New Super Mario Bros.

Instant Classic? No, but still a very good game.

User Rating: 8.8 | New Super Mario Bros. DS

By Sporkguy3 | Review Date: May 24, 2006

I got into this game looking for the second coming of Super Mario Bros 3, but that was not what I got here. When SMB 3 came out it was new, fresh, vibrant, even though 2D had been done, flying goombas, flying Mario! better graphics, before the onslaught of Mario games, it was great. Super Mario World felt new too! Mario had a cape! Yoshi! 16 Bit!!!!

Alas, The new Super Mario Brothers feels far from new. This game does everything right, except for innovate. It was a fun filled 2D adventure worth any Mario fan's while, but no classic here.

Great Throwback, good DS game.

One thing did bother me tho, the blue shell, when you run u turn into a shell, and although you kill everything you hit... its hard to stop and u tend to fall off cliffs.

Anyway, good game.

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