New Super Mario Brothers. It was Nintendo's effort to bring Mario back to his side-scrolling roots. And, it spawned its own series, so clearly it was a success! If you ask me it's because you can play as Luigi in singleplayer . But let's delve a bit deeper into the first installment shall we?

Graphics: 8
The Nintendo DS tried some different styles over the years. Ranging from beautiful pixelated sprite graphics, looking better than the GBA, believe it or not. And just okay, 3D graphics. New Super Mario Brothers was trying to follow the style of Yoshi's Story, and other games. By being 2.5D. 3D models on a 2D background. It was a 3D Mario, Luigi, Peach, and boss enemies, while most normal enemies are pixelated/sprited. The animations, while repeatitive at times, are pretty smooth.

Sound: 9
This game has great sound! The background music is nice. The sound effects are a nice, somewhat updated, version of the original ones from Super Mario Brothers. The only thing that keeps this from a perfect 10 is, when playing as Mario, I can't really make out what he says at the end of the levels. (Is it supposed to be "That's-a-so nice!"?)

Addictiveness: 10
I'm not ashamed to say I've played this about 10 times all the way through. It's just so fun! Especially if you're lucky enough to find a Blue Shell powerup. Which gives you a Koopa Shell on your back. Or just having a Mini Mushroom, which makes you incredibly miniscule. Just having the right powerup can make the entire game more fun to play.

Story: 6
Well, it's a Mario game. So I'm sure Princess Peach's kidnapping comes as a shock to nobody. But, well, there looks to be another story kind of going on. Because, the first boss is Bowser himself! You beat him the classic way, hitting the button, having him fall into lava. Only to have him....Roar in pain...And you watch the skin melt off of him...And he reaches up one more time before his boney self plunges back into the lava. Not gonna lie, that still creeps me out. But anyway, Bowser Junior keeps running off with the princess. So the story kind of continues.

Depth: 6
Well, there isn't too much depth. There are three hidden star coins in each level. And at times they can be hard to get to. And a few levels have hidden exits. There are ever two hidden WORLDS for you to play through! But, most secrets are given away by the World Map. So things come as less of a surprise.

Difficulty: 7
The game can be pretty tough at times, surprisingly. Especially the last few worlds. The Star Coins take some professional style skills, and timing, and sometimes a obscure powerup, to get. And getting to the previously mentioned secret worlds, requires you to have a mini-mushroom. And the levels you need to beat while tiny are pretty tough. Mainly because you jump high, fall slowly, and you die in one hit. But, it's not that hard to find lives.

I would recommend this to anyone really. Sure it may be hard to find now though. But the other New Super Mario Brothers games are just as great as this one was.

Well, that was a fantastic review! I agree with every point you made, and I do find it a little unfortunate that the game is hard to find nowadays. I am lucky to have it myself! I have played through it myself at least three times, and it impressed me more than I thought it would. It's a wonderful game, and Nintendo really hit it spot-on when they were trying to bring back the sub-series. I have also beaten New Super Mario Bros. 2 by myself on my cousin's cartridge (in my own file, of course), and I have also beaten New Super Mario Bros. Wii and New Super Mario Bros. U while co-op playing with him. I would always be Mario, and green would be Blue Toad. They are all fun games, and I hope they continue to make more. New Super Mario Bros. for the DS (the original New Super Mario Bros.) has to be my favorite, however, I personally favored the inclusion of the Koopalings in its successors. They were always nice to fight.

This game brings back memories for me. I've played the Wii version but I'm sure it's not much different. This is a good review A User of This. How much of it have you played ? Did you 100% it ? Like collect every big coin in every level unlocking the secret worlds. and then collect all the big coins in secret worlds ?

A user of this : Good job i think the ds is so tiny tho

This game is awesome. I couldn't wait for this game when I was 15. I loved the mario platformers and nintendo didn't make a mario platformer since i believe super mario world. when i mean platformer i mean the ones with mario jumping and hitting the gimmick blocks with his head. The game was too easy though. After you beat it once you could beat the game in about 4 hours. The game had great level design. I dont know why they had world 4 and 7 as secret unlockables. you won't figure out how to get to them before you beat the game. Another thing great about this game is the ability to go back to levels and collect all of the star coins. you wont 100% complete the game unless you collected the star coins to all the levels even the secret ones. I like that idea a lot it gives the game a extra challege If I would rate this game i would give it a 8.5/10