Listen, I like Super Mario Bros, and probably someone at Nintendo says "Hey, let's do more of Mario 1, but make it harder." That is a short summary of what Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels is; notoriously hard, but also kind of cheap. This is just a straight-up expansion pack of Super Mario Bros rather than a sequel. Literally, everything is the same besides a few new textures and the infamous Poison Mushroom

Howard Phillips really saved us the trouble until we recieved this game under Super Mario All-Stars. While I haven't beaten that version of The Lost Levels, I believe that is a much better way to play this game than the Famicom original, and I was certainly not going to replay the game 7 more times to play through Worlds A-D, no sir. I couldn't beat this game without the Nintendo Switch Online's save states because how were kids back in Japan were able to beat this?

This is without a doubt my least favorite 2D Mario game, and I am certainly not going to replay it in the near future, at least the Famicom original

Reviewed on Jan 01, 2023


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