Oh boy the ape and the plumber are back in another fight..man when will these 2 call it a day I can't say so, but really they kept on going and going even to this day.

(Background game history plot and storyline) Donkey Kong and Mario are caught once again battling 1 another, To tell the truth that doesn't really surprise me there. Mario originally started battling Donkey Kong in the original arcade game called Donkey Kong. Mario was originally known as Jump man back then, that plot was basically Donkey Kong taking A princess called Pauline (who would later I believe to be known as Princess peach). The storyline in this game starts out with a intro showing Donkey Kong watching tv.( A commercial break happended there) So Donkey Kong kept switching channels and eventually saw a mini Mario commercial ( where at the end of it said at stores now) So Donkey Kong ran to all the stores that had the mini Mario's. and when he finally got there he saw all Mini Mario's were sold out. (the mini Mario's were mainly bought by toad characters). So in frustration and anger. Donkey Kong stole all the Mini Mario's that were rightfully bought by customers and he would keep them for himself every single 1 of them. So it is up to Mario to get all the Mini Mario's back and defeat Donkey Kong. 

Graphics Graphically I must say Mario vs Donkey Kong looks great for a game boy advance cart.everything is sharp smooth and very crispy looking as far as I can see it. (Sprites: Now The colors and detail and coding of the gba's graphics really pay off here. the reason is the Mario characters look great here. I've played even Mario games like Mario party 7. and yet the feel of the characters "aka" sprites feel and look almost exactly like that. the sprites are very crispy sharp and well detailed. The Mario characters feel pretty natural. the mini Mario's are basically toy type Mario's and they look just like they should. I have to say Nintendo did a great job on sprites here).(Stages:  each stages design and the way there setted up feels rather similar to the original Donkey Kong game. They look rather good here as they have a good amount of detail. Note: each time you beat Donkey Kong a funny image appears. Anyways Nintendo did a good job on the stages as far as I' would say)  Graphics rating 10.

Sound as far as the variety of sound effects. The mini Mario's rather sound pretty funny to me. But for the main characters They have their natural barrel rolling down sounds and other stuff etc along with your basic jumping sounds and coins. That every Mario game player will be familiar with. (Soundtrack the intro music Is quite nice it's totally a alerted or remixed version of the Mario bros 1 level theme. As for the other parts of the soundtrack "aka" the levels they sound nice and well composed. My favorite theme in the game would have to be the theme of the Mini Mario's because of how catchy it sounds. anyways great composed soundtrack in this game). Sound rating 9

Addictiveness with a bunch of Mini Mushroom loving toy's "aka" mini Mario's . and quite some barrels to avoid and throw at the boss. Mario vs Donkey Kong is quite a fun game. Addictiveness rating 7.

Depth: Mario vs Donkey Kong is quite a long and enjoyable game. because the game is really like a maze with many levels to go through and it offers quite a lot of features. some of those features involve a expert mode which is a difficulty option to repeat the game and make it harder. only thing that bites is the create a level feature was not in here but in the 2nd game but that won't effect my rating. Depth rating 8.

Difficulty. If you are good at platforming games like this 1 it shouldn't be all that hard. well to me it's not really all that hard. your main objective to get through the levels is to get all mini Mario's  and 1 of the mini Mario's will be holding a key to get you proceed to the next part to the level. and continue to others then it continues. But for me that part is easy enough and throwing barrels at donkey Kong who is the boss. is not hard or is he hard. Controls work quite fine here. Difficulty rating 5 usual rating for difficulty.


Overall This game feels like a real good game that is very fun to play. And it's like a revision of the original Donkey Kong with improvements and more challenge to it. Overall rating 8.9

Nice work, crash! Some of your best work. Keep it up.

Excellent review! Nintendo just released a new Mario vs Donkey Kong game for the Nintendo 3DS eShop yesterday. If you like the Mario vs Donkey Kong series you might wanna check it out!