02-09-2013, 01:11 AM
I don't get how Bowser seemed more scary back then, he seems more scary and expressive than ever now. His boss battles in Galaxy feel like Bowser wants to kill me. In Mario 64 it just sort of seemed random. He'd shoot some fire over here, run over there. For the most part he was sluggish and easily tricked.
However, I must admit, unlike the any Mario game to date Bowser felt like he was watching me in Super Mario 64.... I was constantly reminded of his presence, a force to be feared. From the first time you enter the castle and hear his laugh, every time you try to enter a door that you couldn't he'd taunt and laugh at you.
What was really scary... is that you never got to see him. You never saw him kidnap Peach, you never saw what he did to this place, you are only told by the Toads. Your mind tries to fill in the pieces of just what went down here and how did what he did! Now that's scary!
Finally when you come to fight him... he's kind of disappointing. This is what I was afraid of? He's slow and stupid! So yeah the fight with Bowser was lousy but everything else made me fear him.
The first time I felt satisfied with a Bowser fight in a long time was in Galaxy, where I got to literally whip his ass.
However, I must admit, unlike the any Mario game to date Bowser felt like he was watching me in Super Mario 64.... I was constantly reminded of his presence, a force to be feared. From the first time you enter the castle and hear his laugh, every time you try to enter a door that you couldn't he'd taunt and laugh at you.
What was really scary... is that you never got to see him. You never saw him kidnap Peach, you never saw what he did to this place, you are only told by the Toads. Your mind tries to fill in the pieces of just what went down here and how did what he did! Now that's scary!
Finally when you come to fight him... he's kind of disappointing. This is what I was afraid of? He's slow and stupid! So yeah the fight with Bowser was lousy but everything else made me fear him.
The first time I felt satisfied with a Bowser fight in a long time was in Galaxy, where I got to literally whip his ass.