In Mario 2, why would I want to choose anyone other than Peach?

The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.world – 141 points –

Just a random (almost 35 years too late) question because I've been replaying SMB2 on the Switch.

It seems like she's just objectively better in every way. I don't get why I would pick the others.

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Oh wow, I had no idea. I didn't even own the manual back in the day because I played it on Mario All Stars on the SNES.

Where were you with this info in the mid 1990s?

Lol!

I was wrong, there's THREE PAGES in the manual on the subject! 😅

https://www.digitpress.com/library/manuals/nes/Super%20Mario%20Bros%202.pdf

Huh, transgender Birdette is in there too.

I thought this comment was a joke. lol

For anyone else out of the loop, here's a screenshot from the linked manual above:

(also, apparently his name is supposed to be Birdo, but it was misprinted in the manual as "Ostro". Ostros are the big flamingo looking things)

I feel like the version we had definitely had its name printed as Birdo and not Ostro. I have always called that thing Birdo.

The name is also shown in the cast roll at the end of the game, so you might remember it from there. :)

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