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Mario Awards XIV

M1. Best Sound Design The game that overall sounds the best. A significant deciding factor is the game's soundtrack, but it also includes skillful and appropriate use of sound effects, ambience, and (if present) quality of voice acting. M2. Favorite Kart Game The best game of the Mario Kart series. M3. Favorite Mario Platformer The best game featuring the core 2D or 3D Mario gameplay without too many significant deviations. The selection encompasses games which focus on the use of skillful jumping to traverse obstacle courses and/or sandboxes to reach the objective, often while collecting coins and helpful powerups along the way. M4. Favorite Mario Kart Course The best race course featured in one or more Mario Kart games. This does not include battle courses. M5. Favorite Donkey Kong Game The best game of the Donkey Kong spin-off series. M6. Favorite Wario Game The best game of the Wario spin-off series. M7. Favorite Yoshi Game The best game of the Yoshi spin-off series. M8. Favorite Art Style The best visual style used in Mario media. This features prominently used, distinct, and recognizable art styles, but does not include one-off styles. A focus is placed on overall aesthetics over deviations due to hardware limitations (for example: SM64 looks different from SMG, but this seems to be a product of hardware limitations rather than artistic choice. Promotional renderings of the game show Mario in the familiar main series style. Therefore, we do not recognize SM64 as its own art style). M9. Favorite Add-on Content The best Mario-relevant software package that adds new content to a game. To qualify, the content must add one or more distinct, recognizable elements to the initial release of the game. This does not include minor patches, code updates, or bug fixes. M10. Favorite Lyrical Song The best music track from a Mario or Mario spin-off game featuring intelligible lyrics. M11. Favorite Major Character The best recurring Mario series character prominently featured in a main role. M12. Favorite Supporting Character The best Mario series or Mario spin-off series character who is part of the supporting cast. This includes recurring minor characters, as well as major characters that only appeared in one game, or exclusively appear in spin-offs. M13. Favorite Level Theme The best overall environmental theme of a level. M14. Favorite Species The best species that characters in the Mario series can belong to. To qualify, there must be more than one representative of said species present throughout the series. M15. Favorite Instrumental Track The best music track from a Mario or Mario spin-off game featuring solely instrumentals and sounds. M16. Favorite Item The most interesting, useful, or otherwise superior item or power-up available in the Mario series. M17. Favorite Mario RPG The best Mario role-playing-game. M18. Favorite Mario Party Game The best game of the Mario Party series. M19. Favorite Villain The best Mario series or Mario spin-off series villain or nefarious group, major or minor. This award takes into account their role in the story, their actions, boss battles, and overall characterization. M20. Favorite Sports Game The best sports-themed Mario spin-off game. Mario Kart titles have been excluded from this award because they already possess a dedicated award to themselves. M21. Favorite Puzzle Game The best Mario spin-off game which primarily focuses on the completion of puzzles and places emphasis on the use of logic over pure dexterity. This includes puzzle-platformers. M22. Favorite Battle Course The best dedicated battle course featured in one or more Mario Kart games. M23. Favorite Capture The best controllable creature that can be captured with Cappy in Super Mario Odyssey. Deciding factors include their moveset, breadth of options, how well the game used them, as well as how enjoyable they are to control overall.