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| Super Mario 64 DS; ~Review(56k)~ | |
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| UltraMegaGigaBowser | May 29 2005, 12:36 PM Post #1 |
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![]() Beginning Note: This is my first review and I hope you like it very much!!!! Anyways... Here it Goes!!! [size=14]SUPER MARIO 64 DS[/size] ![]() ^BOX-ART System: Nintendo DS Published: Nintendo Developer: Nintendo Genre: Platform Rated: E (everyone) Connectivity: 2-4 Players with a separate DS on DS Download Play; Only 1 game pack needed. ![]() ^SINKING SAND LAND (probably the most difficult level) Controls: Move- Move the Control Pad in the direction you want to move. Dash- Hold Down Y Button while moving. Jump- B Button Attack- A Button: Mario, Luigi, and Wario punch; Yoshi sticks out tongue and swallows. Crouch- R Button; Hold down R while moving to slide/crawl. Swim- Steer as normal except press UP to go down and DOWN to surface. Hold B to swim steadily and tap B to gain speed. Ground Pound- B Button + R Button Triple Jump- Hold down the direction that you want to move. B Button + B Button + B Button Backward Somersault- R Button + B Button Side somersault- First dash to a side then immediately press to the opposite direction and press B at the same time. Long Jump- Dash, Crouch, then Jump Kick- A + A + A (not available with Yoshi) Jump Kick- B + A (not available with Yoshi) Slide Kick- Dash, crouch, then Attack Slide Attack- Press A Button while moving. (not available with Yoshi) Sweep Kick- R Button + A Button CONTROLS RATING: 9.5/10 Story: “Please come to the Castle. I’ve Baked a cake for you. Yours Truly-- Princess Toadstool, Peach” At the invitation of Princess Peach, Mario accompanied by party crashers Luigi and Wario, enter the Mushroom Castle. But when the three don’t come out of the castle for a long time, Yoshi decides to check up on them. Upon entering the castle, Yoshi discovers that no one is there. According to Toad, Bowser has stolen the Power Stars guarding the castle and locked Princess Peach into the walls and paintings. Maybe Mario and his friends have been captured in the paintings, too! Now it’s up to Yoshi to rescue Princess Peach , Mario, Luigi, and Wario from the castles paintings and walls! -I really like this plot and it is very similar to the original SM64, but it is slightly better in the fact that there is Wario, Luigi, and Yoshi, too. I think it’s a great plot, but I have seen better ones such as the plot for Super Mario Sunshine and a few others that I think are excellent and almost perfect! It is still a really good story and I would rank it in my top 20!!! PLOT/STORY RATING: 8.9/10 Game Play: The way you play the game and what you have to do is very simple and can be explained in 3 little steps: 1) OPEN DOORS BY GETTING TARS AND KEYS- Open doors by either getting the number of power stars specified on the door or finding a key if the door has a keyhole. 2) GO INTO PAINTINGS AND WALLS- The main place to get stars is inside the paintings and walls throughout the castle. Each painting and/or wall leads to a specific level. There are 7 Course Stars plus one 100 coins star in each painting. There are 15 levels: 1)Bomb-Omb Battlefield 2)Whomp’s Fortress 3)Jolly Roger Bay 4)Cool, Cool Mountain 5)Big Boo’s Haunt 6)Hazy Maze cave 7)Lethal Lava Land 8)Shifting Sand Land 9)Dire, Dire Docks 10)Snowman’s Land 11)Wet-Dry World 12)Tall, Tall Mountain 13)Tiny-Huge Island 14)Tick Tock Clock 15)Rainbow Ride There is also Peaches Castle, which is the main place you start in, and 300 secret stars are hidden all around it. 3) GET POWER STARS- Get a power star by completing a course. After you get a power star, you will be returned to the main hall of Peach’s Castle. The more stars you got, the more levels you can get to! There are 150 Power stars in all. REPEAT THE 3 ABOVE STEPS TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE GAME!!! As you may already know, you can play as four characters in SM64 DS. They are Mario, Yoshi, Luigi, and Wario! To get each character, you must get a certain number of stars and find and beat a special boss(below). Each character is different and has special abilities, you may switch characters in the room in front of Peaches Play room by going into there respective doors. You can also switch them by finding their respective hat located somewhere in each level. If you get hurt though, you lose your hat and go back to the original player you were using. If you are Mario, you may also get a flight hat hidden in some boxes; it allows you to fly! There are some bosses that you must beat to unlock Mario, Luigi, and Wario. ![]() ^Goomboss, a boss allows you to get Mario if you beat her! There are some certain items in Super Mario 64 DS!!! -Yellow Coin - Heals one life piece. -Red Coin - Equals two yellow coins, you must get 8 of them in some levels to get a star. -Blue Coin - Equals five yellow coins. -Spinning Heart - Heals you depending on how fast you run through it. -Koopa Shell - Jump on and ride across the course, on water, land, and ice. -1-up Mushroom - Gives you one life. -Mushroom - Makes you huge for a short period of time. -! Up Block - Contains a yellow coin, mushroom, 1-up mushroom, or koopa shell. -Cannon - Aim, and Shoot yourself to a far off place. OPINION: I really like the game-play and think it is really good and is probably the best I have ever seen. Everything Just fits and it seems perfect to me! GAME-PLAY RATING: 10/10 ![]() ^A Boss on top of Whomp's Fortress Graphics: The graphics are REALLY good. Mainly because the DS graphics are about the same as a Nintendo 64... or maybe even better! The game’s graphics are definitely better than the original, Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64. It isn’t close to as good as Super Mario Sunshine though which has suburb graphics on the Nintendo Gamecube!!! The game really details up the characters, especially the little bad-guys and bosses which make or break a game. The characters are so much better than almost every other Mario game. Take the Goombas for example. In the original they face the screen and walk side ways, they resemble a brown crab. In SM64 DS (and just SM64 for that matter) they are really intelligent and you can tell how they react when you see you and it is really fun to watch them charge at you , miss, then see them get angry. The little Goombas and all the little enemies have so much emotion and personality! The graphics are really good!!! They are just so good for a handheld gaming system and I think they are the best out of all DS games. If you are a person who judges games by their graphics, you’d rate this game VERY high!!! GRAPHICS RATING: 8.1/10 Music/Sound: I think the music is very good. Some of the tunes, such as the one when you’re in the Castle can get stuck in your head. The game also has very good sounds such as the waterfall, birds chirping, snoring, and the sound of you sliding down a race tunnel. Overall it has very good sound/music and is better than most handheld games, even games on the DS and PSP which have a great sound system and sounds/music. The music I would rank as “decent”. It is not as close to as good as sound as games like Metroid Prime, Super Mario Sunshine, and all the other games for Gamecube, Xbox, or PS2. It is still all right though. MUSIC/SOUND RATING: 7.2/10 ![]() ^Yoshi going into the picture for Whomp's Fortress Replay Value: The game doesn’t have much of a Replay Value. That isn’t really that bad of a problem though because the game is really difficult and long and I’ve had it since the day it came out (I bought it on November 22, the day the DS came out) and I still need 12 more stars to win. If you win and get every star, I don’t think it would be that fun or joyful playing it again. If you absolutely need replay value, I guess you could play the mini-games which I talk about below over and over but I don’t know how thrilling that would be. REPLAY VALUE: 3.9/10 Characters: This is the part where I tell you about all the characters in the game!!! Here it goes: Mario: Nintendo’s mascot. He is one of the four playable characters in the game and Yoshi must save him first before you can use him though. He is the first unlockable character. MARIO: ![]() Yoshi: A green dinosaur. He is one of the four playable characters and the one you start out with. He can suck up enemies with his tongue and turn them into eggs. YOSHI: ![]() Luigi: Mario’s scardy-cat brother. He is also one of the four playable characters and he must be saved by Yoshi to play him. He is very fast and can turn invisible. LUIGI: ![]() Wario: Some big-tough wannabe. Wario is very fat and think he’s the greatest person on earth. He is the fourth playable character and also must be saved by Yoshi before being used. WARIO: ![]() Princess Peach: Also known as Princess Toadstool. She owns Peach’s Castle where the game takes place and you must save her. She is in charge of Mushroom Kingdom. PEACH: ![]() Bowser: The King of Koopas. He is the main bad guy in SM64 DS and you must beat him 3 times to save the Princess. He breathes fire and is the most evil creature in Mushroom Kingdom! BOWSER: ![]() King Bomb-Omb: He is king of all Bomb-Ombs. He is the first boss you face in the game and you face in the very first level/course in the game. If you know the controls, he is very easy to beat. KING BOMB-OMB: Can't Find Picture, If you can, PM it to me! Thank you! Koopa the Quick: He is a koopa and is very quick! You have to race him two or three times during the game. Once in one of the first four levels/courses of the game. KOOPA THE QUICK: ![]() These are just some of the characters, mainly the main ones. There are a bunch more in the game. CHARACTERS SCORE: 8.5/10 Mini Games: Yes, they did throw mini games in Super Mario 64! There are 36 in all. They aren’t much and are mainly very simple, but they’re alright. They aren’t nearly as great as mini games in Sonic and Mario Party Games though. They mainly involve moving your pointer thing around the touch screen. Some, such as the bomb-omb pick-up can get very addicting and frustrating, but it’s FUN! You shouldn’t buy the game for mini-games cause you’ll be disappointed. The games are fun, but they quickly lose your interest and are “extremely” easy. You get mini-games by catching runaway bunnies which are scattered around the castle. Each one of the four characters can catch up to nine bunnies. When you catch a bunny, they’ll give you a key. When you get a key, you can unlock a mini game in Peach’s Toy Room. You can then play the mini games in Peach’s Toy Room or from the main menu. That is all I have to say about the mini games! MINI GAMES SCORE: 6.8/10 ![]() MINI GAME PICTURE^ Overall: I’ll start my overall section my telling you all the good and bad things about Super Mario 64 DS! BAD THINGS: -Not a good replay-value -Pretty Easy, Very Hard to get a game-over -Mini Games are easy and very simple -Hard to get used to the controls at first -Almost “too many” different kind of jumps GOOD THINGS: -Nintendo Game -Great Graphics for a Handheld Game -Lots of fun levels -Nice Story -Mario Game(all Mario games are good!) -Great Game Play -Power stars are really fun!!! -4 main characters -Little Bad Guys are SWEET! -Great Bosses -Game play is really fun and addicting -Easy to understand mini-games -Cool, Catchy Music Now to the main part of the overall section! This should be a great game who loves Nintendo, and an even “GREATER” game to some one like me who loves Mario games in specific. It is a replica of a classic, and is still better than the original. I would DIFFIDENTLY recommend this game, It’s awesome! But, If you are one of those people who like violent, extremely good graphics games, and think Mario is a kiddy game (you are wrong), this is not a game for you! This is also not a game for people who like Side-Scrollers, RPG’s and/or Sports games. It is a game for people who like Platform, Adventure, and similar games!! Anyway, to get to the point, I would buy you this game if you want a fun, interesting, addicting, and All-Around Great Mario/Nintendo game!!! OVERALL GAME RATING: 9.9/10 THE END!!! Thanks for reading my review of Super Mario 64 DS an I hope you like it! Please nominate it for review of the month!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!
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| caleb_brehaut | May 29 2005, 02:13 PM Post #2 |
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Great review!
Structured and in depth (without sending me to sleep! :lol:). Very informative and a great contender for ROTM (but you understand why i can't vote 4 u!
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| Zane | May 29 2005, 05:48 PM Post #3 |
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man another great great review! nice job |
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| Stu_J | May 29 2005, 06:14 PM Post #4 |
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excleent review man, nice detail, i enjoyed this game , thot u wood go on a bot more about the cntrols as I think thts wat makes this game orginal, apart from tht top notch! im confused bout ROTM now! |
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| UltraMegaGigaBowser | May 29 2005, 07:10 PM Post #5 |
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THANKS EVERY1, VOTE 4 ME!!! You can't vote 4 me until Wendsday cause thats when next months ROTM comes out and thatz the 1 im in!!! And directed to Zaneblade: This isn't "another" great review cause it's my 1st one!!! :lol: lol |
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Structured and in depth (without sending me to sleep! :lol:). Very informative and a great contender for ROTM (but you understand why i can't vote 4 u!
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