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something i really appreciate about your style of critique is this sense that it's ok for parts of things to be bad, and you can still have a good time with them despite that. your arguments are almost always really convincing to me, but so is your whole vibe of joy when everything's actually working out
(this is not to say you make me think that flaws don't matter, but that flaws aren't always the "gotchya, now you have to hate this" thing that a lot of internet folks make them out to be)
irurwurst yeah lol it’s almost as if there could be a whole huge, popular series of videos critiquing tiny parts of games while allowing that the games are still good, and even include a disclaimer at the beginning saying it is “ok to enjoy things while being aware of their more problematic components” and NOT have like ANY haters at all because that disclaimer would be so sincere and foolproof!
The Yoshi part had me dying. Tim - I know the focus of these reviews is the language, and you're very good at it, but more editing jokes like that are great too and really spice things up. More please!
For a moment there I feared Tim would not inform us of how intelligent he was upon entering this world nor predict his level of satiety when leaving it. Thanks for putting me at ease and thanks for creating the most insightful and entertaining video game journalism around!
Haha, but 2D Dragon Quest and 3D Dragon Quest are the same genre (classic RPG) while 2D Mario and 3D Mario are not. The former is a linear platformer with emphasis on precise jumping, while the latter is less a platformer than a collectathon with much less emphasis on jumping. The only exception is Super Mario 3D World, which is a bit more like the 2D Mario games in that the levels are linear. Also, the gameplay of 3D Dragon Quest is still basically 2D, in that most of the game could be played with a top down camera like in the 2D Dragon Quests. This is because the surface of the Earth is mostly flat.
can I just sub to the REVIEW portion of Kotaku channel? DAMN, this type of review is the best kind. Informative, entertaining and just soothing in a strange way. I watched this and can't believe 38min has passed by!
tim rogers’ handle and expertise on videogame trends and the behind-the-scenes experience of Japanese AAA videogame companies will never cease to amaze me; the conclusion of this video may as well be the foundation of the design document for what became Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Jack Critelli i am glad you left this comment, because: i already knew this. nintendo specifically instructed us not to reveal it in our review though!! hence my (great?) joke about commenters wanting to know! yep~~~
@@kotaku I have seen a lot of people calling out reviewers for not "knowing" this like it is an example of them not actually playing the game. Meanwhile the fact the Blue Toad is available doesn't fix the actual problem all the reviewers are talking about.
Saw this on my recommended, paused for a moment, thought to myself, "it's not gonna be, but might as well see anyway", heard the first sentence of the video, commented this, liked, and resumed play.
george, i gotta say: i hate those grammarly ads. i see them EVERY TIME I come to look at the comments on my own videos. like they're yelling at me, trying to make me believe i don't know what i'm doing. i know what i'm doing. all the examples in the ads make me so mad. "consider removing passive voice"! yeah! i know! i been doin that for like twenty-five years, pal!! they should include some wild oddball examples in that video to maybe give people a sense that their product educates people into better writers, instead of conditioning them into conformity. give me some examples like, "do you really want to use a verb other than 'said' in this quote attribution?" "consider rewriting this sentence to exclude a 'be' verb." "dude, adverbs are hideous. abolish them and instead use better verbs." "you just used two synonymous adjectives separated by a comma. that is the habit of a weak, pathetic writer." i will add: i do all my writing in sublime text. it has excellent performance, runs in an unlocked frame rate, never slows down, and is impervious to all spell-checking and grammar-checking functions on this computer. i have turned all of those off, anyway.
@@kotaku My favourite Grammarly ad is the guy who looks to be in his 30s trying to write something like "me and Jake went to the park" and it corrects him like his mother should have 20 years ago with "uhh, Jake and I". I also get irked at those who throw commas between adjectives that mean the same thing. I propose that you do away with the idea of making a game for a while and instead make a counter-app to Grammarly that makes useful but kind of insulting suggestions. Call it "Daddy's English" or "Grammar Heck" and make all the money.
that yoshi bit, oh my gorsh also, the classic line about art being greatest at lying is basically all the proof you need for the videogames-are-art argument
My PS4 hard disk died yesterday while I was watching this video, RIGHT AFTER Tim Rogers confessed everyone at Sony was playing New Super Mario Bros. on their DS. Can't be a coincidence.
I watch all of your scripted videos about 3 times each and, with some, 6-10 times (DQ, Forza, etc). This one is gonna be part of the latter. Great stuff dude- I only just bought Valkyria Chronicles after your recommendation, but NSMBUDX might come next.
You can play as Blue Toad by holding down L on the character select, thus also being able to play with four people and nobody being forced to use Toadette or Nabbit. I do wish this feature were more obvious, but at least it's there. Maybe Nintendo could patch it so Blue Toad is just another character, or put some text on screen to explain how to change it.
I watched this video for the first yesterday and have since seen it 3 times. Darn! Previously to my pur-view of this delectable re-view, I was perfectly happy ignoring New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe for the foreseeable future. But now following my re-watches of your re-view, I feel like I need to re-think that decision. Which is weird, considering this review was mostly complaining about NSMB U! Tim Rogers, I raise my metaphorical hat to you. You are one uber persuasive game reviewer.
25:03 I had my 2 yo daughter try the OG mario bros for the first time last weekend. When she reached the hidden 1up mushroom from the 1-1 level she started to jump around even though I never told her about it. Must be some kind of genetic memory cause she found it first time.
Thank you Tim Rogers for being the only Videogame Content Creator that inspires me to actually compliment the quality of their work! This video is great! (also you said you 'hate levels with darkness' and then proceeded to directly compare New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe with Celeste, which features a segment of a level that's built around navigating / platforming in a dark area with no lights. I think Celeste does it well, but I want to hear your justification).
I just want to say that I started watching this just for a quick look at what this was going to be like then I watched the whole thing simply because you are hilarious! Thank you so much for this! I’m going to follow you now!
If you're playing two player, one of you can be Mario, one can be Luigi and one can be Toad. The other person playing has to be Nabbit or Toadette. 1+1+1+1=2 Mathematics has left the chat.
As I tend to play classic mario-games with a special set of rules, I still like a system with lives very much. When you play in a rogue-like fashion, lives are an important ressource for you to make it through the game, and one of the main reasons to explore stages. This game is amazing in both variety and quality in stage designs(which is very important to me) - ghost houses are part of that.
Tim, thank you for continually giving us of the photo of Stephen Totilo playing his WiiU at the airport. And also thank you for continuing to play video games and then talk into microphones about them.
Tim Rogers I listened to the podcast episode of "Bad End" in which you were the premiere featurette, you spoke at length about the comments beneath your videos and specifically mentioned that you read every one of them and that in particular the comments from nickel headed numb-souls could on occasion rub you the wrong way and in response to that grievance I wanted to be a breathe of fresh air upon your furrowed brow as you perused the dark and dreary hallways of the youtube comment section i liked the video
Tim's favorite game series is actually Dragon Quest--TIM LIED TO US IN THIS VIDEO! And it has me asking mysellf, "What *else* is he lying to us about??" and WHY did he lie about it here???
I would love for wario and waluigi to be playable and to have their own unique playstyles(and Luigi too). Also the hypothetical convenience cost is STUPID. I payed for the switch and it’s portability. I shouldn’t have to pay extra for a game because it’s console is portable. Might aswell release Super Mario World at full price at this point. I hope they add wario and waluigi to a 2D Mario game. Maybe even as dlc and have it’s own rivalry story.
I do not know what this is, nor after watching the whole thing do I even know if he likes this game, but I do not care, because I LOVE this review. As far as Deluxe goes, there's no reason not to buy it if you haven't played either of the U games before, but from personal experience, this is not the best in its series. Is it fun and distracting? Yes. Is it challenging and sustainably memorable? No. Best level design in the series? No, but it gets pretty close. My gripe with this game? It leads you right into the secrets and does not take long to blow through the whole thing wondering what the Hell happened. It is fast-paced, yet linear and derivative at the same time. I never once felt like my life was in danger, and that is a very bad thing for a Mario game. ':/
On the concept of "making darkness fun" I would implore anyone interested in this idea to check out an indie game called "The Devil's Tuning Fork". It's a game about being blind and using a sort of "visual echolocation" to navigate.
I love the comments on Tim's vids have become mostly people celebrating it's a Tim Rogers video
I was just thinking the exact same thing.
Me: "Thirty Eight minutes?? That's WAYY too long for a review!"
"Hello, I'm Tim Rogers-"
Me: "This video is already too short."
i know exactly how you feel
if you somehow havent already i must SERIOUSLY suggest you give his own semi-new channel Action Button a visit
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something i really appreciate about your style of critique is this sense that it's ok for parts of things to be bad, and you can still have a good time with them despite that. your arguments are almost always really convincing to me, but so is your whole vibe of joy when everything's actually working out
(this is not to say you make me think that flaws don't matter, but that flaws aren't always the "gotchya, now you have to hate this" thing that a lot of internet folks make them out to be)
irurwurst yeah lol it’s almost as if there could be a whole huge, popular series of videos critiquing tiny parts of games while allowing that the games are still good, and even include a disclaimer at the beginning saying it is “ok to enjoy things while being aware of their more problematic components” and NOT have like ANY haters at all because that disclaimer would be so sincere and foolproof!
When i saw the length of the video, i knew this was a Tim Rogers Review.
When can I buy the Blu-Ray collection of these videos?
Tim predicted super Mario wonder
The Yoshi part had me dying. Tim - I know the focus of these reviews is the language, and you're very good at it, but more editing jokes like that are great too and really spice things up. More please!
yes!
(Review by TIM ROGERS)
Stephen Totilo chilling out with a Wii U in an airport lobby seems so on-brand for that guy.
@@vito He's the hero we deserve. Good ol' Totilo
This is like, the most entertaining and comprehensive Mario game review I have ever seen.
Wyatt Coe well, i might be working on a much MORE comprehensive (and hopefully more entertaining!) review of super mario bros 3 . . .
36:47 2023: Super Mario Bros Wonder, New art style, dropped "new"
Only reason I visit Kotaku channel is because of this guy. You should make your own channel, I will subscribe then :)
He already has one - it's called 'Action Button'.
And he recently posted a new video about FF7R
31:46 "for Mario, the tedium is the message." Holy hell I had to pause to marvel at that line's perfection.
For a moment there I feared Tim would not inform us of how intelligent he was upon entering this world nor predict his level of satiety when leaving it. Thanks for putting me at ease and thanks for creating the most insightful and entertaining video game journalism around!
me too!
Tim: 2D Mario is my favorite game series
Dragon Quest: I... I thought we had something special... (Runs away in tears)
Haha, but 2D Dragon Quest and 3D Dragon Quest are the same genre (classic RPG) while 2D Mario and 3D Mario are not. The former is a linear platformer with emphasis on precise jumping, while the latter is less a platformer than a collectathon with much less emphasis on jumping. The only exception is Super Mario 3D World, which is a bit more like the 2D Mario games in that the levels are linear.
Also, the gameplay of 3D Dragon Quest is still basically 2D, in that most of the game could be played with a top down camera like in the 2D Dragon Quests. This is because the surface of the Earth is mostly flat.
I'm still trying to figure out what the first favorite 2D Mario game is...
@@jarobhinkle SMB3
Tim says every sentence with the inflection of a little sister who has candy and you don’t. (Tim’s awesome)
can I just sub to the REVIEW portion of Kotaku channel? DAMN, this type of review is the best kind. Informative, entertaining and just soothing in a strange way. I watched this and can't believe 38min has passed by!
tim rogers’ handle and expertise on videogame trends and the behind-the-scenes experience of Japanese AAA videogame companies will never cease to amaze me; the conclusion of this video may as well be the foundation of the design document for what became Super Mario Bros. Wonder
One of my favorite game reviews. Great humor, script and narraration.
Sweet. New Tim video.
If you press the L or ZL button while hoghlighting yellow toad it will switch to blue toad. And again to revert back to yellow toad
You still can't play as Yellow Toad AND Blue Toad at the same time. They function as one option.
That's totally awesome thank you for the info ^^
Jack Critelli i am glad you left this comment, because: i already knew this. nintendo specifically instructed us not to reveal it in our review though!! hence my (great?) joke about commenters wanting to know! yep~~~
@@kotaku I have seen a lot of people calling out reviewers for not "knowing" this like it is an example of them not actually playing the game. Meanwhile the fact the Blue Toad is available doesn't fix the actual problem all the reviewers are talking about.
Jack Critelli cracking myself up imagining what hoglighting would entail
Saw this on my recommended, paused for a moment, thought to myself, "it's not gonna be, but might as well see anyway", heard the first sentence of the video, commented this, liked, and resumed play.
I got an ad for Grammarly prior to a Tim Rogers video. It's ironic and hilaious before the video even starts
george, i gotta say: i hate those grammarly ads. i see them EVERY TIME I come to look at the comments on my own videos. like they're yelling at me, trying to make me believe i don't know what i'm doing. i know what i'm doing. all the examples in the ads make me so mad. "consider removing passive voice"! yeah! i know! i been doin that for like twenty-five years, pal!! they should include some wild oddball examples in that video to maybe give people a sense that their product educates people into better writers, instead of conditioning them into conformity. give me some examples like, "do you really want to use a verb other than 'said' in this quote attribution?" "consider rewriting this sentence to exclude a 'be' verb." "dude, adverbs are hideous. abolish them and instead use better verbs." "you just used two synonymous adjectives separated by a comma. that is the habit of a weak, pathetic writer."
i will add: i do all my writing in sublime text. it has excellent performance, runs in an unlocked frame rate, never slows down, and is impervious to all spell-checking and grammar-checking functions on this computer. i have turned all of those off, anyway.
@@kotaku My favourite Grammarly ad is the guy who looks to be in his 30s trying to write something like "me and Jake went to the park" and it corrects him like his mother should have 20 years ago with "uhh, Jake and I".
I also get irked at those who throw commas between adjectives that mean the same thing. I propose that you do away with the idea of making a game for a while and instead make a counter-app to Grammarly that makes useful but kind of insulting suggestions. Call it "Daddy's English" or "Grammar Heck" and make all the money.
Wonderful mario buddies? I got chills haha
This was the best video game review I ever saw. The sarcastic humor combined with interesting findings about the game design are a great combination.
I'll probably listen to this 5 times in the next week at work, thanks Tim
I really could listen to Tim Rogers talk about games all day, and I kind of do....
Tim Rogers is the David Foster Wallace of video game reviews
I have been privately thinking this for years.
Let’s HOPE that comparison only goes so far, if you know what I mean...
One of these days he's just gonna hit us with a 10 minute aside on pharmacology
that yoshi bit, oh my gorsh
also, the classic line about art being greatest at lying is basically all the proof you need for the videogames-are-art argument
so i get the joke about yoshi but i dont know how yoshi actually sounds in the game still
@@shoofle the question is, how badly do you wanna know?
That slow motion Yoshi sound caused a spit-take with my cereals. Thanks Tim XD
I used to bring a 100ft extension chord to plug into the parking lot light poles at my work, so I could play Wii u on my lunch break
WONDERFUL MARIO BROTHERS IS REAL
Oh man Yoshi's screaming brought back some good Ziggurat memories
That Yoshi section though.
36:54 Super Mario Wonder gets announced in June 2023. Tim Rorgers is illuminati, confirmed.
My PS4 hard disk died yesterday while I was watching this video, RIGHT AFTER Tim Rogers confessed everyone at Sony was playing New Super Mario Bros. on their DS. Can't be a coincidence.
whenever tim sets up a "spoiler: " joke its terrifying because you know hes actually going to say something true
Jesus Christ the Yoshi screams
I watch all of your scripted videos about 3 times each and, with some, 6-10 times (DQ, Forza, etc). This one is gonna be part of the latter.
Great stuff dude- I only just bought Valkyria Chronicles after your recommendation, but NSMBUDX might come next.
Tim Rogers is without a doubt the best damn reviewer ever! Hilarious!!
You can play as Blue Toad by holding down L on the character select, thus also being able to play with four people and nobody being forced to use Toadette or Nabbit.
I do wish this feature were more obvious, but at least it's there. Maybe Nintendo could patch it so Blue Toad is just another character, or put some text on screen to explain how to change it.
Anybody ever comes back to re watch his videos? If so, raise your hand 🙌🏾 lol
I love you, Tim.
I watched this video for the first yesterday and have since seen it 3 times. Darn! Previously to my pur-view of this delectable re-view, I was perfectly happy ignoring New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe for the foreseeable future. But now following my re-watches of your re-view, I feel like I need to re-think that decision. Which is weird, considering this review was mostly complaining about NSMB U!
Tim Rogers, I raise my metaphorical hat to you. You are one uber persuasive game reviewer.
25:03 I had my 2 yo daughter try the OG mario bros for the first time last weekend. When she reached the hidden 1up mushroom from the 1-1 level she started to jump around even though I never told her about it. Must be some kind of genetic memory cause she found it first time.
Thank you Tim Rogers for being the only Videogame Content Creator that inspires me to actually compliment the quality of their work! This video is great!
(also you said you 'hate levels with darkness' and then proceeded to directly compare New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe with Celeste, which features a segment of a level that's built around navigating / platforming in a dark area with no lights. I think Celeste does it well, but I want to hear your justification).
another master piece video. thanks for all the effort!
My best Tim Rogers voice:
I'm
At work, trying
To watch a review
On
A game
I already know I will buy..
Leave me alone,
Boss!
damn stephen totilo is committed to his Wii U.
I just want to say that I started watching this just for a quick look at what this was going to be like then I watched the whole thing simply because you are hilarious! Thank you so much for this! I’m going to follow you now!
If you're playing two player, one of you can be Mario, one can be Luigi and one can be Toad. The other person playing has to be Nabbit or Toadette.
1+1+1+1=2
Mathematics has left the chat.
Tim's suggestion of a Django Reinhardt style mario OST is the best thing I had no idea I needed.
Video time is never slim, when you do it with Tim!
Video time is never slime
Fuck me I've never subbed to Kotaku, but after discovering Tim I'm gonna keep coming back for more
Every game is Tim's favorite game series.
Video games is Tim's favourite game series.
Just casually predicting Wonder years ahead of time... Maybe they saw this video and were like "yeah"
As I tend to play classic mario-games with a special set of rules, I still like a system with lives very much. When you play in a rogue-like fashion, lives are an important ressource for you to make it through the game, and one of the main reasons to explore stages.
This game is amazing in both variety and quality in stage designs(which is very important to me) - ghost houses are part of that.
I appreciate you lining up the dropping of the Wii U box art with the screen shaking around 1:25
Your reviews are Shakespearean.
Tim, thank you for continually giving us of the photo of Stephen Totilo playing his WiiU at the airport. And also thank you for continuing to play video games and then talk into microphones about them.
Given the mario wonder we now have, this actually aged fairly well
Lucky that I started this video ~38 minutes before my work day ends!
A 38 minute review? This man has lost his bonkers. But coming from Mr. Timtaku Rogers I will watch all 2,290 seconds of it.
WONDERFUL MARIO BUDDIES
Do you love them more than Dragon Quest? Love the videos
Remember they did this because Wii U sales were low meaning this game’s sales were low
As a Brazilian, I have no fucking ideia what he was talking about
i love the way this man speaks
Good use of the mathematical concept of Set. Always appreciate math savvy content creators sliding in little references like that.
I got worried at the end there. For a few tense moments, I thought Tim would die starving. Way to allay my fears, Tim!
Tim Rogers I listened to the podcast episode of "Bad End" in which you were the premiere featurette, you spoke at length about the comments beneath your videos and specifically mentioned that you read every one of them and that in particular the comments from nickel headed numb-souls could on occasion rub you the wrong way and in response to that grievance I wanted to be a breathe of fresh air upon your furrowed brow as you perused the dark and dreary hallways of the youtube comment section
i liked the video
Doogely-Jim thanks bro
@@kotaku senpai
Tim's favorite game series is actually Dragon Quest--TIM LIED TO US IN THIS VIDEO! And it has me asking mysellf, "What *else* is he lying to us about??" and WHY did he lie about it here???
THE YOSHI SCREAMING MADE ME FUCKING LOSE IT
Accidentally put the speed of this to 0.25 - and had the time of my life.
Listen on 2.0x and it sounds like the quoting of the "small print" in a Medical Drug Commercial.
@25:57 "we can WALLK through some WALLS"
this man is out of control and must be stopped.
"Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Review"
"38 minutes 10 seconds"
I immediately knew it was Mr. Rogers and clicked.
more than a year later and everyone slept on the line “the tedium is the message”
Okay, that 'Je ne sais quoi' pun got me good. 😂😂
WONDERFUL MARIO BUDDIES! This guy kills me
i fucking love the idea of the "i get it" button
great content as always tim.
Gregarious sounds like an adjective describing a person who is Gregary-like.
i think that's actually "gregaryish"
36:48 i cant believe he predicted super mario bros wonder
I would love for wario and waluigi to be playable and to have their own unique playstyles(and Luigi too).
Also the hypothetical convenience cost is STUPID. I payed for the switch and it’s portability. I shouldn’t have to pay extra for a game because it’s console is portable.
Might aswell release Super Mario World at full price at this point. I hope they add wario and waluigi to a 2D Mario game. Maybe even as dlc and have it’s own rivalry story.
I got here for a should-i-buy video, ended up searching for more Tim Rogers reviews
I do not know what this is, nor after watching the whole thing do I even know if he likes this game, but I do not care, because I LOVE this review.
As far as Deluxe goes, there's no reason not to buy it if you haven't played either of the U games before, but from personal experience, this is not the best in its series. Is it fun and distracting? Yes. Is it challenging and sustainably memorable? No. Best level design in the series? No, but it gets pretty close. My gripe with this game? It leads you right into the secrets and does not take long to blow through the whole thing wondering what the Hell happened. It is fast-paced, yet linear and derivative at the same time. I never once felt like my life was in danger, and that is a very bad thing for a Mario game. ':/
Wait... I thought Dragon Quest was your favorite series...
You don't have to take the Supercrown while playing Toadette. You can play her with normal power ups!🤨😑
Is that really the sound Yoshi makes wtf
Yes
The Yoshi scream was perfect omg
Dude, you need to do more reviews. This s*** is hilarious!
Can someone make that 1000 decibel Yoshi scream a ring tone and send it my way? I want it very badly. Also, great video.
When you said 2d Mario's sucked but than you said you were acting jk... Got me for a sec there
“2nd best 2D Mario game”
Sounds agreeable
Even though it’s my first
Yosh is A: Disposable B: gonna give me nightmares Jeezus that cry.
Hahahaha that music at the end. That was soo funnny.
that music at the end is HILARIOUS
What is it from?
On the concept of "making darkness fun" I would implore anyone interested in this idea to check out an indie game called "The Devil's Tuning Fork". It's a game about being blind and using a sort of "visual echolocation" to navigate.
l would just like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the "if this ain't je ne sais quoi" joke.
K3zster thanks . . . that’s my favorite joke in MONTHS tbh
95% of Kotaku RUclips channel subs pressed the button because of Tim Rogers.
Well blue toad is still alive in this game if you push L while looking at yellow toad in the menu
"nabbit is baby mode."
Your intonation was hilarious
"indistinguishable from fleeeas." 😂
Ohh ma god the whole vid is actually hilarious