A green dinosaur, a yellow cape, and decades of memories stuck to every jump.

When the community decides on gut feeling, no thinking, Super Mario World only lands ahead of 31% of games, on few votes. That is low for such a monument. The detail partly explains the gap. The art style holds firm, ahead of 81% of titles, and attachment stays above the middle, ahead of 62%. But fun collapses, rock bottom, ahead of just 2%, rediscovery too, ahead of 4%, and the sound falls very low. There lies the gap between a classic and criteria built for today. This game defined the joy of platforming, but the thrill of immediate fun and the wish to rediscover it, as measured by this community, do not do it justice.

Against modern platformers, Mario World remains a precision clock, a model of level design. What penalizes it here is not its quality, it is that you know it by heart: hard to dream of rediscovering a game already carved into you.

So who is it for? For you if you love pure platforming, pixel-perfect movement, the nostalgia of a founding classic. Far less if you want a sonic punch or the surprise of a first time.