Top 10 Overrated Mario Games

Nobody has done this yet, so I figured it needs to be done
The Top Ten
1 Mario Kart 64

This game may have been the first 3D Mario kart game and was a platform for all the newer Mario kart games but it is still overrated. People love this game so much because of nostalgia but their nostalgia blinds them from realizing how the game isn't as great as they actually think. The mechanics are so much better in MKDD and MKDS and the tracks are really not that great either, except for maybe Bowser castle and DK jungle parkway. Rainbow road especially is a terrible track, I don't understand why people love it so much when it's just so boring and long (it can take 6 mins to complete and it's not even fun) and even yoshi valley is pretty overrated too. The music is also better in most other MK games and the single player mode sucks and is better in every Mario kart game, even super circuit. Overall MK64 is not a bad game and is really fun to play multiplayer but I believe it gets so much more praise than it deserves and there are better Mario kart games out there, such as double ...more

While the other old console Mario Karts have aged fairly well (Double Dash and Wii are still great games), Mario Kart 64 has aged like dairy. The rubberbanding is awful, some of the tracks suck (Rainbow Road comes to mind), and it looks very out of date when you consider the fact that this game competed with Crash Team Racing, a game which still holds up to this day, and Diddy Kong Racing, a spectacular kart racer on the EXACT. SAME. PLATFORM. And yet this is the game that gets all of the attention and praise. Even Melee, even though it's overrated and buggy, is still a good game at the end of the day. The N64 had some great Mario games, but this one is not one of them.

The game has aged like milk, the rubberbanding is poor, and had it not been for the 2D karts and Tour, it would've been the worst of the series.

I'm tired of people saying this is the best Mario kart game even with Mario kart 8 people still say it's the best. What?

2 Super Mario 64

Everyone says this is the best Mario game ever and say it has no flaws while they criticize Sunshine and Galaxy because they think the controls are terrible and the cameras are horrible. The reason why people think this is the best Mario game ever because it was revolutionary and nostalgic. I played most of the other 3D Mario games first and I got 3D All Stars just to play this game because everyone says it's the best Mario game of all time and I really did not enjoy the game that much. The game is good but I constantly got frustrated because the controls and camera constantly caused me to lose a life and have to go all the way back to where I was. Also there is no story and Mario just jumps into painting into bland and boring areas. Also when you go into a mission the game gives you no clues on what to do and just drops you into the world. I had to look at a gameplay for mostly every star cause really how was I suppose to know landing on those tiny platforms in the pyramid and ...more

Sorry. I had to dislike your comment. Super Mario games released in the late 20th Century have reasonably superior enviornments to most modern Mario games. The graphics are unique for the N64, which is why I originally acted like Super Mario 64 (N64) deserves more than a 10/10, but it does deserve a 9/10. Also, Sonic Adventure's character design is not great (but good lord, don't get me started on Amy Rose's redesign in Sonic Adventure).

I agree sonic adventure is much better. Character design voice acting and level design. This game isn't perfect. Not revolutionary either gets 10/100 stars. Sonic adventure 98/100 because bad level like Big's fishing. The sonic adventure 2 battle for gamecube gets 99/100. The flaws in it are minor such as glitches and trashy story,but multiplayer, characters and upgrade make up for it.

This game is amazing, especially for 20th century, but I don't understand why people put these in top 5s list, or even top 10s. Graphics suck (but are good for 1996 game), controls are bad and there are only 120 stars. Super Mario Galaxy 2 has 242 stars, which is 2 times more. I think that people like this, because of nostalgia. That's not the best reason in my opinion

3 Super Mario Galaxy 2

I love both Mario Galaxy games so much but the first game is more overrated. Some Super Mario Galaxy 1 fans hate on this game because it's too similar to the first game, the story is boring and gets rid of Rosalina for most of the game. I do agree that the story is uninteresting compared to the first game but since it's a sequel it's supposed to be similar. This game has 242 stars instead of 121. The after game content in the first game is lame because all you do is play the exact same game as Luigi but in Super Mario Galaxy 2 you go on the search for green stars which are stars that are hidden in the galaxies. Since a lot of people including myself love this game I can understand if people find this game overrated but I think it deserves the praise.

1. It may be very industrious, but it does copy from its predecessor at times.
2. The Mario Kart games decent, but if only it had stories like Sonic Riders.
3. The princesses in this game may be stereotypical/girly/annoying, but nowadays for me (I am Kieran Glen Harris Stark aka The Ultimate Daredevil), it is much more of a nitpick that does not make the game than just one thing that ruins a strong DS game like this, even though it's no Tetris DS, Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber, Wario Ware, early Mario vs. Donkey Kong sequel, or Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.
4. It may have flaws, but it is a very inspirational, atmospheric, awesome game.
5. The DS version is more overrated because of the unclear graphics, but I like Super Mario 64 no matter what.
6. It's a peppy, great game, but the Mario princesses (excluding Adult Rosalina, who is not a princess) are not the only flaws this game has.
7. Nowadays, I love TTYD as much as the other Paper Mario games in the 2000s. If ...more

Bit of a mixed one this. It's definitely not challenging. Mostly this game feels like tutorial levels for all the gimmicks and powerups. I had fairly high expectations but there's a lot of empty rooms which lead to other empty rooms and fun platforming puzzles are few and far between. I did much more enjoy the level designs in SMG and SM64.
This could have been a great game if they made any attempt to use their new powerups in clever ways. Sadly that doesn't happen for the majority of them.

This game is... nothing new or innovative, it's a copy and waste with more power ups and Yoshi. The story is basically the same, same gameplay, same graphics and without an interesting thing like Rosalina's storic book makes the game less interesting. Video games reviews gave it the best rankings ever but it didn't deserve it.

4 Super Mario Bros. 3

Just because it was revolutionary and great for the time does not make it the best Mario game ever. Like Super Mario 64 everyone is obsessed with it and calls it the best Mario game because of nostalgia. The level design in most levels are horrible especially the castle levels which seem like bad Mario Maker troll levels. It is impossible to find the boss room because of all the doors that send you backwards. There is also that one level where you just grab stars and run across munchers and the other one where you need to carry a Koopa shell and have a super leaf to find a pipe covered with bricks in a hidden location just to beat the level. I get that the game is old but I still don't understand why you can't replay levels. Once you finish a level you can't ever play that level again unless you start a new game.

How people can say that is game is overrated is beyond me. This game was perfect, Super Mario World binned all the great ideas of this game and just ported a sequel to the SNES that couldn't even match to this one. That game should be classed as the overrated one because SMB3 had better level design, maps with more variety, more levels, more challenging bosses, you were able to store items, it had the Airship levels that were much more unique than the same old castle levels you got in Mario World, it had Mushroom houses and Card games, the items were way interesting than the stupid cape in Mario World. The reason people claim Mario 3 to be the much more superior game was because it had way better ideas than Mario World. The only thing I can give Mario World a plus for was Yoshi, but in all honestly he really just made the difficulty of the game laughable. - BorisStingy

First, the music sucks. It loops very quickly and is repetitive. Where is the save feature. its too long of a game to lack a
Save battery! Why you no save battery. And there are so many better games on the NES. Like kirbys adventure, legend of Zelda, and even Mario 2. This game is also too difficult. Looking back on it, it's at least playable, but not excellent.

Is it fair this game is the third most voted game on this list? Is it fair I voted just to comment? I feel the advance series paints the game as the darkest in the Mario trilogy. Love the original, but Advance 4 is better.

5 Mario Kart DS

As a huge Mario Kart fan I really liked this game however it deserved the top 3:
The graphics were disappointing, filled with bugs and flat.
The tracks were cool but that's it, even the Rainbow Road is just ok, the retro tracks were much more uninteresting than the original ones, the roster was cheap.

This game is mainly liked for nostalgia.

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time is much better. And Rainbow Road actually sounds like it belongs in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time due to how phenomenal it is, just like the game Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time is (especially its unique, mature, reminiscent-to-MOA presentation).

To be fair, it's the worst of the modern Mario Kart games. The controls are pretty irritating, the rubber-banding is awful, the drifting is broken, and the retro tracks suck. It's a good game, but still...

Totally boring and too flat. It's nothing but adventure landing spinoff with horrible characters a 2/10.1/5 from me out of ds games I played. Zero gravity way better 9/10 5/5

6 Mario Kart 8

This game isn't bad, but it was a letdown, considering it was somewhat of a downgrade from Wii. The roster is the worst part of this game. It's missing characters like Diddy Kong, Birdo, and before Deluxe, Dry Bones, King Boo, and Bowser Jr, just to make space for the Koopalings, the metal variants, and the babies from Mario Kart Wii, plus with an added Baby Rosalina on top of the crappy sundae. It also feels a bit restrictive compared to Wii. It's still a good game, but I find it to be one of the weaker Mario Karts.

For so many reasons, yes.

Reasons: Too many versions of Princess Peach, annoying voices, the graphics, etc...

Meghan Trainor or Alecia Beth Moore would be a much more suitable voice actress for Pink Gold Peach than Ariana Grande and Samantha Kelly (the true voice actress for Pink Gold Peach, who gave her the worst gaming voice in history).

Too bad the graphics couldn't overshadow the poor roster, the lack of a battle mode, several bland nitro tracks, a poor DLC, and a somewhat poor soundtrack. The Deluxe version is better

No battle mode, terrible item distribution and 1/4 of the roster is composed of those goddamn koopalings! This trash is just an HD polished turd. The game should be number one on the list.

7 Super Mario Galaxy

You shouldn't hate a game because of Rosalina " she appear in everything" yeah, she does! Why? She's popular and she is a new character! Nobody seemed to care when Yoshi started appearing in everything!

This whole top 10 most overrated Mario games list is funny and total BS because Ironically only all the best Mario games are here! The only games that belong on this list are EVERY SINGLE Mario PARTY GAME! 9 Probably the worst..

It's only overrated in the sense that people love it over the sequel despite the improvements it made, but otherwise it deserves all praise it's got as it really is one of the best mario games..

When I first played this game, I automatically fell in love with it. This game is absolutely incredible. Why did Nintendo make a SMG2 then? Because this game is incredible. SM64 and Super Mario Sunshine don't even have a sequel

8 Mario Party 2

In my opinion, the most overrated as it doesn't even deserve praise. Everyone goes on about how amazing this game is and then proceed to hate the modern entries because they're not like 2

Why is Mario Party 9, ahead of this? This is the REASON the car is hated in the first place.

Yes, but we think Mario Party 9 should be way higher because I got thumbs down for saying that the original N64 trilogy of Mario Party games was great and that the Mario Party games in the 2010s were bad in general. - The Ultimate Daredevil

9 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Love this game! I hate when people say it's overrated and shove some "cool" and "underrated" Mario game down our throats. I love all Mario games, so I also like that other one that is seen this way (I see this a lot with Super Paper Mario). Anyway, this is my favorite Mario game ever, but others can have their own opinions. HOWEVER, this game deserves its high rating for everything that is done so well. Therefore, I GUESS you could call it overrated, but if anything, more Mario fans NEED to be exposed to the Mario RPG's as a whole, since they should be more loved and known as much as the main games. If you hate me for loving this game, just know that I love the other games too and respect others' opinions, but I don't want to be told that this game doesn't deserve its high rating or that it's nothing compared to Super Paper Mario or the original Paper Mario or whatever, since everyone's entitled to have an opinion and love every game.

This is my favorite Mario game of all time. On this site I see a lot of Super Paper Mario fans that keep trashing on this game and most of them probably have never played it or only played it for a couple of minutes before quitting. I don't think TTYD deserves hate from SPM fans. I adore Super Paper Mario and is currently playing through the game again when I wrote this comment but I think both are fantastic games that deserve the praise. I do admit that TTYD does have so problems like the General White backtracking or the Pit of 100 Trials but every game has flaws.

I love this game but it is NOT flawless. The fandom is so quick to point out any little problems with Sticker Star and Color Splash(and even Super, to an extent), but ignore any problems with TTYD and act like it's the second coming of Jesus. It's a fantastic game, no doubt, but it has flaws, the biggest one being that there's CONSTANT backtracking throughout a lot of the game(Chapters 2, 4, and General White especially). It's still a really fun game and one of the best Mario RPGs, but it's not utterly flawless.

As far as Mario RPG games go, I think The Thousand Year Door is the most overrated one by far. Maybe I'm just a SPM fanboy, but I have a big resentment for the clunky battle system and several other features (only being able to carry a certain amount of items, and some forced side-quests). Other than that it has amazing story and concept, I just think there are many flaws as well.

10 Super Mario World

But they are not the most underrated video game of all time. However, there are way too much modernists and I have a right to prefer Classic Mario over Modern Mario for reasons. Super Mario World is extremely fun and has a very sharp 16-bit presentation, but the only thing that makes Super Mario World more overrated is the anti-feminism (only because Princess Peach defenselessly gets kidnapped and Mario is overly pressured to rescue her ass, but hey! She sneaks to give Mario power-ups! )! I give Super Mario World a 9/10.

I love this game like every other Mario game, but I never got why people called it "perfect." I'm fine with you thinking this game is the best Mario game (which many do), but personally, I never saw what made it so much better than most other 2-D Mario platformers.

Classic Mario games are underrated. Hotel Mario was a severe disappointment (it was originally going to be a sequel to this game), no matter how much of a masterpiece it is compared to educational Mario games *retches*.

The praise is deserved. It really has amazing levels and is revolutionary for its time. It took the best bits of 3, improved and removed the flaws of it. It's amazing

The Contenders
11 New Super Mario Bros. Wii

this game isn't awful. Nintendo having only Mario being the only character in single player mode was a bad idea. they should've given you an option to choose to play as someone else. this is the reason I hate the new Super Mario bros. series. I would rather play 3d world instead of this. I like how can you choose your character in 3D world, but I don't like that you have to be Mario in this game. that's why I don't play this game. and I also don't like playing as Mario. I like playing as Luigi more.

This game is awful! Peach gets kidnapped, we have to listen her her voice (I think people prefer that voice over Jen Taylor's voice), very intense game if going for all Star Coins, CGI (I am not that big a fan of CGI), overrated for sure, not even at least 5 crossover characters, etc...

Not nearly as good as the oldies. It's too easy, the story sucks and it's on the most overrated console ever, the Wii. More overrated than Galaxy 2 because at least Galaxy 2 is a game and not a toy...

The only reason people like it is because they grew up with it. I also like it because I grew up with it, that's how I know

12 Super Mario Bros.

Yo, DCfnaf! Super Mario Bros. is a phenomenal game! Actually, I love the original Super Mario Bros. trilogy a lot. I am aware of its flaws, though. You have a very good point which is ""battling bowser 8 times". But the bosses before the final ones are actually not Bowser. They are Bowser's underrated minions disguising themselves as Bowser. - The Ultimate Daredevil, who gives Super Mario Bros. a 9/10 (a 9 for the presentation, an 8 for the characters and a 10 for the gameplay).

Ok, this was one of my first NES games I've played. And to be honest, it's just so outdated. The controls are often frustrating, the bosses are exactly the same and pathetic, same level design and no one likes time limit. Tell me one objective reason why you think this game is fun to play. Just to let you know, nostalgia is not objective.

People play this game for nostalgia. I'd prefer battling the Koopalings than battling Bowser 8 times.

Good game but highly overrated!

13 Super Mario Sunshine

This game is awful. Like all Mario bros game the useless peach gets captured by bowzer's son again. Terrible storyline, awful characters as usual and the bad cast Mario, toads and peach could've took Luigi, but no this game sucks! It's a 1/5 1/10 from me. Sonic's the actual hero. Amy rose is more cute and useful than Peach.

This game is mostly underrated. So many people trash on this game because of the camera yet love Super Mario 64. Also people complain that it's "too hard" yet hate on the New Super Mario Bros series for being "too easy".

Best Mario game ever, I wish people didn't hate on it so much. Why do people seem to point out the flaws in this game when 64 had most of the same flaws?

Super Mario Sunshine is overrated? Compared to other Mario games it's quite underrated, in my opinion.

14 New Super Luigi U

Hacks in a Nutshell

This game rates?

15 Mario Kart 7

This is underrated compared to other Mario Kart games. It's also my favourie Mario Kart due to soundtrack and courses.

What's so special about Mario Kart 7?! The educational Mario games deserve to be on here as well!

SEVEN is the ds one if I correct. This is a 1/10

16 Mario & Luigi: Dream Team

This game is basically... a fanservice Luigi game, my least favourite of all the Mario & Luigi games. Is it overrated? Sort of.

I like this game. It's not quite as good as Superstar Saga or Bowser's Inside Story but it's still really great.

This game is underrated. Sure it gets more respect than Paper Jam and Partners Time but it's still underrated

This game and Bowser's inside story are great! This list is terrible!

17 Mario Kart Wii

The music was OK. Not all that great. People love wii for: mushroom gorge, coconut mall, maple treeway, grumble volcano, moonview highway, and rainbow road. The only good soundtrack was grumble volcano. All the rest can go wither away forever. Let's not forget funky - flame runner either.

1 if people prefer this over the older Mario kart is their opinion.
2 The graphic is good.
3 Annoying voices? And this should be a reason for call this game overrated?
4 the controls are original.

This game sucks! I prefer zero gravity, which things actually changed. Sonic racing games in my opinion are way better. Same controls as zg, but again bad characters.

Double dash more fun and a bit better. Dr you can pick two characters and use two items.

18 Super Smash Bros. Melee

Its an okay game, though too many people like it and treat it like gold!

Go and take a look at Nathaniel Bandy's comment sections on his videos, there will be at least one comment saying "IT'S NOT MELEE (ok honestly that joke is pretty fun but it proves this game is overrated)"

19 Mario Party Superstars
20 Mario Party 9

You could get hate for preferring Classic Mario over Modern Mario. Modern Mario Party games are no exception.

Actually this game is overhated not overrated.

Underrated not overrated.

21 Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
22 Super Mario 3D World

It's both, it's overrated because people love the level design and so on, but it's also overhated because people hate it for not being an open-world game like Sunshine or Galaxy

This games not that good as a 3D platformer. Little substinance behind each level. Very inferior to its predecessors. It woulda been better as a 2D platformer

23 Paper Mario: Sticker Star

But the comment section of Top 6 Worst Mario Games in a nutshell is "How dare you put Paper Mario: Sticker Star on that list! ". Paper Mario: Sticker Star was awesome compared to the educational Mario games, but it is one of the most disappointing Nintendo games of all time. PhantomStrider is allowed to have Super Mario RPG as one of his favourite Mario games of all time and Paper Mario: Sticker Star as his most hated video game of all time. The Super Mario games released in the late 20th Century always deserved much more praise than most of the Mario games released in the 2010s.

Everyone hates this game. But I understand why because it SUCKS.

It is overrated by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems.

All Mario RPGs are so much better, especially the Mario RPGs released in the (end of the) 20th Century.

24 Luigi's Mansion
25 Super Mario 3D Land

Should be MUCH higher. It's not bad at all, but compared to Mario Galaxy, this is just underwhelming. Nothing new is added here, the soundtrack is kinda weak, the bosses are lame, and the story is lacking.

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