So, Mario Is Missing on NES is... weird, honestly. Bowser ditches the Mushroom Kingdom, kidnaps Mario, and suddenly you're Luigi running around real-world cities trying to track him down. No jumping on Goombas here—just a lot of wandering streets with a clunky map, talking to NPCs for vague hints, and memorizing random geography facts about landmarks.

You’ll hit up places like Paris or Sydney, snap photos (for some reason), and dig through this painfully slow computer terminal for info. The whole thing feels like someone took an educational game and slapped Mario characters on it last minute. I remember getting stuck for ages because some NPC wanted me to know the exact height of the Eiffel Tower or something.

It’s definitely not what you’d expect from a Mario title, but there’s a weird charm in how bizarrely out of place it all is. Just don’t go in expecting platforming—or fun, really.