New Super Mario Bros.

New Super Mario Bros. is a side-scrolling 2.5D action-adventure platformer game for the Nintendo DS, starring Mario and Luigi. The game features a solo story mode with Mario or Luigi, a two-player wireless…

95 15 May 2006

Adventure Platform Action

New Super Mario Bros. is an adventure developed by Nintendo, released 15 May 2006 on Wii U and Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.

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What New Super Mario Bros. is

New Super Mario Bros. is an adventure game developed by Nintendo and released in 2006. It was published by iQue. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Emergency News Flash! Princess Peach has been kidnapped! While enjoying a picnic with Mario, the beloved ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom was whisked away by an unknown assailant. How could this happen with Mario around? According to Mario, the walk was going swimmingly when Mario and the princess spotted smoke billowing out of Peach’s Castle. The mustachioed marvel immediately jumped into action and sped off toward the fire. The moment he left her side, the princess vanished! Who’s behind Princess Peach’s disappearance? Who’s behind the attack on Peach’s Castle? Are the two incidents related? Didn’t Bowser Jr. once think Princess Peach might be his mother? Looks like Mario’s going to need all…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series

New Super Mario Bros. is the 45th of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. The next entry was WarioWare: Smooth Moves in 2006. Its critic score of 95 is 21 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

New Super Mario Bros. holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 30 points above the year average. Players rate it 88, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 19.5 hrs, roughly 6.5 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

New Super Mario Bros. launched on 15 May 2006, within three weeks of Half-Life 2: Episode One, Hitman: Blood Money, Heroes of Might and Magic V and Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Half-Life 2: Episode One, Hitman: Blood Money, Heroes of Might and Magic V, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007.

Cheats and codes

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