Mario Land 2 is decent at it's worst and pretty okay at it's best. I have really no strong feelings about this game at all. I played it... That's about it.

Choosing to up the graphical quality from the first game while impressive, isn't that great. Having more detailed sprites causes the game to be very zoomed in and claustrophobic but at the very least it's designed with those limitations in mind.

I never really died due to an off screen enemy or obstacle and you can scroll the screen up or down manually. Mario's movement does feels sluggish and imprecise compared to every home-console game in the series though.

The one thing I will give to this game is the fun setting and unique worlds. There's a world themed around being tiny, one themed around Halloween and one themed around space etc. The variety in enemies and level design due to this is pretty great.

So yeah the game doesn't leave much of an impression and after beating it I just wanted to go play Mario 3 or World. It's definitely decent enough but very low compared to other Mario's.

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