Reviews from

in the past


Def the biggest difficulty spike in Nintendo history. How do you go from easy as hell, to whatever the fuck Wario's castle is

I don't know why I completed this game 100%,

I enjoyed Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. The movement felt great for a handheld mario game in the 90s (and it has Mario worlds spin jump which was cool). The new power-up was pretty cool, with it being somewhat like a fusion of both the cape feather and the super leaf from the previous Mario games. I liked how unique the world themes were, with the space world, haunted house world and Mario mech world to name some. My main issue with the game was how unmemorable the levels were. I have played all of the levels in this game before this play-through, but I remembered none of them this play-through (other than the second space level which was fantastic).

Fun ideas but still not that interesting and quite short

I recall a pretty solid platforming experience without being as weird as the first Super Mario Land. Soundtrack is good, but so many songs sharing the same melody does get old after a while.

the short length and nonlinear structure of this game make it perfectly suited to short handheld sessions. as someone who has played world 1 of mario way more than the rest of the game, mario land 2 feels like getting six different versions of world 1, each with a creative visual theme that is unique for the series. of course, the tradeoff of this structure is that the game can't really build complexity over time, the difficulty curve is flat and there's no truly great levels, just a bunch of pretty good ones.

It does not feel like a Mario game, it's more like a generic platformer. But it is a GOOD generic platformer. Way better than the first game.

Absolutely blew me away how much variety they were able to put on a Gameboy cartridge here. A massive leap up over the first Super Mario Land. I always love when Mario games have a bunch of different themed worlds, and this had some real creative ones: loved the spooky zone and the clockwork Mario, always got frustrated at space and the big bird. Wish Rabbit Mario would come back as a power-up. The final castle gauntlet was super tough as a kid