Super Mario World

File:Super Mario World.jpg

North American box art.

Super Mario World is an action adventure platformer developed and published by Nintendo in 1990 as the first Mario game to be released for the SNES.

I first saw this game at a friend's house who had already beaten the game shorty after getting his SNES. I was immediately enamored with it and wanted my own SNES, which I got that following Christmas.

Status

I own this game and have completed all 96 exits in the game.

Review

• Overall: 9/10
• Best Version: SNES

Good

• The sprites are wonderfully detailed and cute, the backgrounds are beautiful and unobtrusive, and the music is fantastic.
• The game-play is perfect. Great character control and camera panning.
• There is a wide variety of monsters and hazards, each fitting to its environment.
• The addition of the hidden Star Road, allows players to choose to beat the game quickly, but those who wish to play each stage can still do so.
• Multiple exits for each level was a great idea and added a lot of play time.
• Yoshi is a wonderful side kick, and adding colored Yoshis with intrinsic abilities was a great idea too.
• Koji Kondo composed another amazing soundtrack for this game.
• The game has a great ending.

Bad

• The engine has a few minor bugs that rarely manifest.
• Some of the optional levels are frustratingly tough.
• I don't get why the spin jump prevents Mario from being damaged by spinies and chainsaws.

Ugly

• Nothing.

Gallery

• Super Mario World - SNES - Manual.pdf

  Game manual.

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  A huge collage of the Super Mario World themes.

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  The Super Mario World map rendered in ancient style.

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  A map of earth using the Super Mario World map style.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/snes/super-mario-world - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.com/snes/519824-super-mario-world - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_World - Wikipedia.