Softendo (2011-present)
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Softendo is a "company" and website founded in 2007 by Michał Gdaniec. They are the current developer of Mario Forever, and the successor to Buziol Games.
Softendo is usually known for making several Super Mario fan games that don't feel or play like the real aforementioned games, and misspelling Nintendo characters like Mario as Maryo.
Qualities That Are Not A Good Choice
- For starters, Much like Data Design Interactive, Softendo often reskins their games and put them as a new game. Arcade Sniper, Dragon Ball Arcade, and Mario Forever Galaxy are all reskins of the cancelled Obliterator (except for Mario Forever Galaxy which had a story but had Obliterator's mechanics) and were made in GameMaker rather than Multimedia Fusion, people didn't know if Softendo was Michał or another website stealing his games and reskinning them.
- Mario Forever: Block Party is a reskin of Zelda Forever: The Tower of Evil, except that it had Super Mario elements put to it. Finally, he released Mario Games, which was Mario Forever's Mario Minix but with two extra maps and different graphics.
- Another game that would get the same treatment would be Zelda Forever: The Tower of Evil, which was a reskin of Bod Blob 2, a cancelled sequel of the same title.
- Banesoft, a part of Softendo released some games like Super Sonic Mario and Super Mario Crystals. In an unknown time, it was shutdown. These games were mainly negatively received by many people due to messed up level design and various other oddities. Some even featured game-breaking bugs that made them unplayable.
- 2011 was the year that would have start Softendo's dark age. While Mario Forever was getting updates, most of these updates were just updated setups, though some (mainly v5.08dx and v5.9) somehow added more bugs instead of fixing them, which defeats the purpose of an "update", as an update should fix bugs, not add more of them. Version 5.05, released on July 21, 2011, was the first version of Mario Forever where Softendo bundled the game with a Conduit installer that could offer to install additional software, though this was also the source of toolbars. Some installers of Mario Forever have been also bundled with malware/viruses, resulting in many people blaming Softendo for inserting dangerous stuff into an installer of a regular fan game, though people have been speculating that it was someone else who managed to somehow insert malware/viruses into the aforementioned installers.
- 2011 was also the year when Softendo started doing strange things, such as making presentations of NSFW Mario pictures, while also occasionally posting clips of some Mario Forever levels with sprite swapped Mario sprites, though some were also made during 2010. The videos had rather awkward English such as "beautiful" being incorrectly written as "beautyful". Remember that the Mario series is aimed at kids.
- It was also the year where www.Buziol.pl (a part of Softendo) made other games like Super Mario Playgrounds, and Super Mario Castle. Super Mario Peach Party was also one of them, which focused on Princess Peach and had NSFW images on it. In an unknown time (possibly in 2011, the same year when these games were released), www.Buziol.pl was thankfully shutdown.
- When New Super Mario Forever was released in 2012, there have been reports that the game had malware/viruses, as they couldn't close the game by clicking the "X" button on the game's window, though this was proven because of rather bad programming. The game also had problems with saving, where completing the a world couldn't save their progress unless they completed one of the levels of the next one. While some installers of the game may contain malware/viruses, there are also download links with safe ones. Despite these reports, New Super Mario Forever was met with a positive reception.
- In 2013, Softendo released v6.01 of Mario Forever, which added the infamous World of Stupidity world and Syzxchulun's edited World 9, along with fixing a lot of bugs. However, closing the game would constantly take people to Softendo's website, which was heavily criticized by many players due to it being very annoying. Some people even thought that it was done so that people could download Softendo's other games. Both World of Stupidity and World 9 were criticized for their difficulty and the bugs they had.
- In January 2015, in Softendo's channel, there were posted new videos which were images of some female Mario characters, with one even featuring a thumbnail that wasn't that appropriate, and one video even had a thumbnail that was completely innapropiate (albeit somewhat censored). However, most (except for one) were age-restricted, mostly because of the images' quality. Is Michał Gdaniec in drugs? Or Softendo is not his?
- The website was completely ruined in 2018 when it became an ugly ass of a website. Don't believe it? See the website yourself.
- In 2024, they uploaded a bunch of A.I music on their channel. Even the pictures are A.I-generated.
Qualities That Are A Good Choice
- Their games usually have amazing graphics.
- Their games made in GameMaker, New Super Mario Forever and Mario Forever: Block Party, had amazing and eye-candy graphics and special effects that pushed GameMaker to its limits. Although it cause the games to run slow in some computers.
- Their logo is very nice to look at.
- The website before 2018 looks very good.
- Despite their awful redesign for their website in 2018, they have been slightly improving as of 2017, toning down the inappropriate content by moving away from it, with v7.01 of Mario Forever being released and fixing noticeable issues, such as more bugs and making world 9 actually possible to be completed (despite it still being very tough to beat).
- Their downfall didn't harm Mario Forever's reputation too much, and it still remained a good game, despite its slight downfall in 2011 before v7.01's release in 2017.
Reception
Softendo, unlike Buziol Games faced a lot of criticism on the games he made, ranging from rebranding the same games while adding sprites to them to bugs.
Arcade Sniper, Mario Forever Galaxy and Dragon Ball Arcade were praised for their game play and variety of mechanics. However, they were criticized from copying the same game, but adding elements from a different universe. The same thing applied to Zelda Forever: The Tower of Evil, which copied Bod Blob 2, before Mario Forever: Block Party copied Zeldax Forever it but changed everything to sprites from Super Mario games. Mario Online and Mario Games didn't get that much attention, but were praised for their mechanics.
Mario Forever v4.4 was again praised for being kept the same as how Buziol left it, until v5.0 came in with its shiny effects and different music due to the upgrade of its game-developing platform from Multimedia Fusion 1.5 to Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer Edition. This update marked the downfall of Mario Forever, with arguably increasing after v5.05, which marked the "Mario Forever Virus" era with its Conduit installer.
New Super Mario Forever, on the other hand, gained popularity from Vinesauce's video, which resulted in people playing it, aside from it being positive in terms of levels. Yet some setups were filled with malware and viruses, and the game suffered from bad programming, particularly with the fact that people couldn't close the game and had to use a Task Manager to close it, along with the game not saving when one completes a world. This made New Super Mario Forever a failed sequel, despite its positive reception that most people gave to it.
Mario Forever v7.01 was an improvement from v5.0-v6.01's downfall, as it removes all of the Conduit installers it had before, along with providing two extra worlds and fixing various bugs with World 9 (despite still being rather buggy). However, the old main menu music from Buziol's first version was changed, which led to some people being upset. Due to that, they ended up ruining Mario Forever's reputation.
Banesoft:
Banesoft's games were criticized of how messed up its games were. Megaman X Wackyland was just a reskin of Urbagility 2 but with Capcom's Megaman, Mario Maniac Bros was just Mario Minix, while the other Super Mario games including Sonic in Marioland were criticized of messed up level design, and the game-breaking bugs that made most of them unplayable.
www.Buziol.pl:
www.Buziol.pl's games were not enjoyed that much, as they were repetitive and boring and didn't have enough mechanics. However, they were criticized for the awkward English they used, and mature Super Mario picutres of Princess Peach in Super Mario Peach Party 1 and 3, which caused severe backlash and led to its shutdown.
List of games Softendo made
Softendo:
- Arcade Sniper (2008)
- Dragon Ball Arcade (2008)
- Mario Forever Block Party (2008)
- Mario Forever Galaxy (2008)
- Zelda Forever: The Tower of Evil (also known as Zeldax Forever) (2008)
- Mario Forever (v4.15-now) (2009-present)
- Mario Worker (v4.4) (2009)
- Mario Forever: Advance Edition (2009)
- Mario Online (2009)
- Mario Games (2009)
- New Super Mario Forever (2012-2015)
- Super Furio 1 (2013; First game Softendo made in Flash)
- Super Furio Adventures (2013)
- Super Furio and Monsters (2013)
- Mario Forever Kids (2017)
- Bod Blob 1+ (2017)
- Super Mario Shooten (Second English version, 2017)
- Mario Forever World Editor (2019)
Banesoft: (2008-2008)
- Mario Maniac Bros (2008)
- Megaman X Wackyland (2008)
- Sonic in Marioland (2008)
- Super Mario Castle Adventures (2008)
- Super Mario Castle Buster (2008)
- Super Mario Crystals (2008)
- Super Mario Flayer (2008)
- Super Mario Ice (2008)
- Super Mario Ice 2 (2008)
- Super Mario Sonic Armageddon (2008)
- Super Mario Star (2008)
- Super Mario with Shotgun (2008)
- Super Sonic Mario (2008)
www.Buziol.pl: (2011-2011)
- Super Mario and Friends (2011)
- Super Mario Bombastic (2011)
- Super Mario Castle (2011)
- Super Mario Castle 2 (2011)
- Super Mario Dark Dungeon (2011)
- Super Mario Starshine Finder (2011)
- Super Mario Coins (2011)
- Super Mario Curibo Shoe (2011)
- Super Mario Play (2011)
- Super Mario Playgrounds (2011)
- Super Mario Playgrounds 2 (2011)
- Super Mario Peach Party (2011)
- Super Mario Peach Party 3 (2011)
- Super Mario Shooten (2011; First English version)
Cancelled games:
- Mario Forever: Temple of Stars (2009; cancelled)