Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
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| Developer(s) | Nintendo |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Designer(s) | Shigeru Miyamoto |
| Release date(s) | 2002 |
| Genre(s) | Platform game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
| Media | 32-Megabit cartridge |
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 is a re-release of the 1991 SNES/Super Famicom hit game Super Mario World. The update was distributed in 2002. One of the most popular games of all time, the port was very well received.
This game featured a few additions from the original SNES game:
- Like the first Super Mario Advance, this features voiceovers.
- Luigi has been given his own unique sprites, rather than a palette swap of Mario's. These new sprites are not the same as the ones done by Nintendo of America from Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World which was released only in the United States.
- The color of Yoshi's arms have been corrected. Oddly, the inside of the mouths of the green and blue Yoshi's have become miscolored in the ending sequence.
- There are new collectible coins featuring Princess Peach in each level, similar to the "Dragon Coins" in the original. You must collect all Dragon Coins to be able to collect Peach Coins, though.
- A status screen was also added that kept track of the number of 'exits' that had been found, reducing the difficulty in finding the hidden exits in the game. Additionally, by finding all of the exits, players will unlock the ability to warp to a particular spot on the map by selecting a level's name on the status screen.
- The ability to play as either Mario or Luigi (by switching between them on the world map) at any time.
- Luigi now jumps much the same way he does in Super Mario Bros. 2, and uses Yoshi differently (instead of swallowing certain enemies, he can now spit them out).
- The game can be saved at any time.
- Mario or Luigi can have lives up to 1,000, rather than 100 in the original SNES version.
- The alternate overworld palette and enemies are now accessed by finding all 96 exits, rather than simply completing the Special World.
- Goombas and Pokeys are changed after completing all the levels.
- The game's power up system was changed (I.E. Fire Mario/Cape Mario reverts back to Super Mario if hit, unlike the SNES version, where Mario reverted back to Small Mario regardless of the power up)
- The two-player adventure mode has been removed, and Luigi's name is added to text in places where Mario's name is mentioned.
- Bowser and his children now have four fingers on each of their hands, rather than three like in the original. Additionally, Bowser's arms are no longer green.
- Princess Peach's sprites have been completely redesigned.
- Players can now receive all color Yoshis from a Yoshi egg block, once they have been unlocked on the Star World. In the original version, players would normally only get green Yoshis from these blocks, and would have to travel back to the Star World to obtain a colored Yoshi.
- The Yoshi eggs rescued in the castles have been given their own colors in the remake. In the original they were golden.
[edit] Reception
Nintendo marketed it heavily, and it is the best-selling game out of the Super Mario Advance series. It was also the best selling video game in 2004.
Because of the GBA's slightly different aspect ratio, parts of the screen were cut off and critics and fans perceived this to be rather clunky because it is a bit harder to find secret exits.
The controls were also seen as clunky for many who played the original because the player needs to press the R shoulder button to spin jump. The player can only use one button to run because the GBA/SP only has the A and B buttons, which makes Mario/Luigi slow down when firing a fire ball, as well as making it almost impossible to turn around as Caped Mario in flight (which could have been done in the original with the addition of an additional button to run/fire/spin).
Also, the music and sound effects were poorly remade for this version [1], though the official website plays music from the original version as background music, as well as the original sound effects.
The game has recently been re-released as a Player's Choice title.
[edit] External links
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