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New Super Mario Bros. [Nintendo DS]

New Super Mario Bros. (2006)

Platformer

Developer	Nintendo
Publisher	Nintendo of America
Series	Super Mario

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Description

Twenty years after Nintendo's biggest franchise was born, the Mario Bros.® return in a dazzling, all-new platformer sure to set players' fingers twitching. Fans from Mario's classic days will see their dreams answered in this return to the Mushroom Kingdom, while a new generation of Mario players will learn what true platforming greatness means.

Run, jump and battle enemies through multiple levels in each world. Every time players finish one world, they can move onto the next, but each level features impediments in the forms of fortresses, Hammer Bros. and bosses. After defeating the boss of each world, players can move on to the next, culminating in the final fight in the last world.

Mario and Luigi can do all kinds of jump maneuvers: increasingly high triple jumps, wall jumps and high bounces off enemies. Mario also can use power-ups like Mushrooms (grow big), Fire Flowers (throw fireballs), Starmen (become invincible), Blue Shells (turn into a speedy, blue Koopa shell) and other mushrooms that make him tiny or huge.

In addition to the main game and the wireless two-player mode, players also can use the touch screen to play tons of minigames (either by themselves or over DS Local Area Network with 1 to 4 players via DS Download Play). These include card games, targetbopping-type games and much more.

Jump, bounce and power-up through visually stunning side-scrolling worlds filled with Mushroom Kingdom madness. Mushrooms make Mario ultra-tiny or ultrahuge, and new items like the Blue Shell (which transforms Mario into a spinning shell that wipes out enemies) will keep players on their toes.

The worlds are swarming with classic enemies like Goombas and Koopas, but watch out for new foes, big bosses and unbelievable challenges.

As Mario and Luigi, two players can battle for stars on specially designed levels over local wireless. The game won't end until one bro. reigns supreme.

Reviews on New Super Mario Bros. [Nintendo DS]

AJMouse on New Super Mario Bros. [Nintendo DS], 09-11-2006

"New Super Mario Bros. is a game I was waiting for for a long time. I was really looking forward to it, and the waiting wasn't in vaine: it's a nice game.

This is not 'just' another Mario-game. It's more than that, it's retro combined with popular, it's 2D combined with 3D and it's old made new.

With pumped up familiar Mario-tunes you race through the first few levels stomping Goombas and Koopas. Old? Yeah maybe, but still fun, even more fun when you're Mega-Mario :D (check the cover, that's real :)

It also has Ghost-houses with Boo's which I found harder levels to complete, it has bosses (not just Bowser and Mini-Bowser, but alot of themed-to-that-world-bosses) and it has secret passages. The game has everything you would expect from a Mario-game save one thing:

The horror of saving your game!
How could they do this? This is a handheld game, I want to save anywhere and anytime I like. I'm okay with only being able to save outside of a level (when choosing a level) but please let me save when I want? When playing in the bus or in the train I have to complete several levels to earn several coins in order to open mushroon shops until I can save my game! I know, when you're allowed to save anytime you want you can finish the game a little bit more easier with 100 lives or something.. who cares? You could even put in less lives!

I liked the extra's that came with the game. It features alot of the minigames that were in Super Mario 64 on the DS, and also some new. I have no idea why they put in the older minigames (you shouldn't do that, any Mario-fan has both games on his DS and it feels like paying for the same thing twice). Still I had fun playing the minigames (again :s )

I'm giving it a 3 out of 5. I want to give it a 4, or even a 5 because the gameplay is so much fun. But not being able to save whenever I want? Get out of here, that's soooo 1985 (btw, you could just close your DS and open it again when you want to play again, but that won't work if you want to play another game first ofcourse - it is not an option for me)."