Super Mario World - Real Person Reviews
2A whole new world... of Mario!
Written review: http://hubworldhq.com/2016/04/06/super-mario-world/
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Super Mario World is a 2D platformer for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the follow-up to Super Mario Bros. 3 and is the first of the Super Mario World series. Bowser is up to his old tricks once again of kidnapping the princess. This time he keeps her locked up in a castle on Dinosaur Island, where he has also imprisoned many of the inhabitants, the Yoshis, inside of eggs. Apparently they don’t just hatch from them… but… okay, whatever. It’s up to Mario and Luigi to save the day. This is done in typical Mario fashion. You run, jump, explore, and fight your way through the various levels and lands of the island in order to get to Bowser’s Castle. You have familiar powerups such as mushrooms and fire flowers. You can jump on enemies’ heads. And, similar to Super Mario Bros. 3, you can pick your levels from an overworld map. You fight bosses in each area to progress until the final battle. However, there are many new things to find in this new game.
The brand new powerup, essentially replacing the leaf, is the feather, which gives you a cape. This cape can be used to attack enemies, slow your descent, and even allow you to fly with proper timing of your mid-air swoops. There are many secrets to be found in the game, which means that the ability to play and replay levels multiple times to find hidden exits to uncover hidden paths is a large part of the game. Some secrets lead to shortcuts, bonus areas, or switch palaces. Switch palaces are short levels that allow you to turn on a colored switch. Once done, all of the dotted outlines of that switch’s exclamation point boxes within the levels across the game will turn into tangible platforms, which will help make the levels easier and uncover more secrets later on. The game also introduces the spin jump, which allows you to bounce off of certain enemies that would otherwise harm you as well as allowing you to break certain blocks beneath you if you’re not small. At the end of each level you can try to hit a moving goal marker for a number of stars. Accumulating 100 stars will initiate a minigame where you need to hit boxes and try to line up as many lines of three of the same symbol as possible to gain some extra lives. This game also introduces Yoshis, a race of dinosaurs indigenous to the island. You can ride on one’s back and use their tongue to eat things and spit them out. Each color of Yoshi has their own special ability, and eating certain colored Koopa shells will grant some unique ability to Yoshi as well. The game also allows you carry one extra powerup in an inventory slot on top of the screen which can be dropped down at will or will drop automatically when you turn small. Some other main fixtures of the overworld are ghost houses, fortresses, and castles. Ghost houses are generally filled with Boos and tend to involve solving puzzles to find the exit. Fortresses are smaller castle levels that generally will have you facing the recurring miniboss. The actual castles are generally more challenging and end with boss battles against the Koopalings. You can also access a super-secret set of levels if you’re diligent in finding those secret exits. And the game even allows you to save on up to three different files.
Super Mario World is a masterpiece, pure and simple. Any gripes seem to be minor and nitpicky. The perfect control, the simplistic yet interesting level design, the secrets, the replayability, the cartoony art, the catchy music… it all comes together in such a perfect Mario package that I can’t help but recommend this game to everyone without hesitation. It’s my favorite Mario title for a reason. I urge you to pick up whatever version of this game that you can and give it a try. It’s an experience that you don’t want to miss. It’s even worth paying up to 50 bucks for, though I doubt it’ll cost you that much to find a version of it. Please, just play it. This game is a classic for a reason. Super Mario World is fantastic.
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