SMB2 vs. Doki Doki Panic

[tz101]

Anyone played both games to completion? I am curious to know how similar the games actually are. Are player sprites merely swapped out with SMB character sprites, or are level design and bosses different as well? Basically, are the games exact duplicates besides player sprites, or are there other, more significant differences between these two?

[NeoVamp]

wh00t wh00t!

[Bastardcat]

I think it was a brilliant move. And the Mario series was all the better for it.

[StarMist]

Sprites are it. A couple enemies are changed (the vulture was a mask, something else on those lines; and the potion was a lamp), but not the bosses. Opening song. Cut the storybook intro (I just beat another NES game with one of those, Tom Sawyer), though the 'dream' that became Mario's was already in the title ('yume'). Unsurprisingly the original sprites fit the Aladdin like atmosphere far better, so it's odd we didn't get more sprite changes.

I think it was a brilliant move. And the Mario series was all the better for it.

Yep. It set a standard of weirdness for the third game to improve by. And the JP Mario 2 is like listening to a tone deaf trumpeter try to pick out a song.

[eddiespruce]

wh00t wh00t!

According to this, you couldn't hold the B button to run in Doki Doki Panic, making SMB2 a fairly large improvement over it.

[Baloo]

I think it was a brilliant move. And the Mario series was all the better for it.

Seconded! SMB 2 is an amazing game, everyone who says it's a blatant copy of some game that probably would have never made it out of Japan on its own and not fun is just kidding themselves.

[sheath]

Super Mario 2 is the only Mario game I have thoroughly enjoyed.

[Bastardcat]

I like that they took the time to improve the animation.

[Kamahl]

I like the fact that the game's awesome.

[Markss]

Dont like SMB2 just cant get into it

[tz101]

I prefer 2 over 1 or 3 in the SMB series, though I think SMW on SNES is slightly better, if only because of the fence climbing level.

[NeoZeedeater]

I like the save function in DDP and the "voice" sound effect the bosses make but other than that, SMB2's better, primarily because of the run button.

[M4R14NO94]

Seconded! SMB 2 is an amazing game, everyone who says it's a blatant copy of some game that probably would have never made it out of Japan on its own and not fun is just kidding themselves.

Thirded.

The JP SMB2 felt more like a romhack rather than an actual sequel. Plus, as everybody said, it introduced many elements that would make it into later Mario games. Except Wart.

[Bastardcat]

Because he's as dead as Wimp Lo.

[KnightWarrior]

I like the Japanese Mario 2 over the US version