Author Topic: BEST AND WORST IN SERIES? Week 15: Title Screen (Read 11713 times)

Nintendoobsessed · « **on:** May 18, 2008, 08:51:15 AM »

Which Mario game had the best Title Screen? Super Mario 64's Mario head? Super Mario Bros 3 introduction, or even the old Super Mario Bros Frozen Screen. And which had the worst?

BEST:

Super Mario 64 (1)

WORST:

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (1)

NOMINATIONS:

Best bowser/fortress/castle music (6)
Best Mario Sports game (1)
Best Level (1)
(Nominations require 10 votes to become a reality)

BEST Winners:
WEEK 1(Attacks): Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
WEEK 2(Final Boss Battle): Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
WEEK 3(Music): Super Mario Galaxy
WEEK 4(Underwater Levels): Super Mario World
WEEK 5(Powerups): Super Mario Bros 3
WEEK 6(Bowser Level):Paper Mario
WEEK 7(First Boss): Super Mario 64
WEEK 8(Yoshi's Role): Yoshi's Island
WEEK 9(Intro): Super Mario Galaxy
WEEK 10(Ending): Paper Mario
WEEK 11(Races): Super Mario 64
WEEK 12(Non-Bowser bosses): Yoshi's Island
WEEK 13(Hub):Super Mario Sunshine
WEEK 14(Hub Dwellers): Super Mario Galaxy

WORST Winners:
WEEK 13(Hub): Super Mario Galaxy/Super Paper Mario
WEEK 14(Hub Dwellers): Super Mario Sunshine

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #1 on:** May 18, 2008, 08:58:31 AM »

Boy, never would've thought of this...

Best: SM64's, of course, for its classic face-stretching hilarity. I must give props, though, to SMS's running-around level select (does that count?)
Worst: Super Mario Bros. 2. It's just... there. (And not even original, at that)

CrzyFlmngMnkyHead · « **Reply #2 on:** May 18, 2008, 09:50:22 AM »

Best: Super Mario 64. No title screen can beat a distorted, stretched-out Mario face.
Worst: Mario Bros. Genericness killed it.

Ambulance Y · « **Reply #3 on:** May 18, 2008, 09:59:34 AM »

Best: Super Mario Galaxy - absolutely beautiful.
Worst: Mario Bros. It was just a picture.

kirbyman · « **Reply #4 on:** May 18, 2008, 10:36:42 AM »

I'm going with CrzyFlmngMnkyHead.

jmdblazer · « **Reply #5 on:** May 18, 2008, 10:51:43 AM »

Best: Paper Mario TTYD
Worst: Mario Kart Wii

Vote for Best Fortress/bowser/castle music!

Ambulance Y · « **Reply #6 on:** May 18, 2008, 10:53:13 AM »

I vote for best Mario sports game.

BP · « **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2008, 11:49:45 AM »

Uh. SM64's title screen is really the short appearance of the title when Mario says, "It's a me! Mario!"

Best: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. The same way Super Mario RPG's intro makes you want to play SMRPG, TTYD's title screen makes you want to play TTYD.

Worst: Mario Kart Wii. The picture of Mario and Luigi butt racing got old by the second time, and considering that it's on the box and the box inside that box, it's already old by the time you turn on the game. Then there are the almost less aggravatingly simple and thoughtless ones that appear after you clear all the grand prix with gold. Unlike the title screens of most other Mario Karts (Super Circuit and DS had some bad title screens), Mario Kart Wii's title screens do not make me want to play the game.

missingno · « **Reply #8 on:** May 18, 2008, 04:50:59 PM »

Best - Super Mario Bros. 3; the whole Mario and Luigi fighting is classic.

Worst - Super Mario Bros.; it's too simplistic for my liking.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #9 on:** May 18, 2008, 05:23:54 PM »

Quote from: Bird Person on May 18, 2008, 11:49:45 AM

Worst: Mario Kart Wii. The picture of Mario and Luigi butt racing got old by the second time, and considering that it's on the box and the box inside that box, it's already old by the time you turn on the game. Then there are the almost less aggravatingly simple and thoughtless ones that appear after you clear all the grand prix with gold. Unlike the title screens of most other Mario Karts (Super Circuit and DS had some bad title screens), Mario Kart Wii's title screens do not make me want to play the game.

Oh.. I never really considered the spin-offs, but... yeah, definitely MKW.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 19, 2008, 03:26:03 PM »

BEST: SM64 for hilarity (even if it is a little creepy when you're 5).
WORST: Mario Bros.

CrossEyed7 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 19, 2008, 04:20:46 PM »

Best: SNES Mario is Missing. Mario walks in, reads the title, and as he realizes the implications of it, a hole opens up beneath him. Then he lands in Antarctica, where he meets Luigi and Yoshi before another hole appears beneath him. Pretty cool.

Worst: Mario Kart Wii. Too sterile. The movie makes up for it a little bit, but it loses points for only being triggered by staring at the boring title screen long enough and for being mean to Luigi.

blackcat12 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 19, 2008, 05:00:18 PM »

(two votes in the BEST category)
BEST: 1. PM: TTYD. The great intro combined with the music make it very theater-like.
2. Super Mario Galaxy. It has a very magical feel to it.

WORST: Mario Superstar Baseball. It was not that attractive and the music wasn't the best. (SMB doesn't count in my opinion, because there really wasn't money for flashy title screens back in 1985)

Glitchy · « **Reply #13 on:** May 19, 2008, 05:29:29 PM »

I vote SMS because...

dun....dun...dun dun dun duhhh...

SUPA MARIO SUNSHINE!! WAHOO!!

And thats ownage.

For worst, I'd say SMB2 just because.

Kojinka · « **Reply #14 on:** May 19, 2008, 05:35:51 PM »

Best: SMW for the catchy music and demo

Worst: MKW