New Super Mario Bros. U review

[crocky-chocky]

Depending on the controller: Press the trigger buttons or shake the remote.

[ETC]

I don't get it I pretty much hate Mario in general yet every day since getting my wii-u I have been looking forward to playing this, it's even keeping me off Far Cry and I have only put 3 or 4 hours into Zombi-U I'm vexed its so good I could have returned my Wii-U after finishing Zombi-u if it had been crap and at the same time

[Neon Ignition]

I'm at the point with this were I feel its... decent. I enjoy it when I'm playing and as the game goes on the devs do seem to try more. There's some fiendish level design at play also. It's very much more of the same for this sub series so a lot of it depends on how recently you played the others also. It feels like a solid 7 for me. Theres nothing technically wrong with the game as it plays well and is solid however to score it higher feels a little insulting to Nintensos greatest Mario games which prove Ninty is capable of far more with the series than what they do here. NSMB is too much Old Super Mario Bros.

[briareos_kerensky]

I've just completed Soda Forest and I'm pleased that Nintendo is trying to get back a SMB3/SMW vide back in; it's probably the best entry in the New SMB series (I still have to complete NSMB2 on the 3DS though), though it does lack the refinement of the 3D Mario games and the older 2D games.
It's like Nintendo attempted to bring back old elements but never fully did, and a lot of things hang in a dangerous middle ground, like the world map: I like what they did in Soda Forest, but the overworld could have been more complex. Same goes for the levels, though I really appreciate what Nintendo did with some of the later Ghost Houses. Fortresses and Castles do feel a bit souless though: a lot of Dry Bones but often you're given the Sow Flower to make short work of them, while in previous games they were a distinct threat that could be eliminated only with few, rare items. In this stead there's larger versions and this feel kinda cheap, especially considering how many enemies the series spawned throughout the years and how inventive some enemies in SMB3/SMW were.
And, well, I really do miss a Feather/Racoon suit. Extensive flight would hadn't mixed well with four players (probably) but most stages do feel too restricted to one plane of movement.

[crocky-chocky]

Good god.

[originalbadboy]

Good god.

Fail .. They didn't get the Red coins!

[djtickle]

wow thats pretty impressive.

[gambit6613]

I wonder how many takes that took to perfect whilst filming. Quite amazing just how skillful people can be doing stuff like this, it would take me months to even get close to doing that

[djtickle]

Finished this last night and was overall impressed with it! Although i do wish id not started playing the Wii version on Dolphin as the HD graphics where not impressive after that!

Played most of it on a wii remote and had the wife helping out on the pad. Great fun. Will keep with it for the challenges which look like they can be great fun also!

[briareos_kerensky]

Finished it now...the final battle with Bowser was a letdown, the last stages increased my expectations! The funniest thing are all the user messages telling that levels are hard from castle 7 onward: I would have preferred a much higher challenge in all levels.
All in all it's the best of the New SMB games, but the level design still is not up to par with SMW or SMB3. I think that the thing for me is that Castles and Fortresses are too short; worlds don't have too many levels and within a world levels don't change too much. I probably said this in one of my earlier posts, but it feels like developers were scared to let their imagination run wild with some layouts, are there are interesting ideas here and there, but never fully exploited.

[dataDave]

This is one of the best things I've ever seen:

[Golgo]

Crazy skills, and very funny

[VR46]

Crazy skills, and very funny

Amazing skills, and many hours practice.

[dataDave]

I thought I'd have a quick dabble on a few challenges this morning whilst the wife gets ready to go out.

Two hours later I'm still hacking away at the same bloody wall-jump one! For each failure I'd try to create a new expletive.

These challenges are perfectly designed. I reckon it's easily the best 2D stage design I've ever seen. Shame on the people not appreciating these challenges!

[cutmymilk]

I think this will be my free game with Mario Kart as I have dismissed it for ages but it seems like the perfect digital game. Couple of levels then onto the disc game Hoping it is better moving than in screens. Always felt it looks so uninspired.