Author Topic: BEST AND WORST IN SERIES? Week 22: Coins! (Read 8679 times)

Nintendoobsessed · « **on:** September 14, 2008, 10:46:20 AM »

Which Mario game had the best use for coins? Or the best design? Just tell me which game has "The Best or Worst Coins, for whatever reason!" Anyway...

BEST:

Super Mario RPG (1) Lack of better vote, but FROGGY COINS!

WORST:

Super Mario Galaxy (1) Did coins even have a purpose in this game? (Am I forgetting they heal you...?)

NOMINATIONS:
Mario Sports game (2)
Original Super Mario Bros Level (2)
2D Game (4)
3D Game (1)

(10 Votes=Topic)

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
WEEK 15(Title Screen): Super Mario 64
WEEK 16(Box Art): Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
WEEK 17(Level Success Animation): Super Mario 64
WEEK 18(Ghost Levels): Super Mario World
WEEK 19(Castle/Fortress Music): Super Mario World
WEEK 20(Super Mario Bros. Remixes): Super Mario 64
WEEK 21(First Level): Super Mario 64

WORST Winners:
WEEK 13(Hub): Super Mario Galaxy/Super Paper Mario
WEEK 14(Hub Dwellers): Super Mario Sunshine
WEEK 15(Title Screen): Mario Kart Wii
WEEK 16(Box Art): Mario Kart Wii
WEEK 17(Level Success Animation): Super Mario Bros. 2(American)
WEEK 18(Ghost Levels): Super Mario Sunshine
WEEK 19(Castle/Fortress Music): Super Mario Bros. 3
WEEK 20(Super Mario Bros. Remixes): Super Mario All-Stars
WEEK 21(First Level): Super Mario Sunshine

Glitchy · « **Reply #1 on:** September 14, 2008, 11:11:00 AM »

Best: SMG and/or SMS because one is pretty and the other is useful.

Worst: SM64 for ugliness.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #2 on:** September 14, 2008, 01:53:04 PM »

Best: Mario and Luigi:SS. Well, they're money, for crying out loud, but you could also do all those crazy coin block tricks and knock coins out of Mario.
Worst: SMG. I really think what they should've done is just replaced Coins with Star Bits, period. That would've made the game a lot better.

Kimimaru · « **Reply #3 on:** September 14, 2008, 01:56:48 PM »

Sorry, I can't decide on a vote, but I'll nominate "Best 2D Game" for next week.

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #4 on:** September 14, 2008, 03:08:32 PM »

Best: SM64. They heal you and can net you a star at the end of the course if you earn 100.

Worst: Super Mario Kart. I hated these. If you didn't have one, you wiped out if someone rammed you. I really hate the coin system in this game. Sure they could protect you, but if we didn't have them, we wouldn't really have to worry about wiping out that much (save for items).

missingno · « **Reply #5 on:** September 14, 2008, 04:55:16 PM »

BEST: Super Mario 64, replenishes health, and helps you get more stars.
WORST: Super Mario Bros. 2 (US), You can only get them in Subspace, plus all they do is give you a roll on the roulette.

CrossEyed7 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 14, 2008, 05:31:50 PM »

BEST: SS, for the Tennis Block and for being able to hold 9,999 of them.

WORST: SMK, for the same reasons as PL.

Kimimaru · « **Reply #7 on:** September 14, 2008, 05:34:52 PM »

Quote from: PaperLuigi on September 14, 2008, 03:08:32 PM

Best: SM64. They heal you and can net you a star at the end of the course if you earn 100.

You know, the same exact thing happens in Super Mario Sunshine, except the coins look better.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #8 on:** September 14, 2008, 05:36:32 PM »

And as a bonus, it has the unbelievably annoying blue coins!

BP · « **Reply #9 on:** September 14, 2008, 05:58:41 PM »

Best: Galaxy, because I'd say that's where they have the most value given your low health capacity. No Mario game really stands out in terms of coin value though. I've always been good with money in RPGs, only running out regularly in Final Fantasy (and FFII), a couple of times in MOTHER 3 and only after buying a whole bunch of TMs in Pokémon. Almost never in Mario RPGs.

Worst: Sunshine, for the blue ones.

jmdblazer · « **Reply #10 on:** September 14, 2008, 06:39:41 PM »

Best: Sunshine, for the blue ones. I loved how much exploration was in that game.

Worst: Galaxy, it got rid of hundred coin hunting (well, purple coins, but those were set up in one specific area). Plus the only good thing was health, but there always seemed to be a 6-life mushroom that defeated the purpose.

And I vote for best 2d game.

Toad · « **Reply #11 on:** September 14, 2008, 07:36:50 PM »

Best: SMG, because they were mostly sparse in the later levels, and could be used for healing (a feature used in all three 3D Mario games).

Worst: Super Mario Sunshine. The Blue Coin hunt from the Underwhere!

Nominee: Original SMB level

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 15, 2008, 06:02:01 AM »

Best: SMW, the Dragon Coins provide an extra challenge once you find all the exit goals.

Worst: SMG, because I hated collecting Purple Cpins.

Kojinka · « **Reply #13 on:** September 15, 2008, 07:51:08 AM »

Best: SMW. I like the coins with Yoshi's profile face.
Worst: SMG. Too few and the only purpose they served was healing

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #14 on:** September 15, 2008, 08:35:24 PM »

Quote from: Kimimaru on September 14, 2008, 05:34:52 PM

You know, the same exact thing happens in Super Mario Sunshine, except the coins look better.

Sorry, I just like the 64 coins better. Everything about Sunshine just sort of leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth (Piantas, blue coins, Bowser Jr.) and in contrast, 64 is nearly perfect. Galaxy is perfect. Sunshine is just...meh. Same goes for its coins.

Robert · « **Reply #15 on:** September 16, 2008, 09:02:18 PM »

Best: Super Mario Galaxy. While they didn't have much of a purpose other then to heal you, Mario only had three pieces of health, so they were incredably valuable.

Worst: Super Mario 64. The coins were way too small. Plus, it's because of that 100 coin mission on Hazy Maze Cave that I never got all 150 stars on SM64DS. Overall, I disliked them.

BP · « **Reply #16 on:** September 17, 2008, 05:48:41 PM »

It's easy to get 100 coins in Hazy Maze Cave. Use Yoshi to make an egg from one of those spiders and throw them at groups of enemies. Each hit the egg gets produces three coins.

But of course Yoshi is absolutely worthless in Super Mario 64 DS so nobody would've thought of that! Right?

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 18, 2008, 04:06:27 AM »

Lucky for me, I discovered quite by accident that trick with throwing eggs very early on in the game, so Yoshi was my character of choice for hard 100-coin missions.

Nintendoobsessed · « **Reply #18 on:** September 19, 2008, 01:17:43 PM »

Week 22: Coins!

BEST:

Super Mario RPG (1)
Super Mario Galaxy (4)
Mario and Luigi: SuperStar Saga (2)
Super Mario 64 (1)
Super Mario Sunshine (1)
Super Mario World (2)

WORST:

Super Mario Galaxy (5)
Super Mario 64 (2)
Super Mario Kart (2)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) (1)
Super Mario Sunshine (2)

NOMINATIONS:

Mario Sports game (2)
Original Super Mario Bros Level (3)
2D Game (6)
3D Game (1)

(10 Votes=Topic)

Super Mario Galaxy...is both the BEST AND WORST??? Special Tiebreaker! First person to vote for it being Best or Worst decides the fate of SMG!

NintendoExpert89 · « **Reply #19 on:** September 19, 2008, 01:21:21 PM »

SMG is... worst.

They had no other useful purpose than restoring health.

Kimimaru · « **Reply #20 on:** September 19, 2008, 03:18:23 PM »

That may be true, but their rarity makes you realize how important they really are when you have 1 Health Bar left.

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #21 on:** September 19, 2008, 03:34:55 PM »

May I make a suggestion? Subtract the "best" votes from the "worst" votes for each game. Then the winner will be determined on how well it did overall rather than how many votes it got from both categories. The same process can be done to find out who the loser is.

DrFurball · « **Reply #22 on:** September 22, 2008, 08:59:09 AM »

BEST: Wario Land II. They were a lot of fun to collect, especially the giant ones with Wario's profile etched into them. And there's also those black ones that are worth 100 coins.

WORST: Super Mario Kart. Glad they never brought 'em back.

Ultima Shadow · « **Reply #23 on:** September 22, 2008, 03:25:41 PM »

Quote from: PaperLuigi on September 19, 2008, 03:34:55 PM

May I make a suggestion? Subtract the "best" votes from the "worst" votes for each game. Then the winner will be determined on how well it did overall rather than how many votes it got from both categories. The same process can be done to find out who the loser is.

Seconded; could certainly prevent this sort of thing from happening again.

Quote from: DrFurball on September 22, 2008, 08:59:09 AM

WORST: Super Mario Kart. Glad they never brought 'em back.

Hate to break it to you, but they were in Super Circuit as well, and served pretty much the same role.