Now that's a game that will set the standard for the whole 2D platformer genre...
I'm honestly speechless, I have literally no complaints about this game, this is the perfect platformer game that was released in 1990 and that's really, really impressive. I did not grow up with Super Mario World so I don't have any biased childhood memories of it, and three decades later this game still hits like a truck it's just excellent, and for the first time, it made me want to ask for more in a 2D Mario game. The modern 2D Mario games are not bad games by any means but it just never makes you want to ask for more, it's just too basic and it doesn't stand out at all and yada yada, you already heard a billion times why the New Super Mario Bros franchise is boring.
I have nothing but respect for this game which just made me want to play more and also made me want to uncover all of its secret paths to play brand-new secret stages because you just never have enough of Super Mario World. The physics aged pretty well, even compared to Mario Maker which obviously plays way better but it's not like when you compare Super Mario Bros on the NES to its counterpart in Mario Maker, it feels like night and day with how Mario feels.
The whole game is perfectly balanced in a way where it never feels hard but it's not extremely easy like the New Super Mario Bros games, and anyway, it's pretty easy to get 1-Ups.
I guess the only stages I would call unfair or hard would be the castle of Roy's which starts with a really long and boring snake block section and whenever you die past that part you have to do it all over again! The same can be found in Lenny's castle which features the same intro with an even longer snake block section. You also have the average auto-scroller stage which can be a slog at times but it's not that bad, the levels themselves aren't bad it's just the whole auto-scroller trope that sucks.
This is a wonderful little game and I honestly wish everyone could get a chance to try it out.
I'm honestly speechless, I have literally no complaints about this game, this is the perfect platformer game that was released in 1990 and that's really, really impressive. I did not grow up with Super Mario World so I don't have any biased childhood memories of it, and three decades later this game still hits like a truck it's just excellent, and for the first time, it made me want to ask for more in a 2D Mario game. The modern 2D Mario games are not bad games by any means but it just never makes you want to ask for more, it's just too basic and it doesn't stand out at all and yada yada, you already heard a billion times why the New Super Mario Bros franchise is boring.
I have nothing but respect for this game which just made me want to play more and also made me want to uncover all of its secret paths to play brand-new secret stages because you just never have enough of Super Mario World. The physics aged pretty well, even compared to Mario Maker which obviously plays way better but it's not like when you compare Super Mario Bros on the NES to its counterpart in Mario Maker, it feels like night and day with how Mario feels.
The whole game is perfectly balanced in a way where it never feels hard but it's not extremely easy like the New Super Mario Bros games, and anyway, it's pretty easy to get 1-Ups.
I guess the only stages I would call unfair or hard would be the castle of Roy's which starts with a really long and boring snake block section and whenever you die past that part you have to do it all over again! The same can be found in Lenny's castle which features the same intro with an even longer snake block section. You also have the average auto-scroller stage which can be a slog at times but it's not that bad, the levels themselves aren't bad it's just the whole auto-scroller trope that sucks.
This is a wonderful little game and I honestly wish everyone could get a chance to try it out.