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[Metacritic's 2003 Game Boy Advance Game of the Year] Bowser and his troublemaking kids have forced the land into complete chaos by transforming all the local kings into animals, and it's up to Mario and Luigi to stop them. In what many consider to be the best Mario game ever, players have to run, jump and stomp on enemies through eight enormous worlds, as they use new and classic power-ups. Dash past danger, swim treacherous seas and even take to the air, speeding toward a collision course with Bowser.
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Pocket Games
The bottom line is that this is Mario hop-n-bop action at its finest, with a goodly amount of minigames thrown into the mix for good measure... As great as it ever was. [Fall 2003, p.38]
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Cheat Code Central
There's nothing that can take away the classic status of Super Mario Bros. 3. The game was released almost 15 years ago and is a platform game so unique and perfectly crafted that games today will still find themselves compared to it.
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Play Magazine
The challenge is also perfect, the quick-save option makes the game more playable without being cheap, and the e-Card features are icing on the cake. [Dec 2003, p.95]
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Game Informer
We finally have a high quality port of the game that is probably my favorite ever: "Super Mario Bros. 3." [Nov 2003, p.176]
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Nintendo Power
It's the best-selling game of all-time for a reason, and it stands the test of time remarkably well. [Dec 2003, p.142]
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Gamestyle
But amidst all this dispensable extra substance is the core mechanic of Mario; the one thing that holds true to the series, and one thing that ensures Mario is leaps and bounds ahead of its platforming peers - inertia. The faster you run, the higher you jump. It's a brilliantly simple concept that works perfectly.
The average user rating for this game is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 34 User Votes Annonymous Luigi Fan gave it a10: Mario Mario gave it an8: Waisy B. gave it a7: Alex gave it a3: Ed M. gave it a10: Maxx gave it a10: Andrew D. gave it a9: |
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