Most of the newer games were too easy, IMO easy = boring. Luckily there's some with decent challenge, especially once you beat the main game and unlock the harder mode.
I really think they just need to up the difficulty a bit. People say Mario games are easy so kids can play them, but I don't think those people realize how adept kids are at playing games. Whenever I've seen kids playing Mario they're flying through it with ease. The games just need to be a bit more difficult and have more complexity. Odyssey was a really great, fun game let down by how braindead easy it was.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion but if Mario is bad what does the author think is good? Looking at the blurb describing her at the end of the article she lists a couple good games, but half or more of what she likes are visual novels (you want to talk about a boring single player?) and mobile games - a platform for gaming that’s so poorly optimized and predatory that I’ve given up on it completely. There’s nothing wrong with liking those but, I doubt as gamers there’s much we would have in common.
Most Mario games start easy and then get harder, or have collectibles that can be very challenging to get. None of the 3D marios have been as difficult as Mario 64, with its strict timing for wall jumps and stiffer jumps. But most of the Mario platformers are really good platformers.
Most of the newer games were too easy, IMO easy = boring. Luckily there's some with decent challenge, especially once you beat the main game and unlock the harder mode.
I really think they just need to up the difficulty a bit. People say Mario games are easy so kids can play them, but I don't think those people realize how adept kids are at playing games. Whenever I've seen kids playing Mario they're flying through it with ease. The games just need to be a bit more difficult and have more complexity. Odyssey was a really great, fun game let down by how braindead easy it was.
Sucks for you i guess 🤷♂️
you need to play knack or knack 2
But the games are good.. really good. Especially Mario Odyssey.