Reviews from

in the past


pretty fun but very unforgiving level design. some music tracks got kind of annoying also.

This game slaps! It's mario 3, but with extra levels (if you got the e-reader levels on the wii u virtual console).

Mario 3 still has the best controls out of any 2D mario game. Great balance between being difficult and not being complete bs.

first modern mario game remake, awesome

if you could play as Luigi outside of the e-reader levels than perhaps it would be better


What can I say? Its Super Mario Bros 3

Played on Gameboy Advance Online on Nintendo Switch.

mario 3 is amazing. koopalings got introduced, airships too, new enemies, etc... the real shine tho is with the e-reader levels. those thangs are crazy creative and fun.

Slightly less good version of the game but that's still pretty incredible

Esse é de longe o meu Mario 2D favorito, o remake tranfomou a versão do nintendinho que se mantém charmoso até hoje numa obra prima!

Os gráficos foram refeitos e o jogo ganhou as cores que sempre mereceu, as fases e os mapas estão LINDOS!

Falando nas fases, elas são curtinhas e perfeitas para uma jogatina portátil, mas não se engane, esse jogo é covar...desafiador e vai fazer você repetir os mesmos seguimentos dezenas de vezes até pegar o jeito haha

E pra ajudar você a superer esses desafios temos os Power Ups, aqui o Mário tem acesso a uma quantidade grande de roupinhas com poderes especiais pra você poder explorar as fases de formas variadas, a minha preferida é a do Tanooki! 🥹

Se tiver tiver a oportunidade faça uma visita a esse clássico, vale a pena demais!

The e-Reader levels really highlight how much of a shame it is that Nintendo didn't make an original 2D Mario game on the GBA, basically the last chance we really had for a new sprite based Mario platformer. They're great levels with lots of unique and original ideas, and collectively are about as long as SMB3 itself is... just without the proper pacing of a fully structured game and also accessible only via an expensive peripheral and impossible to obtain cards. At least the Switch Online version has all the levels unlocked, though it comes with the unfortunate loss of the vegetable and fireball switches to add some extra variety to main game SMB3.

mario and luigi are so cute and skrunkly and silly and they say "gotcha!" when they get a powerup they already have or "just what i needed!" when they get a new powerup or "bravo mario!" when they get a lot of 1-Ups and AAUGHGHGHGH

I enjoyed like 10 or so of the 38 e-reader levels and 5 of those were smb1 remakes, the rest felt like gimmicky mario maker trash, SKIP

A fantastic way to experience Super Mario Bros 3, whether you play it on GBA, DS Lite or Nintendo Switch, Mario Bros 3 is a nice classic (although having very strange, almost Mario Maker-like level building at times) and the added e-reader levels are really surprising with all the weird new gimmicks thrown in.

I just found my old DS Lite and decided to run through the game with both flutes, so that explains my playtime

Fixes a lot of problems with the All Star version of the game, and while I admittedly still prefer the 8 bit look, the extra e-Reader levels that Nintendo included in both the Wii U and NSO rereleases of the game without any hassle puts this version of the game over the NES one.

aged like a fine wine. challenging and has tons of variety

I got very close to finishing this one, perhaps one day

It's freakin Mario. He runs, he jumps, he eat-a the mushroom. It's great. Gotta be in the mood for retro though, zoomers beware, some levels have kinda silly solutions

Minus screen crunch, probably the best way to play this game (especially cause of the e reader levels if you play on Wii U or switch)

It’s Super Mario Bros 3, which is great, but it just feels wrong. Everything is slightly too fast and feels a little slippery.

Excellent game, a bit ridiculous in the last world, and the GBA sound chip here definitely makes this the worst version of the soundtrack unfortunately. Still good, just lacking.

[Played on Switch] Was intending to really just play through the e-Reader Levels, but instead compleated the main game as well 100%. I never had this Mario Advanced growing up, I had Yoshi's Island and Mario World. The whole Advance series was actually a really smart move on Nintendo's end. With the Gamecube's Gameboy Player, Nintendo was esentially porting Super Nintendo Quality games to not only the Gameboy Advance, but the Gamecube. And stupid kids like me at the time thought games like Yoshi's Island were brand new games. I still heavily associate Yoshi's Island with the Gameboy more than the SNES. So bassicly, Mario Advance 4 is Mario 3 from Mario All Stars, but with a couple of improvments. Like the Opening Cutscene is cute, and I much prefer the GBAs soundtrack of the game to the SNES. And of cours, between the years 2001 and 2005, Mario never shut up. I personally like the overly obnoxious catchphrase shouting Mario of these games. Phrases like "Lucky!" are seared in to my skull as a a child. The big addition and reason anyone plays this version of the game though, is the 38 e-reader levels. They are very cool and worth playing and very un-nintendo in a lot of different ways. Nintendo R & D esentially finished there work on the Advance series with this game, and just started balling by designing pretty fun and classic levels with assets from across all the 2D console mario games. There kinda like ROM hacks. And on top of that, modern Nintendo (starting with the Wii U VC) left ALL the levels unlocked?? They dont really do stuff like that very often in an offical capacity, so its cool that they did it. The one thing I wish, is if Nintendo one day makes a BIG GIANT 2D Mario game collection, that has every 2D Mario game from the original to Wii U, with all the minuta in between in there like the Land games, Deluxe and the Advance remakes, that they include a collection of all the cards artworks in the digital manual browser. It would be cooler knowing the context behind alot of the levels you play, with those little blurbs on the e-Reader Cards.

it's mario bros 3 but you could play it at the salon while you waited for your mom's hair to dry. 10/10


The greatest title of any work of media

The e-reader levels are so insanely good that it's completely ridiculous that Nintendo locked them behind cards no one could even easily get for a peripheral no one bought

a great way to experience an already great game

Nostalgia pura, primeiro jogo do Mário que tive contato na infância.