It is, it's complete shit.
Mario's jumping is amazing, I'll give it that, but other than that, the game is a colossal fucking mess.
I guess the main thing is the actual gameplay. It's horrendous. The jumping feels like it was tacked on at the last second with it being horrible to change trajectory in midair.
Right now I'm stuck in World 5, all because of how bad it is. Getting through a castle is terrible, it takes WAAAAY too long and then it takes like 5 tries to kill the boss tutles, while they only take two hits to kill you. Using the fire flower is terrible as well because the way the game handles it, instead of run/shoot, it's one button. Which means you have infinite ammo, but you can't shoot without breaking a run, and the accuracy is bad since they bounce, and when you become small Mario, you can't shoot anymore until you collect TWO more powerups.
Now Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3 did it right and are actually fun, but my god, to people who are going to play the first Super Mario Bros., expect to die a lot or not have fun. Just play for the story, and never look back, it's that bad.
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Mario's jumping is amazing, I'll give it that, but other than that, the game is a colossal fucking mess.
I guess the main thing is the actual gameplay. It's horrendous. The jumping feels like it was tacked on at the last second with it being horrible to change trajectory in midair.
Right now I'm stuck in World 5, all because of how bad it is. Getting through a castle is terrible, it takes WAAAAY too long and then it takes like 5 tries to kill the boss tutles, while they only take two hits to kill you. Using the fire flower is terrible as well because the way the game handles it, instead of run/shoot, it's one button. Which means you have infinite ammo, but you can't shoot without breaking a run, and the accuracy is bad since they bounce, and when you become small Mario, you can't shoot anymore until you collect TWO more powerups.
Now Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3 did it right and are actually fun, but my god, to people who are going to play the first Super Mario Bros., expect to die a lot or not have fun. Just play for the story, and never look back, it's that bad.
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