You know ? I love videogames. I love how much they can express while being creative and angaging. All of this with the magic of interaction.

// Reviewed after abandonig it //

But when i play this thing i just want to break my head against a wall everytime i lose a life , knowing that i have to replay another god awful level. There isn't a thing that feels good except for Toad when he runs. The game shaped a lot of good things that we see nowdays in all the Super Mario games , even the manline ones. The game in concept is actually filled with wacky and original ideas. For the most part i liked them but Birdo. I hate that character design and i think it's a curse. Levels are filled with vegetables to grab and throw. Same thing for enemies , you have to grab them instead of just jumping on their heads.It doesn't seem but to me this mechanic made every level feel slow. And don't get me started on the numerous sections where you have to dig sand because that is one of the most bullshit level design ideas i've seen after the Chibi Robo Zip-Lash Wheel Spin.

I'm sorry to whoever liked this , but i think this was one of the worst game i've ever touched.

Another nice fun Mario romp! Got stuck early on after not realizing there was a high jump you could do from crouching, but afterward this game was mostly a breeze. Definitely not as brutally hard as the first game, but still pretty challenging with some really tricky puzzles and enemy placements, definitely abused the rewind a fair bit here. I'm happy Peach was playable and a nice easy mode character as I'm not the best at Mario, and it was cool to see where all of her really fun moveset from Smash Bros. came from as I used to play her there often.

Overall a nice change of pace from the usual Mario formula, and I like how there's no timer, really helpful given this game has a lot of puzzles you gotta figure out on how to progress.

O segundo jogo da franquia Super Mario Bros é de fato bom, entretanto, ele ainda não chega aos pés do jogo original. Aqui temos uma expansão do universo que nos foi apresentado em Super Mario Bros (1985) e esse é um ponto muito alto do jogo, mas no geral é um pouco abaixo. Não existe nenhum vilão que seja tão marcante quanto o Bowser nesse jogo e isso acaba tornando a história um pouco irrelevante. Os cenários são bem legais e lindos, mas eu ainda prefiro os do primeiro jogo. Algo que é muito bom é a inserção de novos personagens jogavéis com destaque para o Luigi que viria a se tornar um dos personagens mais importantes de toda a franquia. É um jogo mais difícil e tem algumas fases até mais legais que o original. Por mais que seja inferior, esse segundo melhor jogo tem uma qualidade muito alta.

I was playng the All-Stars Version and i discovered the game actually has warps. (Yeah discovered by accident because i didn't knew that).
Soooo i told myself to try seriously and finish it and I DID IT. Does this change my initial thoughts on the game ?

No it's still ass...

[ 1.0 / 10 ]

O melhor: Todos os conceitos e personagens criados que foram levados adiante pela série
O pior: Uns picos bizarros de dificuldade da metade pro final
Ainda assim: Melhor do que Super Mario Bros. 2 (The Lost Levels)

Super Mario Bros. 2: Doki Doki Panic Edition é responsável por vários elementos que compõem toda a série Mario até hoje, trazendo inimigos como Shy Guy e Birdo, e a possibilidade de escolher entre 4 personagens com habilidades próprias antes de cada fase. Como sequência do Super Mario Bros original, é sem dúvidas uma das mais inovadoras já feitas, e, olhando em retrospecto, foi uma decisão muito acertada da Nintendo americana, que acabou tornando todos os jogos da trilogia Mario do NES bem diferentes entre si.

Dito isso, esse com certeza é o jogo que menos gosto dessa trilogia. Os diferentes personagens jogáveis e jeito que alguns warps são distribuídos nas fases são pontos positivos, mas o level design é muito simples e os cenário são pouco variados, a ausência de power ups além da estrela de invencibilidade também é triste. A mecânica de atirar objetos e inimigos é meio desengonçada, e sinto que as fases finais tem uns picos de dificuldade com uns desafios de plataforma um tanto esquisitos (cavar areia por exemplo, bem chato).

Não que o jogo seja de todo ruim, o visual e as boss battles são bacanas. Mas sinto que esse é o Mario que eu mais aprecio por "valor histórico" do que qualquer outra coisa (tirando obviamente o Mario Bros original de Arcade), além da sempre curiosa história de sua origem.

The first time I played Mario 2, I was surprised at how fun it was. It holds up much better than Mario 1 and is still really solid today.

The terrible Mario 1 physics are gone and game plays so much better for it. All the characters are much faster and a little more slippery feeling which makes the platforming a lot faster paced and fun.

The game looks really nice and the new characters are really cool. I tried to use everyone a few times, but I mostly stuck to Toad and Mario. The new moveset takes some getting used to at first, but they provide a nice variety in platforming by allowing the game to have vertical levels. The soundtrack is really nice too (although I wish there were a few more tracks).

The game still has some jank, but it's nowhere near game ruining. For example, in most circumstances, you cannot hit the run button to prepare for a jump when standing on a floating projectile. I also never got fully used to the throwing physics in this game, there were many instances where I wanted to throw it further, but I guess I wasn't moving fast enough for the game to register it as a throw, so mario would just play whatever project/object I was holding in front of him. Additionally, if I was trying to throw something mid air while underneath a platform, Mario would place the projectile on the upper platform instead of throwing it at the boss or enemy. The blast radius of the bombs were a little janky at times too. The bombs bounce and if they bounce a small distance off a wall or if they bounce up before exploding a bombable floor piece, the wall/floor are not gonna explode your target.

It's not too hard to adjust to these issues, but it does take some time, especially if you've played a lot of Mario maker 2 like I have. That game fine tuned the Mario bros 2 controls and physics to fix some of the jank from the original game, but the gameplay/physics differences is nowhere near as drastic between MM2 and the Mario bros 1.

Overall, Mario 2 is still a really good time. It holds up much better than you would expect and controls so much better than it's two predecessors. It's still not perfect, but it obviously stands out as being unique from the other 2D Mario games and is still very much worth playing today.