New Super Mario Brothers DS, some comments

kevin wrote:
> Picked up this game on Saturday. I am an older gamer (36!) so I had
> a NES back in the day and played the death out of the orig SMB and
> later Super Mario World on the SNES. Despite liking the later games,
> I still always had a soft spot for the original.
>
> This has the simplicity and gameplay factor of the orig SMB but with
> bits and pieces of every 2d incarnation added in, not to mention some
> of the enemies and moves from 3d mario games too. At first I was
> somewhat disappointed, it's not gonna blow you away right out the gate
> with graphics/sound most of the time it looks like something that
> could of been pulled off on a GBA, but it is the gameplay that makes
> it a future classic. Probably the best all around 2d Mario game
> ever! Dont get me wrong there are times when you see the game use
> some of the DS's 3d graphic capabilities but Im just saying watching a
> video is not gonna make you go "wow I gotta have it" like watching a
> video for Metroid would.
>
> I havent played it enough to write a full review, but I hope any of
> the DS fans on here that are thinking about a new game get this one
> because you wont regret it! Im interested in comments from other
> people that have it too...
>
>
> take care
> Kevin

Reading your post sure brought me memories. I too used to play the hell
out of SMB on the NES. I have all GBA Mario games now, NSMB sure does
go back to those throwback days of 2D gameplay. The best way to play it
though is beat the game once. When you beat the game, you'll be allowed
to save anywhere. You than can go back and start collecting all the
coins, open all the secrets, etc, and save your progress. The game is
much tougher without saving anywhere, and I was treading though the
game slowly picking up everything, until I hit a save spot. Imagine
that! Is much more time consuming. Still I enjoyed the game and felt I
took a trip down memory lane, and back into the early 90's. This one is
more a cross between Super Mario Brothers 3, which was just a
straight-forward platformer and lacked the complexities of SMB 2. Is a
much more friendly game to play, but alot of the hard-core elements of
SMB 2 were lacking in this one. My only big knock against NSMB was the
bosses. They lack challenge, or lacked any sense of depth in style or
variation. But for about three weeks I was totally in mushroom heaven,
and the game sure made me forget everything around me. A good sign of a
great game.

Leo
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