Secret Maryo Chronicles

Reviewed by: DeathDude

Positive Points: Faithful Mario Platform game
Good graphics
Save Option

Negative Points: Weird Sound Effects

Genre: Arcade

Size: 5.06 MB

Requirements: Windows or Linux

Questionable Content: None

Editor Rating: 4.7

Homepage: http://www.secretmaryo.org/

Download Location: http://www.secretmaryo.org/index.php?page=downloads

Although there are many Mario games out there from the classics that you may have experienced on the Nintendo systems, there is also many available as freeware around the net. What makes this Mario game stand out however is that it’s constantly in development, which means that this game continues to refine and tweak itself, this isn’t the stand alone version and that’s it, the developers continue to make changes and additions which is something very excellent to see. Such as recently with the latest release, Mario can climb on vines and enemies can shoot out from pipes in all 4 directions. The Mario game itself, pretty much excellent in every way, its standard Mario platform action and it’s done effectively.

The game starts out no real story to speak of, but that really isn’t much of a concern if you’ve played past Mario games, which really never did have that deep of a story to begin with anyway. This game has decided to utilize the Super Mario World, environments. For such things as backgrounds and items that you will encounter, as well as the different enemies that you will face in the game.

Overall graphics are done very well, you can tell that there is a bit of grain here and there but overall it’s a good representation of the world that Mario is used to from his days gone by. Controls are effective and simple enough, nothing really hard to forget about them. Gamers who haven’t played a Mario game for awhile will probably take a few tries to get used to how Mario moves around in the world, while trying not to run into enemies, but it shouldn’t take most people too long to get used to the controls.

Sound wise the game does an interesting job, at first I thought there was no music, but later inspection revealed that you can download music for the game at the website. Be that as it may I myself have not heard it, so can’t really comment on it. Sound effects on the other hand were a bit weird in my opinion. The classic sounds such as collecting coins and even hitting blocks are not present, but instead a different sound byte is used which was odd to hear. It really isn’t too big of a deal, but was just something I wished could have been present but really it’s so irrelevant it’s not a big deal.

Still if you’ve been looking for a Mario game to try out, this is the one that you should look for, as it continues to be updated and tweaked, so give it a try if you’re a Mario fan.