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et's Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
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| [February 21, 2008 03:40:58 AM]
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Game log #2
Gameplay:
What makes Super Mario Bros. 3 a fun game to play is its simple gameplay. The challenges may become difficult, but there is no need of learning new things constantly. Often in recent video games the player will receive new abilities and weapons constantly and thus must learn how to use them all the time. In classic Mario games you play in the end exactly as you did in the beginning. The main focus of the game is the skill you develop as you progress. Because of this simple mechanic its very fun to play, you can go through a level as quickly as you can, trying to show off some skills. Or you can take your time and get all the coins and mushrooms you desire.
If your playing with a friend, the game can be just as fun, compete against someone to see who can pass the level faster or with greater ease. Who can defeat the boss at the end of the world. The constant shouting and hooting over such a simple game shows just how fun simple ingenuity and creativity can be, and that games don’t have to be watered down because of graphics or dozens of features. Great fun gameplay is at the core of Super Mario Bros.3
Design:
One thing many take for granted in these Mario games is the high level of design they have. For example Super Mario Bros. 3 features a large number of secrets and hidden areas that can become available or accessible for those who pay close attention and have enough skill to reach these secrets. Furthermore, what makes SMB3 unique is its minigame option. There are certain levels that are purely minigame fun, such as a memory card game, or a simple roulette spin, these elements can be considered early shades of the Mario Party saga. Also Mario has the ability to have many different powers, and to collect several power ups and use them for future levels that can make it easier to pass.
The levels are and are not varied. For one, the basic layout of the levels is the same throughout, that being a basic platform type layout. Yet the levels are varied in several other ways, such as having different enemies, perhaps a new element to the platform layout.
The tone of the game world is vary cartoony and whimsical. It is very appealing for young children, yet, it does not deter older gamers from playing.
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| [February 21, 2008 01:49:49 AM]
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Summary:
In Super Mario Bros. 3, Mario and Luigi are on a mission to rescue the seven kings of the seven worlds. Each of the kings has had his magic wand stolen by one of the Koopalings(Bowser‘s children), who has turned him into a different type of animal. It's up to the Mario Bros. to enter the seven worlds, make their way to the Koopalings' airships, and take back the wands. However, when reaching the 7th level Bowser reveals his true plot, surprisingly, to kidnap Princess Peach.
Gameplay: For me any Super Mario game has been an emotional stew of fun, excitement, and frustration. The game is a simple platformer, like its predecessors, the only real buttons you are required to know are left, right, and jump. The challenges in the game comes from its various obstacles found in the individual levels. The koopas, chain-chomps, and the classic goombas all make for a challenging level in the game. Not to mention the various platforms, moving platforms, sinking platforms, single squared platforms for those who like to speed through the game. In simpler terms, the simple game turns out a vast number of challenges. Always varying from level to level so one can always find surprises in the dozens of levels of the seven worlds. Because of these challenges, I find myself in a state of frustration, mainly because you must restart the entire level if you are killed. And many of these level can get pretty challenging, spawning newer and more difficult enemies, or more challenging platforms and obstacles. But of course this challenge does not sour the game whatsoever, in fact I find the challenges are what makes Mario a classic and continued popular game, whereas many other plat formers can get very easy and boring.
The characters are, today, the most recognizable faces in videogames. To play them truly is an honor and a joy. These simple characters, plumbers wearing red and green overalls, have created such a culture that a person truly cares for them. Even after countless abductions, it never gets tiring saving Princess Peach from the clutches of Bowser. It’s a very simple very romantic type of story, one that resembles classic romantic stories of Knights in shining armor saving the princess from an evil doer. There is this motivation to save Princess Peach, especially after going through countless of levels of jumping and running.
The game very much flows from level to level. Within each world the levels are very similar, they gradually change in difficulty, until you reach the next world where the challenges are different and landscape changes as well. For example in one world you may be playing a simple standard platformer, while in the next you are underwater. Although it sounds like two different games, the transitions between levels is gradual, and the gameplay remains consistent throughout the entirety of the game.
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Wednesday 20 February, 2008
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