Fan who’s overly excited he can make a new friend: “You should try Mario Galaxy, or the 1000 Year Door, or maybe, uhh, uhh…”.

Fan who wants to ease people into the series: “Maybe New Super Mario Bros.

Newcomer: “Which Mario game would you recommend I play first?” It seems so much like Takeshi’s Challenge The art and music don’t fit with Super Mario at all It reminds me of those chinese bootleg ports

The basic idea sounds interesting enough, but man…Įven if you can’t read English you can just keep guessing the answers over and over ’cause they don’t penalize you The music in the Tokyo stage goes heavy with the “Westerners’ view of Chinese and Japanese stuff” The bland backgrounds and non-Mario-ness make it horrible to play. The towns you go to seem nothing like what they should look like.ĭoes this count as Luigi’s first starring role if Nintendo didn’t produce or sell the game? Is this really an official game? It totally looks like a bootleg. The Tokyo stage has so many problems, the staff should’ve done actual research for it It’s unclear why they needed to use Mario characters for this game in the first place. Why did they even make it a Mario game in the first place? It’s technically an educational game but it’s hardly a game and barely seems educational Luigi looks unspeakably weird in the computer versionįor some reason there’s a Tokyo stage but with a Buddha statue and stuff that isn’t even actually in Tokyo The only thing that seems good about it is that it’s the first time Luigi is the main character No one ever believed me that Luigi was the main character in a foreign Mario game!! It’s nice that Luigi is the main character, but there was absolutely no need for him to be the main character at all.įans of crappy games will love this for sure, but probably not in the way the developers intended.

I only figured out how to play the game thanks to the AVGN’s review. It must’ve been popular in America if it got so many versions released I’m not even sure how my dad got me the game. This is the crappiest game I’ve ever played – and will ever play – in my entire life. How did Nintendo give the OK for this to be made? This almost feels like some sort of ROM hack It’s nice that Luigi gets to be the main character at least. I tried playing it one time but all I could do was walk around places.Įverything about it clashes with the Mario series The results aren’t really surprising, but it’s nice to see how the game is seen outside its original audience. 25 years have passed since the game’s release, so I decided to see what Japanese fans have to say about this mysterious Mario game.īelow are random comments from Japanese social media, websites, videos, and message boards that I’ve translated into English. Mario is Missing! was released in North America and Europe, but it never saw a translated release in Japan, where the Mario series was born.

Mario is missing 18 game