I recently purchased both and it's my first time playing them in years. I have to say, Super Mario 3 for the NES is much better than Super Mario World. Main reason I think this is so is because it's so much more challenging. Super Mario World is the first of many Mario games that is made way too easy. To be fair, I purchased the Game Boy Advanced version, which might be slightly different than the SNES but it's way too easy. By the second world, I already had like 20 1UPS.
I think Super Mario 3 was ahead of its time and so well put together.
Plus, the Koopa Kids look awful in Super Mario World and nothing like what they looked like in the instruction manual. The color schemes are way off. They looked so much better in the NES game despite graphical limitations.
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Yeah, SMW FTW.
SMB3 was awesome too, though. So many great memories with both.
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"Players now start out with the power up they last had, instead of Small Mario or Small Luigi."
"When the player gets hurt with Cape or Fire power, they won't become small and need to use the item in reserve (if any); instead, they will become Super Mario/Luigi and keep the reserve item."
The way the reserve item works on the SNES where unless you fall into a pit it automatically releases discourages going back and getting two capes. (Spend more time doing that than playing the level you are trying to do).
I think the difficulty curve with 3 is still probably better. (Never played the GBA version of 3).
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I vastly prefer Super Mario World. It only had so few powerups, but the game itself was much more creative and skill-based, what with the cape glide, spin jumps, and especially the hidden exits! Super Mario Bros. 3 felt too streamlined to me, though it was still a lot of fun.
The only thing I like more about World than SMB3 is that you can replay levels after beating them.
I think having alternative exits and it actually working in a fun way is good (And that the cheap tricks like going back to 1-1 and getting 5 lives and 2 sets of the best power ups are mitigated so its not something worth doing at least in the SNES version).
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That is interesting. Thanks for posting. I also read the list of changes in the Super Mario 3 Advanced and they made it much easier as well. I sort of prefer the originals because I think making the games too easy is a problem in the current Mario games. Super Mario 3 to me is so much fun because of the challenge.
New Super Mario U, to me, isn't as appealing because it's way too easy, though I do like playing it multiplayer and it's much more difficult that way because of all the chaos.
That is interesting. Thanks for posting. I also read the list of changes in the Super Mario 3 Advanced and they made it much easier as well. I sort of prefer the originals because I think making the games too easy is a problem in the current Mario games. Super Mario 3 to me is so much fun because of the challenge.
New Super Mario U, to me, isn't as appealing because it's way too easy, though I do like playing it multiplayer and it's much more difficult that way because of all the chaos.
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I really don't get the "current games are too easy" attitude. The only reason I find Super Mario Bros 3 more difficult than New Super Mario Bros U are the slippery controls. Sure, I get more 1ups in NSMBU, but I find the levels equally challenging, and that's all that matter to me.
That being said, I prefer Super Mario Bros. 3 over World. I don't know why, I just enjoyed it more.
World by a mile (3 is great but World is so much better), it expanded on 3 in so many ways allowing revisiting of levels to re-explore for secret exits, secret worlds and short-cuts; Yoshi too. Plus the cape is by far the best power up in any Mario game. I haven't felt any 2d Mario has taken such a great leap forward as World in 2d platforming before or since (was hoping NSMBU would be in the same league but had my hopes dashed when I 100%ed it).
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I really don't get the "current games are too easy" attitude. The only reason I find Super Mario Bros 3 more difficult than New Super Mario Bros U are the slippery controls. Sure, I get more 1ups in NSMBU, but I find the levels equally challenging, and that's all that matter to me.
That being said, I prefer Super Mario Bros. 3 over World. I don't know why, I just enjoyed it more.
Because they are too easy...
New Super Mario U gives you power ups much more often, you have skills like wall jumping, triple jump, etc, coins are much more plentiful, as are power ups, you get check points that are like a mushroom, you can re enter stages and stock up on 1ups, almost all the bosses are push overs, etc. On top of all that, you get rewarded with the white Tanooki suit for dying too many times.
Super Mario 3 didn't have any of that and it's a much more challenging experience. Even Boom Boom was challenging at times.
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