{"id":13650,"date":"2015-07-08T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2015-06-23T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:44:43","slug":"dr-mario-miracle-cure-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/dr-mario-miracle-cure-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DRMARIO_BOX\"<\/a>Dr. Mario, one of Nintendo\u2019s most popular puzzle games, has been making house calls on nearly every Nintendo console since the NES.\u00a0 But the gameplay has remained relatively unchanged.\u00a0 And now Dr. Mario is on the 3DS eShop as a downloadable title, and includes not only Dr. Mario, but also Dr. Luigi and Virus Buster as well.\u00a0 Better still, there is a new gameplay mechanic in the form of Miracle Cures, which are pills that can clear out even more viruses than before!\u00a0 It\u2019s a pretty neat collection of Dr. Mario fun, so let\u2019s see what\u2019s all in here.<\/p>\n

The object in Dr. Mario is pretty simple and will remind players of other falling & rotating block games like Tetris.\u00a0 Different colored viruses fill a bottle and it\u2019s your job to clear them away with the pills that Dr. Mario or Luigi throw in.\u00a0 If you match four of the same color together in a row or column, they disappear, including any viruses that are in the line with it.\u00a0 You can also do combos and chain reactions, too.\u00a0 You win the level if you clear the whole bottle of viruses, but you lose if you let the pills stack to the top of the screen.<\/p>\n

The new gameplay element in this one comes in the form of Miracle Cures.\u00a0 As you clear colors in Dr. Mario & Dr. Luigi, a meter fills up on the side of the bottle.\u00a0 When it is full, you\u2019ll get a pill that you can use to clear out more colors and viruses.\u00a0 These pills have various effects.\u00a0 Some will clear out one color in an area, while another will make anything around it disappear.\u00a0 Other pills will clear out anything horizontally or vertically (or both).\u00a0 This new gameplay element helps speed things along and gives new life to one of the older puzzle games out there.\u00a0 There are also new ways to hinder the other player with Miracle Pills in Vs. and two player modes, too.\u00a0 But if you are a Dr. Mario purist, you can always turn off the Miracle Cures before you start playing.<\/p>\n

There are three main ways to play in this game.\u00a0 Dr. Mario is the tried and true game you know and love.\u00a0 Dr. Luigi first appeared on the Wii U eShop in 2013, in honor of The Year of Luigi anniversary celebration.\u00a0 It plays just like Dr. Mario, but Luigi throws L shaped pills, which can make things easier at first, but tougher at harder levels when the pill colors get mixed up.\u00a0 Finally is Virus Buster, where you use the touch screen to move and rotate the pills around.\u00a0 Virus Buster was originally in the Brain Age game as a relaxation activity, so it\u2019s quite a bit slower paced than anything else on here.\u00a0 But it\u2019s good they put it on this collection for good measure.<\/p>\n

There are four game modes, and you can play Dr. Mario, Dr.Luigi, and Virus Buster in each one.\u00a0 In Miracle Cure clinic, you can play stages in single player like little missions.\u00a0 There are training stages that explain the rules of the game and the new Miracle pills, as well as Normal and Advanced missions.\u00a0 In Custom Clinic, you can choose to play Endless Mode or Vs. Mode against the computer in Dr. Mario & Dr. Luigi, or play a relaxing round of Virus Buster.\u00a0 You can choose the level of difficulty in each game.\u00a0 You can also play online against others around the world, or challenge another human player locally through single cart play (meaning only one of you needs the game; the other can do all modes with you via Download Play).\u00a0 You can even do co-op or vs. in Virus Buster, too!\u00a0 Finally, toggle various gameplay features in the options mode.<\/p>\n

The problems in Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure and few and far between, and are pretty minor.\u00a0 I think the game could\u2019ve used more stages in the mission mode.\u00a0 And you don\u2019t have the choice of music selection in this one, or at least I couldn\u2019t find it.\u00a0 There are two kinds of people in this world, those who play Dr. Mario with \u201cFever,\u201d and the other \u201cChill.\u201d\u00a0 You\u2019ve always been able to select them in other Dr. Mario titles, but why not this one?\u00a0 Also, the single player Vs. Mode stages (against Wario & friends) from Dr. Mario 64 would\u2019ve been nice to have, since you can only play against Luigi or Mario here.\u00a0 But otherwise this is still a pretty decent collection of puzzlers, and at less than ten bucks, it\u2019s a pretty good deal, too.<\/p>\n

\"DRMARIO_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Violence is nearly non-existent.\u00a0 When you clear out viruses, they just disappear and the cartoon viruses on the bottom screen in some modes just wiggle around and poof away.\u00a0 Reading is helpful for the instructions and menus, but the game is pretty easy to figure out just by playing.\u00a0 It\u2019s a pretty decent puzzler for all ages, and is one of my mom\u2019s favorite games, too!\u00a0 Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mario, one of Nintendo\u2019s most popular puzzle games, has been making house calls on nearly every Nintendo console since the NES.\u00a0 But the gameplay has remained relatively unchanged.\u00a0 And now Dr. Mario is on the 3DS eShop as a downloadable title, and includes not only Dr. Mario, but also Dr. Luigi and Virus Buster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13652,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions\/13652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}