Let's face it, a game made by another developer that's educational wasn't a good idea.

User Rating: 1 | Mario is Missing! SNES
What happened here? Nintendo relinquished the Mario title to another company for one game and the other company manages to produce a piece of crap. But this is no ordinary piece of crap, oh no. This is a piece of crap smeared across what used to be a nice franchise.

I cannot stress enough about how bad this game is, it's comparable to Big Rigs: Over Road Racing, the worst PC game ever made. Now, the big difference is that Software Creations (SC) took the time to create this crap in it's entirety, as opposed to what Big Rigs did, just sold an alpha version of a game. If you ever recieve this game for any reasons I suggest you blow it up because that's about 1000 times more fun than playing this game. I will now list off the reasons as to why this game sucks as it does.

1. No Difficulty. This game literally has no difficulty, none. You cannot die (even during "boss" battles), and you cannot lose. You literally have no way in hell of losing this game. Even if you put the controller through a woodchipper while playing you'd still have a good chance of winning. The game's that easy.

2. Education. Why oh why did they choose to make a educational game out of this? It just has no right to exist after what SC did to it. Not only are you forced to learn something which has no use in the real world, but you have to do it ALL the time in this game. There are literally dozens of levels, all with some cheesy music and each miraculously has the same 5 people walking around in it. And they all either say annoying things with no relevance to the game (at all) or they give you obvious hints as to what you need to do. The hints make you feel like your stupid. They consist of things like "Take that ballerina shoe to the stage." Ya, where else would it go? The chapel or the bridge are the only other monuments on the map.

3. Boring levels. I mentioned alot about this in the Education section but theres even more mind numbing stupidity to be heard. Not only are there only 5 people in an entire city, but there's also an assortment of enemies who oddly walk around forever. You defeat them to get artifacts which you then return to the monument it came from, but it isn't over yet! You are then forced to take a quiz on that monument which acts as if you live there or something. After you return all the artifacts you get Yoshi, who's only purpose is to scare away this cactus thing so you can get back to the world you were in. Oh yeah, each world has 5 cities, theres about 4 of these worlds before you reach Bowser (and a boss fight you don't fight, more on that later). After you spend precious minutes of your lives doing menial find and return style tasks on all cities, your rewarded with a boss fight which, once again, you cannot lose at. The bose just runs at you and defends, never attacks. All you need to do is jump on him when he's not defending and you hurt him. After another few minutes he's dead and you go onto the next world.

4. Too short. Actually, this ones more a pro than a con. The fact that Mario Is Missing is so short means It'll take you maybe an hour max to get through it's terrible gameplay. After this hour you won't want to play another game for a few days because of the terrible experience you've had with this horrendous title.

Please oh, please do not even think about playing this game...ever. If you ever see someone playing this game then turn off their system, pull out the cartridge, and beat the offender sensless for playing such a terrible game. Then proceed with my recomendation and blow it up. Throw it in a campfire, shoot it with guns, attatch it to fireworks or something along those lines. I promise it's better than any minute of that game. Why this game was published is beyond me.