The Piranha Plants have escaped the pipes and are hungry for coins.
Don’t let ME to tell you kids what to like, with your Robert Pattinsons, your iTwitp3pods, and your rock ‘n’ roll noise music, but years before New Super Mario Bros. Wii there was a game called Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo. Now that you’re up to date on decades of fiddling with a Super Mario Brothers formula which has come full circle — let’s play!
Okay, so there is actually a lot more to the Mario franchise between the years, but New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a throwback of epic proportions. As such, it skips a few generations. Someone finally realized that the main problem with each antecedent Mario game was that it wasn’t enough like the original NES games. The solution? A brand new game using all the comforts of modern gamefare yet delightfully antiquated. Good on them. You won’t find a true gamer around who won’t herald this idea as a stroke of genius, and I am no different, though I would maybe downplay the “genius” and up-play the “It’s about time!” Here are the four things that impressed me most about this title:
