Super Mario Bros 3 Review:
Another superb Mario adventure, SMB3 is an expanse of an entertaining and amusing adventure in order for Mario to triumph in his quest to retrieve the King's wand and of course saving the princess! The variety of levels will keep you on the edge as you go through the worlds. New features like the raccoon suit and the frog suit make the game even more enjoyable, although I am a bit of a Mario fan myself, so go out and try it yourself!

Graphics and Sound: 8.5/10
Having thoroughly enjoyed working through other Mario games, including SMB1, I found SMB3 to be easier on the eyes and a wonderful experience to play hours on end, all because of improved graphics. I must say that this game has thoroughly spoiled me with the nice layout and clarity that is not seen in much older Mario games.

Watching the characters, you will definitely notice a greater frame per second and my own inquisition into the intricacies of the game has brought in me great respect for the enhanced animation and overall just thrills me as it has that certain je ne sais quoi that make all these types of games addictive.
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Moving onto sound, one cannot feel but helpless to express how much the sounds just cause the player to be engrossed in the game even more so. All the music just gives the player the great feeling of playing a mario game and is always exciting, even those times where you can't beat a level or want to closely examine everything.

The effects are mostly from previous games, but a few are new and overall the sound quality in this game is very fine indeed!

Difficuly and Control: 5/10
There are a few places in which you can get stuck, don't give up! Overall, the game is fairly simple and should not be a problem. The jumping capabilities seem a little bit greater, which might be a burden for some, but after only a short while, it is easy to get accustomed to the controls.

Enemies and levels may be a bit challenging, but with a little effort, they can be overcome. I'm sure that even someone who has only played a few Mario games would be able to beat it with time and effort!

Depth: 4/10
With a few exceptions, it can be easily seen that there is not too much depth within this game. It is fairly shallow waters in terms of getting extra bonus rooms that one would in just completing the game.

Storyline: 8/10
A continuation of SMB1, SMB3 is the story of how seven evil children called "Koopalings" steal a wand of a King and used it to transform him. Mario has to triumph by getting the wand and restoring the rightful owner. SMB3 brings in many new enemies to defeat and overall the storyline is quite interesting when playing the game.

Addictiveness: 9.5/10
Maybe I am a bit of a Mario-Addict even before playing this game, but I find nearly all Mario games to be 9+ out of 10 as they all seem to suck you in, and before you know it, hours have flown by! This one in particular had me playing for hours on end when I first played it, and playing it again after nearly a year was still very fun and addicting!

Don't only take my word for it! Go and try it yourself!

Amazing review and so true

Great Review.

This is my favorite Mario game, it has a lot of new features that make the game more interesting... It's really worth playing it.

Keep the good work.

Madeline : If anyone remembers the movie "Wizard" with Fred Savage (from the Wonder Years) about some kid that does not speak to much but excellent with video games?  Well in the end of the movie they played the championship of the video game tournament that is where they introduced for the first time Super Mario Brothers 3.  Also showed you where to get the first whistle.

prone420 :   That's hilarious! LOL thanks for sharing that!

Yeah great review and most of the game review I like have a lot of detail and great work on the review.

Graphics AND sound? Those are two very different things.

I can see why you put those two together. Graphics and sound are the 2 things in reviews that are not related to Gameplay.

How could you NOT like this game. It is a HUGE IMPROVEMENT over the first one. Not that the first one was bad or anything, that was a great and classic game too. So yes, everybody should play SMB3 because it is a wonderful game. (and I believe it was called THE wizard)

Good review, everything is detailed and well wrote out.

big hit for its time.they added the racoon suit.and a bunch of new abilites, overall, a8.2.