Super Mario Advance is the greatest Mario game ever made. Behold the following:
1. Diversity - Choose your character from a diverse array of characters and backgrounds. Struggling immigrant Mario. Empowered woman Peach. Fungal-American Toad. And that Luigi bastard.
2. Gambling - For the first time, players collect gold coins not for some vague promise of extra lives, but for something that actually matters: SLOTS! James Coburn would be proud.
3. Adaptive Enemy AI - This game has it all: enemies who move, enemies who hop, and enemies who hop AND move!
4. F*cking Rockets - Rocket ships that you pull out of the ground.
5. Stats! - Yes, stats! Ever wondered who has more upper body strength, Mario or Toad? Wonder no more, with canonical stats for each character!
6. POW blocks - Crush your enemies with this true throwback weapon
7. Sweet, sweet gypsy jazz music - Seriously, take your "wah, wah"s and shove em right up your treble clef. Check this out:
8. Robirdo:
9. Voice Acting - That's right, full voice acting! Hear Birdo taunt the player! Hear Mario cry out for his mother at the moment of death (not kidding)! Hear Toad scream and scream and scream....
10. No suits/power ups - No Fire Flowers, no Capes, no over-sized green wind-up boots. Just Mario (or Peach, etc) against the world, with nothing but his wits and whatever makeshift weapons he can pull from the cold, unforgiving earth. It's Mario OSP.
It's at least better than that Yoshi's Island garbage.
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