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Media Name: Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 Media Type: Video Game Release Years: 2003 (GameBoy Advance), 2015 (Wii U Virtual Console) Game Director:  Hiroyuki Kimura Developer:  Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Played on: Wii U Virtual Console Completion Status: 100% (Main Game) Finished Playing: 29th November 2022 My Rating: 8/10 While I already have a GameBoy Advance copy of this game, and could also play the All-Stars and NES versions if I wanted to, I chose to buy this game again on the Wii U Virtual Console so that I could play the E-Reader card levels. This review is only focused on the main game however. I really enjoyed this one and I would have to say that it is my favourite of the NES Mario games. I really liked the controls for the most part and found them to be very responsive. The game has some great level design which was actually quite challenging to get through at times. The graphics, sound design and music of this version were also really nice. Bas...

Media Name: Super Mario Bros. Media Type: Movie Release Year: 1993 Directors:  Rocky Morton,  Annabel Jankel Production Companies:  Hollywood Pictures,  Lightmotive,  Allied Filmmakers,  Cinergi Pictures Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes Finished Watching: 22nd November 2022 My Rating: 6/10 Whenever I hear anyone talk about the live-action Mario movie, people usually talk about how bad it was or that it's one of the worst films of all time. I'd have to say that people are overexaggerating. Is this a good adaptation? Absolutely not, there is barely anything accurate to the games. It this a good movie? eh, it's decent. I'd have to say that I enjoyed it. The acting was really good with Bob Hoskins doing an especially good job. Some of the writing was decent and I found some of the jokes to be funny. Some of the flaws, other than the obvious lack of accuracy, were that the CGI has aged quite poorly. Some of the character...

Media Name: Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels Media Type: Video Game Release Years: 1986 (Famicom Disk System), 1993 (SNES) Game Directors: Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka Developer:  Nintendo R&4D Publisher: Nintendo Played on: SNES Completion Status: 100% Finished Playing: 6th November 2022 My Rating: 3/10 I absolutely love the Super Mario series which is why I decided to play all of them. I really wanted to like this one, I really did but I hated it. The level design was terrible with it sometimes feeling more like I was playing a Kaizo Mario game instead of an official Mario game, especially with how many times I died because of Kaizo blocks. The enemy placement and some of the jumps could be be both bad and strange. I also felt that the difficulty in worlds A-D was weird and levels were either really difficult or really easy. Other than those factors, despite being recycled from SMB1, the controls, music and graphics were good. Another factor that I liked was that since ...

Media Name: Super Mario Bros. Media Type: Video Game Release Years: 1985 (NES), 1993 (SNES) Game Director: Shigeru Miyamoto Developer:  Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Played on: SNES Completion Status: Any% Finished Playing: 1st November 2022 My Rating: 8/10 I decided to play through every single one of the original Super Mario games though playing the versions which I believe to be definitive. This obviously meant starting with the first one, Super Mario Bros. I chose the All-Stars version of the game mostly because it meant that there were save files without using save states meaning that whenever I died, I didn't have to hold down a combination of buttons to continue the game. I really enjoyed it. I liked the controls for this version of the game. The level design is overall really good (although I don't like some levels). The updated graphics and music are both amazing and use the updated hardware to their advantage. I had a lot of fun playing this game.. other than world...