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New Super Mario Bros.
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Overall Critic Score:3.5347
New Super Mario Bros. Critic Reviews
Mario’s expanded repertoire gets a lot of mileage out of the traditional two-button control scheme without feeling out-of-place in a 2D context. I was afraid that the ground pound and wall kick would simply complicate a classic formula, but they're...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Entertainment Depot
Both the minigames and the Mario vs. Luigi mode can be played using a single DS cartridge - a huge bonus that should not be overlooked. New Super Mario Bros. may lack some originality, but in all fairness, it's been about a decade since a side-scrolling M...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at WHAM! Gaming
New Super Mario Bros. is a solid platformer and a nice homage to the Mario series, but it's not Mario's big return to 2D gameplay like everyone thought it would be....read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Digital Entertainment News
Twenty-one years after the debut of its Mario franchise, Nintendo has finally run out of names for the new games. That's good. Super Paper Mario Party Cart 9000 would just sound silly....read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at USA Today
New Super Mario Bros. truly feels like Super Mario Bros. It is a successful throwback to the original, focusing more on the power ups and gameplay styling of it instead of on a major evolution or revolution of the franchise. While I would enjoy a major...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Portable Review
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Far too many of the NSMB levels are simply too short. Even in the final world, it feels as though you're hitting the midway restart point in seconds, and then crossing the finish line when the level was just hitting its stride....read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Modojo
Nintendo's crafted a thoroughly enjoyable game here, a solid portable experience packed with everything that makes Mario so great -- challenge, fanservice, secrets. Everything except brash imagination....read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at 1UP
This game should prove fairly easy to those of us who have grown up with previous Mario titles; the levels are incredibly short, the difficulty is fair at best, and the whole thing seems to need a bit more fleshing out....read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Thunderbolt
Is it as good as "Yoshi’s Island," "Super Mario World," or "Super Mario Bros. 3"? No. And that is a disappointing fact. It is, however, a solid game, worth it for the nostalgic trip alone....read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Jolt Online Gaming UK
Welcome back, Mario. Each day without you was like another dagger through my (S)NES, and your return is triumphant if short-lived....read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Boomtown
essential skill to master, granting skilled players the last ditch ability to defy death when slipping down a hole or accessing secretive hidden areas. Also returning from Mario 64, and to a certain extent replacing the spin jump, is the ground pound; alo...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Total Video Games
New Super Mario Bros might not be QUITE as good as some review sites might lead you to believe, but there is no denying that this is a damn fine game: the game play is there, that familiar Nintendo charm is dominant throughout the entire game, the sounds...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Netjak
New Super Mario Bros. plays just like its esteemed predecessors: Run, jump, land on the enemy while collecting coins, power-ups like mushrooms (including one that makes Mario so enormous he can kick over those green pipes that festoon the landscape),...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at GamerDad
Even the basic design is the same. Each world has a map, and that map contains a number of levels (a la Super Mario Bros. 3). Most maps contain anywhere from eight to twelve different levels, and they're all sprinkled with the usual Mushroom Houses,...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Gamerz-Edge
The level of nostalgia is really unsurpassed. However, the quest ends a little too quickly and the lack of flight is a tremendous downer....read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at My Gamer
Gameplay consists of all those things that Mario gamers have come to love; it’s a side-scrolling 2D platform adventure, with a little parallax scrolling thrown in for good measure. Where this game differs from its retro history, is that the characters...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at ThumbBandits
All the ingredients that made the early Super Mario Bros. games great are found in New Super Mario Bros. The storyline, the gameplay and the level designs are all reminiscent of the classic titles. The plot goes that Princess Peach is (once again)...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Game Axis
Mario’s come a long way since his 1981 inception as Jumpman in Donkey Kong. After setting the side-scrolling platformer world on fire in classic games such as Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario World, our plumber hero moved on to other genres as he sped...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at DS Advanced
Like many other long-time Nintendo fans, I ached to be able to tell everyone that Mario is back and that he’s never been better. Unfortunately, that’s simply not the case. What Nintendo has delivered here is sometimes great. There are moments where...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at HonestGamers
I can talk about why the game is fun, but I can't lie and say the game is brilliant. Mario isn't what he used to be. There are glimmers and flickers of greatness in this game - moments where I felt the magic might almost be back. But it's not. Not yet....read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Gamecritics
They may be geezers of gaming history, but the New Super Mario Bros. edition for the Nintendo DS shows Mario and Luigi are still in prime shell-stomping form. Play through eight worlds of volcanoes, islands, mountains, and pipes. Using wireless...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at AllGame
Naturally, what you spend most of this game doing is running around jumping on turtles and evil mushrooms. All the monsters from the previous games are here, from the red and green turtles, to the goombas, to that cloud guy who throws spiky turtles at...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at The Bovine Conspiracy
Well, if you breeze through the game without searching for any extras, then yes. The game is short. But so was the original Mario on the NES. If you hit all the warp pipes and knew all the tricks, no Mario game took you very long. Now, the SNES versions...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Team Fremont
You can navigate the overworld map much like Super Mario World, moving from level to level, defeating a final castle boss to move onto the next world like in Super Mario Bros. 3. At the onset, traditional baddies such as goombas and koopas litter the...read the complete New Super Mario Bros. review at Lawrence
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