Super Mario Advance

released on Mar 21, 2001

An updated re-release of Super Mario Bros. 2 (the American reskin of "Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic," later re-released in Japan as "Super Mario USA") as a Game Boy Advance launch title. Based heavily on the Super Mario All-Stars version of the game, it also features an updated version of the original Mario Bros. arcade game, which can be played with up to three other players via link cable.


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This was my first Mario game and I was a little bummed when I found out this was a weird outlier and not what the games were actually like. I really love this style and hope we get another one like it someday.
The original game is pretty weird with tons of personality and this remake takes it even further. I love all of the added voice lines, the new sprite art, Mario Bros. as a bonus, and there's even some added postgame stuff. Good job Mario for making this awesome game, but please bring back Mouzer.

Initially, I didn't have much motivation to try this game, as I had already beaten Super Mario Bros. 2 and its All-Stars remake. But now I can see that it's got quite a bit more to it, and is by no means a simple port. I will hopefully continue my playthrough of it using mGBA on my modded Wii.

Mario 2 é um jogo estranho por ser único na franquia e isso na verdade é seu maior charme mas mesmo assim não passou de um jogo mediano pra mim, ah e essa versão de GBA tem clipes com vozes que dão um extra interessante por serem um pouco engraçadas, acho que vale a experiência.

Still have to pick up all Yoshi eggs since I never managed, but fuck yeah, this version is awesome! Sure, vertical scrolling with L/R because of the resolution limitation can feel a little mixed, but I never find it a big of an issue.

Graphics is more revamped (lighting aside that makes sense here being a GBA game, console originally with no screen light whatsoever) and they give it so much life, exclusive bosses and the mentioned Yoshi post-game that it's hard to not love this!

was watching a simpleflips video and got reminded about this game
honestly thinking about it now i think it was the fact that the only 2d mario games we owned was this, smb1, and super mario ds (which i never got to play that much) probably contributed to me just not being a 2d mario guy
i remember this game just being kind of weird, controls were weird, the camera was weird, the gameplay was weird
didn't really like it all that much
i mean you can contribute some of my unenjoyment to just the fact that i was 4 and didn't really know how to play games in the first place
but when it comes to mario i really did prefer to run around peaches castle or isle delfino than play this game (wii games were too difficult for me to play at the time) (they still are)
honestly i feel like i need to write this out somewhere so people don't get the wrong idea from me
those stars sitting above this review? they're entirely meaningless
i dont think too hard about what exactly constitutes a 5 star game nor how bad something needs to be to be a 1 star game
the fact that i chose 1.5 is entirely just to show that my experience with the game kind of felt like a 1.5 out of 5 experience
what does that mean? i don't really know
my point is don't take my word or any of my scores to be representative of a games quality
i don't even really consider anything i write to be a "review" more so just whatever i can remember about a game, sometimes especially with more recently played games they kind of come off as reviews
there was actually a point in time where it never said "Review" above the edit box and i kind of dislike that now this site is really pushing the idea that these are reviews
just let me thought dump! i don't think this is a 1.5 star game, i just vaguely remember not liking it! most of these logs are of games from when i was in elementary school! you should not be trusting opinions from an 8 year old!