Now that the dust has settled and my dad has died, we can speak of the elephant in the room.Doki Doki Panic - should it have been a Mario game or not? For those of you who aren't aware, the Super Mario Bros. 2 we got was not the same as the original Japanese game, but a reskin of a game called Doki Doki Panic.Personally, I think it's a great game.
>>12026709I dunno but I'm glad it was because it made the Mario lore more interesting introducing characters such as shy guys to the Mario canon.
Fuck off you fucking autist
>>12026709It was a different era. They made the right choice for the time.Seriously though I've always loved it. Surprised there aren't more SMB2 clones with picking up and throwing things.
>>12026709The Mario version is better since I don't want to play as a bunch of towelheads.
The Mario version is better in general, they polished it a tonhttps://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Bros._2_(NES)/Changes_from_Yume_Koujou:_Doki_Doki_PanicAdding running is a big change.
>>12026717You go
>>12026709If I'm not mistaken the sort of vertical platforming concept behind it was originally pitched as a Mario game but got rejected. So it ended up materializing as a game wholly alien to what it would've been if they got the go-ahead to develop it as a Mario game. Tendies mald when you point it out but the Mario reskin feels out of place in the original trilogy. It goes from basic Super Mario Bros mechanics then weird unrelated world & gameplay that takes place in a dream and then a return to the core gameplay of first game. It's just nonsense. I think the reskin would have more legitimacy if they went beyond a few cosmetic enhancements and tailored it to the Mario Bros series a little more. But its just a crude reskin at the end of the day. And I think the arab themes of the game are more befitting of the original arab cast. So I prefer the original version.
