When I look back at Super Mario Bros 3, I have fond memories. It's still one of my favorite platformers. But its creator, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, feels a little embarrassed when he looks at it these days.
"I look back and play some of these games and there are a lot of places where, to be honest, I'm a little embarrassed," he told Techland. "I look at Super Mario 3, and was like, 'This was it?! This is what we thought was good enough?'"
Dude, it's fine. Yes, it was a little weird. But all of your games are weird. Still, it was a killer game. Oh, what? You already knew that?
"I do have new understandings of that work," he said. "The balance in that game is what it needed to be at that time. It really was. And so, even seeing all the limitations, I'm very happy with what we created and I wouldn't change it."
Yes, it was fine. It's a classic. There are other Mario games to be more embarrassed of.
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12:00 PM on 11.11.2010 | 
at least he's not saying that he loves marios's missing
Miyamoto is pulling a James Cameron and letting all this praise go to his head. Fuck him.
I'm with Cortes121; Yoshi Story = Citizen Kane of Mario games.
My personal favorite is Mario 2. Oh Mario games, you were the wind in my sails in the 80's and early 90's.
At least these are the ones that i played like crazy. CRAZYYY
i was saying more fuck him to James Cameron. but in my own hindsight that wasnt very clear or relevant. i just hope Shiggy doesnt take that route
Personally I'll never love Mario 3 as much as everyone else as I thought it got way too hard near the end for a Mario game. The stuff in World 8 is the kinda thing that should be in optional levels for those that can handle it. I always have to use P-Wings and Clouds to skip all of World 8 because I suck. 8(
Mario World was way more intuitive and welcoming in that respect (though my favourite Mario games are actually the 3D ones anyway).
*coughLostLevelscough*
Though to be fair, I don't know how much input he had in that game...
3 was incredible, and 1 was a milestone.
I like 2 a lot. I've been replaying it lately.
@Magnalon
But me and Occams like 2. Why is it shit?
Was he even involved in 2? It wasn't originally even a Super Mario game.
From what I understand, both Miyamoto and composer Koji Kondo were involved in Doki Doki Panic, the game that became the American Mario 2.
It's always hard to tell whether people are referring to the Japanese or American 2...
The American version I believe he was involved in, though it was called Doki Doki Panic when he did it.
As for the topic at hand, I understand what Miyamoto means. I mean I'm sure there are things that we did when we were younger and not very wise that we look back on and think "Probably not our best work." I mean I have programs that I worked on when I first started school that I'm kind of embarrassed of because they have bugs, errors, and logic that makes no sense at all.
Thank you! You beat me to the very same thought. Wii music and the Wii heart monitor WTF!!!!!!
I would also like to get into the "I loved Mario Sunshine" wagon. It wasn't the best Mario game, but I still had shit loads of fun with it.
This and his previous SMW praise match me so well.
In all fairness, Wii Music had a good premise. I just find the implementation a little too shallow. It's like one of those toy guitars where strumming the strings automatically generates notes from a predetermined track.
Also, never mind the haters, Super Mario Sunshine was a solid game and a fun game.
Miyamoto is just being modest