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Which is the Real Mario 2?
Everyone who loves Mario has probably heard the Mario 2 scandal. There's the western Mario 2, and there's the Lost Levels. Which do you think is the real Mario 2? If you ask me, it's the Doki Doki Panic one. Why you may ask? Allow me to elaborate.
The Mario 2 us westerns got was really Doki Doki Panic with Mario's name on it and has no save file (God, first Metroid then this). In Japan, they had Doki Doki Panic, Mario Lost Levels, and Super Mario USA (our version of Mario 2). When Super Mario All-Stars was released, both M2's came on the compilation. This stirred up alot of confusion and anger among gamers. They keep calling our Mario 2 the unreal Mario 2 and call lost levels the REAL Mario 2. Lost Levels is just a harder version of SMB1. SMB2 had more of an effect on the MArio universe. Without what I call the real Mario 2, we would have no Birdo, Shy Guys, or Snifits. We also wouldn't have the Bob-ombs or Pokey. What did SMBLL give to Mario? The poison mushrooms. The Lost Levels gave something bad to Mario. And yet it is considered better than our Mario 2. That makes no sense. I feel like a fool to have bought LL over SMB2. SMB2 has such an impact, it actually inspired a flash called Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom. That's cool. It also had it's own stage in Melee based on the 16 bit version of Subcon. There were those logs in the water fall and Birdo occasionally came out. LL gave the poison mushroom. The western Mario 2 clearly has a better impact.
So which do you think is the real Mario 2; ours or Japans?
Everyone who loves Mario has probably heard the Mario 2 scandal. There's the western Mario 2, and there's the Lost Levels. Which do you think is the real Mario 2? If you ask me, it's the Doki Doki Panic one. Why you may ask? Allow me to elaborate.
The Mario 2 us westerns got was really Doki Doki Panic with Mario's name on it and has no save file (God, first Metroid then this). In Japan, they had Doki Doki Panic, Mario Lost Levels, and Super Mario USA (our version of Mario 2). When Super Mario All-Stars was released, both M2's came on the compilation. This stirred up alot of confusion and anger among gamers. They keep calling our Mario 2 the unreal Mario 2 and call lost levels the REAL Mario 2. Lost Levels is just a harder version of SMB1. SMB2 had more of an effect on the MArio universe. Without what I call the real Mario 2, we would have no Birdo, Shy Guys, or Snifits. We also wouldn't have the Bob-ombs or Pokey. What did SMBLL give to Mario? The poison mushrooms. The Lost Levels gave something bad to Mario. And yet it is considered better than our Mario 2. That makes no sense. I feel like a fool to have bought LL over SMB2. SMB2 has such an impact, it actually inspired a flash called Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom. That's cool. It also had it's own stage in Melee based on the 16 bit version of Subcon. There were those logs in the water fall and Birdo occasionally came out. LL gave the poison mushroom. The western Mario 2 clearly has a better impact.
So which do you think is the real Mario 2; ours or Japans?