Top 10 Most Unoriginal Mario Games
Mario games are known for being original, creative and very fun to play, very rarely are there any unoriginal mario games, however, some mario games are unfortuanely very unoriginal and bland to the point it's not that fun! This list will be based on the games level design, story and overall gameplay, so without further ado, let's start!
Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. What true words the Nintendo Switch has over 10 games that are the same as the Wii U
Nintendo is putting out games on the Switch from a console that didn't do so well so that the Switch does better. That's perfectly understandable.
This is an example of a mario game that did need a more unique remake, unlike Luigi's Mansion, sadly though this game is just the exact same thing as NSMBU except with the NSLU levels and Peachette
It's for people who didn't have a Wii U, not people who did have this game and just wanna play it on the go.
New Super Mario Bros. 2 is the second most unoriginal mario game in my opinion (really? it's not even the second game in the series). This game reused all the assets and music from New Super Mario Bros. Wii! It only had four new songs in the game and even then it wasn't that good. The story is the same as most mario games, and this game didn't even introduce anything major! The main gimmick is coins! I will admit that I like this gimmick as you can challenge yourself getting the most coins, however the problem with coins is that the game beacomes too easy to the point it's basically impossible to get a game over, I don't even think I've ever gotten a game over on this game! The boss battles are all reused fom New Super Mario Bros. Wii (and one from DS) as well! We have Koopalings, Bowser and Dry Bowser. The koopalings in particular are awful in this game! As a guy who likes Koopalings, this game just had so stale and boring Koopaling fights to the point it's boring! Roy and Larry in ...more
Why is this game even a thing? I enjoy it, but it still has NO reason to exist other than money.
Ooh. So that's why the game is themed like that.
NSMBUDX is just a port. This game is just NSMBW with more coins and 2 in the title instead of Wii.
Yeah this one I agree with.
Sticker Star, the one game that is almost always labelled as the worst Mario RPG, ad for good reason. It's unoriginal! This is a mario game that had potential but it was ruined because of unoriginality. I mean it did have potential. The whole sticker story could've worked if it hadn't getting ruined by awful battle system and super unoriginal story! It's just Bowser kidnapping Peach and beacoming a shiny version of himself with stickers (correct me if I'm wrong). This game feels so bland and boring as well. Instead of chapters like the first three games, the game is built up by world maps, ' world maps! Do you know what that reminds me of? New Super Mario Bros.! The worlds themself aren't any better either! It's just the same grass, desert forest, etc.! By far the most unoriginal mario RPG.
If this game had original characters it would've been better. But nope. Whoever at nintendo or intelligent systems thought the idea of no original characters should be fired.
It was an original idea actually but executed poorly.
Stupid and annoying.
Oh lord! Why? Mario, the franchise that is mostly known for being so original and creative with gameplay. They usually have excellent level design, great gimmicks, and if lucky, excellent stories (looking at Super Paper Mario), but sometimes mario games can get a little unoriginal, but most of the time it's not too bad since it can still be enjoyable (looking at Super Mario 3D Land). However, some games go so far to the point it's not even that enjoyable. The finest example is the first sequel to Super Mario Bros. Oh lord! There is nothing unique about this game! Everything, andI mean EVERYTHING is copied and pasted from the original! There's nothing new about this game (apart from the endless wind in certain levels). This game is so bland and boring! The music is the same as the first one! The enemies are the same, everything's the same! The only new things are thins that didn't need to be there! I mentioned the wind earlier, a stupid feature which makes it super hard to control ...more
This is basically a continuation from the original Super Mario Bros game only way too hard.
Just made the original game harder. Barely changed anything except the wind
The levels looks like they come from super mario maker
Here is another New Super Mario Bros. game. the true second entry in the series. Despite being an excellent game, it's very generic and bland. While this is understandable since this was the first New Super Mario Bros. game on te home console, it's not an excuse for calling it unoriginal. The main problem is the gameplay is very bland in some cases. All of the worlds are the same grass, desert, water, etc. worlds from the first game in the series and it gets a bit boring after a while. The bosses are the Koopalings, however I'm ok with them since they hadn't made an appearence in a mario game since Superstar Saga on the GBA at the point this game was released. Overall, great game, but unoriginal
There is a ROM hack of the game called Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii, and it's a LOT more original and what the game could've been!
Every new Super Mario bros game after the original on the DS is unoriginal
This is a game that people may or may not disagree with me. I my honest opinion, it's a really great game that is very enjoyable ad fun to play. However in terms of originality this game earns an F. I like the idea of mixing 2D and 3D Mario into one game as it was executed very well, however my problem is the level design! It's so bland and boring! They all feel uninspired and the same! And the levels that seem unique already have a gimmick from another game like the flippng panels levels! They were already used in Galaxy 2 and it was much better in that game! It's a very unoriginal game, but still great game!
How is Super Mario 3D World on your original mario games but this is unoriginal? What the heck? If anything it should be the other way around since this came out first.
Another New Super Mario Bros. game? Well it shouldn't be suprising. These games feel so similar to each other. However this was the most unique of the NSMB sequels to be honest. The idea of all worlds being connected to each other like in Super Mario World is great and I like how the story is somewhat different, because Bowser makes Peach's Castle into a lava world, and the worlds were a bit more unique than just generic worlds (looking at NSMBWii)! I mean the first world is forest-plains filled with acorns, and the jungle world is a spooky jungle with a ' Vincent Van Gogh level! I might making this game sound very original, but this is just a small part of the game. This game reused the same boss battles from the previous games and even Boom Boom is a boss (and he's as unoriginal as it can get), and most of the music is reused fro NSMBWii. However due to it being more original it's lower on the list
The one good New Super Mario Bros game was the one on the DS. I do not know how it got this many installments
The New super mario bros series is never original. Only the first one was.
I like this game, but it is still unoriginal.
How is this not here? It's basically just a harder version of NSMBU.
Mostly the same gameplay as 3D land. Yeah there's a new story and all and a roster. But the roster isn't that creative either
It's not that unoriginal
How is this unoriginal? It's a remake of the first game, it's not suppose to be super different!
Ok, so I wasn't really going to include spin-offs in this list, but I just had to add it here! You guys probably already have heard me ranting on this atrocity countless times, but I'm going to do it agian because high-quality stuff. You see most Mario Party games have their own minigames, boards and music that helps them stand out from one and another. However, this game is so unoriginal I don't really see that much of a difference between this and the original! While this game had its own boards and the "so awesomne" costumes, half of the minigames are just copied from the original! And I'm not even trying to sound dumb here! There were so many minigames just copied and pasted from the original, but wait, the settings are different, yay, so original (not)! I mean you can't tell me Mario Party 8 was that unoriginal, it was very different from its predecessors and had its own cool and creative boards and minigames that really helped it stand out. Not even The Top 100 is that ...more
It's Mario 64 and Sunshine with none of the good parts of them
False, have you even played it?
How is this unoriginal
Mario in space. Yawn
In my opinion, the second most unoriginal mario RPG is Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. Despite being way more original and fun than Sticker Star, the story and level design is what makes this game earn the number #7 spot. The game has a cool concept that a paper world inside a book accidently sends out a whole world to the normal mario world, it's very unique that, however, the problem is that the game uses the same Peach gets kidnapped story! It makes the game somewhat uninteresting and boring. Luckily due to the great music, excellent papercraft battles and good gameplay, I really recommend this game to you because at least it's not the Sticker Star of the Mario & Luigi series, it's still a great game
The point is that you make your own Mario game. Some of the levels are extremely original and fun to play. Overall, this was a pretty great game.
Super Mario Bros. X, Super Mario 63, Super Mario Flash duology and Lunar Magic, and Nintendo claims a Mario level editor was their original idea.
It's good but it was just a Full price version of SMBX with things it should have had like 2 player mode. Or other bosses.
There has been tons of level editors on the internet, not that original
Kinda, it's a bit rushed
Now you see why Mario Party needed a change after Mario Party 8. This game was so unoriginal despite trying it's hardest to be original
It's not suppose to be different! It's a remake!
How is this even unoriginal? If this game's on the list then we should add all "classic" mario party games on the list! No offense but I bet the guy/girl who added this is just a butthurt classic mario party fanboy
It has the Koopalings this game will suck I had enough of them appearing in every single game
Not to mention Pink gold Peach was added recently!
So on my list of most original mario platformers I got a lot of questions on why I didn't have the game on the list, many people said it should've been the number one item on that list becuase it started the series. While that is certainly true, it doesn't change the fact that the game itself plays rather boring and stale. The fact that there's only a total of four songs and four types of levels (Overworld, Underground, Underwater and Castle) in the game proves that this game did play it kinda safe. The boss battles are also all just Bowser (even though the first seven are minions disguising as Bowser)! So yeah, this game isn't the most original out of the bunch (but at least it's not as unoriginal as the games above)
How is this unoriginal in any way? It's the FIRST one. Seriously lack of content doesn't make it unoriginal besides it was in the early 80s. Of course it wasn't going to have content.
The first one was unoriginal!? Really!?
this is the first game einstein
It has Daisy therefore trash
The first New Super Mario Bros. game was also the most original. This game was the one that brought back 2D Mario and it had great level design, good bosses and great music! It's somewhat original, but at the same time it's somewhat uninteresting, the worlds can get boring after a while and the plot is the same Peach gets kidnapped story. So it stays at the number #9 spot in my opinion
Peach gets kidnapped in every main series mario game except 3D World. I don't know what your talking about Darth.
They just replaced all the main characters from the original title Doki Doki Panic with Mario characters and renamed it Super Mario Bros 2 since the original sequel was way too difficult.