This game is the inventor of artificial difficulty in platforming games. Bad level designs, reverse warp zones, poison mushrooms, and killer springs make you fully aware this game loves to play tricks. The hardcore Nintendo enthusiast, or middle schoolers that found out the US release of SMB2, love to defend this game and hail it as "a Nintendo Hard classic," but being one of those former middle school defenders, I can tell you that's just them trying to be different.

This game is difficult, and not the good kind. Fans of trickery will love this.