Welcome to my review on the weird but wacky game called Sirius Mario Bros 5. It is the 5th installment in the Sirius Mario Bros Series. I can not find any from the first one to the 4th one. I do plan on reviewing Sirius Mario Bros 6. (Despite common belief it is not impossible at 1-1.)

Graphics 4/10

The graphics in this game are imaginably grey and dumb. I mean you can go above where you're supposed to on the castle levels. (on the roof, you're not meant to go there.) and the worse part is at the end there is no way to get down so there is actually really no way for you to fight Bowser unless you die because some castle worlds have like a fire bar at the top or wait for the time to run out. (This is the slowest and the most boring way to do it. The guy who made this game also hasn't checked out for graphic bugs. I mean you can randomly walk into things and on one of the castle levels (I believe it to be 4-4) you can just casually walk through a pipe. I am not sure if this was intentional or not but this casual "no clipping" is really annoying me. It seems to be the worst on the cave levels and the castle levels. The glitches are pretty self-explanatory to find. Well some of them are anyways. But I don't really plan to tell you every glitch I have found that regards to graphical errors as this would be basically bore you all.?

Sound 1/10

If you wish to play this game based on my research (through the comments) I strongly suggest you mute the game or mute your speakers entirely. You may listen to your own music if you wish. Except the graphics will seem really crap compared to the music you choose to play. But the levels aren't really that long. (all can be done in a real life minute or so.)

Gameplay 6/10

The controls are the same as the ones for Super Mario Bros but the z key (the key to speed up) is one of the most important things to remember if you would like to glitch in this game. The only other major control for glitching is the x key. This key allows you to hop off vines and sometimes you will end up in a block. Some of the no clipping glitches will require you to jump. Some will require you to press the down key and jump. The down key is also important in glitching in this game.

Addictiveness 10/10

If you are very good at Mario (like I am) you will be wanting to play this game again if you close to beating the game. This is one of those ROM hacks where I've been a few levels away from completing a Non vanilla or a non 5 minute crap easy win ROM hack. I am currently stuck on 7-1 and I have no power up. If you can pass it without a power up and you can help me I would much appreciate it.

Story NA/10

The game does not seem to have any obvious story behind it. At the end of each castle level (the final level in the world) all it says is Thank You Mario! Go to next world. So it seems to me that the story is not the same. So until I can complete the game I will have to stick with this slightly different story that seems very relevant to the game. Bowser is always fed up with the fact that Mario always rescues Princess Peach so he orders his minions for a meeting and Bowser asks what do we do to stop Mario? One of his minions, the Hammer Bros said make me much stronger after a certain point and have all the levels before that point much harder. Make me much stronger at 6-1 where I launch an unstoppable barrage of hammers where Mario will have no hope to get over.?

Depth 10/10

In the first few worlds I was able to clear the levels in around 70 real life seconds or so. Which is around 100 in game time. Later on the difficulty curve goes through the roof and the time you take to complete a level can go as high as 5 times the original time it took to be the first few worlds. There will also be times where you will have a very serious and competitive race against the clock. (a few levels where they have 200 timer and are normal level length which doesn't really require any glitches to beat but if you can do any glitches or wall jump you have saved yourself a fair amount of time.



Difficulty 10/10

It is very hard. Even for me,, and I am very good at Mario. There are times where you will have to jump very long distances with the space you have. Some jumps will have this thing where if you make one slight mistake you will end up not making the jump. (Which I assume is near the longest possible jump that is possible by Mario.) It starts off easy but it slowly gets harder and at around world 5-1 the difficulty curve gets insane. 5-1 has two non-OP Hammer bros bunched together. Near a part where you may have to glitch if you are not small Mario to get through. 7-1 has two OP hammer bros (they jump and they fire a volley of hammers in a like direction.) These are stuck together. One is possible to pass without losing a power up or even having one. But two is just insane. It's like I can't even think about it.


Overall 6/10

Despite how bad the graphics and the sounds are on this game if you are looking for an easy start, insane difficulty curve and OP Hammer Bros this is the best way to go. Good luck and post screenshots of each level after 7-1 so we can get an idea of how hard they are. Or a video if you want to. I only suggest that you do the video after you know what the level is like or you are a Mario expert.

RedHotReviewer : I haven't tried the Sirius Mario Bros hacks, but it sounds like this one is not that great.  Thanks for your honest review of the game