Comments on: The Anatomy of Super Mario VIII: Mario gets Konged http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/06/15/the-anatomy-of-super-mario-viii-mario-gets-konged/ Defunct, amateurish, game design analysis by Jeremy Parish Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.7 By: LBD "Nytetrayn" http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/06/15/the-anatomy-of-super-mario-viii-mario-gets-konged/#comment-1819 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:35:23 +0000 http://telebunny.net/toastyblog/?p=8129#comment-1819 It would be nice to see these sorts of mechanics applied somehow to more modern DK games, like in the DKC series.

]]> By: LBD "Nytetrayn" http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/06/15/the-anatomy-of-super-mario-viii-mario-gets-konged/#comment-1818 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:34:29 +0000 http://telebunny.net/toastyblog/?p=8129#comment-1818 I’d love to see DK3 covered, just for completion’s sake, even though it probably has little to nothing to do with the grander “Anatomy of Super Mario” scheme of things.

]]> By: Javier http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/06/15/the-anatomy-of-super-mario-viii-mario-gets-konged/#comment-1817 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:25:19 +0000 http://telebunny.net/toastyblog/?p=8129#comment-1817 I´m guessing that by his lack of Mario you won´t be covering Donkey Kong 3, or will you Jeremy? That has to be one of the worst sequels of all time, so bad and so divorced from the variety and innovation of its predecessors it puzzles me.

Was it even designed by Miyamoto? I really doubt it, and the absence of Mario in that boring and generic shooter hints of him not being involved at all. I smell a shameless franchise cash-in by some B-grade designer at Nintendo while Miyamoto was appointed to work on his first Famicom masterpieces .

Such a simple and repetitive game as DK3 should´ve been the one released in 1981, and the masterful first Donkey Kong should be the third and crowning jewel of a very unique trilogy. DK Jr. is really the middle ground in both cases, but as it stand with DK3 ending it with such a de-evolution, it makes DK as an arcade series feel really weird and derailed…

I hope you will briefly dissect DK3 nonetheless, at least to clear the mystery of why it was so bad.

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