Game:

Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988)

Category:

Walkthrough

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(lots of copyright matches, so the audio got cut off often)
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I thought I'd try out the official japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 that didn't make it to America right away. I'm sure you know the story by now, but in case you don't, here it is: when Super Mario Bros. 2 came out in Japan on the Famicom Disk System, it wasn't ported to the North-American NES like the original. Instead, a completely different game called "Doki Doki Panic", was adapted to feature Mario characters and released as "Super Mario Bros 2". It comes as no surprise that the game had nothing in common with the first game on NES everybody was familiar with, so it left many fans scratching their heads, as this was now an odd one out. It wasn't until later that the official japanese Mario Bros. 2 was ported to the SNES with "Super Mario All Stars", a collection of all 3 original Mario games, remastered with enhanced graphics and sounds. The confusion still remained, since they already called the Doki Doki Panic hack "SMB2", so it wouldn't have made sense to call the japanese game SMB 2 also, so they packaged it as "The Lost Levels" instead (even though in Japan it was still known as SMB2)...wrap your head around that. Now that the mystery is solved, what is there to say about the "official" Mario 2 Famicom ? For one thing it's a lot harder than the first NES game: the levels are longer, there are more enemies and also more mazes that require you to take specific paths or the level loops over and over. Another difference is the ability to play as either Mario or Luigi, instead of the players having to take turns between them. This also means that there's no 2-player option. Mario performs just like in the first game, so he doesn't require getting used to. Luigi can jump higher, but it takes him more time to stop or slow down when going at full speed, so he can be tough to control when jumping small platforms. I say pick Mario - you'll feel right at home with him. There are 8 world with 4 stages each, just like in the previous game, but now when you beat the game you also get world 9 as a bonus - you only get one life to beat it and it keeps going back to the first level every time you complete it. There's no point in discussing the graphics or sounds or any of that, since they remained completely unchanged from the NES game. The reason why many people think this game didn't make it outside Japan when it first came out is because it was considered too difficult for the average gamer and rightfully so, because the difficulty is insane and sometimes downright cheap - the castle mazes for one thing can get ridiculously cryptic, especially when you have to deal with the multitude of hazards and enemies that want you dead. This is certainly not a game for casual gamers or beginners - even with an emulator with save-states you need a ton of patience and nerves of steel to make it past some areas. That doesn't mean the game is bad - it's actually great once you get used to it, because it keeps everything that made the original Mario on the NES awesome but brings new levels to it, so if you're in the mood for a great challenge, try it out !

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