The correct answer is the Mario game I was playing during puberty and nothing will ever change this.
More seriously, Mario 64 was fucking incredible. Just making that leap from 2D to 3D alone was something else. And then they hit it out of the park on game 1. The subsequent Marios were largely solid, but they owe their genes to that original banger.
Seconded. There is no shortage of series that stumbled the transition to 3D, and many of those came after Mario 64. Nailed it in one. Absolutely incredible.
The correct answer is the Mario game I was playing during puberty and nothing will ever change this.
More seriously, Mario 64 was fucking incredible. Just making that leap from 2D to 3D alone was something else. And then they hit it out of the park on game 1. The subsequent Marios were largely solid, but they owe their genes to that original banger.
Seconded. There is no shortage of series that stumbled the transition to 3D, and many of those came after Mario 64. Nailed it in one. Absolutely incredible.