Review Information
Game Reviewed Super Mario and the Sacred Bells, by Firestyle
Review Author FoxGuy
Created Feb 5 2010, 1:10 PM

General Commentary and Game Overview
A nice polished(somewhat) game. There is a story and dialogue. This is a very good game but is open for improvement.
 
Pros -Dialogue
-Interesting music choices
-Decent engine
-Fair amount of power ups
-8 worlds
-There is a save
-Can change characters anytime
-Fair level design
 
Cons -shells don't hurt you(not exactly a con)
-Engine is a bit static
-When you release the jump action (at before a certain height) you immediately fall down
-GM dialogue box (con?)
-30fps
 
Impressions
Gameplay
8 / 10
The games engine is fairly decent and collision detection is fair. Ground pounding won't always hit center block, same applies for jumping. Stomping on two enemies can get you hurt. Besides collision the engine is mostly static movement except for jumping which is variable. One thing that could esily get you killed is the instant vertical motion when you release shift. You get used to it but initially it may get you killed. Despite this the game has a very good level design. There are fire flowers, ice flowers, bomb suits, mushrooms (any), helicopter suits(?), and maybe a few more. Ice can temporarily freeze the tope of the water. Pressing CTRL allows you to switch on the main map, Mario Luigi, Peach.
 
Graphics
8 / 10
The game has very nice graphics. It is detailed a fair amount within the levels. The graphics itself is very mixed but I find them to blend for the most part. It contains parallax scrolling which adds further value. The game also features alpha effects but, there are negatives. Sometimes any of the characters get scaled by a small percent making them look blockish, if not ugly. The game runs at 30fps which does not make the static engine look any better, the screen resolution isn't very good either. Most people, I believe, prefer to play at full screen but it gets blurry, 320x240 is very small for today's standard!
 
Sound
8 / 10
There are about 20-30 sound effects I believe. There is a adequite amount of voices inside the game but some people get annoying after awhile. Mario was fine but Peach was the main culprit. Besides that the music choices was very good. I know I heard sonic in there atleast once and it spreads among other series slightly
 
Replay
6 / 10
Besides collecting the orange coins replayability isn't very much. I don't know what is so great that will happen once you collect all the orange coins
 
Final Words
8 / 10
A very nice game. Could us a bit of polish but fairly decent.

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