Review: Super Mario Run

I've been having enough fun with this without buying the rest of the stages. Trying to collect all of the special challenge coins on the few three stages, doing the daily free run, getting tickets to do the challenge runs...that's enough for me.

I don't specifically feel a strong desire to lay out £8 for the other stages as I feel this is just a throwaway game, rather than an in-depth Mario title. I wouldn't pay money for Flappy Bird, and I don't want to pay money for this, either.

It's an odd opinion, even when thinking about it myself, but it's possibly because of how the whole mobile model normally works. I do wonder if Nintendo will eventually offer the chance to trade in points, coins, or set "win x number of challenges" to unlock more of the core game, or if it will ignore the recent backlash and stubbornly stick to its guns.

Rally mode costs tickets to play, and these can be somewhat rare.

I think you just haven't discovered how to really get them. They're actually wicked easy to get and most of the time I get maxed out at 99.

Besides getting all the coins in a level, the two key ways are:
- Buying Item Boxes (with in game coins) and placing them in your kingdom
- Playing the daily bonus games.

the daily bonus games have a chance to unlock one [ticket], but on the whole, these can be a little too hard to come by

You can buy Item Boxes and place them in your kingdom. You can tap them to get either coins or tickets (and they aren't one-time-use only, they refill after a couple hours and can be tapped again).Just yesterday I got 20 from a single large item box I bought for 500 coins.

And of course, as you mentioned, there are the ones you get each time you collect all the coins in a level.