Valjean_Lafitte

Hi Howard, you might not remember this but yeeeeaars ago in the early days of the internet, you reviewed Super Mario 64. I can't recall the site it was on or even what company you were working for at that time (this would been a few years after you left Nintendo), but the thing that always stands out in my memory is that the Gamemaster gave Super Mario 64 a poor review.

One of your central criticisms, as I remember it, was of the lack of interesting powerups. More specifically, you called the Wing Cap a massive disappointment and compared it to the Feather powerup in Mario World--you could fly around do cool moves, but ultimately there was nothing interesting to discover, no hidden secrets in the sky.

My question for you is (if you can even remember writing this review), have you ever revisited Super Mario 64 since then, and has your opinion of the game changed at all?

Thanks for the response! :) I remember vehemently disagreeing with you at the time, but for what it's worth, time has allowed me to see SM64's gameplay has not aged as gracefully as SMB3's, and yeah, the power ups are kinda boring.