Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
2003
Audio: English
- platform
- action
- single player
- multiplayer
The story
Super Mario Advance 4 is a GBA remake of Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES. Super Mario Advance is a four-part series for the GBA with Super Mario games of the NES and SNES era. The remakes came with adjusted graphics, sound and additional content. Each game of the series includes additionally the arcade-classic "Mario Bros" which can be played in multiplayer via link cable.
What it’s like
Bright, saturated sprite art in the classic Mario palette: sky blues, candy-colored hills, bold outlines and cheerful pixel clouds that sit on a crisp GBA screen with a little more shine than the original NES cartridge. Movement has a bouncy, springy snap, and the chiptune soundtrack is rendered with a fuller, slightly brighter timbre, with the familiar jingles and power-up stingers ringing out like old friends. Levels shift from sunlit grasslands to desert dunes, water worlds, and dim fortress corridors, each with its own rhythm of sound and color. The mood is playful, energetic, and low-anxiety, with a steady sense of progress and small rewards at every turn, though failure is brief and quickly forgiven. Violence is cartoonish and nonexistent in any real sense: enemies are stomped or bump away with comic puffs, and there is no gore, fear, or sexual content. Quick sessions suit a commute or a spare half hour, and longer stretches reward the curious with hidden warp zones, items and secrets. It is made for players who want a joyful, nostalgic platformer with clean, tactile controls and a gentle sense of mastery, including those who enjoy a friendly two-player round of Mario Bros. over a link cable.
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