Navarro, Super Mario Bros. 2 review (2007)

Cite as: Navarro, Super Mario Bros. 2 review (2007)
Original: https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/super-mario-bros-2-review/1900-6173644/
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Credit: Alex Navarro, GameSpot.
Notes: Scores the game 8/10 ("Great"). States that SMB2 began as Doki Doki Panic and that the swap replaced the main character sprites, and credits the game with the playable debut of Princess Toadstool and Toad.

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Reviewing the Wii Virtual Console release in 2007, GameSpot's Alex Navarro scored it 8 of 10 and wrote that its unusual play still holds up.	`review summaryreview bodyreview box`	Web
GameSpot's review credits the game with the Princess's and Toad's debut as playable characters, and says Super Mario Bros. 3 went back on many of its ideas. IGN's history calls it the series' big aberration, and says Luigi got his first distinctive traits in the Japanese sequel and his first model of his own here, built on Mama's and taller than Mario.	`review bodyreview body`	Web