New Super Mario Bros. (latest pics)

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:36 pm 0

I ordered this from movietyme on the basis of matt's experience with them. Took less than a week to arrive and you can't argue with Â£19.99.

I haven't played it yet because I'm going on holiday on Wednesday and I'm going to save it for then.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:00 pm 0

Is it just my poor gameplaying skills or is World 8 a right son of a bitch? Heck, I even have a job completing level 1 !

Fillyourboots · Post by **Fillyourboots** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:44 pm 0

I don't think I've ever played a Mario game (not in the classic platformer sense anyway). Should I bother?

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:03 pm 0

Do large furry animals defecate in large collections of trees?

If you have a DS, then getting NSMB is a good introduction to the Mario genre.

Fillyourboots · Post by **Fillyourboots** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:24 pm 0

Here, then, is that Mario playage in full:

Donkey Kong & Super Mario Bros (both G&W)
Mario Kart Super Curcuit (GBA)

piku · Post by **piku** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:49 pm 0

Fillyourboots wrote:I don't think I've ever played a Mario game (not in the classic platformer sense anyway). Should I bother?

It depends whether you like platform games. It's a Mario platformer so if you don't like them don't bother

Ever played Mario Sunshine or Mario 64? Imagine those games done in 2D rather than thinking of Super Mario off the SNES turned into a DS game. There's the ground-pound and wall jump actions from the 3D versions combined with the usual 2D stuff Mario can do.

Oh and you get all the mini games from Mario 64DS as well (which means I'm going to sell my copy of Mario 64 DS as they're the only things I like playing. 3D Mario on the DS isn't fun, it's just fiddly to play).

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:21 am 0

This is all you need to know:

New Super Mario Bros. = best.

I'm very close to finishing it 100% - it's not hard, but it's a sheer joy getting there.

piku · Post by **piku** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:36 pm 0

I keep mis-timing my jumps and either landing right next to things that kill me, falling down holes or getting stuck under stuff trying to escape a baddie.

It's every bit as frustrating to play as the old Mario games. I never got the hang of Mario's inertia

Boing boing!

I like the mini games. They should be standard in all games.

AMC-Campaign · Post by **AMC-Campaign** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:37 am 0

I 100%'d it (3 stars next to savefile) last Friday (having purchased it on the 30th.) It's a lot better than I thought it'd be.

Oh, and 7-3's giant caterpillar: Cutest. Thing. Ever.

Fillyourboots · Post by **Fillyourboots** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:56 pm 0

Now pencilled in for next payday..

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:27 am 0

I managed to 100% it last night (World Cup final? Pfff...!) And now I feel very satisfied. Best Â£15 I ever spent (I love having friends in America)

piku · Post by **piku** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:19 pm 0

The more I play this, the more it grows on me. It is actually a pretty damn good game.

I like the way the little brown goombas jump in time to the music, the way you have to buy save points using the star coins and the way the giant Mario is so utterly useless.

Best of all I like the way it's easier to play than the SNES version. I actually stand a chance of finishing this one

One of the best features of these Mario games is the way I can decide to replay a level, but if I start getting killed off I can escape the level (although it'd be nice if all my powerups remained like in the SNES Super Mario, you could so cheat that thing out of a million lives

)

Talking of lives, they've made death a mere irritation rather than something fatal - I have 20 lives to use, Mario has the fireflower and one spare so I can take four hits before actually becoming dead.

It's like watching The Simpsons - on the surface it's a child-friendly game with a silly plot and predictable pattern-based gameplay, but below that is some depth.

The music gets in your brain like rabies though

AMC-Campaign · Post by **AMC-Campaign** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:03 am 0

Yeah, I found the soundtrack online a while ago, it's brill!

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:57 am 0

I picked this up yesterday. It's a proper 2D Mario, alright. No other game series makes me go "ARRGGNNNGGGHH!!!"" when I miss a jump. Good stuff.

carolen · Post by **carolen** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:12 pm 0

Yay!

I just finished this with 100% / 3 stars after falling out of love and then back in with the game.

I got SO sick of the limited save opportunities available before you finish the game that I just walked away from it for 6 weeks. Fortunately I visited a friend who had finished the game and it allowed me to see the merits of finishing. I was unable to put it down for a week until I got everything.

Thanks Nintendo!