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What is your favorite Super Mario Power-up?
- Thread starter Kadin
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Mechanized
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Hammer Bros suit. Made you feel like a legit badass. Fight hammers with hammers.
QualityPixel
Banned
I always liked the frog suit, even if it wasn't the most useful.
The cape is the most awesome power-up in any game ever, and that is a fact. Definitely needs to be brought back for the next Mario-game. Also, Yoshi is a close second, making the two that got introduced in Super Mario World the two best ever. Here we have them both:
thewhitehawk
Member
Surfing on a shell in Super Mario 64.
entremet
Member
Amazing swimmer too.
Slippin' and slidin' and ice balls. Penguin Suit reigns king.
JinjoUnchained
Member
The 3 best power ups are the Hammer Bros. Suit, Cloud Suit, and Cat Suit
Is FLUDD considered a power up? If so, that would crack my top 5. I'd like to see FLUDD as a power up in a 2D Mario game.
Is FLUDD considered a power up? If so, that would crack my top 5. I'd like to see FLUDD as a power up in a 2D Mario game.
Red Mage
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Chie Satonaka
Member
Cloud Mario and the Double Cherry. I really hope to see both of these in the next 3D Mario.
Cymbal Head
Banned
The liberating feeling of cloud Mario can't be beat.
Brainfreeze
Member
The feather or leaf are obvious ones if we're talking about one dominating an entire title, but the galaxy games did such an amazing job of actually designing levels around a power-up that if I had to pick one I've most enjoyed in the past, it'd definitely be the cloud.
3D Land and 3D World did a really good job with their power-ups as well. Sort of like the 2D games but much better balanced than any of them.
edit: also, I'm surprised NSMBWii isn't getting better representation in here. It was the only NEW title to do power-ups well. Propeller, penguin, and ice flower are all fun (even if the last two are a little repetitive). It also made good use of the fire flower in some levels, and it used the mini mushroom at least as well as DS ever did. I think it's actually a better balance than any other 2D game struck, besides maybe SMW. The DS had atrocitites like the Shell power-up, 2 was generic as all hell, and the squirrel suit in U was just...boring. Mega Mushroom was pretty fun at times though. Wouldn't hate seeing that again.
3D Land and 3D World did a really good job with their power-ups as well. Sort of like the 2D games but much better balanced than any of them.
edit: also, I'm surprised NSMBWii isn't getting better representation in here. It was the only NEW title to do power-ups well. Propeller, penguin, and ice flower are all fun (even if the last two are a little repetitive). It also made good use of the fire flower in some levels, and it used the mini mushroom at least as well as DS ever did. I think it's actually a better balance than any other 2D game struck, besides maybe SMW. The DS had atrocitites like the Shell power-up, 2 was generic as all hell, and the squirrel suit in U was just...boring. Mega Mushroom was pretty fun at times though. Wouldn't hate seeing that again.
Captain Europe
Member
This, it just looks badass! I wish the tanooki didn't replace it in 3D World/Land.
Cloud Mario. Perfectly balanced, which makes it so much more fun to me than just flying through the level. Such a cool power-up.
Yup, so good.
RobFox64tm
Member
Cloud Mario. Perfectly balanced, which makes it so much more fun to me than just flying through the level. Such a cool power-up.
This! It was so fun to find new routes through levels that the developers may or may not have intended.
SoraanTribal
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Maybe it's because I have been playing this more recently than others, but I really do love the cat suit. Definitely one of my favs. Tanooki suit probably up there as well.
ElRenoRaven
Member
This is the proper answer. To this day when I think of Mario power ups it's this one and the Fire flower. that's it.
Here For The Free Feed
Member
cloud or cape i can't split them
Nocturnowl
Member
Penguin Suit is one of the those that I'm always excited to pick up, it's a nice combo of various abilities that come together well.
Firstly the increased swimming capabilities that are a more refined version of the SMB3 Frog Suit, second the underrated abilities of the Ice flower, third is the slide which is unfortunately limited on land but much more enjoyable to toy with on ice or water, lastly you waddle with a quirky sound effect complete with ignoring the effects of Icy floors.
Cape is of course the godamn cape, I can perform diving headbutts from the sky that shatter the earth itself and all those in the immediate vicinity, nothing feels more grand.
Wing Suit is fun to string longer enemy bounces due to how it resets the ascend ability per bounce, fluid control and a fine mix of a toned down cape and propeller suit.
For 3D games it has to be the Cloud Suit, visually it's one of my favourite variations on the more standard Mario attire, while there's not that much to the ability at its core the level design that surround it is some of the most power up complementing design in the entire series and who doesn't get a kick out of backfliping upwards to create a triple cloud tower and long jumping off of the peak.
Firstly the increased swimming capabilities that are a more refined version of the SMB3 Frog Suit, second the underrated abilities of the Ice flower, third is the slide which is unfortunately limited on land but much more enjoyable to toy with on ice or water, lastly you waddle with a quirky sound effect complete with ignoring the effects of Icy floors.
Cape is of course the godamn cape, I can perform diving headbutts from the sky that shatter the earth itself and all those in the immediate vicinity, nothing feels more grand.
Wing Suit is fun to string longer enemy bounces due to how it resets the ascend ability per bounce, fluid control and a fine mix of a toned down cape and propeller suit.
For 3D games it has to be the Cloud Suit, visually it's one of my favourite variations on the more standard Mario attire, while there's not that much to the ability at its core the level design that surround it is some of the most power up complementing design in the entire series and who doesn't get a kick out of backfliping upwards to create a triple cloud tower and long jumping off of the peak.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Nintendo's track record on new power-ups for our favorite plumber isn't that great; sometimes they're TOO good like the Cape in SMW, sometimes they just kinda stink like Bee Mario's lack of offensive abilities or Tiny Mario being effectively a power-down.
Cat Suit Mario is not only stupidly adorable, he makes you feel powerful without breaking the entire level. He can climb up vertical walls, but only for a certain amount of time, and he's got a great dive attack, but you can only do it once without touching the ground. Like the best power-ups, it opens up new areas and gives you an advantage against certain enemies, but it doesn't completely trivialize the game, and it stinks when you lose it.
Riposte
Member
Good points on Cat Suit, much better than something like cape/feather, but I have to give to Double Cherry. In addition to its appeal being immediately obvious/natural (yet completely original for the series) and how its used to enhance platforming challenges (for solo players, anyway, though it has its multiplayer gimmick), it is the only power-up that makes other power-ups cooler.
Gillian Seed
Banned
Racoon Mario.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
Cape Feather is ridiculous in how powerful it is, so that's up there. I like the Metal Cap the most though; simple yet effective. My favorite modern powerup would probably be the Rock Mushroom or Mini Mushroom. I wanna see some Mini Mario in 3D Mario.
GameGuru59
Banned
Feather/Cape because while it was powerful, one had to be particularly skilled to use it.
In 3D Mario? Probably standard 3D Mario in Mario 64. There has never been a Mario since that has been so boundlessly controllable. If you wanted to do it in Mario 64, you could do it. To me, that's the essence of a Mario game, and 64 brought it into 3D. Give me another Mario game like that, Nintendo.
In 3D Mario? Probably standard 3D Mario in Mario 64. There has never been a Mario since that has been so boundlessly controllable. If you wanted to do it in Mario 64, you could do it. To me, that's the essence of a Mario game, and 64 brought it into 3D. Give me another Mario game like that, Nintendo.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
Because he looks cool and the music that played was awesome.
I loved skating around.
Because I get to be a Boo. Plus the mushroom looked awesome.
Cat suit made traversal+combat even more fun than it already was, though It also made them them easier which made me feel a little guilt for using it. I found gauging depth and using stomp for combat quite difficult, so I guess it was useful, and it was required for quite a few collectibles.
I'm surprised mega mushroom has only been mentioned once. I love wrecking as much of a level I possibly can with that powerup. It's not that common which makes it feel more special.
Ok, forgot about ice mario. Now that was fun as hell too.
I'm surprised mega mushroom has only been mentioned once. I love wrecking as much of a level I possibly can with that powerup. It's not that common which makes it feel more special.
Ok, forgot about ice mario. Now that was fun as hell too.
zyxwvu4321
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Feather. Now and forever.
Barrylocke
Member
Ice has always been a cool (*rimshot*) power in my book, and Galaxy Ice Mario's ice skating and ice chucking show's it off in full force. I always loved whenever I saw an Ice Flower pop up in the Galaxy games.
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
Cat suit is still the hypest shit.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
You know what needs to return in some variation?
Kirby cant be the only shump Nintendo person.
I still pine for Superball Mario's return.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Cloud Mario is a really simple, smart design, too. In a game all about jumping on platforms, you're actually get to manipulate the when and where the platforms show up, and can get pretty creative over their placement with smart utilization of your innate abilities.
