Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6858788-20141211214401/@comment-25839693-20141217112019

Wait, that thread that Daylight Shadow made about which franchise (Mario and Sonic) was better got closed? Well, here's my opinion:

I'm not keen on Mario that much, I used to like it ever since I played Mario Super Circuit, although I never considered myself (not talking about the user) to be a fan. I was, instead more of a nutural around Mario. However when New Super Mario Bros. Wii showed up, I was put off it because of those Blue and Yellow toads. Because the series doesn't have proper dialogue, there wasn't an explanation for their presence, or why they were helping Mario and Luigi. Those two (toads) have since been shown as main characters in later main titles. Anyway, there are other reasons why I dislike Mario, to me, it's filled with Mary-Sues and Gary-Stus, we have Princess Peach who keeps getting abducted by Bowser which leads to Mario setting out to help her (I remember Snake's line in Brawl "If he were smart he'd tell her to stop getting kidnapped!", try taking his advice, Mario), although Peach got her own game where she was the one who saved Mario (and Luigi) and there was Super Mario 3D World in which she was playable. Daisy's not so much of a Sue, she did get captured in her debut but now she's been mostly in spin-off games. Some of the Toads have similar names (Toadette, Toadsworth). And moreover the main series have recycled the plot idea over and over, I would of said Super Mario Galaxy is the most unique game (even Peach was, predictably, captured as usual), but then they just had to make a unnecessarily sequel for it.

Now I like Sonic better because while the classic games may not had dialogue except Sonic CD (as far as I'm aware), they had each had a creative plot and this has continued thoughout the Dreamcast game to the present day games. I know that the recent games have bad plots, but I'm certain that Sega will improve, we just got to keep believing in them.

Cartoonwise, both franchises had TV Shows. I remember watching a few episodes of the Mario ones and as well as the ones for Sonic, and while I am not that much keen on watching cartoons (thank Nickelodeon for that and their amazing new shows *Sarcasm*), I kinda think the ones with Sonic where better, they are different to each other. Funny thing is, I actually have no interest in any of them.

Now as for the comics, Mario probably has dozens of comics based on him. I don't remember the names, but I think Club Nintendo (I think it's called that) had made some. For Sonic, he has Sonic the Comic, Sonic Boom (based on the show of the same name), Sonic X (based on the anime) which got cancelled after 40 issues, Sonic the Hedgehog and it's spin-off titles including Sonic Universe). Even though the Mario comics had more creativity in them than the games, I personally think the ones focusing on Sonic are more better.

So in conclusion, I like Sonic.