I finally (haha) 100%ed the game on Thursday, just three days after I got it. I really wanted to make it last longer, but I gave in to temptation.

Overall, I'd say it's definitely harder than NSMBDS and SMW. SMB3 might still give this game a run for its money, but the biggest reason NSMBWii can be a contender is due to the lack of an overpowered flying instrument and no reserve items a la SMW.

Star coins and secret exits are definitely a lot harder and trickier to get to than in NSMBDS, as well. This coupled with the fact that you'll only need the mini mushroom to get less than five of these coins is a really good deal in my book. Don't get me wrong: I liked that "power-up," but it was required at the most random times to obtain star coins. More of an overly annoying way to make people revisit stages than anything.

I find it cute how a lot of people get down on this game for not being too different, yet the majority of the people who complain about this would also most-likely be the first to complain that it's no longer Mario if Nintendo really did switch too much up at once.

@Boingboing: If I could sum up multiplayer in a single word for this game, it would be "chaos." Seriously. It's really fun for the first several levels, but then you hit the world 1 mid-castle and suddenly realize that playing with a slower player is frustrating, especially if he/she is terrible at coordinated platforming and keeps falling back down (the vertical scrolling will not go backwards for other players, so if the camera focus is high enough, they will die even when there's no bottomless pit).

Don't even get me started on the fact that you can't clip through other players and that jumping on them mid-jump over a pit will send them plummeting to their deaths. In the later worlds, our playthrough turned into "sister stays in the bubble while big bubby does all the dangerous platforming." Yeesh. Not in a hurry to 100% this with her.

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The physics are pretty much exactly as they are in the DS game. The much wider view is a godsend for platforming segments, though, so that helped keep the controls from being too maddening...at least for myself.

I think Nintendo did it this way to make the games more consistent with the 3-D entries. If you'll notice, Mario controls almost this same exact way in those (slow to start, need to get a good running go to jump long distances, certain amounts of slipperiness), just without the obvious z-axis.

Super Princess Peach was...okay. It was beyond easy, though, which ruined it for me combined with other shortcomings.

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Posted by Zycor

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Atleast in Super Princess Peach she doesn't control like there's 2 bars of soap attached to her feet...

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Holy crap, you just reminded me of a forgotten huge complaint I had with that game (as well as a few other DS titles): why in God's name does Nintendo feel the need to map shoot/jump to B and A on the DS instead of the superior tried and true Y and B (or square and X if you prefer) of the SNES? This configuration actually made my hand ache with pain after only 30-45 minutes of play.

One of these days, game companies are going to remember that the ability for manual player control remaps is actually a desirable feature.

On topic: I understand how you feel about the controls: I dislike them myself. However, I'm not going to let a minor thing like Mario's physics deter me from enjoying the rest of the game. In fact, I was more put off by the god-forsaken motion controls. Can't tell you how many times I've unintentionally spin-jumped into an enemy with the most minor of position shifts...

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Posted by boingboingsplat

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I didn't even realize there was a spin jump until like world 6. So I don't know what you're talking about.

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YMMV or some such. I found the shake sensor to be way too sensitive at times. Not everyone plays in a statuesque state.

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