Over all New Super Mario Bros. is a very good game and when I bought it I’d heard it was a very short game and although it didn’t look it didn’t look it when I bought it, I ended up completing it in a matter of hours but this is without playing all levels and getting all the star coins. Looking at gameplay this is pretty much your average platform game but for those of you who will of played the original Mario games this classic style of Mario will bring back memories. As with a lot of games you will find frustrating areas but that makes it feel all the sweeter when you clear them. Considering this is a handheld 2D and that the graphics can’t be taken to an overwhelming level New Super Mario Bros. Does very well for itself creating a nice looking cartoony background and 3D-like characters. Even when you become Mega Mario there is still no loss of graphics quality. As for sound the BGMs although fairly few are quite cool and although I would have liked to of heard the original Mario theme used a bit more I found the music provided a pleasing backing to the antics of the game. As for sound effects you will find this is another aspect of the game which will take you back to the familiar coin and mushroom collecting sound effects of the NES. These sounds really remind you, you are playing a classic Mario game. There is the usual amount of plot in it for a Mario game. Lightning hits Peach’s castle, Mario starts to run off towards it to see what is going on and Peach is kidnapped by Bowser Jr. (remember Bowser Jr. saying one day he would get Mario at the end of SMS). The replayability is quite good as it is a platform game but you will find some levels longer than others and over all it is a very good game, all the flashy publicity wasn’t for nothing.
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