Review by Jabberwock October 18, 2006

When Super Smash Brothers was originally released, it was a smash hit, and since then it's had many successors, official and otherwise. In particular I've seen quite a few such games attempted with Game Maker, some decent, some terrible, but Super Bash Bros Ultimate is one of very few I've ever seen completed; that alone says something about the author's dedication and in turn the quality of the game.

The gameplay is fairly elementary Mario-style platforming, except with two players and a rather annoying control setup. Essentially, You jump on each other and collect and use a variety of fairly typical (with the exception of one or two slightly stranger ones) Mario items. It's nothing stellar, but there are very few bugs, and just so long as you have someone to play against it can be a lot of fun. Besides the main game, there's also a wide variety of unlockable minigames, some of which are fun, others of which are sort of boring.

It's really the quest for unlockables that's the driving force of the gameplay in this game, especially if you have no one to play against; fortunately, there are quite a few of them, from the aforementioned minigames to maps and characters.

The graphics and sound are ripped, so you'd expect them to be consistent; unfortunately that's not the case, as they're ripped from several different Mario games whose styles all differ. I'm not a big fan of ripped graphics to begin with, so for me this was a real turnoff. Just because it's a Mario game, doesn't mean you can't be original with it.

At first glance, this game seems hardly worth the trouble of downloading; however, under the game's rather flawed exterior is a solid core engine (with support for two players to boot, something I've found to be unfortunately pretty rare among Game Maker games), and if you can look past the fact that this is yet another Mario clone with ripped media, you just might be able to have some fun with it.