Super Mario 3D All-Stars is Pathetic 

I feel like some people are confused about this, but to be clear: the ONLY reason I bought this is because I was making a video on it and wanted to be accurate. I wanted to make sure that I played the official version of the game and noted all of its problems. Otherwise, I most certainly would not have bought it. Even said as much pre-release, before I thought about writing a script.

Don't go exposing me in the thumbnail like that man

Can’t wait for the Zelda 3D collection where they forget Majora’s Mask and don’t give Ocarina widescreen

I never understand the mentality of “well you bought it so you can’t complain”. Like, if you buy a sandwich and it tastes terrible are you not allowed to complain about it because you bought and consumed it?

I don't know who said it, but someone described this package as "a collection of great games, but not a great collection of games", and that's honestly pretty accurate.

Metroid be like: you can't have a shitty anniversary if your company never celebrates it

2004 when Mario 64 wasn't even 10 years old yet: Let's remake all of 64, new characters, new levels and bosses, mini games and multiplayer stuff 2020: uhhh why would you want widescreen

Nintendo doesn't show much love or respect for their classics. Yet they cry about piracy which has better emulation then their current ports and attack fan projects.

14:21 - "The switch's virtual console equivalent is hot garbage." - KingK referring to N64 online emulation. If you see this comment KingK, congratulations! You predicted the future.

"Where's Chibi-Robo?" is the Nintendo documentary that Scott the Woz is gonna release in 30 years

When I was a kid they came out with the Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition. It had OG Zelda, Zelda II, Ocarina of Time, AND Majora's Mask all in one disc. In 2003. If you told me we wouldn't get something better than that in 17 *years* I wouldn't believe you.

Ah, the sonic mega collection. SEGA really does what Nintendon’t

The same company who REMADE Mario 64 on a DS in 2004.

Wait till he finds out that the legend of Zelda Skyward sword is coming to the switch for 60$

Since this is Mario's 35th anniversary... wouldn't it have made sense if the sold the collection for.... IDK... $35?

This video makes me sad for gaming and how scummy Nintendo has been.

Remember Kids! Pirating Nintendo Games is Always Morally Correct

8:48 "So... what if you're left-handed?" As a left-handed Nintendo fan, I'm rather tired of almost always being forgotten. I remember Spirit Tracks on the DS asking if the player's left-handed or right-handed and I'm convinced that that game's the outlier! Skyward Sword on its release was a brand new gyro-heavy game that had five years of development, and there was no option to play it left-handed, *in a series where the protagonist up until that point had always been left-handed!* I don't understand Nintendo's mindset towards the left-handed at all, especially since Shigeru Miyamoto himself is left-handed!

The real reason why the collection is pathetic: “So long gay bowser” is out of the game

To be fair, Kirby is HAL/related to Sakurai. That man puts more effort into his content than any of us deserve

So Sonic Origins has more effort than this so called collection. How fucking embarrassing. Also if SEGA can get Sonic 3&K in their collection there’s zero excuse for Nintendo to completely ignore Galaxy 2. Edit: So Origins Plus came out (along with a patch that fixes some stuff) and bruh. I’m laughing at this.

"I hate to break it to ya folks, but Activision is doing a better job of re-releasing their old games." *Ad you can't skip for 3D Allstars plays*

It’s insane how the Xbox one has more n64 games than the Nintendo switch

20:19 they actually did do a rerelease of chibi robo as part of their new play control collection on Wii but because they were determined to kill that franchise they made it exclusive to Japan. chibi robo was basically neglected by Nintendo

8:47 "What If you're left handed?" FUCKING FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICES ME!

There's one thing that's really been bothering me recently about 3D all stars. Just recently (by the time I'm posting this anyway), Sakurai released a trailer and explanation for Steve from minecraft joining smash bros ultimate. In it, it showed how Steve has an entirely new gameplay style never before seen with any fighter in the game, while cramming as much Minecraft love into it, 6 brand new remixes of Minecraft songs, a brand new stage that looks like it was pulled straight out of Minecraft which also has 6 different forms/biomes, and sakurai explained how they had to rework EVERY STAGE IN THE GAME so it would work and make sense for Steve, all for $5.99. Sakurai and his team most likely put more time, effort, stuff, and love into one $6 dlc pack for a game, than Nintendo has with making a collection of 3 Mario games for $60. That's honestly really really sad. Edit: You could write anything in the RU-vid comment section with some sort of opinion in it, and there will always be those kind of people trying their damndest to start an argument Edit 2: Please don't read the replies

You put more effort into this RU-vid thumbnail than Nintendo did on the box art.

I'm really glad you mentioned the Kirby 20th Anniversary Collection, as I had it when I was a small child and even then I knew it was packed.

For a company that hates emulators so much, they're doing a pretty damn good job at making sure emulating their games remains the best (and for an embarrassing amount of games, the only) way to play many, many of their older games. The Virtual Console concept has been around since 2006 and at no point in any of its iterations (including its most recent form where it's tied to a monthly subscription) did they ever offer Gamecube games. And of course the one time they decide to rerelease Sunshine, it's tied to a half-assed anniversary collection that costs $60... EDIT: A good personal example, I lost my personal copy of Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door. I no longer even have a Gamecube controller to play it on my Wii. And of course Nintendo never rereleased it on anything, so literally the only way I can play it is through emulation. Guess you didn't need my money after all, Nintendo.

they put more pride into a pink ball’s anniversary than they did for their mascot

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable." - Gabe Newell

Fun fact: if you look in the files for 3D All-Stars upscale textures (mainly in 64's files), they're literally labeled "lazy texture replacement"

I saw this video in my feed months ago and decided to not watch it because I wrongfully assumed it was just someone needlessly bashing Nintendo, but I decided to give it a watch, and it was really eye-opening. I love Nintendo but seeing how they treat their older franchises and fans really hurts. Excellent video man

20:19 "Nintendo has never re-released Chibi-Robo" They HAVE re-released Chibi-Robo... in 2009... for the Wii... only in Japan...

True

KingK: “What’s going to happen with the inevitable Zelda collection?” Nintendo: *nonexistent*

That last quote made me say "God damn" out loud. No, you're not alone. As far as I'm concerned, Nintendo is just becoming Japanese EA lately. Maybe it's not too late to turn things around, but I doubt it. The new corporate heads sure aren't helping, and it makes me realize just how good we had it with Iwata.

Honestly, this collection feels like Nintendo didn’t want to make this collection, but since the fans were going crazy about it, they just made it like this

Gonna toss a theory up there. Nintendo hadn’t actually planned 3D Allstars. They saw the rumors, realized people were expecting it for the anniversary, and so quickly threw something together.

You guys remember the Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii? New controls, nice port and a great "legacy" collection.

I loved the Kirby's 20th anniversary game. Back then i didnt have wifi, so everytime i was bored or i was eating i would just turn on the wii and watch one of the three episodes. It was amazing.

bro why you hurting indie developer nintendo like this, they are a small indie company they don't have big budgets like them other companies :(

18:28 This is a very important distinction to make: Nintendo, the game maker and Nintendo, the corporation. As someone who worked in studios before, I can assure you that many designers and developers at (or associated with) Nintendo are probably not happy with these decisions either. They would love to give these games a proper HD remake akin to OoT3D/MM3D or WWHD.

12:49 Perfect timing. You said "Dolphin" right as Mario hit the ground.

Nintendo Fan: "What an outrage! ...Where can I buy it?"

I literally said this on Nintendo Switch’s reddit fan page and got shit on by every Nintendo fan boy ages ranging from 25-45. All the shovel ware, slapping $60 on every remake.

Actually I think buying the collection validates your points even more, by buying the collection and being able to form a well written argument, your points are coming from both sides of the argument (switch/dolphin), letting you actually make sense of what your saying.

“What is going to happen with the Zelda collection?” Gone

I'd cite the Smash Bros series as the perfect example of what game collections should strive to be. The Smash Bros games are completely original content and shouldn't have any obligation to be anything other than a great fighting game, yet they still always manage to cram in an extensive collection of trailers, music, sound effects, trophies and stickers, etc. Hell, Brawl even had playable demos of NES games. If a fighting game can include that much legacy content, a game thats entire purpose is to pay tribute to a series' past absolutely should be able to.

our expectations were at the ground and nintendo brought a shovel

King K: The N64 emulation in 3D all stars is awful N64 Switch Online: Hold my beer

Woah woah woah wait. They’ve been DELISTING games they’ve ported over to the Switch?? What the fuck, and now they’re closing the Wii U/3DS eshops this year

I love these three games, but someone on Twitter said it perfectly: This is a collection of fantastic games, not a fantastic collection of games. I bought this collection because I love these games, but in comparison to something like Megaman Zero ZX Collection or even the Kirby Collection, as you mentioned, it just doesn't hold up.

Nintendo is basically the teacher who doesn't do anything when a child is being bullied, but the very moment the victim stands up for themselves, they throw a temper tantrum and punish the kid that's always been beaten up.

"Opinion invalid because he bought it anyway" "Haha he still got played" Children, this man deff got more than the price of purchase off this video, really now, whos playing who?

Bruh your videos are so calming to listen to, and it's also really fun to watch you evolve with each new retrospective and video. These are great to listen to when painting game models, and this channel also holds a special place for me as my first retrospective channel. It was also pretty hard hitting to see someone about my age be able to express themselves and make a full channel around that, and kinda helped me get my self-destructive head outta my ass. . . Well, even just a little bit at a time lol

The worst part of this is that Nintendo knew that they could get away with this

If you are old enough to remember super Mario all stars on the snes when it came out, the effort put into that collection hammers home the point of how poor this new collection is.

I'm watching this after the price of Skyward Sword was revealed and I can't believe people is buying it and trying to defend it. Nintendo is not your friend, is just a company who wants profit!

Once again, piracy is completely justified

It’s obvious that Nintendo is a company split between creative mind and board room executives. Iwata used to be the link between the two but with him gone the disconnect has only grown even more. It’s insane that the company that made BOTW and SMO also released this collection and can’t make joy cons mf work

The Nintendo that exists today is not the Nintendo that made those games.

This aged very well

You know...I was JUST about to mention the Kirby's Dream Collection as an example of Nintendo doing an anniversary collection right...and then you bring it up. Haha. Thank you for mentioning my most favorite lucky find in the Wii library Haha

Love the thumbnail

Nintendo: *Removes Mario 3d All Stars on March 31st* Me: Oh no! *Fires up emulator* Me: Anyways

I didn't buy this. Tired of giving them free money for lack luster attempts.

You know what's more impressive? 60fps mario 64 port running on my $100 rg351p without a hitch (pocket sized linux emulator)

This is my exact opinion as well. I want to be done with Nintendo at this point but the games themselves (when they actually release them instead of rereleasing more Wii U games) are just the most fun I've ever had. Most of my gaming experiences these days come from playing the restored Wii online by fans and fan-created mods such as Super Mario Star Road.

when some random online pirate does preservation better than the richest company in japan

You know what makes things so much worse, heading to the trailers for these awful ports on youtube including Super Mario 3D all-stars you would be able to see that most comments are positive about these ports. Disgusting

I subbed over this review and liked this. Im glad this got so many views. I am sick of the crap nintendo is doing that is destroying the relationship between the consumer and game devs

It’s just disappointing that you KNOW they aren’t going to change anything because they are already selling incredibly well

When you said, "Where is Chibi Robo?"...I felt that. Update: Just got Chibi-Robo working on my Wii via Nintendont and I've finally got to experience it! An underrated classic for sure.

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"Inevitable Zelda collection." This is what broke me. I bought Allstars (and have only played some of Mario 64) and SSHD (I actually did love playing this in spite of some of the port issues), but the fact that they haven't even acknowledged Zelda's 35th anniversary as of November, and THEN they have the balls to do their horrendous expansion pack service for a crappy emulator of two of my favorite Zelda games of all time (not to mention that Mario 64 game that I got ripped off over knowingly, my fault)? I've since jumped ship and am using a 3DS emulator to play OOT and MM since Nintendo was too cheap to do the right thing and not screw their fans over. They could've just sold the N64 titles on the eshop and I would've been alright with that, but they'd prefer to be the least consumer friendly game company on earth (yeah, I hate Nintendo more than EA, at least EA fixed BF2.) Nintendo had my loyalty and trust, and now both are gone. Absolutely shameful.

Earthbound/Mother be like: you can't have a bad collection if you haven't seen the light of day in america since the 90s

I don’t get how Nintendo doesn’t realize that stunts like this are why people proceed down the very path they try to prevent them from going down: emulation. People WANT to play Nintendo’s games from it’s near 40 years of being a game company. Younger fans who are just getting into Nintendo and want to play these old games don’t have an NES, SNES, 64, GC, or even a Wii to play them legitimately. These younger fans constantly find themselves in these situations: I want to play “X character’s” game. The options are like so. You either shell out hundreds of dollars for both a copy of the game AND the console to play it on (which Nintendo makes absolutely no money off of btw) or you buy it off the Wii U E-Shop (assuming it’s on there) which you likely don’t have because nobody bought that thing. And what a lot of younger people who find themselves in this situation don’t have is money or parents who don’t want you paying over $100 just to play a video game. So, in that case, why not emulate it? Instead of dumping hundreds of dollars into games like EarthBound or Fire Emblem Path of Radiance which doesn’t even go to Nintendo because you cannot buy these games new anymore, why not just spend five minutes downloading an emulator and the game to play through it and get a shit ton of options to make the experience better in terms of display and aesthetics? Spending hundreds of dollars on eBay to play a 20 year old game is not a suitable way to play that game. Most people only emulate because Nintendo does not provide them a feasible alternative to play these games today. If Nintendo put older games on the Switch, especially those that go for $100s of dollars on eBay, MUCH less people would emulate them I guarantee it. You cannot kill emulation, Nintendo. There will always be a ROM side with every single Nintendo game on it ready to download. What you can do is provide feasible alternatives to play these games on the Switch.

That Sonic Mega Collection music is way too beautiful to belong in an extras menu for a collection of retro games.

TLDW; Generally speaking, Nintendo is fantastic as a game developer, but they're absolute trash as a service provider.

At this point, pirating old games is just preservation.

You deserve more subs if more people like you existed the entire gaming industry would be a better place

"Using a port of the game that isn't even used in speedruns is akin to taking a shit over its legacy." Seriously? Do you realize how realize how entitled and self righteous that sounds? This is such an awful take.

Meanwhile you can get the entire Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii U for $20.

A collection never went from 'automatic buy' to 'never touch' so fast as 3D Mario All-Stars

Say what you will about Jim Sterling, he was right about one important thing: It is 100% morally okay to pirate Nintendo games.

I know I'm super late to the party but well done. I personally shared some of your thoughts before 3D All-Stars was even announced, especially with Nintendo going supernova when anyone posted their OSTs to RU-vid (R.I.P. Brawl), but this was seriously eye-opening for me. When I saw All-Stars' $60 price and was greeted to the minimal effort on the title screen, I knew for sure that they were just doing the bare minimum to make the most money. Growing up in the 2000s, I saw Nintendo as the underdog that would stand aside yet stand tall nonetheless as Sony and Microsoft duked it out and eventually proving its worth with the major success of the Wii. But past 2014, I quickly felt that presence disappear as they got more and more greedy. One can only hope they'll get a wake-up call and actually put effort into something like Kirby's 20th Anniversary...

Numerous rom sites died for this. If Nintendo thought this was going to stop piracy, they were horribly wrong.

Kind of a lazy way to celebrate the 35th anniversary of their mascot.

To be fair, the Kirby developers at HAL Laboratory always take special care to honor the franchise's legacy in each new installment, and clearly hold him in very high regard. While Nintendo's in-house developers aren't new to shoddy mario collections. All Stars on Wii was just a straight port of the SNES game.

The Kirby collection intro animation was so adorable. Maybe putting it next to the 3d Mario collection makes it 10x better but idc because I appreciate it 10x more. Especially when Kirby asks dedede to PUNT him into the coin, 10/10

“Hi Nintendo, I’d like to give you money!” Nintendo: “No.”

Honestly, if this game collection had included Super Mario Galaxy 2, I would have bought it. I've never played it before, and this would have been a great opportunity to try it. Also, hearing Sonic Mega Collection's music made me cry nostalgic tears.

Not as pathetic as sonic colors ultimate 💀

Remember that time Nintendo gave out the ocarina of time/master quest disc as a freebie for preordering wind waker? I guess Nintendo forgot how they used to give away legacy content as an incentive to buy new games, rather than the legacy content being the new game.

Ah yes the holy trinity You bought the game your opinion is invalid You pirated the game your opinion is invalid And you didn't bought the game your opinion is invalid

That sonic collection music brings back so many memories remember having that on the game cube in elementary school, time flies

This was a totally rational review all the way through. I got it because I wanted to play Sunshine again, but couldn't figure out how to get the shoulder trigger threshold to register properly on Dolphin so I could walk and spray.

I've noticed with these companies who are at their highest points, tend to get super cocky and complacent with their products, thinking they can get away with pretty much anything. Remember when Sony thought they could get away with charging the ps3 for $599 at launch because the ps2 was a flipping success?

I was willing to ignore most of these faults. But the moment I heard no more "so long gay bowser" I realized there is no longer any good in this world.