New Super Mario Bros. keeps the same charm from all of it's predcessors.
Hello there and welcome to Gaming Prince Reviews!
Today I will be talking about the new smash hit “New Super Mario Bros!”
Woot Woot! Let’s start shall we?
New Super Mario Brothers is an amazing piece of work for the Nintendo DS.
Premise: Once again, for those of you who know all about Mario brother games, the story starts out with an Italian, short, plumber named Mario. The precious, all known, Princess Peach has been kidnapped by baby Bowser, and your mission is to save Peach!
Gameplay: in New Super Mario Bros., the Controls are fluid and precise. You will make your way through many adventures while completing more than 80 creative and fun levels. The Goomba’s, Koopa’s, Bullet Bill’s are back in action.
Mario isn’t the same as he used to be in his past 2D adventures. This time around, he has inherited some dynamic, flowing moves from Mario 64 including the ground pound, double, triple jump and my personal favourite, the wall kick. You will have to use these new shagadelic moves to collect many hidden “Star Coins.”
Star coins are round gold coins with a star on them and three of them are hidden throughout in each and every level in the game. Some of them are hidden quite stealthily, while others are just lying out in the open for you to snatch and declare victory! Ahahaha!
Erm... Sorry, got carried away there lol. You can run through each level and beat the game as fast as you can, but what fun is that? There are alternate, secret exits in some levels which will lead to mushroom houses or black canons that will shoot you like a little Pillsbury doughboy to a different world – “Hmm Hmm!”
Mushroom houses are back in action in this game. Red houses provide items. Orange houses provide big bogonga mushrooms and green houses provide lots of 1-ups.
There are new items in NSMB.
The big mushroom will make Mario very big and he is like the next Godzilla! Or as I like to call it in a Japanese accent “MARIOZILLA!” hehe. Anyway, you can run through levels like no tomorrow and demolish everything in your way.
The Mini Mushroom is a small blue fungus with shockingly, no evil grimace on the face! :D. This shrinks Mario down to an even smaller midget and you’re able to run on water, jump very high, fit through small spaces.
Blue Koopa Shell is where Mario is able to spin like a koopa on the ground while in running action. There are only a few places I found where this item is useful for unlocking a few star coins.
Mushroom: The same old mushroom
Fire Flower: Same as past games.
Let’s move on to graphics shall we?
Graphics:
Mario Bros. has a vivid, stunning, utterly amazing colour pallet. Whether it’s Mario himself, the enemies, the sky or even the bendy mushrooms, this game has some of the nicest eye-gauging graphics for a 2.5 D side-scroller I’ve seen in quite some time. The actual graphics are a cross between 2D and 3D; this is a great contrast for the lay out of the levels.
The 8 worlds are:
1. Plains
2. Desert
3. Tropical
4. Forest
5. Ice
6. Mountain
7. Clouds
8. Bowser
All of these worlds are great.
Sound: The sound of New Super Mario Bros. is decent, but I wish it could be better. New tunes for the levels are catchy and familiar for people who are purists at Mario. The greatest part for the music of this game is that the enemies react to the beat and rhythm of the music. This makes you strategize about your timing.
Value: This game has a lot of replay value, especially if you are trying to collect every single start coin, unlock all the secret exits, and collect every singe item in the game. You shouldn’t be disappointed.
Tilt: The story of NSMB isn’t anything special, but the graphics and levels will keep you coming back for more side-scrolling goodness.
Conclusion:
New Super Mario Bros. Is definitely a game to purchase. The mass amount of levels and items to collect will keep you playing for hours. I finished the game in a few days, but still need to unlock some items. So far I’ve gotten between 12-20 hours. The sound is catchy and gets stuck in your head in a good way. Game play is used with sugar and spice and everything nice. Please go buy this wonderful masterpiece and have a good day!