Alright, so new super mario bros is in my opinion the worst mario game of all time. It's worse than those "educational" mario games.
For starters, it's portable yet only lets you save after beating castles or unlocking mushroom houses. The game addresses this in the manual with the sleep mode. Tired of playing but can't save? use the sleep mode! So what if you want to play something else! Fuck you, go buy another nintendo ds so this one is exclusive to nsmb!
Apparently you can "unlock" the feature to save anywhere after beating the game, so I'm trying to do a speed run through the game in order to then play it and actually have any fun.
The game is incredibly easy, yet tried to balance this inadequacy by making things jump out of walls, but the second time through you should remember where they are. This game is a piece of shit.