20 Best Nintendo DS Games Of All Time
14. New Super Mario Bros.
We've seen it time after time, a great game is retroactively ruined because its developers decided to throw it into the photocopier and give us numerous near-identical games. New Super Mario Bros., is one of the best 2D Mario games ever made, it's just a shame that its legacy was completely ruined by the rest of the New Super Mario Bros. series.
New Super Mario Bros. feels like the logical next step for 2D Mario after Super Mario World.
It introduces new power-ups like the Blue Shell which allows you to slide along the ground, the Mini Mushroom which serves as an interesting take on power-ups essentially being a power-down which you need to access certain secrets, it's a nice risk-reward system, and the Mega Mushroom which allows you to grow giant and cause mayhem throughout the Mushroom Kingdom.
New Super Mario Bros. has the most creative bosses out of any 2D Mario game in general as they're giant versions of pre-existing Mario enemies instead of the usual Koopalings.
Yeah, it isn't as good as the likes of Super Mario Bros. 3 or Super Mario World but it's closer in quality to those games than you think.