Super Mario 3D Land/YMMV

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• Best Boss Ever: The Final Bowser Battle where you have to run up the queen mother of all obstacle courses, and have to dodge Bowser's flames and later on, Bowser himself while he chases you down all set to amazing boss music. Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
• Best Level Ever: 1-4.
  • 2-3 and S1-3 as well. Also, the Final Bowser Castle which also has the Best Boss Ever!
  • If you're a Zelda fan, you will enjoy 5-2.
• 8.8: Gamespot slapped it with a meager 8.0, while other outlets such as IGN, Game Informer and GamePro gave it higher scores. While other reviews had arguably legitimate reasons for lowering the score in the game being unoriginal or being overly easy for much of the game, Gamespot's written justification? "[Super Mario 3D Land has] limited StreetPass and gyrometer features." In the words of the site's very own user-created magazine System Wars Monthly:

This is true, Super Mario 3D Land only has limited use of motion control and StreetPass, which is very disapointing. Much to blame is the game's genre, a platformer. Seriously, how are you going to use StreetPass and motion controls on a handheld platformer? This is clearly a big mistake on Nintendo's part.

• • Zero Punctuation gave the game a through drubbing, stating that while the gameplay and mechanics were sound, the originality wasn't.
• Fake Longevity: Too many examples to mention, but chief among them are: having to complete a stage again if you just want a power up, which becomes a problem if you're in a level that requires the Super Leaf to get a Star Medal, and the level doesn't have any (it's either that or Save Scumming), having to essentially complete the entire game all over again with Luigi just to get one of the five stars and unlock Special World "8-crown".
• Game Breaker: Once you get your hands on a Statue Leaf, you possess the power to destroy most of the game's seemingly indestructible obstacles by letting them collide into you after transforming. Spiked balls? Gone. Spiked rollers? Scrap metal. Banzai Bills? They explode, leaving you unscathed. You can even go on the offensive with this by jumping over your obstacle in question then transforming.
  • To hammer home how broken the statue form really is, go to World 3's airship with the Statue Leaf. Stand in front of one of the gigantic spiked pillars, turn into a statue, and let it ram into you. Now hold on to your Willing Suspension of Disbelief as you witness the pillar stopping dead in its tracks colliding with your stone body while you don't even budge an inch.
• Internet Backdraft: Not towards the developers or reviewers, but towards PETA, who attacked the game on the grounds that the Tanooki Suit promotes wearing fur. (They even made a parody flash game, Mario Kills Tanooki.) After realizing how much of a hornet's nest they stirred, they tried to claim a "Just Joking" Justification, but not everyone's buying it.
  • Brental Floss put it best in his "RANTAlfloss" about MKT, after showing how Mario gets his suit 3D Land, and then asking PETA if they saw Mario skinning a raccoon alive.

Brentalfloss: "No! It's a MAGICAL... FUCKING... LEAF!"

• Memetic Mutation: Mario being accused of being a furry is a recurring joke.
• Most Annoying Sound: "dododo, DA-DA, DA-DA, DA, DA, DA, do, do-do!"
  • "WAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
    • "WAHHHHH-HA-HA-HA-HO!!!!!"
  • Any sound that Cosmic Mario makes.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Get your lives over 999 with the W 1-2 trick. Happens again when you hit 1,110.
  • The Zelda puzzle solving noise in 5-2.
• Ruined FOREVER: A good chunk of fan reactions to the Tanooki Suit having none of the abilities it's known for (although it can still slow your fall and you can still do the tail spin attack; the ability to turn into stone is only available with a special leaf that you can get starting in the Special Worlds).
• Scrappy Mechanic: Nintendo has been pretty good with recent Mario games on setting aside special areas you can repeatedly visit just for power-ups to help with replayability... Except this game. Once you unpack an item from any of the Toad Houses and leave, it's gone for good. Nothing will bring the houses back except getting a Game Over, and you'll be hard pressed to encounter one with the plethora of 1-Ups the game gives you. As mentioned above in Fake Longevity, you can also nab power-ups from stages, but if you want to leave the stage with the power-ups in question, you have to complete the level, as exiting the course does not save your progress.
  • On the other hand, getting Street Pass connections to other players does bring back the Mushroom Houses, so just carry around your 3DS in sleep mode and you'll do all right.
• Seinfeld Is Unfunny: It was a cool platformer that made for a memorably fun and unique Mario experience, but 3D World would completely blow it out of the water a few years later, making it hard to appreciate in hindsight.
• Tear Jerker: It's not the first time Mario gets to see Peach getting kidnapped right before his eyes, but this is the only time this hit him...hard. To clarify, at the end of that level (World 8, first Bowser castle), Mario doesn't even do his happy dance. Though he did seem determined more than shell shocked, meaning he's about to get dangerous.