So great and different, but lost a little bit of it's magic
Graphics: 8/10
The colors are beautiful, extremelly colorful, just downright dazzling. But, the characters are a little glitchy, Mario's hat is a little glitchy around the tip. The 3-D graphics are stunning, the puffy, green trees, Chain Chomp, heck the castle looks great (I beat the whole game, I've been on the castle). I'm impressed, it's amazing what a little machine can do.
Sound: 9/10
Their all back, and the new ones are great too. They do get annoying though, sometimes I switch the chraracters around so I don't have to listen to Yoshi's (Ahoo) one gajillion times. The sound effects are perfect, they fit right along.
Control: 9/10
Much, much, much, and a few more muches, much easier then the original. Alot of you might not agree, but really, moving him is so much easier, the buttons respond a little better as well. One thing that confused me though, is that they allow you to move your character with the, stylus?!?!?! What's up with that, It'll be harder to do attacks and stuff, I think there was no point in adding that feature.
Gameplay: 6/10
This is were it goes a wee bit downhill. I will tell you, most of the time, the missions are pretty easy, but when their hard, you could punch right through the Great Wall of China, you get that mad. Also, quite a few of the old missions have changed, the volcano course, star five. You get to the top, instead of 3 hovering blocks to the star, there's two blocks in the ds version. The gameplay is also gerat becuase if a mission is good enough, you'll want to it again.
Enertainment: 6/10 This is a great game, but once you finish it, there is no point whatsoever to play it again. The minigames will keep you hooked, but not for long. Your gonna get bored of battling the 3rd Bowser, and flying outside, and getting to the top of the pyrimid (desert world).
Unlockables: 6/10
Well, there's plenty, but not really any of them are worth it. The minigames are really fun, but there not addictive. They really could have put more thought into there minigames, I mean, alot of them are great, but all your really doing most of the time is tapping. I do also enjoy the drawing part, I'm addicted to this becuause I try to get Mario perfect when I'm tracing him, but I never do.
I'll just give you a quick pros and cons
Pros:
-New Characters, Stages, etc.
-Better Control
-Better Graphics
-Minigames
-Multiplayer
Cons:
-Loss of enertainment
-Didn't change enough
-graphics a little glictchy
Overall, this is one great game, but when you beat it and get tired of the minigames, toss the thing, it's worthless, you'll never play it again.