 Today, the review embargo has lifted on Super Mario 3D All-Stars, which means the reviews are in and oh boy, are the reviews all over the place. Before we get into this, I am giving away three copies of this game. Three copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars. Click the Gleam.io link down in the description to enter. Also if you join our Patreon at patreon.com.com for as little as $1 a month you get 15 entries in every giveaway we do. Also we have a second giveaway for a Nintendo Switch Lite and then two second place winners that will win a Switch Game of Choice to enter that giveaway. There's a laundry list of things to do down in the description, including subscribing to the channel, hitting the bell icon, all that stuff, so be sure to check that out as well. Alright, Super Mario 3D All-Stars has had the review embargo lifted and there's a lot of different reviews we could look at, but I'm basically going to be looking at Metacritic. I realize Metacritic weights things, so when you see like that 83 Metacritic scores what it has right now, that's actually a really good score on Metacritic, but you know some people might be like, these are some of the best games ever. You know, what about, what are the big outlets think about it? Well comicbook.com, you know, pretty big site, gave it a perfect score. But beyond that, it didn't really get a perfect score anywhere else. It still got some high 90s from some places, you know, you guys might have heard of places like my Nintendo news or Nintendo enthusiast, obviously like Nintendo websites are likely to give it really high scores, but none of them really gave it 100, not even Nintendo life. But then you start to get down here a little bit, and you're starting to notice that some of the bigger outlets, you know, Destructoy gave it an 85, you know, is it scrolling on IGN Spain gave it an 80, GameSpot gave it an 80, US Gamer gave it an 80, Gamesbeat 80, and it gets, it gets even lower from their PC magazine, gave it a 70, ScreenRant gave it a 70, IGN Italy gave it a 70, so you know, they have different websites, and so the Italian website gave it a 70, Power Unlimited dropped a 60 on that bad boy. It's, it's, it's a tough game to judge because it's three games in one, so like one game could be awesome and the other ones could not. And I guess, I guess this is basically, when you look at the review scores, and you look, and you look at all the reviews, there'll be hundreds if not thousands of video reviews and written reviews going up today. The thing is, Super Mario 3D All-Stars, we already know what these games are. So the reviews are going to basically be, do you like these games originally, or do you not? If you like them originally, this is a great collection pack. If you don't, okay. And then there's the second thing of, do you compare Super Mario 3D All-Stars to things like the Spiral Remaster Trilogy or the Crash Bandicoot Remastered. Because this isn't a remaster. It's literally Super Mario 3D All-Stars. And I think what's, what's, what's getting lost in all of this and, and why I think it's unfair to compare this game to other remasters, even if I wish they would have went that route, is that it's a collection pack. It's not a remastering. Nintendo never advertised it as a remastering. So why should we judge it against actual remasters? Now, the reason to is because of the price, right? Other remasters that fully remastered the games didn't charge 60 bucks for their games. But Mario, out of all the remasters we've talked about Crash and Spiral, like come on Mario is a bigger IP. We all know Mario is the bigger name. Mario games have a higher value to consumers than Crash and Spiral do. I'm sorry, no insult to fans of those franchises or those characters or Activision who owns them. It's just Mario is a bigger deal. Mario games are worth more. Super Mario 64 on its own is probably worth more than the entire Crash Bandicoot series. I'm just being honest, I hate saying that because Crash used to be like the Sony mascot. But it's just Mario's that big of a deal. So I can't sit there and be like, oh, the Crash games, these other remasters that were done, which again, 3D All-Stars is not a remaster, is so terrible. Like this is like, this would be like getting upset that on SNES, back when Super Mario All-Stars came out that they didn't remaster the games. I mean, there was some slightly better graphics, I think in Super Mario Brothers 3. But they didn't really remaster anything. Who cares? It's a collection pack. Now, I wish they would have did more. I wish they would have at least widescreened Super Mario 64, or at least gave an option to play it in widescreen. But beyond that, if they weren't going to remaster the games, what the hell is wrong with this collection pack? It's just higher resolution versions of some of the best Mario games of all time. So all of the complaints, all of the complaints I'm seeing, anyways, are all based around the fact that Nintendo didn't do what Activision did. OK, but this game isn't a remaster. So don't judge it under the same guise as other remasters. Judge it as a collection pack. Judge it next to things like the Mass Effect Trilogy. Judge it next to things like the Metroid Trilogy collection pack that came out, you know, the Metroid Prime Trilogy. Like, I'm serious. People look at this and they're looking at it all wrong. It's a collection pack. It's not a remaster. You need to compare it to other collection packs. And in every review I've read, and I've read it, God, over a dozen at this point, none of them do the comparisons, in my opinion, properly. They don't. They'll judge the games, and they'll talk about the games a little bit here and there, but then they start comparing it to remasters. I'm sorry. That's not right. Now, we can wish they would have gone down that route. We could have wished they would have remastered these games. But it's just a collection pack. We have seen so many companies do collection packs before and not really do any upgrades. So I don't know what the big deal is. It's not a big deal. Super Mario 3D All-Stars, regardless of the reviews, was going to self-denominally well. As long as the games work and don't break, cool. The games work, they don't break, they are what they are. They're literally the old games in HD. You know, controls altered a little bit, you know, to match with the Switch control scheme. I don't know what the problem is. Sometimes I think these quote-unquote reviewers don't know what the hell they're doing. It's fair in a review, I suppose, to mention that you wish Nintendo would have went the remaster route, but to not get points because it's not a remaster? God damn. I'm sorry. There's no, maybe this is just my Nintendo bias coming out, but there is no way that a collection of Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy, those three games put into one package shouldn't be a 90 and above. Shouldn't be a 90 and above. I'm sorry. Even if you don't like Sunshine, it shouldn't drag the score below a 90. I'm just, I mean, this is just my honest opinion. There's no way in hell this should be a Metacritic 83. I'm actually criticizing that Metacritic rating. It's not Metacritic's fault. There's no way in hell that this game shouldn't be a 90 or a higher, or it's a collection of games because each of these games are 90s or higher. Like there's even, like some of the reviews that are negative about this, mention that like individually these games are great, but as a collection, it didn't do as well as these other, yeah, it didn't remaster them. So stop, ugh, stop, they're so frustrating. As a Nintendo fan, it's so frustrating to watch these professional reviewers. I didn't get a review copy by the way. So sorry, no review for you guys. I'll do some impressions over the weekend, but damn, so stupid. All right, I'm done. I'm done. Super Mario 3D All-Stars comes out in two days. So I'll see you guys then for a live stream.