RevieWednesday: Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES Original)

Alright, the plot is that Mario had a dream about finding a door and then discovering that door the following day. So Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad, has to apparently find some fairies that are held captive by some toad named "King Wart". Yeah, this game is trippy.

POSITIVES

This game is somewhat some graphically pleasing than Super Mario Bros. before it. The music is earworn worthy. The game even bothers to tell you a large part of the story at the title screen. The gameplay is diverse by featuring four different characters with four different abillites (Mario is your default Dan, Luigi has a floaty jump, Toad is speedy albeit with a shorter jump, and Princess Peach can float), instead of jump on top of enemies, you pick them up and lob them at each other.

NEGATIVES

The control is slippery, characters tend to slip and slide across the level (worse when climbing up vines and running). The cave song is uninteresting and the game gets unneededly gets difficult with the platforming, made worse with the oily banana slipping movement.

VERDICT: 3.2 out of 5 Stars

"Apparently this game was based off of another, Doki Doki Panic. But either way, this game is really iffy when compared to other Mario games."