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super mario advanced

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I dont know I never recieved the game after ordering it twice.... the shipping kept gettin put off 2 week I finally got sick of it and canceled the order...they lasts over about 2 or 3 months .....

O la la

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is the pits! Its the worst Mario game ever. Even worse than Mario 64.

Pros: Nice Graphics

Cons: Makes you madder than the Mad Hatter!
Terrible Gameplay
Too hard

Okay Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was okay. It was not really one of the games that you just can't put down. At first, you have to chose a player every time you lose. After a while, I just kept hitting the buttons until I got back to the game. But the good thing about it was that it was fun to play when you got used to it.

horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this is the worst mario game that i have seen. Its not mario-type (you know, jumping on the bad guys, collecting coins, etc.) Since this was one of the original games for GBA you would think that it would be really good like all originals are. Personally, I dont like it and i ended up leaving it in my friends car. get Super Mario World instead... much better.

gee..........

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

super mario advance 2 is better than this,at least it has the classic super mario world which is really awesome but this like balh. get the 2nd version. youll like it more than this.

WORST MARIO GAME EVER

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME CAUSDED ME TO BREAK MY GAMEBOY ADVANCE OUT OF PURE RAGE. I THINK THIS IS A GOOD ENOUGH EXAMPLE OF WHY NOT TO BUY THIS GAME. I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF GOOD POINTS ABOUT THIS GAME. IT WAS ENTERTAINING FOR THE FIRST COUPLE OF HOURS, AND THE GRAPHICS WERE AN INPROVEMENT FROM THE GBC. YET I STILL RECOMEND YOU DONT BUY THIS GAME! IF YOU ARE A SHORT TEMPERED GAMER DONT BUY MARIO ADVANCE. RENT IT OR PLAY A FRIENDS (IF U HAVE ANY) BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT BUY IT!

This game was a nice try but couldn't cut to the chase.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: May 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I didn't like this game because there was no storyline. The way to kill bosses and stuff like that was stuiped throwing vegetables come on. I wish the charactes could of killed people in different ways. The music was horriable and the final boss was a piece of cake.

Bottom Line: what ever you do don't get this game.

Significantly worse on the GBA

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: August 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a big disappointment from Nintendo. First off, the original game wasn't all that great to begin with due to its tiny worlds, nonexistant powerups, and simple boss characters. However, what makes this game a real loser is that it's worse than the the SNES remake on the Super Mario All-Stars game and even the original NES game!

The game does have some advantages over previous versions:
1) The graphics are taken from Super Mario All-Stars and therefore are an improvement over the original.
2) The mindnumbingly boring slot machine scene after each tiny world have been made more tolerable since you can now bet a group of coins instead of making individual bets for each and every coin you have.
3) Like All-Stars, you can pick a different character after each tiny level instead of waiting until an entire world was cleared.

What makes this game worse than All-Stars?
1) The horrible scrolling engine! SMB2 had a unique scrolling style on vertical levels which remains, but the horizontal levels are torture too. You can literally tap your character one direction or the other and the entire screen will scroll so that your character is near either the left or right edge. The scrolling engine alone makes this game unplayable. What is it with Nintendo and its policy of using lousy camera work for its Mario games? I thought that was just for their 3D Mario games.

2) The annoying vocal work from the 3D games has been added here to make the experience as unpleasant as possible. Do we really need to hear "Lucky" after collecting a cherry? Battle scenes with Birdo have some sort of annoying speech that I haven't made out quite yet, and it freezes the action while the dialog is being spoken.

3) Weird tacked-on stuff: the game has a lot of little new things that just feel totally out of place. Anyone familiar with the real version of the game is familiar with the inital drop that happens when you start world 1-1. The new version is totally different and this new little vertical area is littered with everything that will annoy you about this game.

My recommendation? DO NOT BUY.

Nintendo needs to know that terrible ports like this are totally unacceptable! I recommend waiting for the Nintendo Revolution (aka the poorly named "Wii") and obtain the NES original or the superior SNES Super Mario All-Stars version on the virtual console instead.

New Console, New Game?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got this game on import from Japan aout a week ago to play on my GBA and I gotta say, it .... It's a direct [copy] of Mario Bros and Super Mario and its pointless getting it unless you never payed the original. ...One for the novices this One

Disapointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game was going to be a killer app for the GBA. But it turned out this game was just a watered down port with a really dumb multi-play. I think you should get Chu Chu Rocket! or Mario Kart. Even on the Nintendo this game was not really that good.

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