Super Mario Bros. Z

[MistakesWereMade]

Why not?

First of all, their goal is to trigger a different feeling to eachother throughout almost the entirety of their respective series. Therefore they have to go through different settings, different turn of events, character development, etc.

When you go for comedy, you gotta set the scenario in a more lighthearted enviroment, usually by lacking the "serious" aspect of it.

When you go for action, you have to go for an almost completely different scenario, where seriousness takes a stronger magnitude on the enviroment, therefore diminishing comedy for the duration of the action.

This is why you can't compare both of them, you can't have seriousness and comedy at the exact same time. I'm not saying you can't have comedy and action mixed in a product, but it's extremely difficult, if not impossible to have them at the same time. Usually, when you have a comedic part in the middle of the action, the seriousness of the enviroment stops for a fraction of a moment, while when something dramatic happens, the seriousness of the enviroment is kept intact, if not increased.

[aero]

Yeah I'm aware of all that. What I'm saying is looking at each animation for what it is and then comparing them from there is fair because they each come to a different balance in quality.

[Julia Pseudo]

I mean, I would say that SMBZ has higher animation quality (in terms of looks alone) than Bowser's Kingdom for sure.

[aero]

Quality is more than looks.

[Julia Pseudo]

I entirely agree, but it's one of the few places that Bowser's Kingdom and SMBZ can be judged totally fairly on, tying into what Nien said. The two series have very different goals - I'd say which one a person prefers probably is more about which genre they prefer - action or comedy - rather than a quantifiable level of quality one has over the other.