Super Mario 3D Land for Nintendo 3DS Reviews by Gamers

Let me start off by saying this is a really good game for casual relaxing fun with some challenge in the later levels for the more hardcore gamers

I rented this game thinking it would be like mario 64 or sunshine, a collection platformer, that was my bad I didn't look into it enough. What I got was a game representing classic super mario bros., and super mario bros. 3 for the nes, but in 3d with new graphics.

The good: the graphics were great, really colorful and shiny, pulled off a good atmosphere along with its fantastic sound track of old songs, re-mixed songs, and a few new melodies(at least for me). The 3 coin system in every level gave a sense of collectivity and achievement and completion that is missing in the originals, not very fancy but its nice, really makes you experience all of every level. Lots of replayability, similar to megaman battlenetwork 3 there are 5 stars to unlock by completing several challenges and completion levels, along with 2 playable characters its pretty fun.

The bad: The replayability seems a bit old after your second playthrough of all the levels when you are going for 100% to unlock the last level. Very few boss concepts being 2 baby koopas, bowser imposters, and bowser himself which is barely more scary than his imposters, and limited power up suits, heck super mario bros 3 on the nes had way more outfits and unique boss fights, and the map layout for super mario bros. 3 is non linear and feels like a world, super mario 3D is very linear on a straight line level to level. There are 6 buttons to play with on the DS and 3 actions mapped to those 6 buttons, meaning each action has 2 buttons that do the same thing it seems like old school sega where all the buttons do the same thing. They even managed to downgrade the backflip from its mario 64 version, you now have to hold L or R for a few seconds before performing the backflip, makes wanting to backflip very frowned upon.

Over all?, could be better but its still very fu