The Daily Click

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Author:	Radix
Added:	11/10/2003
Overall:
Average:	8/10

Hooray! Maybe this will help to cut down on Mario clones, even if it's not in the way the author intended. You see, nobody (at least nobody who'd bother with a Mario clone, anyway) is going to be able to match this. However, they probably aren't going to be able to use it, either. The idea is excellent, but the screen size is a limitation and the custom movement with detector system maybe a little heavy for n00bs without some more documentation.

Graphics are excellent, although I was dissapointed about not actually seeing Peach's gibbets. Ah well.

Sound and music both suit a Mario game very well, although I'll admit I played with the sound down (not deliberately) and it might be even better than I think.

The main problem is that Mario doesn't really act like Mario, so this can't possibly be the end of all Mario clones. To begin with, Mario's far too large. There aren't any mushrooms to be had, although there are functional coin boxes, which is probably a good thing since Super Mario would probably poke his head off the top of the tiny screen. The lack of Fire Flowers severely hurts though, as does the inability to run.

Mario's jumps are not true to form, and trying to jump to any specific place is usually a case of pointing the right direction and crossing your fingers, as the size of the screen means you can't see the floor until just before you hit it.

In and of itself this is a fun little platform engine that doesn't bear much relation to Mario Brothers other than the name and sprites. That would be fine, except those who are ripping off SMB games aren't trying to make anything original, they're trying to make a Mario game. Good work, Jonathan Smeby, but I'm sure you could perfect it if you really wanted to.