Hey everyone! How's it going? I'm doing well. So I don't have a Comic Book Wrap-Up for you today, because I didn't have time to read any comic books this week. Instead I binged the first two seasons of Love, Victor, had a fairly busy Thanksgiving weekend, and watched alot of YouTube. I think this is why I had decided against doing wrap-up posts like Comic Book Wrap-Up for so long. I said in my first Comic Book Wrap-Up that if I don't read enough books over the course of the week for me to have a solid post, then I'm not going to do that post. Which is exactly what happened this week. But I wanted to get a post out for The Review Basement this week, so without further ado let's talk about Super Mario 3D All-Stars which I bought yesterday while I was out doing groceries. So let's get into it.
I'm going to talk about these three games more in depth in a separate post later on, but I wanted to get my thoughts on the presentation of the compilation as a whole as well as my history with each of these three games.
The original Super Mario All-Stars for the Super Nintendo is how I played Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario Bros. 3 when I was a kid, though I did play Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES at the hospital one time. So when Nintendo announced earlier last year that they were doing a new Super Mario All-Stars compilation for the Nintendo Switch and that it was going to include three of the 3D Mario games from the Nintendo 64, the GameCube, and the Wii, I was really excited. Mainly because I had never actually owned Super Mario 64 when I was a kid and had never played Super Mario Sunshine before since my brother had a GameCube but I don't think he ever owned that particular game. We had Super Mario Galaxy for our Nintendo Wii so that was the only one I played at home.
What's really cool about this compilation is that it includes the complete soundtracks for all three games on the cartridge. Yes, I have a physical copy of the game. I listened to a few tracks from the Super Mario 64 soundtrack and I love it. The menu screen is also alot better than the one for the SNES Super Mario All-Stars because it includes information about each game when scroll through them. So that was really cool.
I played the game for an hour as soon as I got home and had put my groceries away. The game I spent the most time on was Super Mario 64 because of the three games that are included in this compilation, this is the one that is the most nostalgic for me. My family didn't get a Nintendo 64 until Christmas 1999. By then Super Mario 64 was no longer the game that came with the console, and my parents never found it for us individually. However, I did play it at CHEO when I was there for something in late 1996 or sometime in 1997. There weren't any walkthroughs or anything like that when I was a kid, because the internet didn't exist the same way it does now, and I didn't have access to Nintendo Power. So I had no idea what to do. I ended up just playing around Peach's Castle the entire time I played it, which wasn't long because I had an IV in my right hand and I couldn't manage to use that hand for very long. I think my buddy Cam had it up at the cottage, because I remember being at his house and watching him play it when we weren't playing Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart 64.
Super Mario Sunshine is the exact opposite. I played it for the first time yesterday morning. Like I said earlier, my brother had a GameCube in the mid-2000s, but we never owned one as a family so I never had the opportunity to play the game. Plus by the time this game came out in 2002, everyone I knew who played video games had moved on to the original Xbox, the PlayStation 2, or had left console gaming entirely and gotten into PC gaming. So I didn't know anyone who had a GameCube when I was in high school. I'm going to go through the game eventually, but I wanna try to beat Super Mario 64 first before I take a full dive into the GameCube game.
Super Mario Galaxy is a game I've played only once in my life. We had a Nintendo Wii in the early 2010s and this was one of the games we had for it. I found the Wii to be an awkward console for me to play because of how the controllers were with the nunchuks, so I didn't play it very often. But I remember wanting to give this game a try after a session of Disney Epic Mickey, which is probably my favourite game on the Wii. I liked it, but again, because the controllers were so weird for this console, I found it really awkward so I had no idea what I was doing and ended up giving up on it after only a few minutes. I've heard the game itself is pretty great, but it's not one I'm going to end up playing very often on this compilation.
Because of the limited nature of this game, I was really surprised when I found a physical copy of it at Shoppers Drugmart when I went in with my mom to get some things I couldn't get at the grocery store a month ago. I didn't get it that day, and two weeks ago we didn't need to go into Shoppers, but yesterday was the day and I'm thrilled that I was finally able to get a copy of the game so I could finally play Super Mario 64 on a console that I owned.
They didn't try to "fix" the graphics or anything like they had for the versions of the three Super Mario Bros. games on the original SNES Super Mario All-Stars cartridge. The only thing they changed for this game is the controls, because obviously the Switch controller is very different from the old N64 controller. As a result, the game looks exactly the way I remember it looking when I played it on the N64 at the hospital 24 or 25 years ago. Which is really cool.
That my friends is it for me for today. I'll be back later this week, probably on Friday, to post my reviews of the first two seasons of Love, Victor as well as my review of Love, Simon, porting them over from my TV and Movie Wrap-Ups on Josh's Move Review Corner. So until then have a great afternoon and I will talk to you all later. Take care!
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