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How does New Super Mario Brothers stack up post-release? Instant classic? Or right place at the right time?
Shalashaska said:It's not like the game sold all of its copies around release time. It was constantly in the top 10 in Japan for months after its release.
akachan ningen said:I'm playing it right now, for the first time, and it's somewhat disappointing. Even though it's called "new" it sure doesn't feel like it. Canvas Curse shits all over it for sure. The only thing that saves it from failure is that the games it emulates were so great.
Agreed on all counts, especially Canvas Curse.akachan ningen said:I'm playing it right now, for the first time, and it's somewhat disappointing. Even though it's called "new" it sure doesn't feel like it. Canvas Curse shits all over it for sure. The only thing that saves it from failure is that the games it emulates were so great.
Andy787 said:It is probably the worst game of the traditional Mario series.
Wait what?Son of Godzilla said:It came out after Meteos so it's existence was unnecessary.
Puzzle games are the new platformers.grandjedi6 said:Wait what?
BrandNew said:It was great. Only problems I had with it:
-Hey, let's give out 90 bajillion 1ups
-The music, while excellent in some levels, is lacking in both quantity and quality at some points
-Very easy bosses, but now that I think about it, all Mario games have easy bosses
I totally would want a NSMB2.
CreatureX3 said:You don't sell this many copies just by being in "the right place at the right time". :lol
The continued success of Brain Age, Brain Age 2 and Big Brain says otherwise.Andy787 said:
Hollywood_mIRC said:I think you have amnesia on the lives thing. Play SMB 3 or SMW all the way through and try not to end up with 99 lives.
akachan ningen said:Canvas Curse shits all over it for sure. The only thing that saves it from failure is that the games it emulates were so great.
Iam Canadian said:Super Mario World I'll give you, but dying is actually a possibility in Super Mario Bros. 3.
I think New Super Mario Bros. was just the result of Nintendo keeping a new traditional Mario game from us for ten years. Not that NSMB wasn't a good game; it definitely was; but it would never have made the splash it did if traditional Mario games had been the status quo over the past while.
Jokeropia said:It's a fantastic game that deserves all the success it's getting.