Marble Madness/Klax (Game Boy Advance)

mh:awesomegames:Marble Madness and Klax is a multicart developed by Frame Studios Interactive and published by Destination Software on August 16, 2005 for the mh:awesomegames:Game Boy Advance. It is a port of those two games.

This page will focus on the Marble Madness port.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) False advertising: The opening screen (which shows the info about the game, the publisher and the developer's logo) shows Midway Games' logo, but Midway wasn't responsible for publishing those ports. It was Destination Software who published those ports.
 * 2) Awful soundtrack and sounds. It somehow sounds worse than the Game Boy Color version, and sounds like poor man's version of the soundtrack from the Game Gear version.
 * 3) This port can be beaten very quickly. The Arcade version contains 6 levels, but in this port, there are only 3 levels, and the whole port can be beaten in 2 minutes or less. Waluigi Game does have more levels than this port, but however, Waluigi Game is also very short.
 * 4) Several enemies, like the black marble from the Arcade version, hazards and animations are missing, like in the IBM PC port.
 * 5) God-awful controls. The blue marble, which is the marble you're playing as is really hard to control. This can lead to cheap deaths.
 * 6) Poor graphics that look no better than the Game Gear port of Batman Forever, or Elf Bowling 1 & 2 also for GBA and even for the DS.
 * 7) Every time you go into a pipe, you just magically teleport to behind the pipe downstairs instead of going to a pipe and watching your marble passing through the pipe.
 * 8) Lazy ending screen. It's just a black box with the words "Game Over" in it. They didn't even bother adding credits after the ending screen fades, it just goes back to the title screen.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) The Klax port can be worth purchasing. It looks like it was ported well, unlike the Marble Madness port.

Reception
The multicart received negative reviews. IGN gave the game a 4.5/10 rating, praising the Klax port, but heavily criticizing the Marble Madness port. This port is often considered to be the worst port of Marble Madness.

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