Super Mario Run, a game very far from what we expected and above all from what we wanted

The day that Mario Bros appeared on the scene in the Apple keynote where the main protagonist was the iPhone 7, we all had illusions with the possible arrival of a game by the popular plumber that would remind us of the traditional games that we all enjoyed some years ago. Unfortunately those illusions did not take long to fade and the new Mario Run would be a game where Mario would run at full speed without leaving many options to the players.

On December 15, the new Nintendo game for mobile devices made its premiere on the App Store, it soon seems that it could also make its premiere on Google Play, and although it is a resounding success with hundreds of thousands of downloads around the world , we can only say that Mario Run is a game very far from what we expected and especially from what we wanted.

My experience with Mario Run

Although I knew and was aware that Mario Run would be a very simple game in which we only had to press the screen to jump, I was eager for it to make its premiere on the market and be able to install it on my mobile device. I remember playing Mario Bros on the NES and on the Super Nintendo, in my sister's company, and that certainly brings back very good memories.

Of the new Nintendo game I have been surprised by the graphics and the striking colors that hook. There is no need to talk about the gameplay and that is that Mario runs alone and it will be enough for us to be attentive to press the screen so that the character can jump. At first Mario Run is entertaining and addictive, but it has only been a few days since it was released on the market and I am tired, Mario has already started to bore me despite the difficulty of some of the levels.

In case you had any doubts, I have decided to pay the 9.95 euros that it is worth to unlock all the levels of Mario Run, expecting something more than what we initially found, but nothing new under the sun, although I already have a few euros less in my purse.

The success and failure of Mario Run

Moment Mario Run is a success that has managed to exceed the numbers of Pokémon Go, the previous Nintendo game that drove a lot of people crazy. Unfortunately I think that we are facing a new failure of Nintendo, and that is that as it happened with Pokemon, with this type of games it is difficult to keep players hooked for a long time.

Maybe I'm something weird or special for the subject of games, which I'm not saying no, but as much as I can play with Mario Bros, spending time tapping on the screen to make it jump seems quite boring. If to this we add that hitting the screen as the only entertainment will cost us almost 10 euros, failure may be even closer than we can think.

The game also includes some incentives such as racing and building your own kingdom, and although they are not bad as a complement to the main work of Mario, they could have been very interesting if Nintendo had created a platform game like the one we could enjoy on old consoles.

Was it so difficult to create a Mario like the traditional ones?

The Mario Bros saga became one of the great classics, and also the best-selling games, of each and every one of the Nintendo consoles. Mario Run is a colorful game, but with few possibilities for players, who many would have liked it to be very much like traditional games.

In this aspect It is difficult to understand why Nintendo was not inclined to develop a game similar to the Mario that we saw on the NES or even on the Nintendo 64, but with Mario Run they have achieved a game that has attracted a lot of attention, but I am afraid it will have a very short journey on the market and above all installed on our mobile devices.

Going back to Nintendo's decision to create a Mario Bros game where the character does not stop running at any time, iWe imagine that he decided not to recover the traditional Mario looking to give a new touch to his charismatic character. Perhaps the next step for the Japanese company is to surprise us with a platform game where we can do more than run and jump without too much control. Unfortunately, for now, Nintendo has made a mistake again, which at the moment has shades of success, but as we have already said a lot, we fear that it will soon become a failure.

For a few days I have anxiously awaited the arrival of Mario Bros, in the form of a game, to my mobile device, but the joy has lasted for a very short time and it is that I quickly tired of tapping on the screen of my smartphone so that the charismatic plumber jump over obstacles or get coins, which at the moment I'm still not very clear what they are for. To close this article I can only ask Nintendo to kill Mario Run as soon as possible, and if you really want to conquer the market for mobile device games, launch a Mario of a lifetime, where fun has no limits and we can handle the popular plumber in a free way.

What is your opinion about Mario Run after it made its premiere on the market on December 15?. Tell us your opinion in the space reserved for comments on this post or through the social networks in which we are present. Tell us also, if for you as for us it is a game very far from what we expected and above all from what we wanted or desired.