Mario Pinball Land / Super Mario Ball - Game Boy Advance (2004)

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Published on July 9, 2023 6:08:20 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ0g5-FnseQ

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Mario Pinball Land (2004)

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What sounds like a fun game turns out to be pretty meh. Maybe even terrible. Even if the graphics and sound are great, even inspired, it's more than a chore to play. A lot of it comes down to bad design decisions. There's a lot of leeway for error, so that's a plus, but it highlights the major problem...it's all neverending repetition. There's so much going on that the game has no focus. It seems to want you to interact with everything as much as possible, but nothing gets done. I'd welcome losing a ball if it just meant things would stop bouncing around endlessly. It takes forever to open a door and you feel like you've progressed...then 3 goombas pop up and get in your way, bounce you into another door which doesn't open and instead closes the first door. You get to repeat it all over again and nothing ever happens. You don't go anywhere. You're just collecting powerups and attacking the same goombas over and over.

So yeah. I am not a fan.