AniHawk said:
NSMB is so ****ing awesome. The levels are oldschool and cool, sure, but if you want, you can really test your platforming skills by finding all the secret coins and exits. To me, that made the game so much more fun.
Frankly it didn't took me more that 4 or 5 day to take everything, this game is too freaking easy (at least in the old mario the 2-3 last world were pretty challenging, here the last world and the hidden one are as easy as the first world), the soundtrack is crap (lack eaither variety and quality, pure shit here), the new bonuses are crap (Giant Mario? Blue Shell? wtf those things are useless crap), the 3D is useless too, give me back my 2D!
The controls are pretty solid, but I'm really tired of that ****ing running button, especially when you ALWAYS run, you never walk, what's the point of a run button? Why the hell have they put the bonus on a touch screen virtual button? Why not map in on the X button or select? A real button is better than a virtual button, in Princess Peach it was justified by the fact there are 4 emotions you could see them with there color are shape, but here, there's only one.
And the game is freaking easy, you just never lose, you gain 10 lives per level, I quickly had 99 live, and never got less than 95 after that. The save feature is crap, levels are too repetitive, they had enough content to make a 20-30 levels and they stretched it to death with about 80 levels.
It's not a bad game at all, but it's really far for great, but the lack of challenge, originality and soul was really a let down to me. It's by far the biggest disapointing game I've played in year, the last one must have been Starfox Adventure.
As for M&L it just sucks compered to Superstar Saga, the game is too long, boring, too easy, the battle system is a mess, the bonus system is completely flawed. The canon thing is one of the most powerfull attack, and it's uber easy to make it. There a a few attack that makes more damage but they're pretty hard to perform so you end up just using that cannon stuff. The soundtrack is crappy too (which seems to be the cases since the GC era), those black toad stuff are shitty, so are the evil princess, it seems they just put a black kingdom mushroom and made it a day, where's the creativity?