mario gets artsy: mario paint

Ah, Mario. Everyone's favourite plumber, who also saves princesses, stomps goombas, races carts, plays just about every popular sport, and was in the Olympics. But i guess all that didn't appeal to the emo kid, drawing and composing screamo lyrics in the corner. Mario needed a more sensitive and artsy look. And so Mario paint was born.

First off it looks like an old version of that kids painting thing that was on the old Macintosh, and that's very close to it. at first any ways. You see Mario paint is the kind of game that if your really talented it's amazing what you can do. but if your not well....

the painting is nothing to special at first, stranded brushes, shape and filler tools, letters, some Mario themed stamps, stuff you would expect but under that it has to interesting things to it. The first is the stamp maker, its basicly a mini spriteing thing. I remember as a little kid trying to make desktop icons, looking back that was a bit strange. The other is the animation maker, its amazing but i never got the hang of it

the other end of the gameplay and the most popular is the music composer, now this is hard one to explain. Its like a bit of sheet music on screen and the stamps are instruments and when you but them on the sheet music its a note... ok, maybe you should just see for yourself because its just to had to tell you how it works.

Now your going “ok this is all well and good but you gotta use the snes controller for this?” no it has a mouse,and a training game, where you swat flys, its actually pretty fun. The strategy guide for the game is also one of the best ever written just needed a place to put that.

Now this game has one big problem to it there is no way to share or save your creations. But with the release of Mario paint composer for the pc only the painting part has this problem. (unless your using an emulator not that I'm saying you should ;) overall this game is fun as hell,it kept me occupied for hours and made the "research" for this way to long. If your the creative type check it out.