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Very disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: November 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Seeing previews for this game, I thought it would be great. How can you go wrong with the fun action of pinball combined with the world and characters of Mario World?

I' tell you how you can go wrong. By creating a game that has terrible level design and a setup that makes it so easy to die that it is maddening. The physics of pinball do not apply. You can hit the ball (Mario) with the flipper the exact same way in the exact same spot 10 times and you can never predict where the ball is going to go. There is no skill involved in the game. One time playing it you can clear a level in a couple of minutes. The next time, you'll constantly have the ball go through your flippers quickly and GAME OVER. Also it is just very boring; the levels are small and repetitive. It's like its for toddlers, but there's no way they have the patience for it.

My biggest problem with this game was the fact that the SAVE option seldom worked. Many times after saving the game and turning it off, when I tried to play again it would not let me load a game. I would have to start over from scratch. This makes you very angry when you're already playing a game you do not like.
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Nintendo should be ashamed.

Don't Buy This Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: December 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is not a good game at all. First of all there is a horilble storyline. The ball is hard to manuver and fall out quickly. And finally when you turn it off it automatically deletes the file. I know its in the instrution book but it happens on inctinct. Trust me I am a game lover and this is just disappionting. I like mario games and I love pinball but this game is baadd. Trust me buy something good. I would buy Kingdom Hearts: Chain Memories.

Hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is hard, the flippers are sooooooo slowwwwww. I always lose a ball. Very annoying.

PS Get the combo pack of Sonic advance and Sonic Pinball party
if you want a goood pinball game. It R-O-C-K-S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The best (Pinball) game in the world!!!!!!

Bad Mario Game???

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: October 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I remember seeing a preview for this game and thinking that this game was going to be like the pokemon pinball games but with better graphics but when i put this game into my gameboy advance i was shocked by how bad it was. The real problem with the game is that the level desigen is very un inspired and its so easy for you to die because of the level lay out. Also its just not that fun of a pinball game. Hopefully Nintendo will learn from there mistakes and actually a good pinball game next time

*PS* If you are looking for a good pinball game check out Kirby's Pinball for the original gameboy. While it might not look better than this game its the best pinball game EVER!!!

Mario Pinball

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: October 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love playing Mario games so bought this one. I find it a very hard game to play and losing interest in it. I have beat one boss is about all. Very easy to lose your Marioball down the drain. Doubt I will finish it.

not really what i expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: October 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If your looking for a pin-ball kind of game you might be dissapointed. Really all this is a mario game. Even die hard mario fans (like my brother) will be dissapointed. All you do is go into doors and kill enimeis then go into more doors, it gets boring after awhile. Another thing, you can only have ONE save which means if you have siblings and they wanna play you'll have to share a file. this game also gets old VERY fast too!

Some + sides are:
good music
sound effects from many of the mario games
goomba's!

All in all i wouldn't really buy this game i'd personaly just rent it or even download it.
there's some good emulator sites out there.

fun is short-lived

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Mario shows up once again, this time in his own pinball game. I'm sure this one will sell a ton of copies. Truth be told, Mario Pinball Land is like some cheap bubble gum that loses flavor after a couple of minutes.

Sure, the graphics are detailed and colorful, and all the gang of characters is here. The pinball action is simple yet works pretty well. So what is the problem? Very repetitive. The screens vary with different locales (pyramids, caves, deserts, etc) but the action never changes. I found myself getting bored with it early on. This one is for the kids.

They must not have tried very hard...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 17 / 21
Date: November 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Before I got this game, I thought that it was going to be like Pokemon Pinball with Mario-styled boards. When I bought it and started playing, I liked it. Then, it got annoying, and I started hating it. It didn't take long.

Gameplay: 1/10
It's hard to even get the ball where I want it to go, so imagine how hard it is to complete the timed missions, like hitting all four dancing Shy Guys before they go into a vase! This thing would have me so angry at it, except...

Music/Sound: 9/10
...the music is cool! Well, okay, it can get a little annoying, especially that accordion music, but if you ask me, this game would've been much better with a sound test.

Story: 1/10
Come on! They've managed to come up with okay storylines for all of the other Mario games, and now, this? Basically, the storyline is: There's a cannon thing at the funfair that squeezes people into a ball and launches them. When Princess Peach gets into the cannon, some Goombas bump it towards Bowser's castle, so Mario goes to save her. Well, it gets a point for semi-originality.

Graphics: 4/10

The graphics just seem too "Sonic 3D Blast"-y for me. Well, except for the ball and the castle. I think the ground is checkered, but it's been so long since I could bring myself to play this tedious and boring game for me to remember. At least the penguins look cute.

Overall: 3.75/10
I hope Nintendo learns how to make a better pinball game. If you want pinball, get Sonic Pinball Party unless you really, really like Mario games.

Good in some ways.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Here are the pros and cons.


PRO:
garaphics are strong but not as strong as most DS games.
Bosses are desinged well, but bowser is the best one.
Music is good.
save point is included.

CON:
It can deleat on it's own sometimes.
Enimies are annoying.
Some missions are annoying.
No soundtest.
heard that it's not as good as the kirby pinball game.
The garaphics have some blocky edges.
contrulls can get annoying.

I hope that metroid prime pinball turns out to be better then this game.

Not Worth Your Money

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Overall Mario Pinball Land is a boring game that lacks depth. The graphics and the whole idea of making a pinball game with mario in in are the only two postive features. The gameplay gets boring after the first coupple of minutes because all you have to do is hit mario in the into alll the bad guys that are walking around the feild.
Pros
*Graphics are box art are pretty good
*The sound is what you would expect from apinball game
*Items make the gameplay a little intresting

Cons
*Boring plot
*Gameplay lacks depth
*Not worth more than $10

Overall
The game is not worth your money unlees you spend $10 or less on it. After about 5 plays of the game you will find you will not play it much more.

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