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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Welcome to the first episode of Super Mario 3D Origins! This series will take a look at every 3D Mario game in the same fashion that Mario Kart Origins did for Mario Kart. In today's episode, we are going over Super Mario 64. It has received widespread critical acclaim, but could it possibly be a bit overrated? Or maybe even 64 bits overrated? Let's find out!
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This game may not have aged the best, but it brought us the best Got Milk commercial ever
I just realized your comments usually get the most likes, that’s cool
he needs some milk sorry for the dead memes
yeah andthe best okey comercial
Agreed
You know who else made his directorial debut with a GM commercial before he really, *REALLY* took a nosedive that would rival the worst business practices of Nintendo (Transformers 1-5)?
*Michael Bay*
I was on mobile and saw the shortened title of the video in the notification: "Super Mario 64 - Why it's over..."
it's super mario sixty-fover bros....
if you can delete your save file in a game without feeling bad about it that means that the game is very replayable
Don’t tell me your talking about undertale
@@rachaantaki5862 No there clearly talking about 64 lol.
Some of those hundred coins are awful, rainbow ride comes to mind.
Fax
I think there is a lot of revisionist history going around with regards to SM64 - I was around during the n64 and ps1 generation and it wasn't as big of a deal at the time as people claim, or as revolutionary. It wasn't even the first 3d platformer. Maybe it was huge for a few months in 1996 when very few people had n64s, but it was very quickly overshadowed by better platformers on both the ps1 and n64, like the spyro games, banjo kazooie, etc.
I remember playing sm64 on a game kiosk the week it came out and felt the graphics were very bland/had no detail and the levels didn't have enough enemies and there was nothing to do. I feel the same as you when I read about the N64 now, people who werent even around at the time acting everyone thought it was the best thing to ever happen. The N64 did poorly and was actually saved by Goldeneye. The super Nintendo before it had the better Mario and Zelda games and the playstation absolutely destroyed it on all fronts with stuff like resident evil and final fantasy vii
@@AlexKidd the n64 had the better zelda games
Even i consider Jumping Flash and Alpha Waves to be much more polished 3d platformers and they were released way before Mario 64.
@@AlexKiddMost early 3d games, especially N64, had that problem and is that they had worst gameplay and artstyle than their SNES prequels. They only had the technology to impress but that technology is now outdated.
i disagree
In my opinion, 64 hasn't aged well compared to most other old Mario games.
How’d u comment 10 hours ago
The premiere was public before it started.
64 is my least favorite 3D Mario game, and while it isn't terrible, if I wanna play 64, I'll just play the DS version
Yeah. The nes version aged better
@@OreganoParsley Do you mean Super Mario Bros on the NES?
Nathaniel Bandy be like: Your so wrong! Super mario 64 is the best mario game ever made! I swear nathaniel bandy is so biased towards that game. Not gonna lie super mario 64 is a great game but I do agree it's kinda overrated imo.
It's carried out by nostalgia
The movement is crap
So the camera
The game is basically soulless i prefer sunshine its the real goat
I love Nathan and his content but he just doesn't wanna get off this game's meat lol
I like Mario 64 a bit, but I think the degree people say with this game is too much.
fair
Agreed
A few years back, I had fond memories of the time I played Mario 64 on kiosks in Wal-Mart and other stores. For whatever reason, even though I got an N64, I never played Mario 64 more than that. So I bought a cart off of eBay and was expecting to have an amazing experience.
The controls are perfectly fun and great when you're in an open field without opposition. But in tricky and high pressure situations, the controls become conspicuously janky, and combined with the wonky camera, playing can become a laborious experience, especially in the later levels. The flight controls with Mario's cap were distinctly awful. It got to the point, where I would start a new level, and instead of a sense of anticipation and joy, I groaned inwardly at having to play the game.
I went ahead and looked up what the reward was if you got all 120 stars. When I found the payoff to be worthless (a cameo by Yoshi with essentially a "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!" message, along with tons of lives and a neat jump powerup that's useless since by then you've already completed the game) I just forced myself to get enough stars to get to Bowser and beat the base non-completionist game.
Shortly afterwards I sold the game off to a pawn shop. Fortunately, also shortly afterwards, I found out about 'A Hat in Time' and got the bad taste washed out of my mouth by an actually great 3D platformer.
Thats what im sayin
Mario 64 was great for it's time, but it's definitely aged like milk on a hot summer's day.
I can imagine you saying - “this won’t just cover the mainline 3D games, but 64 DS, Bowser’s Fury, and 3D All Stars as well”
Bowser's Fury is kinda a mainline game tho? If I were him I would cover 64 DS and Bowser's Fury, but not 3D All Stars because that's just emulation for 60$
Another great video!
I like how I missed the premiere by 5 seconds.
i feel bad, but i really think super mario 64 is boring. i definitely think nostalgia is a large factor in what people find enjoyable (like why i love the wii so much).
It’s not boring
@@blossom6309 i think it is but i respect your opinion 👍
As someone that never grew up with either game I can safely say the original, classic Super Mario Bros feels a lot better to play than 64. That really says something.
@Grimm Reaper probably because the original Super Mario Bros was 2D.
Yeah, I been trying to get into 64 cause I was never a Nintendo player, and a bit too young to be into Mario from back when it was fresh, and 64 is just kinda boring, Mario controls pretty well considering it's a game from '96, but sheesh. It is a classic that paved the way for what 3d games have become, but I really can't find it much fun.
I wish one of the perks for beating the game was having power ups that lasted longer. It would be cool to be able to fly for like 3 mins straight without getting another cap
Odyssey is the best fucking mario game ever
I'm about to find out. Gamefly just sent it out. I hate galaxy and sunshine but absolutely love 64
Agreed. Well, the best 3D one anyway. Sunshine will always be my favorite but Odyssey is objectively better.
Most N64 games have aged poorly, a lot of the ones that haven’t aged poorly always sucked.
they were a blurry indistinguishable mess even back in the day
they may aswell just had untextured flat-colored polygons, what's the difference?
also, the controller was one of the worst abominations ever concocted, and ruined the console.
@@dutchdykefinger I swear if they went for pixel art instead of trying to be realistic the graphics would've held up way better. Because being realistic comes with blurry graphics, pixel art comes with sharp graphics, even if they aren't the most realistic
@@PhantomOfficial07 one of the main reasons why 2(.5)d games are better
Yeah. Most of the N64 games don't quite hold up as much. Even the likes of the most popular ones; like Mario 64, Zelda: Ocarina of Time & the Banjo-Kazooie games, don't necessarily hold up for me. The only N64 games that do hold up well; in my opinion, is Paper Mario 64, Zelda: Majora's Mask, Star Fox 64 & the 2 Mystical Ninja Goemon games.
Super Mario 64, Zelda OoT and MM, Doom 64, Mario Kart 64, Smash Bros, Golden Eye, Conker, Banjo-Kazoorie plus many others are all games that still should be considered good despite their flaws
It may have gotten widespread acclaim, but it didn't get widescreen...
I hate you so much😂
I love this game and it's still fun to play today imo, but I agree that some aspects didn't age well like the camera it can be very annoying and the environments look kinda rough but the movesets are so varied and it can makes you play the levels and get stars in multiple different ways and the exploration is very fun and you can choose the levels you enjoy and skip the ones that are not so good these things make mario 64 so replayable.
I just beat it for the first time it's definitely a classic.
Who else prefers the ds remake?
I owned the DS remake in 2007 when I got my Nintendo DS Lite. I sadly lost it years ago.
Me. It was the first 3D Mario game I’ve ever played
Me
I do!
Probably because Yoshi is the starter character
ds version in 3ds is best way to play the game
I think 64 suffers from first game syndrome, in which the game is good but overshadowed by superior sequels like galaxy
@@jaretco6423 disagree
Nah agree
@@daddydwavedwrong
No that’s just my opinion you don’t have to agree with me but you shouldn’t call out people for being wrong for having a different opinion, I hope you’re joking.
there in different genres Tho?
I laughed when I heard mario's beta jumping noises
Hey gamian
@@lordroy88 hey Iggy
I don't hate sm64 at all, but people give it more credit than it's actually worth
they give it too many credits, you are right, come on, who is it that would not be able to take a video game icon to another dimension totally unknown to anyone before this game. that is, who could not be the first fully explorable game with a camera and still be a fantastic game. a game that despite having made so many completely revolutionary changes, does not have a tutorial and will never need it, because the level design borders on perfection. that is, because too many credits are given to the first game that uses analog, to one of the very few games that gives you in 90% of the levels, the possibility of completing any objective, in some levels it is possible to select the first mission, and to be able to take the star of the last mission and in the meantime take the star of the 100 coins, truly complete freedom, which in subsequent Mario, up to odyssey, was not possible. in a nutshell, a fantastically futuristic game, which despite its age, has nothing to envy to the masterpieces of this generation
@@matty-mm5vo the game is overrated and you prove this.
@@PetyrC90 sure
@@PetyrC90cry
@@matty-mm5vo crash bandicoot exists
Bro I have literally been saying this for ages but no one listens
Great video by the way
Controls are Good?
Mario freaking slips all over the place! That in combination with a bad camera makes Super Mario 64 extremely frustrating!!!
It's clear this guy who posted this video review wears rose tinted glasses of nostalgia.
you're talking about the first game that adopted a camera
I dont have Nostalgia and still think the Control is good. But thanks for Putting me in that one good damn back pag and making me more clear how simple minded and difficult people on the Internet are.
@@matty-mm5vo sure it was buddy
The Super Mario PC Port Texture Packs really help this game a ton with aging. After you play it in HD at 60fps it's difficult to go back.
mario 64 plus is really good if your a fan of the original look of the game. 60 fps, higher res textures, lets you stay in the level after collecting a star, its just really good. render96 is pretty good too, but im not too big on it
A mod doesnt represent the original intended experience.
@@sebastianaliandkulche but its better to play it more conviently the og isnt better
@@DecidiousGreens it doesn't matter if it's better to play or more convienant, the fact of the matter is that you're still playing a product from 1996 that was seen as much better than it was only because of what it revolutionized than what it actually did, which does a lot against 64 in particular when you see games with similar reputations like Halo: Combat Evolved being the same overall good experience as if you were playing on the same day the game launched rather than years later.
@@DecidiousGreens BASED
Good Video,but I want the "Plot" section to the episodes of "Super Mario 3d origins".Also,I like this game,when I replay it.
if sm64 didn’t exist then all of the other 3d mario games would not have existed or be different
No the other 3-D Mario games would probably still exist. It is however possible they would be different but they would most likely still exist
And that apparently means that SM64 is the best game ever?
If cavemen hadn't smacked rocks together to make noises, most music would probably not exist so you can't really like music if you don't think smacking rocks together sound good.
@@Sad-Lesbian smacking rocks is a banger tho 😂
@@mimikyutubesaltaccount4875 Extremely false
Personally I find 64 a pretty fun game but it is a bit overrated for the fact that almost all of it's succesors are better
The Biggest Problem With This Game Is The EXTREMELY "Handicappeable" Camera,How Many Have I Throwed My Controller At The Ground Just Because Of It.
But Excluding That,This Game Is Incredible And Always Fun To Play...
get super mario 64 plus for pc, (stupid easy to install just find the rom of the game and follow the steps plus give u) ITS FIXES THAT SHIT CAMERA MAKES THE GAME FEEL BRAND NEW
Facts. The Camera is AWFUL and the controls feel clunky
@@Intenxsify The controls aren't that clunky once you get used to it,It's more of a case of not aging that well than it truly sucking...
But the camera is still abysmal regardless,so i agree either way lol
@@tiburondrogado7612 Trust me im trying lmao but at the same time Mario feels Too Slippery at times. The Camera is without a doubt, AWFUL
@@Intenxsify Yeah,he does feel kinda slippery sometimes but i think that mostly has to do with the levels' weird physics in general and the shit camera doesn't help either.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks this!
On the topic of the official SM64 (excluding the Switch version), is a good game, but yeah, it’s not the holy grail Nintendrones claim it is, not especially in the early 21st Century!
@@kieranstark7213 how old are you?
24
@@kieranstark7213 well, and why don't you run as fast as you ran when you were 13?
@@matty-mm5vo probably not, too bad the 64 ran the same speed it did in 95, like dog water
I vastly prefer the DS remake! But oh boy I’m surprised for what comes next!
This is going to make some people mad
Some? It’s going to make everyone mad.
At what cost though?It won't matter people can get mad all they want over something like this
@@mimikyutubesaltaccount4875 Not me
This game is GOOD, but overrated as hell
Exactly. Why do people call Mario Odyssey overrated but not this game?
I wouldn't say it's overrated,but it's definitely a game that I don't like as much as others. I even discussed that in my Unpopular Opinions vid,but I really couldn't get into it
I know I was surprised when I first played the game on the switch and it didn’t control as well I thought it would because of all the hype associated with the game. I grew up on GameCube and PlayStation 1-2 so I never played it growing up
I think this game actually aged well, as did the DS remake. The reason for this is that, compared to Sunshine and the Galaxy games, 64 does a great job with both controls and level design. Galaxy’s controls are slow and tedious to me, and Sunshine’s controls, while fun, are a bit too precise for a 3-D environment. In addition, the Galaxy games consistently try to mesh sandbox level design with linear level structure, and this is unsatisfying to me. Sunshine’s sandbox levels are great in concept, but generally require too much extremely precise platforming. 64 and 64 DS, however, have decent control schemes (albeit with some flaws), and maintain rewarding sandbox level design with hardly any crazy precise platforming (except for Rainbow Ride and some parts of Tick Tock Clock, but Rainbow Ride is the only level I consider “bad” along with Dire Dire Docks.)
You think the controls in sm64ds are good and even better than galaxies? Each to their own opinion I guess.
People are spoiled rotten nowadays. It was a great game.
3:04
I think they’re supposed ro be placeholder sound effects because they were either still recording the real sound effects or just havent started yet at that time
I never played any of the Mario 3d games in my life so I don't have the nostalgia motive to try Mario 64 now and I don't think I'll ever will. I tried it once and the way the graphics are designed and how the camera is controlled it gave me some sort of motion sickness.
To me, mario 64 is still the greatest mario game of all time imo. That being said, the game takes an utter nose dive once you unlock the last section of the castle. Mario 64 is best when the worlds feel more like sandbox levels and the last set of levels like tictok clock and cloud cruise abandon that principle and instead focus on platforming gauntlets that you have to restart after each star you collect. Plus, the cloud level spits you all the back to the outside of the castle after a death which is an absolute middle finger to the player.
mario 64 is best game nowadays? i think you are stuck in pre-2000's.
I don’t think you can call the game both, “overrated” and “one of the most important games of all time”. It’s not “the best” Mario game, nor should it be. It’s actually an incredibly strange Mario game for its time given its sandbox gameplay. But I do really enjoy it and come back to it every couple of years. It has its shortcomings and there is room for mode r improvements but I think this is a game more then worth checking out.
3:18-3:25. I'm dead😂
Anyone who says that mario 64's controls are good, is blinded by nostalgia.
The controls of this game are extremely janky, and horrible by today's standards. It's impossible to do precision platforming, and you constantly fall off small ledges.
There is probably a good game hidden inside, but the horrible controls and the terrible camera completely ruins the fun, and makes it a negative experience. That's why i think they should remake this game with controls closer to mario oddysey.
tbh it was made with an n64 controller in mind, which explains why it becomes horrible to play on a different controller. people say the controls are great for how many options the game gives you to move around, you can jump, double jump, triple jump, side jump, long jump, ground pound, punch, crouch, air kick, dive, crouch kick, and you can use all of these moves to reach one platform. the camera sucks ass, we all agree on that tho, but the worst thing about the controls really was turning around that can cause mario to do a semicircle that caused lots of deaths. although its one of the first if not the first game to use 360 degrees controls so its a miracle that it worked this good
@@robkies I own an N64 with a refurbished controller (no wobbly sticks!) And it's still awful, inputs are so brutal to pull off. It's way too ambitious for its own good and it shoots itself in the foot because of it
Skill issue
@@TheBBCSlurpee Doom 1993 may have a word to you.
@@sebastianaliandkulcheskill issue
SM64 didnt age very good but I still hate it if people think that you only can Like old Games If you are Nostalgia blind. This Nostalgia Card is just overused.
Yay! The wait is over! Loved the South Park reference 👍 I agree M64 was revolutionary but it's honestly not may fav today.
If you don’t like this game, you’re soft and I don’t like you
Reasons why DK64 is very very VERY overrated and awful:playable characters, “levels” are designed like hub worlds, the game has awful music in comparison to Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time. The game doesn’t that much fun puzzles and it isn’t platform focused. It’s exploration focus but, the game is boring. It has different colored collectibles which makes it feel like it has too many collectibles when it doesn’t. The game is a slog.
I watched your April fool's video on Mario 64 a few hours before the real one was in my recommended, and I really thought TH-cam was re-recomending the same video.
lol same
everyone has their opinions like I love sm64 but it just hasn't aged well probably because it was ther first 3d mario game and the other 3d mario games are better
You give too few details and reasons for your positions. For example: You say Tick Tock Clock and Rainbow Ride aren't good stages, but don't give a reason as for why. You think the level themes are too plain and generic, but don't give any suggestions for improvement or examples of how they could be instead. As does the video title: You think Super Mario 64 is overrated, but you never say what you think is overrated about the game.
I also hate how some stars and stages literally repeat themself.
Like there are only 3 stage types: A mountain, a cave and a flat/sky parkour. Also all of the stages look ugly, and that's not even N64's fault! Look at banjo-kazooie, stages look much better than sm64's. The game lacks collectibles, like if you do something important you will be given a star. Only a star, nothing elsem
Dayum you do a really good Michael impression
Okay ill admit
SM64 is a _bit_ overrated
But the SM64 Romhacking community is amazing.
SM64 Rom hacks are Also not overrated at all
Ohyeah, nobody's bashing the romhacks. Those are always great.
It's just the base game that aged worse than most nostalgiablinded people say
@@M.J44 sorry but I Nostalgia-Arguments often are Just tastless.
I don't really think it's overrated personally (I could see why someone might consider it overrated, but I personally don't) and that's coming from someone who DIDN'T grow up with it, but to each their own. I grew up with the Galaxy games and never played 64 as a kid (I didn't even know the N64, or any Nintendo console before the Wii aside from the DS, even existed growing up) and didn't get to play it until after childhood, when I bought it on the Wii VC just days before they shut the Wii Shop Channel down, but when I played it it was definitely one of the most enjoyable and fun games I've ever experienced, to the point where I still play it quite a bit to this day and love it. It's not as good as the Galaxy games in my opinion, but I think it's better than Sunshine (though that's largely just due to Sunshine's obvious problems; if Sunshine hadn't been rushed and been given more time to be polished and fleshed out it would have probably been better than 64 in my eyes), there's a lot of things about 64 that I actually think it does better than Odyssey (I personally would much rather go and play some 64 in my past-time than Odyssey, but that's just my own preference, I'm not saying that as a whole 64 is the better of the two objectively or anything, I just _personally_ find Odyssey too easy/repetitive/flat out boring and a chore at times, though I love Odyssey's character movement aside from some nerfed moves), and I also like 64 much more than 3D Land (haven't decided concerning 3D World yet as I only just started playing it).
Again, this is coming from someone who had no nostalgia for 64 at all going into it whatsoever, from someone who played more modern games first and then went into 64 afterward for the first time, and yet even without any nostalgia or rose-tinted glasses I still really enjoyed almost every part of 64 and think it's a fantastic game that I'd even in some respects (though NOT as a whole) consider _underrated._ But again, this is all just my own opinion from MY personal experience. I'm not saying anyone who thinks it's overrated is objectively wrong or anything, I just personally don't think it really is based on MY experience with it. Sure, it does show its age, but to remedy that, just play the new PC-port-based Super Mario 64 Plus by Mors that just released, it fixes a lot of the issues and makes the game nearly perfect in my opinion; definitely the best way to play Mario 64, at least at the moment.
Agreed!
I definitely agree!
The only big turn off for this game imo are the camera controls, maybe it's because i'm used to better controls in more recent games, but honestly half of the time i don't even understand where i'm going, and can't use all Mario's movement options without a lot of practice or game knowledge, because everytime i try to do anything there's a chance the camera just goes crazy and starts spinning.
Even though I do think this is the weakest 3D Mario game because it hasn't aged that well, I still think it's great
Mario Sunshine has aged no better than Mario 64, absolutely not
@@matty-mm5vo Mario Sunshine also may not have aged the best, but it's still better than 64 in my opinion
@@joshthemariogamer6862 Why?
@@matty-mm5vo It just fixed a lot of the problems 64 had
@@joshthemariogamer6862*EXTREMELY LOYD INCORRECT BUZZER* (but in acappella)
Mario's unused voice clips were really awful, i mean damn
b3313 made me warm up to them. i sometimes do toned down versions when i’m alone in my room because autism.
Most of what's wrong with this game could be fixed with an HD remake in the engine of a newer 3D Mario game. I don't know why Nintendo was only willing to remake this game for the original DS, and not a home console.
sm64 is only highly regarded because it was a decent game in a jungle filled with SHIT early 3d games,
doesn't hold a candle to anything the snes had to offer.
Imo the snes is a top 3 console
metal gear solid, FF7, Ocarina of Time, Chrono Cross, Resident Evil 2, FF9, Tomb Raider 2, Spyro, Crash bandicoot, Tekken 3, Majora's Mask, really shit games
It's far from perfect but for It's time it was. It was one of the top games that best represents the progression. It could have handled better but hey it is what it is.
Someone should create a rom hack that finishes many of the failings of the game - a playable Luigi, a playable Yoshi, Blargg, the missing levels, the trampoline object, the fourth floor, everything. for reference, rom hacks that recreate Personalization AI anomolies and the DS rerelease can be used, but we're trying to recreate what these additions would've been like in the original game, had it been properly finished.
we got one pretty close recently called mario 64 decades later, a full on remake of the entire game level by level
Super Mario 64 was never meant to be on the snes. Miyamotto said he had the idea of making a 3D Mario game for the SNES but, he didn’t try to do it.
Super Mario 64 isn't the best Mario game ever, it's the best game ever
People always told me that the DS remake was way inferior, but after having played it... seems we played different games, is like the only way i have to kind of enjoy the game. The game graphics doesnt suc, the controls feels a bit better even without analog, it just more fun. Even for 1996 standards i quite prefer the controls and graphics of other 3d games, though this is an argument it has to be made for most of the N64 library.
Honestly, most N64 games are overrated and not that good. The n64 does not deserve the nostalgic love it gets. Even when it was new I thought the games were ugly and awkward compared to the PlayStation or even the Saturn. Other than the Zelda games, the entirety of the n64 is hella overrated. It sucked usually. Sorry.
bruh
For every 1 good N64 game, there were 5-10 on PS1 and Saturn. I can't believe Nintendo still existed after this abomination
3:14 this sounds like it was voiced by Lou Albano
Good Video. I agree with most if not all of your points. I really like Super Mario 64 and I understand why many people may say its the best Mario game. Personally I don't think its the greatest Mario game ever, but its one of the best. I would put it in my top 5 Mario games
Least favorite 3d mario but still a classic
Zoomers gonna zoom.
Nostalgiatards gonna get blinded
@@pentexsucks43 skill issue
@@TheBBCSlurpee mental health issue
Honestly i think mario 64 ds is better on the 3Ds also great video!
To me Rainbow Ride was cool. The 2nd flying level on the 2nd floor of Peach’s Castle on the other hand. The hardest Star is the 8 coins in Tick Tock. That Star sucks.
Another generic Mario 64 review
I totally agree, Sunshine (with a few exceptions) and the Galaxy games have way better level design, and much fluider controls, even though Mario 64 was revolutionary.
Fluider controls? They are exactly the same. It took me months to finish M64, because I have to learn the control scheme. I finished galaxy 1 in 2 days, because the controls were exactly the same. The only addition was the "swing around to rejump" thing.
@@George-iz2ce Mario 64's controls feel very slippery, almost at a level where some sections (sand puzzle) are almost unplayable. Sunshine and Galaxy definatly increased the perciseness of the controls
@@kaboomgamer333 The "sand puzzle"? Are you talking about the whole Shifting Sand Land?
@@George-iz2ce More specifically the part where you have to get those 3 damn coins. The rest of it isn't AS bad as you mostly use the wing cap
@@kaboomgamer333skill issue
Yeah. SM64 never really did anything for me back in the day. I did end up finishing it in the early 2000's on the DS. For some reason that version struck me more than this. I sat down with SM64 in the 90s and it just wasn't for me.
SM64 was a pioneering game and a magical experience to play for the first time in the 90s. It was truly mind blowing. It will rightly go down as a legendary game but that doesn’t mean you can’t compare it with modern games. More recent 3D Marios have made SM64 seem like a prototype, and that’s fine because that’s what SM64 effectively is now.
Unpopular opinion: this is my 3rd favorite 3D Mario game behind Galaxy 1 and Odyssey. Yeah, it's one of the simplest video games, but that's why I love it. The game is simple, but is just unique enough to the point where I can come back to it frequently, something I can't say about the New Super Mario Bros series. It's helped out by the atmosphere and controls, but it's also pretty fast paced, making it a good game to just pick up and play through when you want just a quick game to beat. And it's not as fun on the first time playing, but when you keep playing it and get better, mastering the game is super fun and addicting, and this is one of the most fun games to speedrun. And also, the game is glitchy in the best possible way, allowing you to use the glitches to your advantage. This game definitely is not the greatest Mario game of all time, but it's the easily the one I come back to the most.
SM64 isn't the "best" Mario game but is by far the most important one. I get that you're doing the clickbait thing, but SM64 literally changed everything everybody thought they knew about video games. There was nothing even remotely comparable to it when it was released.
Mario 64 is a good game but it’s definitely not the best Mario game
You can’t tell me Mario 64 is best Mario game when Luigi isn’t in it
I agree it's not the best Mario game, but what value does Luigi add?
This game is so good yet so hard to digest nowadays. The camera sucks, it kills the game experience to the point of dropping it.
Not really dude. Yeah the camera is bad but it doesn't always fuck you over and even then the game is still very fun to play
I was a kid when I got it, the revolutionary graphics and 3D cant be overstated of how awesome it was.
Super Mario 64 is only overrated if people say that it's objectively better than the Galaxy games
Super Mario 64 is unquestionably an amazing game. Few titles manage to be this revolutionary in so many regards, a prime example of ambition and ingenuity in new age game design. However, SM64 has undoubtedly been surpassed in nearly every category of gameplay by later installments in the series. Due to its age, it doesn't put up much of a fight against the likes of Galaxy and Odyssey, both of which are equally deserving of critical praise, if not even more so. Much of the argument for the reverence of this game surrounds the fact that it was the "first 3D Mario game", but you can only give so much credit to something for it being the first. After that, you have to rank it fairly amongst its peers in terms of actual quality. In that regard, Super Mario 64 still holds up very well, and offers a fantastic, near unique experience in the Mario catalogue. However, I would not claim it to be one of the best Mario games, nonetheless one of the best 3D Mario games. 5th gen gamers and their extreme indulgence in nostalgia have a huge part to play in SM64's overly generous, almost mythical repertoire. It's great to love what you grew up with, but there's also such a thing of taking it too far and not giving other games enough credit.
I’m glad not everyone immediately thinks super Mario 64 is the greatest thing to touch the earth
I do 🙂
The atari 5200 was the first system to have a analog controller
I think the levels are pretty bad except for like the first 5 and the controls I think pretty bad and because I played it after beating mario sunshine and galaxy not having the preview telling you where the star is located is annoying and I found myself getting lost on many different stars but overall I'd give it like a 4/10
Bro what are you talking about? The game is a 8/10 the level design for most stages besides the water levels are pretty good. The controls are responsive, fluid and feel good and also the game not telling you where the stars are is so that you actually have to find them and explore. Maybe if you stopped playing games that constantly hold your hand then maybe you would stop complaining
@@cringlord1920 maybe
@@cringlord1920You're right about the hand holding thing, but not about the controls. Mario 64's controls are still serviceable by today's standards but they are far from perfect, and the horrible camera only adds to the problem. It took Nintendo a few tries to perfect Mario's controls. Sunshine was a big improvement but still not perfect and when Galaxy came along, they finally got it totally right. Also, most of 64's late game levels are not well designed at all. Again, this is something Nintendo got better at with each game.
I agree with your point about the generic themes because rayman 2 and sonic adventures were the first 3d games in there respective series but most of the themes in those games are original
I agree so much
wrong opinion
@Dry Boi dry bone is not in sm64
Are you telling me that Luigi was planned to be in this game and got scrapped? Worst game of all time, 0/10 (that's a joke btw Mario 64 lovers)
the game length is short tho you spend around 6 hours actually playing the game because most of the times the game kicks you out of the level and you have to do whole chunks of the levels again and again and again thats a very cheap way to expand the game length
Super Mario 64 has real challenge unlike Super Mario Odyssey.
I agree! Overrated game! It was an okay game, in my opinion. The game had it's fun levels, but some of them sucked. I thought the controls were too complicated. I've 100% the game, but I literally see no reason to play the game again afterward even when you get 100 lives from Yoshi. At that point, I just got bored. It is not the best Mario game of all time. I thought every 3D Mario game that came out after 64 was way better than 64.
Well at least I’m not the only one who thinks it’s overrated :)
So... am I the only one who loved Rainbow Ride?
No, Comrade, but we are few in number...
Just realised this was released a day b4 my bday 😂
I entirely agree, it's aged so poorly.
No it didn't really
@cringlord1920 yeah, it has. The controls are shit, the camera is shit, some of the level design is extremely cryptic and obscure, and theres tons of bugs, a lot of which negatively affect gameplay. Certainly a good game for its time but if it were to release today it would be rightfully dunked on
I think what makes Mario 64 better than other 3D Mario games is the lack of linearity. But Oddessey may have removed that. Then again I have yet to play that game because I don't own a Switch yet. It's not like there are no games I want to play on it, far from it, but I don't have much time to play games and my backlog of games are still full. I have yet to get the last start from Galaxy 2. Beat the final World of 3D World. Play the heck out of Pokken Tournament and Smash 4. And get Smash Bros Melee and Brawl to 100%.
And then there are still some other games like the Donkey Kong country Trilogy, Tropical Freeze and Returns. As well as Panzer Dragoon and Panzer Dragoon Zwei. And Pokemon Platinum the Battle Frontier.
Super Mario 64 is definitely my favourite mainline Mario game. I Love the way that Mario controls more than any of the other games. I actually started a 120-star playthrough of it today!
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Mario controls better in other games
Super Mario 64 is literally my favourite game of all time, but that’s mostly due to it’s incredible modding community, the original game definitely has some flaws, mostly in the level design as was mentioned.
you can say a lot of things against Mario 64, but you certainly can't say that it has a bad level design, there are very few games that are better than Mario 64 in this respect
@@matty-mm5vo There are some excellently designed levels, like Bob-Omb Battlefield or Big Boos Haunt, but there’s some like Dire Dire Docks or Wet Dry Land that have a few flaws, at least IMO
The DS version is infinitely better than the original. Mario 64 is definitely a game I respect more than I actually like.
I’ve never had the opportunity to play the DS version, but those are my thoughts exactly in regards to the original.
@@therealmariofan And yet the character models still look better than the N64 version because they actually knew what they were doing by the time they made this. Fun Fact: there are less polygons in the DS version of Mario’s model than the N64 version.
@@therealmariofan They should remake the DS version. I would play that.
I disagree. The N64 version is better.
A Revolutionary game, yes. And it still holds up well in some ways, but it also has some serious flaws like the camera controls. 64's significance in video game history is unquestionable, but every single 3D Mario game that has come after it is superior.
Yeah 64 is overrated. 64 DS is underrated though.
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