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Super Mario Bros. 3 feels like a better sequel to the original Super Mario Bros. than Super Mario Bros. 2 (The Lost Levels) ever was.

The overall presentation of the game has improved significantly over the last two Japanese titles, and also looks better than the American Mario 2.
On the topic of Mario 2 USA, Mario 3 decides to continue with that game's choice of environments, and make it so every world you visit has its own theme, like the Desert World, the Water World, the Ice World. And we even got new world aesthetics as well, like the Big-Small World and the Pipe World, which is totally not a crack joke, no sir.

The music itself is also pretty good. A lot of the tracks from this game have become quite iconic in the franchise, such as the Athletic Theme or the Airship Theme. Maybe they've been remixed a bit too much throughout Mario's history, but it isn't this game's fault.

In terms of gameplay, it feels like a natural evolution of the concepts introduced in Mario 1, with new power-ups for players to try, like the iconic Racoon Leaf or the funny Frog Suit.
The Racoon Leaf even allows Mario (or Luigi, I won't forget him) to fly temporarily, thanks to the new P-Meter this game has, which is built up by running for a bit.
The Frog Suit, while pretty funky to control on land, is extremely useful underwater... although the amount of levels that take place mostly in water is small compared to everything else, sooooo... I guess the Frog Suit can be good if you want to challenge yourself?

There are also other power-ups like the Tanooki Suit, or even the oh-so-rare Hammer Bro. Suit, which is so rare, I remember I couldn't really use it much on my original playthrough.

Just like the USA Mario 2, Mario 3 also has a wide variety of bosses, but none of the ones from Mario 2 return. Instead we have Boom Boom, who is pretty easy, and the Koopalings, which are totally Bowser's kids, I'm sure of it.
But they are fun to fight, each of them having their own moves, which brings more variety to the game, overall.

I would say my biggest gripe with Super Mario Bros. 3 would have to be the difficulty. It's all over the place, as some Worlds are definitely easier than others, like how I found World 4 to be easier than World 3.
The difficulty doesn't flow as well as Mario 1 and USA Mario 2, but at least it doesn't get as bad as the Lost Levels, so that's nice.

Overall, Super Mario Bros. 3 is a great evolution of the 2D Mario Formula, and I understand why it gets a lot of praise. It was definitely one hell of a way to end Mario's journey with the Nintendo Entertainment System.

This game's got the best water levels, and it just hits different! The whole thing takes me back– feels like they sent it straight from my childhood.

o eu de 5~6 anos de idade estaria muito orgulhoso!!

I think this game is great, probably the best game on the NES if we're being real but you gotta be delusional to call this the best Mario game ever are you kidding me bro OVER WORLD? OVER 64? be fr


A great Mario platformer, especially for the NES.

imagine the timeline where this game released in Japan as another Mario 1 with stages even harder than Lost Levels and The West got a reskinned version of a Goemon game or something

Almost 38 years after, still one of the best Mario games, top 3 best 2d Mario platform games.

A massive step up from SMB1 and 2, the level of polish in Mario's final NES outing is what truly cemented the series' place in gaming history. I would even go so far as to say this is the earliest Mario game that has actually aged well.

Why does Mario's sprite look like a child was drawing him and ran out of blue crayons?

i dont know why vinny thinks this is the best 2d mario but yeah its probably worth your time if you like mario games

All platformers basically need to play like this game, or else they will feel all wrong.

o GAME DESIGN Mais Limpo Já Feito que por algum motivo não me causa dores musculares só de completar uma fase


algum motivo: Super Mario Bros 3 é uma grande força de movimento que expressa 'celebração', celebração aos videogames em particular. uma peça onde o Mario tem como objetivo fugir do palco o tempo todo através das engenharias gamísticas que estimulam ele a ir pra frente -- não é um teatro jogável, é um teatro morto jogável

eu corri, eu pulei, eu flutuei, eu vivi. bom jogo.

good god this game gets so difficult

It's probably one of the only NES games I can play over and over again, alongside Kirby's Adventure and Super Mario Bros. I would say that NES games in general are not the highest of quality with their library but it's still a great game!

Hey now, hold on! I DID finish this game! Huh, who knew?

I don't care how long it's been, this game will always feel like a new game to me. So tight and stylish. It released well before I was born, but it was one of the first games to wow me as a kid.

Esse jogo é maravilhoso, está no meu TOP 3 marios por conta da nostalgia que tenho pois sempre joguei esse jogo na minha infância e sempre foi o favorito do meu Pai a qual sempre jogou esse jogo e passou para mim, tenho um carinho muito especial por esse jogo não só pelo fator emocional mais por ser um mario muito melhor que o world na minha opinião, muito mais divertido, muito mais power ups, muito mais diversão nos mini games e muito mais envolvente, tudo isso sendo um antecessor ao World.

Esse jogo é perfeito, só não mais que o 64 mas é perfeito, que jogão incrivel da porra.

Remarkable for the time and remarkable now

never really had fun with it any of the times i tried to play it

The game that literally got me into video games. SMB3 is nostalgia incarnate for me, but even with nostalgia aside, it still holds up awesomely today. Levels are short & to-the-point, chiptunes are rockin' the whole way through & it took the run-'n-jump gameplay of SMB1 & fine-tuned it in a way that elevated the formula from great to excellent.

Siento que no lo supe aprovechar, ya que en el mundo 1 tenia 2 flautas y las use para llegar al mundo 8 y lo pase, pero siento que es un juego que ha envejecido bastante bien, que mejoro todo lo que tenia el 1 y que traería varias bases a World y sobre todo a la saga.

you already know wtf goin on


Ultimate classic Mario game, it takes foundation of SMB1 and elevates it with short, but imaginative level design.
As with almost every Mario game, boss fights are it's weakest point.
Essential NES platformer, All stars version on SNES makes it even better.