I Wish They Were All Like This!
User Rating: 8.9 | New Super Mario Bros. DS
I would be happy for life if Nintendo churned out a new Mario game every year. While I like the 3d adventures, there is nothing like the simplicity of the 2d games. The story is standard fare. Peach is kidnapped and you, as Mario must rescue her. Many of the worlds have been in the Mario universe for a long time. You start off in the standard looking world and progress through ice levels and desert. Mario has a few new weapons in his arsenal including a super mushroom which allows him to grow the height of the screen and smash through everything. He also has a mushroom that shrinks him and allows him to travel into some of the smaller warp pipes in the game. They have replaced the frog suit with a turtle shell that helps you swim underwater, and also allows for a spinning attack when you gain enough speed on land. What I really miss though is the raccoon suit from Mario 3. This isn't the best game in the Mario series, I reserve that title for Mario 3 which is still consistently fun to play nearly twenty years later. You can't go wrong with this Mario title. It is just the right length and the learning curve is perfectly placed. Games like this are what make the DS the dominant hand held. 
