Who has Tougher Bosses? Mario/Sonic

Started by A Pixy October 16th, 2008 5:06 AM
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Mario or Sonic?

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Hmm, it really depends if you count the RPG continuity for Mario.

Outside the RPGs, you have the Koopalings, King Goomba and Bomb Omb, Petey, and stuff like that. The Mario platformers has never EVER been known for it's tough Bosses. Even Galaxy, with the Daddy Long Legs robot wasn't that hard. The RPGs, however...

We got stuff like Cluex, The Axem Rangers, Macho Grubba, Star Rod Powered Bowser...some of these were pretty tough if you didn't prepare first.

I also haven't really played much of the Sonic games, outside of the two Adventures and the Advance Games, so I can't say much for them either >>
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That is so friggin' irrelivant!
So is that. :| Try to stay on topic, even if others don't.

I'd say that Sonic has had tougher bosses. He had to deal with Chaos and Dr. Eggman's constant attacks and he's usually facing a much larger foe. Mario generally deals with Bowser, but he's had his fair share of gargantuan enemies. XD

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Well, I just compared Bowser to Shadow the Hedgehog and I ended up choosing Bowser, just because I always got so aggravated on Super Mario 64 when I had to hit 3 spikes, and grabbing his tail was always so annoying.

So yeah, I went with Mario.
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Ooka, consider the classics.

Eggman and Bowser may have been the only bosses, but when you consider that Eggman was in a different machine each time, it makes the Sonic bosses more dynamic then "bridge, watch out for lava, jump over stupid turtle, cut the bridge, oops, princess is in another castle, wtf, k, let's go to next worldkthnx"
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Well, yes, but now it sounds more like you're judging the concept of Mario and not the actual gameplay. :/

Eh, I just figured I'd compare my favorite bosses from both. And I guess if we're considering classics, Super Mario Bros. 3 was one of the hardest games I ever played for the NES, although it was quite a while ago, so I don't quite know how it compared to Sonic. (Or how the bosses compared, rather)
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Well, I haven't played Sonic on the SS in almost 10 (if not 13+) years, but I still consider that the dynamics of the bosses are harder because at least, in Mario, you didn't have to start from the beginning of the entire game if you lost all your lives. :(
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This has no Zelda. Therefore, it fails.

But to answer the question... Sonic has tougher bosses than Mario... But ironically, SMB's battles were/are far more memorable than the cheesy Sonic battles.
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Well, with Bowser, he stuck with you because the bridge-cutting is one of the most defining "gfg nub" moments of all time.

With Eggman...his ship blows up, he runs with his tail between his legs, and you...free a bunch of animals? :S
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I personally though fighting bowser towards the end of the game in the original SMB was pretty hard, but I guess that can be all opinion.