Blog:Tierlist of Super Mario Bros 2D games

Just a tierlist I made about the 2D games of the Mario saga from the D range (Mediocre or meh) to the S (Excellent).



Super Mario Bros 1 & 2 are good to me but not so much because of different things that were later improved in other installments, plus they have some errors like mario's rigid jump in Super Mario Bros 1 that makes it difficult to platform sections and in the 2 is itself not an original Mario game, since it is a re-skin of Doki Doki Panic, has less levels than in the other NES Mario games, with only twenty, there are some annoying enemies that can result in some cheap deaths and the ending is pretty bad and cliched.

The lost levels is simply meh, it is the worst designed game in the Super Mario Bros series with many ideas that were poorly executed.

Super Mario Bros 3 it's good but something that bothers me is that there is no save feature in the original version, and the game itself feels somewhat long and you can't revisit any of the levels you already completed, outside of that it's a good game, Yoshi Island and Super Mario Land 2 are also good games, New Super Mario Bros introduces new features to the formula of Super Mario Bros NES games with more natural controls and a fun multiplayer mode, although the level design feels basic.

New Super Mario Bros 2 is self-explanatory, it's a mediocre game that has an unbalanced difficulty that makes most phases very easy to finish, but at its full potential it becomes regular.

Super Mario Land is regular because it has few levels and the level design is not so good and Super Mario Bros Deluxe is a interesting version of the original Super Mario Bros but the limited screen of the Game Boy Color makes the screen very choppy and makes the game more difficult, this is much worse in Lost Levels, plus some features were removed in Lost Levels.Super Mario Run is just meh.

Super Mario World is excellent, improving most bugs of NES games with fun platform sections, it is the first game that implemented Yoshi, has a good soundtrack, the graphics are vibrant and colorful, the Feather and spinning jump attack are introduced, the Game Boy Advance version adds so many new features and five dinosaur coins can be found in each stage. In addition to the coin count, finding all the five grants an extra life.

New Super Mario Bros Wii is an improved version of New Super Mario Bros, it is the first game in the Super Mario Bros. series to have a multiplayer where all the players can play at the same time instead of taking turns, is more challenging and has great new powerups like the Propeller Suit and the Penguin Suit.