Kelly Monster

For the past few weeks I’ve been playing New Super Mario Bros for Wii non-stop! It’s all of the Mario Bros. games ever created mashed into one. Remember when NES came out for the first time and only two people could play? On the Wii you can play with up to four players. That’s awesome!

This game makes a lot of homages to the older Mario games, mostly to Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World. I like this game mostly because it brings Mario back to his roots, nothing too fancy just a newer improved version of the older games. This game even lets you cheat. Crazy, right? Every time you find yourself in trouble in this game you can just press A and you put your character in a bubble, safe from harm. All four players can’t go into a bubble at the same time though, or else you all die. Not so safe now is it? Use that A button, just don’t over-use or abuse it.

Yoshi is back from Super Mario World,  and he’s pretty much the same in this game, the only thing that’s changed about him is the fact that you can only use Yoshi in the level you found him in. So once you beat that level you’ve been working on, say good-bye to Yoshi ’cause he ain’t coming with ya.

If you loved Super Mario Bros. 3, then you will love the villains in the Mario Wii game: the Koopalings!

They still have those wands you tried to steal in the 3rd Mario, and they still throw shell-spinning temper tantrums when you jump on their heads.

This game has some of the best items of all the games so far. Items, those things that you get when you hit a box with a question mark, like red mushrooms that make you big. Instead of just being big, how would you like to have a whirly-bird hat? Or a penguin suit?

The whirly-bird hat is the closest item to the cape from Super Mario World

Those giant bullets shown in the picture above are also in the new Wii game, and they are just as hard to defeat as ever.

Then there’s the penguin suit, which helps you walk on ice like it was normal ground and you can slide on your penguin belly down ice. Who doesn’t want to do that?

The only item I wish they had included in the new Wii game is the raccoon suit from Super mario Bros. 3, that is probably the best item ever created in the entire Mario universe. But I won’t hold it against this game for not having it, because it’s pretty awesome otherwise.

So if you are looking for a little nostalgia, if you like the basic format of Mario Bros. games, then you will love the New Super Mario Bros. for Wii. It’s the most fun when you have three other people to play with, then you can experience the balance between competition and teamwork that you have to have to play this game. My favorite character to play as is blue Toad, all the characters are pretty much the same, but that blue Toad has never done me wrong.

Alright, so grab your Wii mote and let’s play already!

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