Super Mario Pearls of Wisdom
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Super Mario Pearls of Wisdom was named Game of the Month in March 2011. |
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| Developer(s) | Firestyle |
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| Release Date | December 21, 2010 |
| Genre | Platformer |
| Players | 1 |
| Input | Keyboard |
| Medium | Game Maker |
| Platform | Windows |
| Status | Released |
Super Mario Pearls of Wisdom is a 2D sidscroller developed by Firestyle. It serves as a spiritual sequel to Firestyle's Super Mario and the Sacred Bells.
Contents
Story
Mario and Luigi have been invited on a cruise by Peach and Daisy. However, Tatanga causes chaos for the friends and plots to take over the Mushroom World! Help Mario locate the 6 Pearls of Wisdom and defeat Tatanga's forces!
Gameplay
The player plays as Mario, and has to go across 8 worlds of 4 normal levels. At the end of every world is a boss level. Throughout the levels are several powerups such as a mushroom or fireflower. Mario can use these to his advantage. There are also Blocks and Brick Blocks scattered across the level. When Mario hits one, several items can be retreived from them such as coins, mushrooms, and various powerups. The game also has vegetables that Mairo can pluck and carry, and then lob at enemies. Sometimes when a vegetable is plucked, items such as mushrooms and coins are sprouted instead.
Worlds and levels
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World 1: Wavy Plains
World 1 is a grassland world with plains and rolling green hills. It contains fairly linear levels and simple enemies.
World 1-1: Practice Plains
This is the most basic level in the game. It is very linear and introduces the player to the game. As the name suggests, it is meant to prepare the player for their journey. It has many vegetables plants, coins, gaps, and basic enemies such as Goombas, Koopa Troopas, and Shy Guys. There are signs scattered acrosss the level that tell the player about basic commands such as using the 'Arrow Keys' to enter pipes.
Items
- Coin
- Mushroom
- Fire Flower
- 1-up Mushroom
- Cloud Flower
Reception
Super Mario Pearls of Wisdom has received extremely positive reviews, due to it's well-designed visuals, polish, and high replay value. As of today, the submission on the main site has received straight 9/10 reviews. It was also criticized for it's extreme difficulty. MFGGer Wiiboy4ever claimed the difficulty the game was inexcusably frustrating, while mountain sweet claimed that the difficulty was brutal, and the bosses had an unfair advantage over the player. multimax36 also said that the game was frustrating, along with the fact that the bosses weaknesses were hard to locate. An angry grammatically incorrect comment started by Syr stirred controversy when he complained that the third world boss was too difficult, with excessive use of profanity. The game was also criticized for it's low quality sound effects and midis, along with there over-amplification.
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