What's old is new
New Super Mario Brothers Wii.
Who would of thought that we would be sitting here and accepting a game (a game with high praise that is) with “New” in the title? 5 years ago, I would of told you that it didn’t exist. It couldn’t exist. It shouldn’t exist. That was before New Super Mario Brothers on the DS. When I got that game on launch, I was thrilled to play a Mario platformer on DS especially that Mario 64 left such a poor taste in my mouth (Mario 64’s controls did not transfer to the DS, it’s all about that trigger Z button on the 64). But this was hard to swallow, “New” was in the title.
Sure I smoked it, I loved it, but there was a lot of weird things to do in it. The multiplayer is strange and not that much fun. It could be because I was playing with my brothers, but just doing a competitive game within a small level wasn’t really worth programming. Give me another world or level. Another hype factor in the game was the mega mushroom. You only used it maybe twice in the game and it only was effective for 15 seconds, it was bullshit.
Now we are on the cusp of the biggest release of the year in my opinion. Sure, everyone had their renaissance on Tuesday with Modern Warfare 2 but this game is much more than a shooter with a killer online attached. This is the game that you will purchase, sit with friends that have all played a platformer before, and hand hold each other through the levels of the Mushroom Kingdom. This will relight the nostalgic kindle in your heart and keep burning for as long as you have people around to play with you.
It will outsell Modern Warfare 2, it will be much more fun that Modern Warfare 2, and people are doing themselves a disservice thinking otherwise. I mean, how revolutionary was shooting civilians anyway?
I will answer that with another question.
How revolutionary is the penguin suit?
