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Super Mario Run Review Thread
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Poimandres
Member
Deadzones are actually very common for anyone who catches a train or subway. Outside of rural areas, this is easily the most common way for your connection to drop.
There are 3 deadzones on my daily train commute.
Matrix XII
Member
This is a pretty great phone game. I'm not sure why some people think it's so bad? I've found myself wishing it wasn't a runner at times, but even the demo is worth a download.
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
It looks like a Mario game. It feels like a Mario game done competently on a mobile device.
jellies_two
Member
It needs a connection in-between levels, you can play a whole level without a connection. It must store changes to your stats on the server.
If connection is down, then a retry screen comes up.
The only time I play smartphone games is when I'm on a flight, which I do quite often. So, yeah.
InsaneTiger
Member
Seriously? That's really fucked up.
How did you break into my phone?
Wonderful.
And another one..
CouchMaster
Member
I play it on an iPad so..
Do I seriously have to maintain a separate friends list for this one game, can't they just do a device agnostic friends list through mynintendo?
I already have my twitter and facebook linked to mynintendo, and my mynintendo account linked to Super Mario Run. Why do I have to separately link my twitter/facebook to Super Mario Run?
I already have my twitter and facebook linked to mynintendo, and my mynintendo account linked to Super Mario Run. Why do I have to separately link my twitter/facebook to Super Mario Run?
Those are good. I'll add:
Dungelot: Shattered Lands, Rune Keeper (kind of a rip off of Dungelot but I really prefer it), FTL, Desktop Dungeons, Tiny Rogue, Guild of Dungeoneers, Siralim 1 & 2, Neon Chrome, Five Card Quest, Card Dungeon, Tales of a Viking, Sproggiwood, Auro: A Monster Bumping Adventure, Downwell, Wayward Souls, Rust Bucket, Redungeon, Into the Dim, Enyo, HeadlessD, The Enchanted Cave 2, The Greedy Cave, 100 Rogues, Cardinal Quest 2, 1-Bit Rogue.
Solitairica is an amazing card game, btw. It's not really a roguelike but it takes ideas from roguelikes and applies them to Solitaire. It's digital crack.
Card Crawl is another take on roguelikes via a card game. It's also great.
Galactic Keep is a really cool digital pen and paper RPG.
I get sad when I read statements like these because it means that people have a very narrow view of what mobile games can be. They aren't all F2P nightmares with multiple currencies and in-app purchases and energy timers...
There's a ton of great stuff releasing on mobile all the time, even deep and robust stuff, you just have to go to a site like toucharcade.com to get coverage on the good stuff because the appstore charts are garbage and the shit F2P games spend millions for visibility to the obstruction of other games.
Conkerkid11
Member
They're both the same type of game. Premade levels with a set start, end, and various collectibles along the way. You run forward the entire time unless you jump off a wall, in which case you run the opposite direction briefly. They're both just as linear as one another. Difference is that in Rayman your endgame for a level is to collect every single lum in a level. In Mario, there's just a shit ton of coins thrown about, and you get as many as you can. There's the black coins or whatever that you can collect every single one per level, but their placement is like, you can either take the upper path or the lower path, you don't know beforehand which path the coin is on, and it comes down to memorization more than anything, whereas Rayman flows better and allows you to collect everything in one run.
Mario is also pretty much impossible to die in. In the end, you reach the end of the level, and get some arbitrary number of toads based on style points and coins collected, whereas the difficulty in Rayman comes from even being able to finish a level without dying.
Compared to Rayman Adventure, which is the best one and a full-fledged Rayman game on mobile.
Would you or have you spent 10 Euros on any mobile game?
I would and have. 21 stages seems very light. It's in-line with their dollar-to-stage ratio for console Mario games but these stages are much shorter and this is not a console Mario game.
It uses the same assets as the "real" Mario games...
For one, the NSMB presentation fits better on mobile than on console. It's like a perfect match!
Now ditch that look & feel from the next home console 2D mario.
I purchased it at 7am this morning in Australia.
Can somebody answer me a question. My whole family plays on the same iTunes account, can my wife and kids use my in-app purchase of the game and create their own Nintendo accounts?
All other iTunes games we buy can be shared, I'll be a bit annoyed if they can't play this.
Jon Carter
Member
If you ever go to a fast food joint, you're probably spending 10 euros for a 10-min meal. This is a fair price for a high-quality, polished game with high production values made by A-list developers.
That's not a fair comparison. The problem here is that games like Rayman Jungle Run are cheaper and have way more content. 10 for 24 levels that you can blast through them in one hour seems way too much.
Same here.
TLZ
Banned
I still only have the notify button.
Edit: I had to sign out for it to work. How silly.
Sorry, but I have to laugh everytime when someone does those eating comparisions...
And nah, it isn't. The game has ok quality, but there is nothing that screams "wow, I'm so much better than all those other thousands of games in this genre". The name of the IP and the publisher is the only thing that will make this sell for that price and not becaue it's so much better than other games in the genre.
When talking about known publishers and IPs, I like the rayman runners more and they give me more for their money.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Can a mobile game/app be worth more than $10 to you ever? How come $9 is considered premium games territory? The last question was not really for you or you alone... it just makes me sad that the market is essentially forcing developers in the free to play - tons of micro transactions required later to enjoy your game area by making it impossible to recoup medium to large budgets... and then people wonder why I only consider PC and consoles as proper gaming platforms...
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Sure, but I am concerned by the quality and sustainability of mobile products as well as their variety in a market where things are expected to be free... (only to force the user to spend at every turn after they start playing)... software has a cost and mobile users seem not to be willing to pay for it / have to be coerced almost tricked into paying
. That is not heathy.Just played it on an iPad Pro.
The core mechanics and levels is the only Nintendo things about this game. The use of toads reflect the stereotypical mobile F2P characters that help teach you how to use in-game currency to buy cosmetic times to customize your "town" or "kingdom". The toads are sell-outs, lol.
It's a nice mobile game. But I was expecting a higher quality mobile title.
The core mechanics and levels is the only Nintendo things about this game. The use of toads reflect the stereotypical mobile F2P characters that help teach you how to use in-game currency to buy cosmetic times to customize your "town" or "kingdom". The toads are sell-outs, lol.
It's a nice mobile game. But I was expecting a higher quality mobile title.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Poimandres
Member
Ah, that's not so bad! I was worried it would boot you out if your connection dropped out temporarily.
I would have complained for the same reasons : lack of content compared to what's available.
For 10$ you can have some pretty good platformers with far more content.
People have a completely different mentality when it comes to gaming on consoles/handhelds and on mobile devices.
On a mobile device, the majority of everyday apps people download and use are free (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube etc) and people expect their games to also be that way.
On a games console/handheld it is the opposite, there are hardly any free apps in comparison and the majority of content are paid games.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
What if I do not want gameplay centered around micro transactions (most of those games are designed to pretty much force you to pay...)? How much choice is there?
I know what the expectations of the mobile audience is, I still think it is a monkey paw kind of wish... it does not make mobile as healthy of a market for developers and consumers as much as it is for the phone manufacturers.
Mobile gamers wishing all games to be free to download and play not always realise or care about the consequences of that market expectations, but then again it is an audience which wants quick payoff and will drop the game quickly and move to other games... so why make them deeper and better?
GameSpot said:
Kind of sounds like the reviewer didn't bother with coins and just raced to the flagpole in every level, because I am sure not finding the purple and black ones to be "on the easy side".
GamesRadar said:
Casual players play games like this all the time. It was at the very root of stuff like Angry Birds, Tiny Wings, Flappy Bird, and a ton of others. The key is to give people an addicting mechanic combined with near-instant retry.
There's plenty choices even if you don't want any micro-transactions in it. As I've already said, Rayman Jungle Run is like 3$ and has way more content than Mario Run. There's probably a lot of other games in that category (I don't play that much on mobile so I don't know all of them). Now, they're probably not as polished as Mario, but does that really justify a 10$ price tag ? I really don't think so.
I do. Ten bucks is nothing. And I also anticipate new levels to be released as time goes on which they likely won't upcharge for a second time.
I don't have a problem to pay this price, but the game has to back this up with value. Either by being super awesome-amazing or by offering enough unique content. And I say "unique" because in theory of course you could play every stage hundreds of times, but this isn't a selling point (for me).
SE is also a publisher that sells mobile games for a "premium price" and I still bought some of them since I felt they were worth the money. I just don't have the feeling with SMR with its current content.
Well, since that's what it is on the mobile stores.
Diablohead
Member
I spent about 2 or so hours last night just playing the free portion of the game and enjoyed getting all the coins and running 12 or so toad rallys, it was rather enjoyable and challenging for the purple and black coins.
Really though people need to look at more then just the number of stages because the rallys and kingdom builder are modes you return to and improve on over time and are just as fun. 24 stages is only half the Content this game provides.
Really though people need to look at more then just the number of stages because the rallys and kingdom builder are modes you return to and improve on over time and are just as fun. 24 stages is only half the Content this game provides.
Nintendo do is entering an established market here. All the food and beverage comparisons are silly. The reality is that the average price of an iOS game is 1$. Nintendo is charging 10 times as much. For some the quality or branding might be worth that much, but for the average person who doesn't have the same connection with Nintendo or Mario, I doubt this game is worth 10x as much as similar games. There are a lot of other options on iOS that offer just as much for less.
I think the quantity comparisons are just as silly. People keep focusing on the amount of content and not what that content is. Whether you have a "connection" with Mario or not, the fact is it's one of the best, if not the best, platform experience you're likely to get on mobile. And it's not exactly unprecedented for people to spend $5-10 on mobile games; there are a fair number of them on the top paid charts on the App Store.
I would bet most casual mobile players aren't deciding whether or not to download a game based on how much "content" it has. That's something more dedicated gamers tend to be more concerned with. Casual players decide more often based on how it looks on the app's homepage, word of mouth, and to a lesser extent App Store reviews.
Camper Van Beethoven
Banned
You don't think a large number of people playing mobile phone games are commuters?
Some are, sure. But how many of those people commute on trains? And how many of them play only on their commutes?
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Hello
I didn't say there are none, only that with commute-time-only mobile players we're talking about a fraction of potential players, not most of them.