Release Date: 17th August 2012 (EU) OUT NOW
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Price: £29.99+
kidnapped (apart from Super Princess Peach on the DS, when Mario gets kidnapped instead).
So, Birthday on Wednesday (a couple of days before release) and I figured that it could be a while before I’d be able to buy another game; I thought I’d get Super Mario Bros. 2 on the 3DS (plus, since E3, I had the video
to this game on my 3DS which I originally downloaded out of curiosity).
One site gave it 7/10 which surprised me as they normally rate most Mario games 9/10 or 10/10.
So, Princess Peach is kidnapped... yet again... by King Bowser and his Koopaling followers, leaving it up to Mario and Luigi to rescue her.
It features all of the usual enemies and characters. However, unlike past Mario games, this has one main objective for the player. Collect one million (1,000,000) gold coins (and show that achievement of through Spotpass, Streetpass and online features). Now, so far, since August, I have collected just over 10,000 (not being lazy, but I do have other games in my collection.)
You can also find out what the ‘World Gold Coin total’ is (that has to be over 1,000,000 by now, surely.)
This is pretty much what you’d expect from a Mario game. Colourful levels, cheesy music and Princess Peach kidnapped by Bowser... again.
The game returns with familiar power-ups too. Fire Mario, where you can throw
fireballs at your enemies. The Mini mushrooms and Mega mushrooms return from the first game and the ‘Super
Leaf’ from Super Mario Bros. 3 also returns. The Super Leaf allows you to whip enemies with Mario’s tail and lets him fly in the air.
If like me, you have a nasty habit of dying in a level, then don’t worry. If you die five times a box with an ‘invincibility leaf’appears. It’ll give Mario the raccoon ability with invincibility thrown in which will last the entire level. Nintendo say that this game is for beginners, so the ‘invincibility leaf’ comes in very handy.
If you want to, you can play co-op with a friend who has another 3DS and another cartridge, so you can play as Mario and Luigi and gather even more coins to add to your total.
Star coins also return. There are three coins per level. You can play through a level as many times in order to get them and add more gold coins to your total. Star coins can be used for purchasing and unlocking other levels
on the World map.
There are items that can help you in your quest to collect those one million coins.
Gold rings turn enemies into gold and make gold coins appear. A gold flower power up turns Mario into gold and blocks into coins. Also, if you hit a coin block more than 10 times, the block will turn gold and Mario will run
around with it on his head which will make gold coins come out of it. To get the best use out of the blocks, try to find something on which Mario can bounce/jump and this way the coins can be obtained much faster.
The game can also be downloaded through eshop, although it is more expensive than its boxed version (£39.99 on release). There is also DLC (add on content) which can be purchased. These will include course packs.
The game hasn’t really added anything new to the Series, except the task to collect one million coins.
PRO’s:
- Easy game to get to grips with
- Infinite Raccoon suit helps with difficult parts (although you have to die five times.)
CON’s:
- Brings nothing new to the series.
- The only replay value the game really has is for the player to get one million coins.
VeeBee’s Score: 8.5/10
REMEMBER: this is my opinion, play the game yourself and make up your own mind...