Top 10 Most Underrated Mario Spinoff Games

I like the Mario spinoff games, but some of them are just underrated. This list will include Mario Kart, Mario Party and any Mario sports game.
The Top Ten
1 Mario Hoops 3 on 3

This is a very underrated spinoff game and I enjoyed it so far, so good. The gameplay is good and the guest addition of Final Fantasy characters is also a nice touch.

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2 Mario Party DS

Speaking of the original Mario Party trilogy, that is much greater and deserves to be on this list for its 64-bit presentation, diverse gameplay and adventurous story in MP3.

This was actually one of my first Mario party games. It's a lot like the older games. Overall good game

I like Mario party

3 Super Princess Peach

This should be #1. For the past few years, peach did nothing but get captured. Now all of a sudden, mario gets captured instead of peach and she has to save him! This is a cool game because it gives peach a chance to shine.

For years people have complained that Peach was a weak, annoying damsel-in-distress, but when Nintendo finally made a game showing her as a strong person then it was hated.

This games is sexist and if you don't believe me watch the ending.

Should've been Super Princess Daisy. Just saying

4 Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix
5 Mario Party: Star Rush

It's the third best Mario Party in my opinion, it's just so unique and fresh!

Come on how is Hotel Mario in this list but this game isn't in yet?

6 Mario Sports Mix

A crossover of my two favorite games

I have this, and it is AWESOME!

Excellent game all around,

Me and my dad LOVE this game

7 Mario Kart Arcade GP

Underrated because it's on an arcade

8 Mario Strikers Charged

This is Super Underrated

9 Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
10 Mario Party 9

I love this game. And just the fact that everybody hates it makes me hate them. Everybody hates it because they don't like the fact that Nintendo changed the concept. Two things.
1 - They changed it because they wanted everyone to be involved, instead of laying down after your turn. One move by a player effects everyone.
2 - For you people who hate Mario Party 9, I'm willing to bet that you never played this game, you just went to IGN or Metacritic or better yet, read the back cover and said that this game is trash.

This game is really hated. Yes it changes up the formula we're all used to but I at least respect it as it's own game.People need to give this game a chance.

I don't care if they hate this game. I love it. They hate it because of the competitional factor.

The best spin-off game, it was the reason I got interested in mario

The Contenders
11 Mario Super Sluggers

Literally everyone has forgotten about Mario baseball that's so sad because I love both games and their graphics. Peak 2000s nintendo.

We need a Mario Baseball game for the Switch

I was a kid and I find it awesome

Overall very underrated

12 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

It Least The Olympic Games Soundtracks Are Great(Mostly The First Game)

Forgot What I Said About The Soundtracks(I Can Listen What Ever I Want)

Or Maybe The Crash Bandicoot Soundtracks

The DS one is INCREDIBLY funny: the minigames, the story mode, the characters... it was perfect!

13 Luigi's Mansion
14 Mario Kart Super Circuit

It's better than Mario Kart DS, Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario Kart in my opinion

Seriously the most underrated Mario kart game.

15 Paper Mario: Color Splash

At least better than Sticker Star

16 Mario Party 3

It may be the best N64 Mario Party, but that's not saying much since the N64 Mario Parties generally sucked in my opinion

17 Paper Mario: Sticker Star

So let me get this straight: Sticker Star is hated for being different... in a spin-off series that prides itself on being different. Am I missing something here?

Better than the thousand year bore

This game is trash

18 Mario Superstar Baseball

Honestly one of my favorite GameCube games.

19 Hotel Mario

To be fair, you have to have a high IQ to understand Hotel Mario. The cutscene's humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of how toasters toast toast, most of the jokes will go over a typical player's head. There's also Luigi's overweight outlook, which is deftly woven into his character - his hungry philosophy draws heavily from how he is 130+ lbs but only 5.7'', for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depth of the gameplay and jokes, to realise it is not only truly great, but a masterpiece. As a consequence person who dislikes Hotel Mario should be toasted with toast in a toaster- of corse they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Luigi's classic phrase "I hope she made lots of spaghetti," which itself is a cryptic reference to Luigi's obsession with the famous Italian dish, Spaghetti. What simpletons, how I pity them. And yes by the way, I do have a Hotel Mario tattoo. And no, you can't see ...more

THIS GAME IS AMAZING. Its just brilliant. I was hooked from start to finish, the games great story and cutscenes made me really engaged with the plot, and I have to mention the voice acting is top notch. The gameplay, OH BOY IS IT GOOD. You go around some elevators shutting doors and once you have shut them all, you win. This gameplay may seem boring on paper, but the execution here was honestly perfect. It requires a lot of skill and I loved every second I was playing.

Why is this hidden gem not number one? Excellent cutscenes, fantastic voices, classic Mario style, great plot, so good! Why do people hate on this game?

I think two posters here are possibly being sarcastic.

20 Mario Party 8

Overall a decent Mario party game. A few flaws but still decent

The last good Mario party before the dreaded
P A R T Y
C A R

DUN
DUN
DUUN!

The only excellent classic mario party

This game is trash

21 Mario & Luigi: Dream Team

I wouldn't count the RPGs as spinoffs and I would count them as canon. But that's just me.

22 Mario Kart Wii

Why do people hate this game? It's overall a good Mario kart game.

Second greatest Mario Kart, I just loved it so much

23 Mario Party 10

Mario Party 2 copied Mario Party even more than this game copied Mario Party 9, just saying', anyway, I loved this game, the boards were some of the best in the series

At least Bowser Party was interesting

This game is good 87% of the time

24 Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

Favorite mario and Luigi game

This game is so underrated.

25 Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga Bowsers Minions

Yoy might as well put the original version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga on this list if its remake belongs on this list too, eh? It's cruel that people bash Bowser's Inside Story's predecessors to treat Super Paper Mario's successors like the only good Mario RPGs when almost every other Mario RPG, like the ones that came before Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story are miles ahead of these games in terms of strong quality.

I love the story and characters except for Fawful he is the worst

Excellent game!

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