Behold, the greatest 2D platformer ever made.

I don't know, the NSMB series copied its style and added plenty of bells and whistles which makes Mario World kind of bland game to play these days. It's a great game worth playing, but in no way is it an essential must-play in my eyes.

Yoshi's Island is a top notch experience. It's a visual orgasm combined with excellent gameplay that really doesn't have a worthy succesor that managed to surpass it.

That game isn't Rayman: Legends. I can't get enough of the music levels:

Or the stealth levels:

Or the challenge levels:

Played on PC, so the Murphy levels were quite fun. Still shocked at how such a fantastic game came out of Ubisoft.

I think this is the only "super mario" platformer I never finished :/

But yeah, it was an amazing game. Loved playing all the Yoshi's island games and am looking forward to yarn yoshi^^

Ubisoft regularly make awesome games though...

Hah, yeah. Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends were pretty much the only good games to come from Ubisoft in the last 10 years. Unless I forgot a few.

I don't get where this attitude comes from. Forget 10 years, in the last 2 years alone they've released Assassin's Creed 4, Child Of Light, Far Cry Blood Dragon, Far Cry 4, Rayman Legends, South Park Stick Of Truth, Splinter Cell Blacklist, and Valiant Hearts: The Great War. All of those games are great, and are a nice mix of expected sequels and new IPs. There are numerous other Assassin's Creed, Tom Clancy and other assorted games that are at least average to good from them too.

Aye, Yoshi's Island is pretty terrific. Plenty of diversity between some exceptionally designed levels, and the audio/visual presentation remains as charming as ever.

It was its release date. It came out so late that people were already moving on to Playstation, etc. There are a lot of games towards the end of the 16bit era that are really great but were missed by a lot. One rpg I never bothered with was Secret of Evermore. I'm playing it now and it is one of the best rpgs I've played.

I think that's ridiculous. Yoshi's Island mechanically from a core jumping around standpoint is a bit more floaty compared to mario world's more snug approach, which I prefer the latter.

And purely level by level scenario Mario World's levels are way ahead of their time, the NSMB stuff are straight generic in comparison. Usually mooching off from Mario World or Mario 3.

mario bros, mario 3, and super mario world are far better games than that, especially those last two i mentioned.

@Krelian-co Hell yeah, you get my vote!!! :

Sorry but my personally 2D best platformers are Rayman then ill go with Original Sonic for Genesis and then Castlevania : Symphony of the night which technically is not a traditional platformer but still.

I liked Mario games but the game that made me "fan" was Super Mario 64 which is 3D

Necro thread

nahh this is the best

Yoshi's Island is a great game, although I think Super Mario World is better.

Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah

SMB3 FTW

Negative, great game but best ever...nope.

That game sucks and will always suck.

Carrying around baby Mario was annoying. The character of baby Mario itself is lame.

The music was forgettable.

I can only praise it's colourful artstyle but other than that, I hated the game. I didn't like the gameplay at all. I didn't like yoshis moves.

The thing I HATE most in video games is escort missions and yoshis island is one Giant escort mission.

Super Mario World is the best SNES platformer.

I always thought that this game was overrated.

I played it as a kid when it first came out and I did not enjoy it and I thought that it was a very disappointing sequel to Super Mario World. When I got older, I saw that there were some people on the Internet that claimed this game to be one of the greatest platformers of all time, so I decided to give the game another chance to see if I would appreciate it more as an adult than I did as a kid, but once again, I did not enjoy it.

I just don't find the levels to be fun like in other Mario games and Baby Mario's crying annoyed the hell out of me.

Not even close.