Is New Super Mario Bros. 2 Bad? 

I’d pretty sure it’s called 2 because it’s meant to be a direct sequel to the DS game, whereas U is a sequel to Wii

Character-wise, the coin collecting gimmick would work better with Wario.

I played this game so often when I was a kid. I always saw the cannons but never understood their function. Then one day I saw a video of GameXPlain (xD) playing the cannon-level and it was awesome🤣 Btw this was a very good video!

New Super Mario Bros. 2 is pretty solid actually. I really like the new dry goombas and piranha plants as well as the snake blocks present in a lot of levels. It's cool to see snake blocks in world 1, for example. The level design is quite creative, especially in Worlds Mushroom, Flower, and Star. I'm surprised more people don't talk about the golden totem level in World 2 more. That's right up there with the sewer levels from DS and Wii and the Van Gogh levels from NSMBU and NSLU in terms of aesthetic. Also, the flashing clown car with the Koopalings that can turn you to stone in the final castle and the Star world castle is so unique. And I like the auto runner cannon levels. Really, my only issue with the game is that it's much too easy.

i still believe this game has some of the best level design in the series. if it only had original level aesthetics i believe itd be held as one of the best.

I loved this game! Although the levels had a bunch of reused aspects, the level design itself was really good and it’s a lot of fun just to blaze through it

I still hope someday we get a new 2D Mario game that’s unique like the 3D mario games!

As a recent WR holder for the NSMB2 100% category, it is a very addictive game!

I feel like this game could have been more, but Nintendo just didn’t push it enough. Also, I feel like the gold gimmick removes the idea of risk - it is basically impossible to get a game over. BTW - you seriously need more subs and views. Your videos are awesome and very professional!

I really enjoyed new super mario bros 2, there were many nights I'd crack open my 3ds while my parents were asleep and just, have fun. I remember when I finally got those 90 star coins and unlocked the star world, I had been looking forever for levels that had star coins that I didn't collect. And that one night when I discovered an infinite lives method, it was amazing. As for the name, I feel like 2 means 2nd new super mario bros game on a ds, not in the series.

I always loved this game, cool to see I'm not alone. I also very love your videos! You explain very well your points :)

great video, i don't remember much about playing this game but all i remember is i loved the coin collecting and final battle, i guess i never beat world 9 when I played it and i kinda regret that now because that final level looks insane

Another notable thing about this game that I discussed with my cousin recently is that yeah, the scenery and atmosphere is really similar to NSMB WII’s, it makes up for it by being *much* more colourful and vibrant, which I actually enjoy seeing. The most obvious comparison in contrast for me is the in game backgrounds of the snowy areas. Wii’s is kinda grey and bleak like it would be in real life, 2’s made use of all sorts of different shades of blue. Great video, thanks for making it!

I really enjoyed the release of NSMB2 after playing tons of the original NSMB DS when I was 13. 8 years later, while it's infamous for the lack of originality I still find it fun, appreciate the art style, and the accapella remixes.

Yet another banger of a video, keep up the good work!

You forgot to mention the rainbow stages unlock if you match the two digits in the timer from each world

I will always be biased to this game because of nostalgia. I remember finding that final boss completely impossible for years, and how excited I was when I finally did it. Your content is wayyy underrated btw how do you not have like 10k more subs

The developers were definitely drunk off the success of NSMB and NSMB Wii. Its a good game with a few interesting ideas and great level design, but it most definitely borrowed way to many ideas-and especially assets-from its predecessor.

8:52 I wasn't looking and thought you got confused with Sonic then I looked and saw what you were talking about...dang it looks like a Sonic ring lmao

In my opinion it's definitely a solid game and satisfying by collecting all those coins

I remember getting it as a freebie for my 3DS because 3D Land wasn't available. I still feel dumb for getting it over Black 2/White 2, Triple deluxe or Dream team. The game was uninspired and the coin collecting felt like a cheap gacha mechanic who made the game not punish your mistakes. It was just not a memorable game. I agree with you on the cannon levels though, they were actually fun, same for the mini mushroom one, but those are only 4 levels.

This was an amazing video. The best and most relatable take I’ve seen. On one side I think it’s lack of originality is upsetting, and I hate how they took the Koopalings (my favorite Mario characters) and gave them lame uninspired fights. But in the other hand, I love busting out my 3ds and doing some coin collecting. It’s a fun game, really. I think 7/10 is the the friggin perfect score for this game. Bravo amazing vid

Not that I don’t care about the majority of the fans not liking this particular game, but I love this, yes - game mechanics were repeated, music was recycled, design, powerups, levels are almost not that different - but people are forgetting, that’s what made people love the NSMB series. People ask for it, Nintendo gives it. Now, just patiently waiting on the movie this yr, either the new 2d mario game or odyssey 2. PS. Still hoping a remastered version of Galaxy 2 in switch. Great video though! I agree in all aspects you explained. Hope to see more of this!

I think some people were just salty we got two NSMB games in one year. I think they would have gotten a better reputation if not for that. But these games are over 10 years old now, and I think it's time for Nintendo to revisit this sub-series for a new installment.

You made a 20 minutes long video feel like a hour straight documentary

As a kid I really loved this game. Going back and playing it after finding my 3ds after years I still have no complaints. I went in with the mindset of if it’s not broke don’t fix it and I still had a blast

wow. 8:08 is simply fantastic, i probably rewound that section like 10 times. (love the video too)

I love the New Super Mario Bros. series. I believe i've actually played all of the New Super Mario Bros. games, because i know my third oldest brother had a DSI and NSMBDS, my two oldest brothers had a Wii and NSMBW, and a LONG time after my family (well, most of us) moved out of the Maysfield house, which is what we called the house that i believe my dad inherited from his dad, we moved into the Travis house, which is what we called the house that we moved into after we moved out of the Maysfield house. One Christmas, i got a 2DS which came with an SD card that had NSMB2 downloaded onto it. And finally, the latest NSMB game i've played was NSMBUD, but frankly, i think that NSMBUD and NSMBU are basically just the same game, but with a few differences.

This Game was my Childhood, I remember me and my friends racing to complete the game first, some of my best Memories!

Yeah, honestly coin rush alone kinda makes me prefer NSMB2 over NSMB, plus the tanooki suit is always awesome. It’s also nice to have a game where grabbing every coin sorta feels like it matters..it’s something new to do/play with in the levels, at least. I mean, it feels new at least because of the way they do it. It isn’t as good as Wii or U/DX and not as original as NSMB, but it’s still a good game. Lazy, but fun, and with some good ideas.

This game was my first serious game in general, not to mention my first Mario game, so I have a lot of nostalgia for it

I will now use Kamek's basement as a euphemism for hell from now on.

I know the map themes for World Mushroom, Flower, and Star are one of the few original tracks of this game, but what is the fourth original track? It cannot be the red toad house theme as that was ripped from Super Mario 3D Land.

The New Super Mario Bros. 2, along with Sonic Generations and Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, is the game that got me to ask for a Nintendo 3DS for Christmas in 2012. And I enjoyed all three (Mario is the only one of them I have beaten).

New Super Mario Bros. 2 is the only NSMB Game where Mario could look Up.

10:15 Bro got personal with that one

damn, i never played this game but ive played nsmb wii and & wii u. I definitely should give this game a try! Awesome video as always

This is my favorite game in the series 👀 Solid fun platformer to pick up and play

This game was my childhood. 😭😭 I remember begging my friend how to unlock Luigi

I have a good idea for the red toad houses that could've worked for this game: An item shop where you can buy powerups with coins! It would be much cooler than just picking your power up

i remember getting 10k coins in the gold classics pack. it was the only one i had. but i had to be a young dumb and write over it with a smaller coin count...

I Will always prefer DS Castle soundtrack rather than the song that appears since Wii. But the final boss soundtrack since Wii is gorgeous

Bro this vid was very good you deserve more subs

0:36 I always called them NSMB DS, NSMB Wii, and NSMB 3Ds. Way easier to tell them apart and I’m surprised Nintendo didn’t do this, sounds like something they’d do

Next 2d Mario game needs unlockable outfits that do things or characters that you get by earning and spending a lot of coins

I feel like a lot of people kinda missed the point of the NSMB series... They say stuff like: "They're too similar to one-another" or "They're uninspired" which like... To be fair, they ARE stylistically very similar, but that's really just on the surface, anyone who actually took the time to properly play through them all would know how actually different all 4 games are... But no, that's not the point. You ever noticed how there's ONLY ONE of them in each console? Yeah, exactly. (No Luigi U doesn't count, it was DLC) What Nintendo was trying to do with these games was give everyone who bought one of their consoles between 2006 and now an opportunity to play a brand new 2D Mario game! Something we hadn't gotten since 1992! And umm... This should go without saying, but not everyone had all 4 (5?) consoles in which these games were released in, some people were stuck with just one, I for one just got two of 'em...

New Super Mario Bros 2 feels like it was titled at last second, it should've been named Super Mario: Treasure Rush and also have a different plot then same overused save the girl plot. It's main selling point was coins but the game had absolutely no reason for these bits of yellow other than a quick gimmick.

this was my first ever mario game comparing it to U weegee U and new (nsmb1) its an amazing game

Ya I'm like it has a "Quick Save" but it'll just disappear once you resume your game? Staring you over from the beginning? 😭

This particular game was my childhood. Mario Wonder brings me back

Would you ever consider covering the Newer hack for Wii? Ik it's unofficial, but it would still be interesting!

It really says a lot that when I used one of the remixed songs of this game in a RU-vid video I got claimed for the Wii version. Not even Nintendo could distinguish between the two games.

"say hello... to Bone Bowser" i was expecting you to be like "ahem, sorry. Dry Bowser." to be honest because that's his name.

I do like it a little better than 3D Land since it has a couple more things you can do.

Amazing review! You got me back into it lmao

As a person who 100% the game as a kid, i had fun with it. I still do to this day when i pick up my 3ds and decide to play a simple 2d platform. Emphasis on the "Simple"

This Game Clearly Showed what new Ideas can Bring to a Game the Basic Gimmick being the Same but with a New Power up in that Series that really only feels like that exact thing the Gold Flower being it’s main new Power up to Crush the Money bosses next I bet it’s New Super Mario Bros Bussiness Edition be the Next in the Series

I'd argue 2 is the best, while yes themes do return its a lot more rounded out than it was in wii and ds like the megamushroom is actually clearly used and isn't an underwhelming gimmick and this might be the only one where the mini mushroom actually has a neat level based around it yes there's the generic level themes like 1-4 is the sky but if I get this correctly its also where the gold rings are introduced plus the coins are fun to collect

I love how you brought up Andre from GameXplain lmao

Maybe it’s just me, but I LOVED that the soundtrack was pulled from NSMB Wii! When the game first came out, obviously Switch didn’t exist yet, so the 3DS/DS was my only handheld. I felt like I had a handheld version of NSMB Wii with this game! Now that NSMB U Deluxe exists on Switch, some of that special handheld magic for this game is definitely less, but it was great for younger me!

I just got the gold edition and I love the coin rush levels!

15:00 Also in world star, Star coins were changed to Moon Coins 🌙 Way before Odyssey

While I’ve never played NSMB2, I remember watching SiloHawk’s video on it and I love the backgrounds of the levels; they’re weirdly creative compared to the other games imo. Also I love the bahs in the main theme for some reason

This was my favorite new super Mario bros game. I still remember not knowing at all that this game even existed until I saw a 2ds bundled with it. I lost my mind when I figured out that there was one of them on 3ds.

I honestly think this game is unfairly judged just because it's the 3rd New Soup game which puts it in a weird spot. People always say the same ol stuff about it without putting it on its own merits

I remember playing new super Mario mods 2 on the 3DS a lot when i was younger. It was great

It’s weird hearing a RU-vidr say that their childhood game was a game I also grew up with cause it reminds me that I am now an adult

AMAZING new video mariomikester :)

3:59 my younger self feels called out

Am I the only one impressed by the graphics of this game?

Hey! Xenoblade did the same thing with the titles. You get XC2, but it's the 3rd entry.

I was watching this video at School. And then right when it ended, my school blocked RU-vid

the models in this game look better than any other!

Tbh, New Super Mario Bros. 2 was a great game and I loved it so much. It was one of the first games I played before the Wii and Wii U of New Super Mario Bros. I only ever beat the Wii U, with no 100%, and twice on New Super Mario Bros. 2 by going through the first time solo, with 100%, then playing 2 player with my older brother with again 100%. It was the only best memories I had of it. I never had an issue with the 2d Mario games reusing music on World 1 and the same with World 2. It would have made it feel weird to me since it was the only two worlds I got stuck on every time.

as the self proclaimed biggest NSMB2 fan (i got the max coin counter and everything) its honestly a really solid direct sequel to NSMBDS, it feels like they went back to what made that game so unique and added their own spin on it and thats pretty cool

I remember only like 2 or 3 stages had the new fire gold Mario power up that turns block into coins. I was disappointed with this one because I remember the one for DS was more fun especially the mini games. This game is still nostalgic by the way 🥺

The name made me think it was going to be a return to Subcon with the ability to play Peach and Toad, as well as Mario and Luigi.

I wish I could know if there was an alternate universe that had a more unique concept for this game.

I love playing this game when I was 7 years old it was so much fun now I just think it’s decent

Bro was hitting the griddy 💀

Something random that bothers me about this game is that world 4 has an underwater level… in a coral reef. Not only should the water freeze over in that type of world, but that’s much too cold for coral to properly survive in. Also, this appears to be a winter wonderland sort of world, so there should be no saltwater in sight for tropical reefs to thrive in. They copied the underwater backgrounds from other worlds and tarnished the realism of that level when they could’ve actually been original, and made an underwater level with a more icy aesthetic, perhaps one where you’re swimming between chunks of ice floating in the cold water. Also, something you didn’t mention is that this game didn’t offer much in terms of new enemies for the NSMB series. A lot of new enemies that were added were just variants, like bone Goombas and piranha plants, baby urchins, and Boohemoth. No truly original enemies like Wii’s Huckit Crabs, Bramballs, Bulbers, Scaredy Rats, and Jellybeams, or U’s Waddlewings, Flipruses, and Grrols (although, those behave much like spike balls). Still, Wii and U did a much better job at reintroducing old, less used enemies to the series, and adding a few new ones.

It’s not that bad. But this is a pet peeve of mine. It’s a game about collecting so many gold coins, and yet Wario is nowhere to be seen. Golden Opportunity lost.

The giant Mushroom last a couple of seconds and is only in a few levels

Not even nostalgia can defend this game for me because I thought it was bad when i was 10💀

When you were showing off the DLC levels selection screen how come it was Green?

I don’t think any of the new soup games are bad I just think people just got bored of them

I like to think it's called NSMB2 as a reference to the original Mario Bros 2, seeing as that was also the third game in the series

I wish they added the coin collecting gimmick in Mario wonder

I thought OST is *official* sound track?

The best in the NSMB series IMO. Gold Mario, Tanooki suit, coins coins and more coins, it’s an absolute blast! Nintendo found the perfect formula for 2D Mario with the “New” series, so the fact that they’re all similar games is something I generally regard as a good thing. It’s just a shame that this one can’t be played on the big screen in co-op like the others can.

I was like 6 at Disney world when this game came out, bugged my parents about it the whole trip🤣 beat the game before we even got home from the trip!

I actually like the reusing of stages, just as long as there is something to define it. I was 6 back in 1988 when I got my first NES. I had the 3 pack with the Super Mario, Duck Hunt, and the track game and had the power pad thing. I grew up with Mario and just love it. Even if they release a Mario game I am not a fan of, I will definitely play it just because. I’m talking about you Mario Sunshine

The only thing I really hate about the Game are the rinnos in the tower levels, they are so boring

The only nsmb 2 levels I can remember off the top of my head are final bowser and the dark pyramid one with the mario 3 fire snakes

Little story, I was in a toys r us store, and I was going to get a game, and I was between this and dream team, and I was really thinking about it, since I had Paper jam already and I thought, maybe I should try something new, bad decision I did, I didn't knew dream team was good, yes I had fun with new 2, but it got boring after I beated it, even after I beated paper jam I would get entertained doing something else like getting new high scores on the mini games or beat the boss rush over again with new card strategies, I sometimes think it was the worst purchase I've done, and wonder how would've went if I choosed dream team,

I wouldn’t call Iggy’s fight identical, more so a progression of the idea Especially since this game is holding itself as a sequel of sorts

as far as ive heard they had a new unexperienced dev team on nsmb2 while the main team focused on nsmbu, so you can see why everything felt a bit weird

I loved the coins in this game it really made it fun and replay able. I still have it and I’ll never let go of it :) I love the bowser level Only gripe with this game is that it’s too short!

I would always refer to this game as just New Super Mario Bros: Coins

1:06 is that the 100 coin? why is it a 100 coin if it just gives you an instant 1-up?