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New Super Mario Bros. 2 is a traditional side-scrolling adventure game featuring Mario, Luigi and loads of other favorite characters from the popular Mario series. The game was created specifically as a pick-up-and-play experience that can be instantly enjoyed by players of all skill levels on the Nintendo 3DS system.
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- Level design
- Quick save system
- Way too easy
- Lack of creativity and variety
- Bland graphics
- No use of 3D features
- Finicky and frustrating multiplayer
First things first, this game is mind numbingly easy. Back when I played this I was far from an experienced or hardcore gamer, and I never saw a game over screen. The incredibly low difficulty is made even more apparent by the games obsession with coins. If you hadn’t guessed by the obnoxious box, which challenges you to collect 1 million of these gold discs, the main gimmick of this instalment are coins. Coins are everywhere and I have to admit collecting them and seeing that counter go up and up is incredibly satisfying. However, 100 coins still equals a 1 up, so by the end of world 1 I had 50+ lives. This is frustrating because lives have literally no value because the game is so easy!
This game also just comes across as lazy in a lot of areas. Instead of having 8 unique and varied worlds, the game features only 6 themed areas and then 2 worlds with no theming whatsoever other than the names flower and star. This is really only an aesthetics issue, but it just seems like laziness to me. Instead of having unique bosses, the game uses the Koopalings which suffer from the same issues as Bowser Junior from the first game, except that this time they are the ONLY bosses.
I have to admit in terms of individual levels the game does offer quite a lot of variety. The game experiments with many different concepts and ideas, and each mechanic is used enough and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.
Graphically the game is very bland and uses the same plasticy looking graphics as the other New Super Mario Games. Other than one occasion at the end of the game, the game literally doesn’t use 3D at all. In fact the use of 3D damages the game by blurring all the backgrounds which actually look good.
Thankfully, the game does have a quick save feature which allows players on the go to create a temporary save point which can be used once at anytime.
The multiplayer is less than desirable. Instead of the competitive play mode from the original it uses the co-op mode from the wii version. However, instead of 4 players there are only 2, and even though you are playing on separate systems you are still limited to the same screen which makes co-op play very finicky and just not fun.