Review Information
Game Reviewed Normal Super Mario Bros., by gamester
Review Author Zero Kirby
Created Feb 8 2009, 11:48 PM

General Commentary and Game Overview
Normal Super Mario Bros. is a perfect rendition of the original World 1-1 level. Everything from Mario to the Goombas has been reproduced perfectly from what I remember.
 
Pros + It's amazing.
 
Cons - It's short.
 
Impressions
Gameplay
8 / 10
It's classic Mario! All you do is run and jump. While I wish the jump button was Shift, I didn't have too many problems.

The level itself is replicated pitch perfectly. You pass the first pipe and Toad drives up with his tank so you can shoot some smiley faces. Just as I remember it from the original SMB!

The physics are a little floaty sometimes, not as I remember it but I do have a faulty memory.

The rest of the level plays exactly as it does from the original SMB. Everything from the Bill Clinton Goombas to the Sub-Zero Battle has been replicated. Even the number of lives. How meticulous!

Mario still has his damage meter, thankfully. And you still die if you lose all your hit points. Amazingly well reproduced.

From beginning to end, it's perfectly replicating the original World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros. Congratulations, gamester.

But why did you only replicate World 1-1? You could have gone for the entire World 1! You left out some of the better stages. That amazing space shooter section from 1-2 and the Optimus Prime battle from 1-4 are unfortunately absent.

Because of this amazing oversight, I had to dock the grade a bit. You'll get an eight for now.
 
Graphics
9 / 10
Again, the graphics are perfectly reproduced. I felt nostalgia wash me over as I beholded Arnold Schwartzenegger's face firing from a gun at an army of smiley faces. Memories flooded back as I epically fought to run from that hideous Bowser. It was all too perfect.

Graphics get a nine, though. I think you missed a few patches of grass alongside the giant gap.
 
Sound
10 / 10
The sound! Ah, how perfectly it is replicated. Every byte is here in full force, ready to dance a merry jig upon your eagerly waiting eardrums!

Sound gets a ten! Marvelous!
 
Replay
4 / 10
Unfortunately, the grave oversight of not including more levels astounds me. How saddened I am to see that I could not fight Ganonwario in World 4-H.

So I have to give up a four here.
 
Final Words
9 / 10
This game is normal. So play it.

Comments
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Grant
Feb 13 2009, 4:29 AM
...And this is why you're currently my favorite MFGG reviewer.

Something that not many reviews here have (including mine) are a clever sense of humor, but this one and other reviews of yours do, and are downright fun to read. Plus you tend to include a lot of detail where it matters.

Thumbs up!
 
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Zero Kirby
Feb 14 2009, 2:26 AM
Quote (Grant on Feb 12 2009, 9:29 PM)
...And this is why you're currently my favorite MFGG reviewer.

Something that not many reviews here have (including mine) are a clever sense of humor, but this one and other reviews of yours do, and are downright fun to read. Plus you tend to include a lot of detail where it matters.

Thumbs up!

D'awwww, thanks. I'll be sure to keep my wit razor-sharp in future reviews.
 
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