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Game Reviewed	Mario Land: Minigame Mayhem, by Kritter
Review Author	Nite Shadow
Created	Aug 14 2014, 4:25 AM

General Commentary and Game Overview

Mario Land: Minigame Mayhem is a collection of minigames like no other.
We are talking around 80 MINIGAMES!
That's right, 80! and the majority of the things are pretty dang good!
The minigames available range from everything from Whack-a-mole, to Card games, to a Quickdraw duel, to one of the most accurate Tetris clones that I've ever seen, and many many more!

I'm honestly tempted to review them all, one by one.

Pros	+ Massive level of varying gameplay + Very good music selection + Large list of unlockables + A theme-park layout for the game select + Music select within the main overworld + Decent difficulty ramp for several games + Very well made engines + Excellent use of characters + Good use of graphics from Mario & Luigi
Cons	- Random glitching, some of which appear to be specific to my computer alone.

Impressions

Gameplay 10 / 10	Wow, where do I start? Each of the minigames has it's own gameplay style, some are Platformers, some are repetitive like Game and Watch, then you have the arcade, where you have some really good clones of Asteroids, Tetris, Space invaders, and even Air hockey. Of course if none of those are good enough for you, why not crawl into a hole and slide down a rope while you dodge bombs coming up at you from either side? Or perhaps you want to go with a simple game of Rock,Paper,Scissors? Or maybe you want to go club Monty Mole with a hammer? JUST WATCH OUT FOR LUIGI! I guess what I'm trying to say here is: We are looking at TOTAL GAMEPLAY OVERLOAD! There is sure to be at least one game in here that you will like. Oh yeah, and the various high score tables are stored online!
Graphics 10 / 10	This game uses graphics from the Mario & Luigi series of games. (Superstar saga?) Where one may think that this would get old really fast, Kritter has managed to use these really well. In fact, it's hard to tell where the graphics actually came from, unless you look real closely.
Sound 10 / 10	This game's music consists of 96 Impulse Tracker tracks. Which are several rips from various SNES Mario games, Remixes, and a few custom tracks if I'm not mistaken. A lot of thought obviously went into the placement of these tracks, because they all fit in like they belong in this game! All this, plus you are able to change the music on the main overworld!
Replay 10 / 10	As I noted before, TOTAL GAMEPLAY OVERLOAD! A lot of these are really quite addicting once you get into the rhythm of them, others take fast reflexes and split second timing, and DANGIT! I can't stop playing these!

Final Words

Whew, my fingers hurt after typing all of that.

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Comments

	AsteriskX Sep 2 2014, 4:16 AM
Very nice review, I enjoyed reading it.

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