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Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (All-Star Version) Review

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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 ...

Super Mario Bros. (All-Stars Version) Review

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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...