Super Mario World

Super Mario World is an action adventure platformer by Nintendo and the first Mario game to be released for the SNES. I first played it on my friend's SNES before immediately becoming enamored and wanting my own SNES.

Status

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

Review

Overall: 9/10

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.

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.