s isn't it? He also donned several new costumes such as a hammer suit (found in World 6), frog suit for easier swimming (found in World 3) and tanuki suit which an turn him into a statue (found in World 5) aside from the staple Fire Mario suit. All these suits had their advantages and disadvantages. You would go to mushroom houses and get a random suit for later use. You could press B and select whatever power-ups were chosen from the Mushroom Houses or Hammerheads along the journey.
The game sold a lot of copies that it was eventually upgraded into the Super Mario All Stars for the Super NES. It was fun to think how you were part of the great stage play narrating the events of the Mushroom Kingdom. Not only were you a player and an audience but you also controlled the main actor himself. It's still a fun game perhaps for many older gamers though I wonder how this will click to the new generation?
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