While in the middle of my Cult of the Lamb playthrough, my power went out for 4 hours. In that time, I had nothing to do except go on my phone but eventually it died. I remembered my 3DS was fully charged and so I decided to look through my DS/3DS games to see if I can be productive and replay something I hadn't in a while. Decided on the original New Super Mario Bros, since I hadn't played the series in years. After playing through the first world, my power came back on not long after. Decided to continue replaying this even with the power back on so here we are.

The New Super Mario Bros games were not games I ever truly loved. Yes, by the time 2 and U came out, the series became super stale. But even with DS and Wii, I never found them amazing at all. Replaying DS, this seems to still be true for me. In fact, this may be my least favorite of the bunch, at least next to 2 for several different reasons. Even despite that however, it's still a fun time overall and worth coming back to for a certain addition I'll talk about later.

First thing you'll notice when playing the game, would be its graphics. Personally, I always thought the NSMB games had a fine enough artstyle tho I much prefer how the sprite-based games looked in the past. DS though is sadly the ugliest in the series now. It was certainly a marvel back then but nowadays, just looks kinda ugly a lot of the time compared to the other titles.

Level design-wise, the game has plenty of levels that actually are pretty memorable. The sewers level, the giant wiggler level, the pipe maze level, the fucking brutal 8-1 level with the birds. I wish more of the levels were memorable like these, since a large chunk can be forgettable but I was surprised just how many I ended up remembering. This game also added the star coin collectable and honestly, they can be a tremendous pain in this game. They don't hide them behind invisible walls like future game but some of them require a powerup from other levels or toad houses and it can be frustrating. Same with the secret exits (which came back from Mario World). Like a third of those require the aforementioned outside powerup and they're a pain. I do recommend going for 100% tho cuz once you beat the game, you can actually buy bottom screen skins with any star coins you have and I never knew this and it's awesome. Such a great reward for going out of your way to get them.

One more aspect of the gameplay I wanted to get into were the powerups. 80% of the game you'll be seeing the fire flower which is a good powerup of course. The other 20%, you'll see the three new ones (and the classic star I guess) and I gotta say they're not that great. The mega mushroom is a great concept and is fun to use but is barely in any levels naturally. The mini mushroom is also not used that much and I honestly never liked much just because it's so floaty. And the shell is just obnoxious since you start moving on your own the moment you hit top speed and you have to manually stop to get out of your shell. I'm sure it's super fun when speed running but alas, it just annoyed me more than anything. This is another thing I think future games did better, especially WIi, that one has a great selection of powerups.

I really don't have much to say about the soundtrack. It's alright at best I think and it doesn't help the 1-1 theme gets reused in Wii. I did actually like the map theme for world 7 though, something about that feels so nostalgic. This game is somewhat nostalgic to me since I remember seeing a classmate play this on field trip bus ride when I was 8 and thinking it looked so cool. Never ended up playing the main campaign until after I played the other 3 NSMB games but my memory of that bus ride is engrained in my memory, and part of me thinks that classmate was on world 7 that day which might explain why the song feels so nostalgic. Either way, besides that one song I really like, never cared for the game's ost sadly.

This is all fine and dandy, but the real reason I think someone should come back to this one is its multiplayer modes. Minigames are a blast to play, even if most of them are ported straight from 64 DS, but there are a couple new ones which is nice. I probably played these more than the actual game back in the day. The Mario vs Luigi mode was also a lot of fun back in the day too. The goal was to get the most stars and you could steal them from the opposite Mario brother. Was just really fun constantly screwing the other person over. Though I guess since (most of) the minigames are in 64 DS and future games had multiplayer in it's campaigns, these aren't amazing reasons to come back to NSMB DS specifically, but it's still a nice little package of multiplayer goodness overall.

Like I said, was never a huge fan of the New Super Mario Bros games, and while this still rings true...I'd say this was still a fun time overall. Would be fun to replay them all but I'd have to spread them out considering how samey they are lol.

Veredito: tão mediano que dói.

Ano passado comecei uma nova partida deste jogo porque precisava matar tempo, o 3DS tava na mochila e, pô, é Mario. Não tem muito erro, né?

No fundo, eu sabia que tinha. Já zerei ele pelo menos 2 vezes antes, e num canto escondido do meu cérebro tinha uma memória abandonada do TANTO que New Mario era sem sal. Mesmo assim eu insisti, persisti, fui teimoso, mas não dá não. Depois de platinar metade dele, tou jogando a toalha.

Ele não faz nada exatamente errado. Ele só é... aguado. Sem graça. Sem gosto. Ele é mediano, muito mediano, mediano até a medula. Mas Mario não tem o direito de ser mediano, pelo menos não pra mim, muito menos ESTE AQUI.

É difícil explicar pra quem não frequentava a internet em meios dos anos 2000, quando "New Super Mario Bros" não era toda uma franquia que vende horrores. Mas na época a expectativa que ele causou foi ABSURDA. O último grande Super Mario 2D à moda antiga tinha sido o World, láááá no lançamento do Super Nintendo uns 15 anos antes. E aí agora vocês tão me dizendo que vamos jogar Mario em 2D de novo, com poderzinhos, fases e mundos, e ainda por cima com habilidades trazidas também dos jogos 3D? E na palma da minha mão?!?!?!

PORRA, TINHA TUDO PRA SER FODA!!!!!

E o resultado final foi... isto aqui.

Respeito quem tem nostalgia por ele, mas infelizmente as memórias que ele me traz são as de todo um hype despedaçado sem dó nem piedade. Mario é pra ser incrível, é pra ser fantástico, ele não tem o direito de ser mais ou menos. E quando vocês dizem que este é um dos melhores da série New, só reforça ainda mais minha vontade de ficar longe dela.

What was new became old. New Super Mario Bros was the first new 2D side-scrolling platformer in over 13 years after Super Mario Land 2's release. During that time, Nintendo experimented and released two 3D Mario games for the N64 and GameCube respectively, four remakes of the plumber's past adventures for the Game Boy Advance, and a plethora of spin-offs. Mario was given a ton of support around that time frame, but it was clear something was missing. So in May 2006, Nintendo released New Super Mario Bros to the world on Nintendo's most successful console, the Nintendo DS, trying to recapture the experience of his past 2D adventures while making a few changes to make it accessible to a wider audience, and I think it worked both critically and financially. It takes elements like an overworld and finding secrets (in the form of exits) like in Super Mario Bros. 3 and World and has some classic power-ups that remained unchanged like the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and the Star. It's clear that the game was a return to form for 2D Mario, and I think they did it well.

Let's get on to the "new" stuff, starting with the movement. Mario feels so good to control, and they brought moves from the 3D outings like a triple jump and wall jump, and it's so fun to pull off. The Star Coins are the main collectibles of the game, every level has three of them, and they have their own use. You can unlock Toad Houses and additional paths to new levels at the cost of five Star Coins. They're fun to collect, and while the series doesn't reward you with anything cool for completion, they do have their worth compared to something like the Dragon Coins in Super Mario World.

For the items, we have a few new ones. The Mini Mushroom makes Mario extremely tiny, making it easier to walk through small areas that couldn't be possible with normal-sized Mario, and he also has a high jump and can run on water, and the only way to get to Worlds 4 and 7. The Blue Shell (different from Mario Kart) grants the ability to shell dash by either ducking or dashing, decimating through enemies and blocks, but is vulnerable to bottomless pits, lava, and poison if the player is not attentive. I don't like this one; it feels like you're not in control of the shell most of the time and can accidentally trigger the shell dash and lead to deaths that weren't on purpose; I'm glad this one never appeared as a power-up again honestly. Lastly, we have the Mega Mushroom, the one that was featured on the box art and was advertised as this big power-up for the game (no pun intended), but in reality, it wasn't. The item was only implemented to a few levels, and what it essentially does is make Mario or Luigi grow big for a limited amount of time, decimating everything its path while earning some extra lives. I feel mixed on the new items overall, but what about the bosses? Of course, we have Bowser as the main bad guy, but Bowser Jr. is heavily involved in attempting to stop the Mario Bros from proceeding further. We battle him at the end of every tower level and the final castle with a showdown that takes a few seconds long if you have the Fire Flower equipped; very thrilling. The castle bosses are a mix of new and old enemies from past Mario games like Petey Piranha from Mario Sunshine and new ones like the Mummipokey, Cheepskipper, and Dry Bowser. Every boss goes down in three hits like usual, but at least there is some originality here which can't be said with the Koopalings in the following NSMB games. I think you all are starting to see the picture here; there's not enough stuff that can justify as "new" in New Super Mario Bros. When looking at this game from a 2023 perspective, it's a solid 2D platformer, but it comes off as generic, and that statement can be described for all of the NSMB games that came after, starting to feel repetitive and play it safe.

With that said, why do I rate this game a 4/5 then? Well, for two reasons, and both are outside the main game. First, Mario vs. Luigi mode. This is a mode where you and another person with a DS can play locally, select one of the two Mario Bros., and duke it out in a duel where whoever gets the maximum amount of stars wins. If you've not experienced this mode for yourself, I highly recommend it; it's fun just being an ass and steal stars from the other player, it's wonderful. The second reason, and the one thing that beats out every NSMB for me is the minigames. Returning from Mario 64 DS, these were my biggest time wasters growing up, trying to achieve high scores while trying to play every minigame possible as all of them are unlocked plus some new ones that are exclusive to this game. My favorite ones are easily the table minigames featuring Luigi; there's something so addicting about betting in-game coins and playing Picture Poker or Memory Match and witnessing my coin count go up every time I win. So, thank you Luigi for teaching kids how to gamble.

I enjoyed revisiting New Super Mario Bros. While it's generic and not as remembered fondly compared to the classic 2D Mario entries, it's still an enjoyable 6-hour adventure and it has its significance to the Mario series by being a solid return to form. I have a soft spot for this one, and after replaying the whole series in out of order in the span of a few years, the DS one remains the best, all because the others don't have a mode where we can gamble with Luigi.

A fair bit better than I've probably been giving it credit for all these years. It's still aggressively bland from an aesthetic standpoint - just nothing interesting going on at all - but mechanically and as far as level and overall game design go, it's quite strong.

Upon starting it (especially if coming right off of previous Mario games, as I just have) the controls feel very slow and slippery, which is, of course, a necessity given the smaller view of the handheld and how much of the screen Mario now takes up. But if you stick with if for just a little while, you can quickly get dialed in and discover some of Mario's exciting new abilities, like the really good, chunky wall-jump. Another issue you have to retrain your brain on a bit is the hitboxes, which are always going to be worse with 3D models, especially low-count ones like these. But if anything, they're generous, with you being able to fully clip into Thwomps, etc. a little bit without them killing you. You just gotta go with it and trust the behind the scenes math - Nintendo's guys still know what they're doing better than anyone when it comes to platforming, and in the end, it all works just fine.

On top of some overall top-notch level design (which features a shift further into breaking each stage down into sequences of discrete challenges, reinforced by the offshoot feats needed to get each level's three big coins - a great addition, imo), I also really like the structure of the world maps. Along with the big coins, the more prevalent branching paths design folds a kind of minor collectathon aspect into Mario, evolving the exits from SUPER MARIO WORLD and expanding it into a meatier completion system. It's great! You can mainpath it to the end pretty quick even without warping if you want to, but you're not going to see nearly all of what the game has to offer if you do. I think this is one of the more rewarding Mario games to 100%. (I mean, not in terms of unlocking anything meaningful or whatever. Goodness, no.)

Aside from the beyond-boring look and sound, and little lamenesses like the nothing final boss and a couple too many autoscrollers (although they do each have unique spins on the idea, at least), the game is quite good and lives up the legacy of the series well enough. It may have begat a solid decade of dull retreads, but I guess I probably shouldn't let that skew how I feel about this one specifically.

Eu já disse algumas vezes no passado que New Super Mario Bros. foi o primeiro jogo que joguei na minha vida, é um jogo bastante especial pra mim, recentemente vi algumas pessoas aqui no Backloggd fazendo reviews negativas sobre esse jogo (parece que voltamos na época de reclamar do Sonic 1) e estou aqui para provar que apesar de hoje em dia a série New Super Mario Bros. ao todo estar saturada pra caramba, não significa que são jogos ruins.

Primeiramente é importante explicar o nome "New", acontece é que depois do lançamento de Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins a franquia Super Mario parou de ganhar novos jogos de plataforma 2D, os que lançavam ou eram Ports (tipo Super Mario Advance) ou jogos que não tinham nada haver com Mario (tipo Wario Land e Yoshi's Island), durante a era do Nintendo 64 e GameCube, Mario não recebeu nenhum título 2D de plataforma, foi aí que em 2006 a Nintendo lançou New Super Mario Bros. para o DS, o jogo possui "New" no nome porque significa que é um novo jogo estilo Super Mario Bros. e naquela época fazia bastante tempo que não tinha nada 2D do Mario, agora que expliquei o nome agora sim vou começar a falar do jogo mesmo.

Os gráficos são a primeira grande mudança, os Sprites em 2D foram deixados de lado e foram apresentados modelos 3D, assim o jogo é na verdade 2.5D ou seja, a gameplay é em 2D porém com gráficos 3D e para um jogo do começo da carreira do DS são bastante bonitos (e pra falar a verdade eu acho o New Super Mario Bros. DS bem mais bonito que as sequências do Wii e Wii U) e claro que eu estou me referindo quando jogamos no DS e não nos emuladores porque aí o jogo fica "granulado".

A jogabilidade foi consideravelmente alterada, apesar do Spin Jump não estar mais presente do jeito tradicional, agora o Mario e o Luigi podem fazer Wall Jump, Triple Jump e o Ground Pound (ou bundada) isso mesmo, habilidades que antes podíamos executar somente nos jogos 3D agora podemos fazer no 2D também ! Pra mim essas mudanças são tão grandes que não consigo imaginar um jogo do Mario 2D sem essas habilidades, especialmente o Wall Jump e o Ground Pound que viraram coisas essenciais.

Outra coisa nova na jogabilidade são os Power Ups e temos três novos Power Ups sendo eles:

1- Mega Cogumelo: o Mario vira Mega Mario, ele fica invencível e gigante por uma certa quantidade tempo, com ele nós podemos destruir blocos, inimigos, canos e até mesmo o mastro no final da fase apenas encostando neles, além disso se conseguirmos destruir muitas coisas até o tempo acabar podemos ganhar até no máximo 5 Cogumelos de Vida.

2- Mini Cogumelo: o Mario vira Mini Mario, ele fica minúsculo e super leve, ele tem um pulo maior do que o convencional e pode correr sobre as águas, além disso ele pode entrar em mini canos que são exclusivos pra essa forma, a única coisa negativa é que ele pode morrer com um 1 Hit, é um pouquinho arriscado usar ele por causa disso.

3- Casco Azul: o Mario vira Shell Mario, quando ele se agacha ele poderá se defender de projéteis de inimigos (não são todos), pode nadar melhor e o principal se você correr o Mario vai entrar no casco e vai ficar girando loucamente, é bom para destruir blocos mas bem difícil de não cair em um buraco com ele, além disso ele não é encontrado normalmente.

É claro que os antigos Power Ups clássicos como o Super Cogumelo, a Flor de Fogo e o Starman estão presentes nesse jogo mas não receberam nenhuma alteração.

Agora vamos falar sobre as fases, existem 8 mundos e a temática dos mundos é quase idêntica em relação ao Super Mario Bros. 3 ou seja, temos mundo de grama, deserto, água, céu, vulcão e etc mas nesse jogo eu passo pano porque apesar de parecer com Super Mario Bros. 3 ainda tinha o charme que infelizmente as continuações saturaram ao ponto de reutilizar a  música não é mesmo New Super Mario Bros. 2 ?

O mapa de cada mundo também é um pouco semelhante ao Super Mario Bros. 3 porém com mudanças, as Casas do Toad também estão presentes, podemos fazer uma série de minigames e assim ganhamos Power Ups ou vidas, existem Canhões de Atalho que permite levar a gente para outros mundos de uma maneira mais fácil e também de vez em quando pode aparecer um Bloco Voador ou um Hammer Bros. eles darão Power Ups como o Casco Azul.

O Level Design comparado com os jogos anteriores é um pouco diferente mas não deixa de ser muito bom, o principal motivo dessa diferença são os colecionáveis que se chamam Star Coins, elas são moedas gigantes que estão escondidas em todas as fases e existem 3 delas por fase, elas servem para tirar placas que impedem o jogador de avançar e comprar skins para a tela de baixo do DS, o jogo é relativamente fácil, não é nem de longe difícil como Super Mario Bros. 3 e World mas coletar todas as Star Coins e passagens secretas dá uma leve aumentanda na dificuldade.

Assim como em todo jogo do Mario temos os famosos chefes e infelizmente eles não foram um avanço muito grande... Acho que é um consenso geral que os Bosses dos jogos 2D do Mario não são lá essas coisas e nesse jogo também são bem meh, os Koopalings não estão presentes nesse jogo, ou seja todos os Mini Bosses são só o Bowser Jr. e a luta com ele é bem simples e sem graça, os Bosses de verdade estão em todas as fases de castelo que são sempre a última fase de cada mundo e eles também são simples demais, é uma pena porque eu adorei que cada mundo tem uma "criatura" diferente mas no fim é a mesma coisa, acertar o Boss em três Hits e pronto, chefe derrotado, nos outros jogos da série New os chefes no geral também são bem fraquinhos, por último o Final Boss não é nada demais mas pelo menos isso foi melhorado bastante nos jogos seguintes.

A trilha sonora desse jogo é bem especial pra mim, não acho ela a melhor trilha sonora da série Mario mas ela tem uma toque único, eu não sei dizer porque, talvez por ser meu primeiro jogo de todos faça ela ser bem especial, eu também lembro da época em que eu jogava aqueles jogos Flash de merda do Mario e no fundo tinha uma música desse jogo, no geral as músicas são simples, nada de músicas foderasticas de épica  como nos Galaxy mas a música do Overworld é uma das músicas mais memoráveis de todas, funciona tão bem como um tema de primeira fase, as minhas favoritas são essas:
-Overworld
-Underground
-Athletic
-Castle
-Boss
-Desert
-World 7 (essa aí foi por causa que tinha um jogo em Flash tenebroso de ruim do Mario)

Da aventura principal era basicamente isso o que eu queria falar, agora sobre os minigames ! Eles são obviamente um conteúdo bônus que não afeta o jogo, vale lembrar que a maioria dos minigames são do Super Mario 64 DS que foi lançado dois anos antes do New Super Mario Bros mas temos alguns novos mas ainda são um passa tempo bem divertido.

Um outro modo Bônus é o Mario Vs. Luigi, é um modo de competição entre dois players para ver quem é que fica com mais estrelas no final, ao todo existem 5 fases e são divertidas também, mas infelizmente eu joguei pouquíssimas vezes e foi só com meu primo há muito tempo atrás.

E por fim os bônus, existem dois "códigos secretos":

1- Jogar com o Luigi: aperte L + R + A no menu de escolher seu Save File e pronto, você vai jogar com o Luigi, ele funciona igual ao Mario mas ainda assim é legal jogar só com o Luigi sem precisar de multiplayer.

2- Challenge Mode: aperte START + L + R + L + R +  X + X + Y + Y em qualquer mundo do jogo e pronto, você vai jogar um modo mais difícil, o Challenge Mode está disponível após zerar o jogo normal.

New Super Mario Bros. DS pode não ser o melhor Mario de todos os tempos mas dizer que é ruim eu acho um pouco de exagero, em relação as pessoas fazerem Review Negativa desse jogo é só uma brincadeira e não tenho nada contra se a pessoa não curtiu o jogo (ou será que tenho ?), diferente do Super Mario RPG eu não fiz uma "Review Emocional", dessa vez eu tentei realmente analisar o jogo e ainda é um jogo bem divertido e nostálgico pra mim !

I'm struggling to find the words to express my opinon on this game. To put it simply, this is the first game I've ever played and is something I've come back to over and over throughout my life. Needless to say, this game is important to me.

When I play this I see everything that makes Mario what it is. Everything here is amazing. While in some aspects, the gameplay can seem dated, I find it as just another part of the charm. Overall, this is an amazing platformer and tbh it's one of Mario's best games ever.

Quanto mais rejogo esse game menos pareço apreciá-lo. Ele era um de meus favoritos no NDS, mas a idade, se não mais sábio, me deixou mais fresco.

New Super Mario Bros. é chato. Pronto, falei. Das mais de 12 horas que levei para platiná-lo, não deve ter nem uma hora inteira que me deixou plenamente engajado. Por quase toda a experiência senti apenas que estava fazendo os niveis no automático.

O problema nem é tanto o fato de der um jogo fácil. Praticamente todo Mario moderno é facinho, feito para que até bebês possam zerá-lo. Mas mesmo os Marios mais fáceis sabem manter os jogadores experientes engajados. Normalmente, com a mistura de duas coisas: primeiro, se zerar o game é trivial, platinar exige um envolvimento maior; e segundo, há níveis secretos e não-obrigatórios que podem ser surpreendentemente desafiadores.

NSMB tem tanto coisas opcionais nos níveis para platinadores quanto níveis (e mundos inteiros!) opcionais. E mesmo assim ele dá sono. Até há alguns níveis legais, mas eles demoram bastante pra aparecer — o primeiro nível que me fez pensar "opa, isso foi bom" foi lá pro sexto mundo, e mesmo com mais da metade do game pra trás o caminho até o final ainda foi permeado de níveis completamente esquecíveis.

Se bem me recordo a série NSMB fica bem melhor no Wii. Acho que em breve saberei se isso também é só uma boa memória.

this game gets a lot of flack for the new super mario series as a whole, and i can see why that might be - most people who spent a lot of time with this game probably did so fairly young, played the sequels and rarely came back to this one once wii became the standard, or both. and that's understandable; on surface level there's not a lot to discern the new super mario titles from eachother. but honestly, upon revisiting this one, i've got to say - if it's possible for a 2d mario to be underrated, this is the one.

new super mario bros. offers a lot in the way of originality in a series it would spawn where 'originality' is near bottom of the priority list. this game added three new power-ups to the mix, with mega and mini mushrooms acting similarly to some of mario 64's more gimmicky power-ups, and the blue shell just being a really fun gameplay addition in its own right. the ability to hop between worlds with the touch of a screen is good, as i know trekking level to level in super mario world without the star road could be a slog. i like that this game has alternative paths that extend even to the world visited, that offers a decent amount of exploration and curios to be unearthed. mario's control is really tight here - gone is world's spin jump but in its place comes ground pounds, wall jumps and double/triple jumps from 64, which are generally more versatile and welcome additions. the level diversity is surprising for a 2d mario; i like that the castles in this one feel more distinct, like the world 2 castle with the outside desert section, or world 3's spiked battering ram gimmick - the bosses are cool too, with petey piranha being a nice nod. it really feels like this game is a logical follow-up to mario world with elements of 64 and sunshine dashed in, like new block types and enemies. oh, and there's a really fun multiplayer mode and TONS of great minigames here, including the addictive card games. who doesn't want to play poker with a spiffily-dressed luigi, be honest?

this game might not quite reach the echelon of mario 3 or yoshi's island but i really do think the reputation of the new super series as a whole, understandably, has brought this game's reception down. go back and play it again! it's a little on the easy side but it's a ton of fun to revisit.

I came back around to this after finishing New Super Mario Bros 2., and found this one to pretty lacking. It's frankly impressive how much of a difference just adding the incentive of coin collecting makes to a game's formula. This one on the other hand just felt like a standard Mario game. Perhaps the most baffling inclusion to this game is the Mega Mushroom (I presume it's called). There haven't been many instances I've found for it's use, aside from cheesing a fortress boss with it. Otherwise, levels are have too many gaps that prevent you from running straight and racking up those 1-UPs, not that you really need them, either. Still, it's fun to absolutely wreck shit on an early level and tear it apart, literally.

At the end of the day, it's Mario, just without anything that stands out.