King Video Game Reviews: Super Mario 64 DS
Prologue: Remember the good old days? Well guess what there back and just AS good not equal or greater and here is why anyway read the review ect please sticky and comment critisize ect,here is the review for by most fans the best game ever made:
STORY 10/10
Bowser has captured the princess what more is there you want? nothing because most Mario games with different plot twists get the ****ty end of the stick when it comes to review time if you ask me. So ya perfect story!
SOUND 9.5/10
Sort of catchy but very memorible though the bomb-omb battle field theme will be with me until my grave good songs the sound affects are pretty good and Charles Mrinett(voice of Mario I think that is his name)is still going strong with his short but good voices of Mario.
GRAPHICS 9.5/10
As much as I like to find flaws in graphics I cannot doubt this game has almost nearly perfect graphics even better than Metriod Primes and of course better than it's N64 preddesesor. One problem is sometimes I notice spikey edges like on Mario face or nose or walls ect' other than that very clean and very easy to see graphics.
DIFFICULTY 6.9/10
The difficulty in the game is pretty easy I admit I remember as a 5 year old child beating Bowser pretty easy and just having a slightetly harder time on the other 2 Bowser stages.Anyway it is easy bosses have very easy to see attack patterns and most of them take 3 hits even the final boss just takes 3 hits but there is a catch you have to grab his tail and throw him into a bomb thus it takes a bit of concentration it could have been harder not somewhat or little just harder.
CONTROLS 7/10
Now it depends what system you have if you have a DS Lite it is a bit harder Ds? Easier just the d-pads the Lite is smaller whilst the ds is bigger. Anyway the controls are pretty simple press b to jump a to attack and y to sash and x to go into first person mode. Although I have heard one complaint about the dash abilty ahould have been just automatic I disagree it makes the game not annoying but more challengeing and gives your thumbs a nice work out I mean if they did not have the y button to dash what else could they have made it? Backflipping and triple jumping are easy to do as the butoons are responsive and accurate and feel right when performing them. It is a bit rusty when running in cirlces or turning even with a DS it just feels akward now for the stylus controls there a left handed and right handed option I personnaly do not use the stylus much but I can tell you it works very nice indeed every thing is responsive and for right hander is may feel akward at first attacking and jumping with the d-pad but it gets easy and fun to do after awile. All in all the controls are ok.
GAMEPLAY 9.5/10
The levels are super well done from ice to sand to fire to even a poisones mine the levels are very well thought of to bad you do not get that today...anyway everything just feels so cool. I personaly am a bomb-omb island fan the level was very well done. One problem though the traps ect' in my opinion werent very clever to a point for example in bomb-omb isalnd were there is a chain chomp they could have been more creative and mabey put some ledges or fences to make it more funner and challenging to get passed.Or the slide levels could have been more longer WAY longer and mabey obstacles anyone? On the sldie to make it more cool.i found the cool cool mountin to very a very cool level as it is like a mounin and there are lower and higher parts to it.the overworld outside the castle is small but cool and it is fun to do diffrent misson every misson has I think 7 chapters each has a diffrent misson some chapters you dont even have to do and look for special stars after you beat that misson you can do it as much as you like now the toads in the game arent very helpfull but some will give you a free star! Also each charecter has diffrent abilitys (just milked from Mario another marketing ploy)other than that a almsot perfect adventure.
UNLOCKABLES 5.9/10
Not too much but just the right amount to unlock extra characters(yes you have to unlock them but you also get new levels which rocks), mini games whic are super fun and hard to put down and that is about it but it is a fun way to kill some time as for the mini games you have to find these rabbits some as diffrent charcers and cath them to get mini game keys!
MULTIPLAYER 1.9/10
Thats right. Reason it is so low? Here is why ok you can have up to four players ok awesome and you have to be Yoshi and you can get caps though... Ok I can deal with that and there are diffrent colored so ok ...but... here is the bad part 4 stages.......yup thats it 4 ****ing stages. Why? Well they use the main world and the secret levles which are short and boring and you can collect the stars and have 30 seconds! I mean what a bunch of bull**** I know for a fact this was thrown in the last minute just to make buyers go HEY IT IS 4 PLAYER? NOW I CAN PLAY WITH ALL MY FREINDS! you can attack eachother to get stars which is neat and you can fly by collecting special caps but why be Yoshi? Why do we have to get the caps ahh I know for difficulty yes but the sacrafised that for fun my freind this has a patheic multiplayer and it has download play though which saves this from being a 1/10.
Buy or rent?: I thought hard about this rent seriously it is a superb game but if you have new super Mario bros or Mario64 it just isent worth it seriously but if your a fan of Mario buy it as it is pretty good.
FINAL REVIEW 9.5/10:
Honest review it just had those little slivers in adventure mode and the multiplayer mode could have been better even though it was made for adventure mode so blame the multiplayer mode for the 9.5 other than that this legendary heap of gold lives on in our hearts next to ott in the the greatest video game of all time what would I say to a sequel? I thought about it no. Because it would be ruined for movies it dont work video games it does but not this it truly deservs to be alone because why need a sequel? it would only insult gamers anyway live on Mario 64 live on.
Review by kingbooforums of DS Ultimate forums.