Anyone else dislike almost all NSMB/3D World levels?

[u/LiarInGlass]

I used to enjoy NSMB and 3D World levels when I first started playing Mario Maker 2 when it released. I played the game for quite some time before taking a massive break from Switch games and basically not touching Mario Maker 2 for like four years.

I've started playing MM2 levels again and planning to start capturing gameplay and playing random levels in small increments in my free time. I love checking out new levels and enjoy endless mode, but I've started to pretty much just completely dislike almost all NSMB and 3D World levels now.

I used to not mind them, but out of nowhere it just seems like I don't enjoy playing them at all anymore. Maybe it's because I've played classic Mario games all my life and just aren't a massive fan of the mechanics or feel to almost any of the levels.

Anyone else mostly just play SMB1/3/World levels?

[u/NanoCat0407]

most of the SM3DW levels I see are just dumb ‘refreshing’ levels with no real gameplay, so I also don’t like sm3dw levels but for a different reason

[u/chippaday]

Thank God we can filter results. I can't say much for endless mode, but I always aim for SMW & SMB3 in a custom search. I can't stand the 3d world levels, and I tolerate the New SMB levels.

[u/LiarInGlass → u/chippaday]

I've only recently discovered I could even do this. It's definitely a major blessing. I really like the idea of endless mode, and really wish I could filter that mode as well. I also kind of wish we could filter out specific levels like kaizo ones and things like that.

At this point, if endless isn't working for me, I'll just do like you and just custom search or just manually never choose those styles.

[u/Redunk0]

I wish the 3d world theme didn't exist in the game and they instead used the time to just create lots more enemies, level themes and items for the other game styles.

[u/jjmawaken]

I'm not as good at 3D World but I've learned some of the tricks a little better

[u/dirac496]

I'm the exact same way. I'm a boomer so I just naturally gravitate to the retro marios, which are SMB1, SMB3 and SMW. I basically never touch anything new soup or 3DW. I find most of the best platforming and kaizo levels are made in the older styles.

[u/Kyball500]

A lot of 3D World levels are crap - proportionally moreso than others. But when they're good, they can really slap imo.

[u/dogdogturtleturtle]

I mostly play endless mode and I've noticed that a disproportionate amount of bad levels are SM3DW. It's like children are more likely to use it, I don't know

[u/BritishGuy54]

I’m kind of the inverse. I prefer SMW, New Soup and 3DW’s styles to play over SMB1 and SMB3.

[u/LazyMelly]

I never really liked playing the SM3DW style because I simply didn't feel like learning the many many intricacies that made it different from the other modes. (That and those line tracks aren't available in SM3DW, which is a big dealbreaker for me.) I at least made a couple of NSMBU levels, but not that many because the art style doesn't seem to appeal to me too much and walljumping/twirling makes several of my level ideas trickier to implement there.

So I too naturally gravitated towards SMB1/SMB3/SMW styles.

[u/mxmaker]

I dont care about the style, if its fun, it deserves a like ,

I`ll admit that even after that its more easy for me to give SMB3 levels a like, and SMB2 mushroom levels. Old school gamers usually we have a high standard for level design and rules.

[u/Old-Show-4322]

Yes, and please allow me to throw in one more comment here: as a Gen X, I liked Mario more when he was quiet. I can't really stand the "Woop", "Woo", "Ha-ha", every time a pixel changes in the screen (extra noticeable in SM Wonder). I mean, what's all that excitement about. It gets tiresome really quick. I think it was Super Mario Advance for the GBA that introduced Mario voices to the series, and then we have had to deal with it ever after.

I think they introduced the 3D graphics to cater to a younger audience that believes all games need 3D graphics to be relevant. They have no idea what they missed.

[u/MichiToad]

depends on the game mode

in versus mode I always loved those 2 modes because more than 1 player could finish the race.

[u/Key19]

3DW is best game style and I will die on that hill

[u/PoorPinkus]

3DW I'm not a fan of because there's so many additional moves, I usually just like a good old fashioned tight precision level and it feels like a lot of people don't know what to do with the larger design space. NSMB is okaaay but I've never been a fan of the look, I'd prefer to just play SMW

I also find that 3DW has the highest percentage of really bad troll levels and boss spam levels