Wonder Flowers are the most creativity a Miyamoto project has had since he stopped making games for fun and started making games for his dumb wife. There is genuine soul in these sections of bing bing, and dare I say, even a bit of wahoo. It's also, y'know, a Mario game, so obviously the actual quality of the game is top tier.
The levels are forgettable as hell as soon as the LSD flowers stop though. I genuinely watched a stream of the start of this game before finishing and didn't recognize half the levels I saw despite 100% clearing them, coins and flagpole and all. 1/4 of the new powerups are good (it's the drill). When Shiggoo said the elephant "did not look like a Mario character" he was so insanely right. I hate the elephant. The only thing I hate more than elephant Mario is small Mario's model in this game. It was a genuine jumpscare moment the first time I saw it. The only thing I hate more than small Mario is the fact that I can't play as Yoshi because Nintendo's insane designers think a difficulty menu is too hard to understand for their average user. Of course, that might be correct, but I am way smarter than the average nintendog and I want to play as Yoshi. YOHHI! Pellom----pam! Awawawawawawa. YAHNNNNNG
I was debating between 3.5 and 4 stars but they made the final boss an autoscroller. That's a cinemasins ding moment. In fact all of the bosses in this are extremely disappointing compared to the spectacle some of the flowers bring. Did I mention this is a Mario game? It's still good. I do think if this is your GOTY you are a boring person. I also don't think you will remember it in a year. It's still good though. It's Mario.
This is not slop, but it is feed.
The levels are forgettable as hell as soon as the LSD flowers stop though. I genuinely watched a stream of the start of this game before finishing and didn't recognize half the levels I saw despite 100% clearing them, coins and flagpole and all. 1/4 of the new powerups are good (it's the drill). When Shiggoo said the elephant "did not look like a Mario character" he was so insanely right. I hate the elephant. The only thing I hate more than elephant Mario is small Mario's model in this game. It was a genuine jumpscare moment the first time I saw it. The only thing I hate more than small Mario is the fact that I can't play as Yoshi because Nintendo's insane designers think a difficulty menu is too hard to understand for their average user. Of course, that might be correct, but I am way smarter than the average nintendog and I want to play as Yoshi. YOHHI! Pellom----pam! Awawawawawawa. YAHNNNNNG
I was debating between 3.5 and 4 stars but they made the final boss an autoscroller. That's a cinemasins ding moment. In fact all of the bosses in this are extremely disappointing compared to the spectacle some of the flowers bring. Did I mention this is a Mario game? It's still good. I do think if this is your GOTY you are a boring person. I also don't think you will remember it in a year. It's still good though. It's Mario.
This is not slop, but it is feed.