Gaming New Super Mario Bros 2: Official Hype Thread

[klim28]

Well, I'm mor than contented with the reward. Better than nothing I guess. Still at 200k. Found a stage wher I can earn 8k coins per run.

 

[10_0ARMY]

The more I hear about this game, the more I solidify my decision to wait until I can find this used for SERIOUSLY cheaper. lol

Since the first screenshot I said this game would be disappointing.
With the time more and more my intuition was comfirmed.
This looks the most disappointing Mario platformer ever

I can't remember the last time I was excited for a Mario game...and this one doesn't change this.

 

[klim28]

The more I hear about this game, the more I solidify my decision to wait until I can find this used for SERIOUSLY cheaper. lol

Since the first screenshot I said this game would be disappointing.
With the time more and more my intuition was comfirmed.
This looks the most disappointing Mario platformer ever

Play the game first XD

 

[VMM]

I can't remember the last time I was excited for a Mario game...and this one doesn't change this.

Super Mario 3D Land was outstanding
Never played Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 but both look awesome.
New Super Mario Bros Wii and DS were amazing.

But this one looks awful, a step back from Wii version

 

[VMM]

Play the game first XD

Next week I'l play it.
I woudn't bother to play Mario in Japanese but my 3DS is american(continent) region and there is region lock.
I'll wait but I probably will not change my mind

 

[klim28]

What I mean is play the game first before saying this is the worst Mario flatformer ever.

If you already had a hands-on expirience on the game and you still say that. Then its fine acceptable.

 

[VMM]

What I mean is play the game first before saying this is the worst Mario flatformer ever.

If you already had a hands-on expirience on the game and you still say that. Then its fine acceptable.

Next Week I'll say what I think about the game after hands-on experience.
But probably, as I already said, I will not change my mind.
The game looks short as hell, so it won't take long and after beating all levels with 3 star-coins I'll post my review about this game

 

[JulietStMoon]

A bit of commentary on the game from one my favorite game commentators.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwZNfNZX2X4&feature=plcp

 

[VMM]

A bit of commentary on the game from one my favorite game commentators.

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http://www.youtube.c...X4&feature=plcp

Pretty much true what he says,
that's exactly what I've been saying.

The best Mario games showed similar gameplay to it's predecessors,
but always had some new elements that reinvented the way Mario is played

Super Mario Bros 3 had outstanding graphics to a NES game,
it had tanooki suit, frog suit, hammer suit and even sleeping suit.
It was the first Mario platformer that had a map of levels,
The game got backgrounds, and styles of levels, and new soundtrack
the whole mecanic of the game got better,

Super Mario World is one of the most popular games ever, if not the one.
It had the cape suit, yoshi and it's variations(colored yoshis and it's babies)
the levels got even more different styles of levels and soundtracks than SMB3.
There were thoushands of bonus levels, Koopa Juniors and many more.

New Super Mario Bros DS were the first 2.5D Mario platformer
It had some features from SM64 like the down-smash and wall-kick.
It had mega-mushroom, mini-mushroom and shell-power.

Now look at New Super Mario Bros 2,
it uses the same textures and poligons of New Super Mario Bros DS.
It looks like a devolution from New Super Mario Bros Wii.
Don't have the amazing power-ups from Wii version,
nor yoshi or baby yoshi,
the coins gimmick is lazy and uninteresting .
The 3D does not exist, it's even hard to find a reason to turn 3D slider on.
The game doesn't look like it was made for 3DS.

As you can see, there are lots of negative points in this game that makes me say this is the most disappointing Mario game ever.

Nintendo should have done a single Mario game for both WiiU and 3DS,
that way they could have made a better game for both platforms

 

[klim28]

Thats like a gamefaqs post. There are a million of topics there just like the one you posted. Anyway, goodluck on waiting for your perfect Mario game. Maybe in the WiiU release or maybe in the coming years while I and the other xx million "enjoy" this title.

 

[VMM]

Thats like a gamefaqs post. There are a million of topics posts there just like the one you posted. Anyway, goodluck on waiting for your perfect Mario game. Maybe in the WiiU release or maybe in the coming years while I and the other xx million "enjoy" this title.

I enjoyed a lot Mario 3D Land.
I'm still gonna play NSMB Wii and WiiU.
Probably I'll have a lot of fun playing these good(but not perfect) Mario games

 

[VMM]

New Super Mario Bros 2 EU trailer:


PS: Sorry for the double post

 

[klim28]

That EU trailer looks damn fun specialy about the coop multiplayer mode. Despite I already own and finished the game in Japanese, I'll gladly purchase it again digitally on my US unit. And hoping no region lock on multiplayer

 

[VMM]

That EU trailer looks damn fun specialy about the coop multiplayer mode. Despite I already own and finished the game in Japanese, I'll gladly purchase it again digitally on my US unit. And hoping no region lock on multiplayer

If you expect to play multiplayer with different region 3DSs, you're gonna have a bad time.

Seriously, that won't work,
I already saw people complaining about not being able to play Mario Kart 7
with a US and a EU consoles and two original games one of each region.

Damn Nintendo! Why did you do region lock?

 

[klim28]

Super Street Fighter IV 3D can play wirelessly without region lock problems. I have a jp and us one and we can play normally. Hope this is like that.

 

[Foxi4]

New Super Mario Bros - 2006, DS

Spoiler

New Super Mario Bros 2 - 2012 (2013?), 3DS

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...I don't see a good reason to get all hyped up. It took them 6 years to improve... nothing? This game could just as well be a DS, or more likely, a DSi title, I really don't see any redeeming qualities that could justify a 3DS-Only release other than "we need to sell even more 3DS's". Don't get me wrong now, I loved New Super Mario Bros. - mostly for its multiplayer mode. There was a guilty satisfaction in pushing friends into bottolmess pits or enemies, but for a 3DS release, this just isn't a "step up" I expected after 6 years.

 

[chavosaur]

It'sa Mario game. Of course it getsa the hype!
That's like asking why people flip their shit over a Pokemon game when they improve upon like 3 things every game entry.
Not that I don't enjoy either series, but it's always true to how it's been, and that's why it sells. Some people don't like change.

 

[Foxi4]

It'sa Mario game. Of course it getsa the hype!
That's like asking why people flip their shit over a Pokemon game when they improve upon like 3 things every game entry.
Not that I don't enjoy either series, but it's always true to how it's been, and that's why it sells. Some people don't like change.

Heh, I suppose you're right - anything Mario and anything Pokemon sells, and it really... depresses me. I was at GAME the other day and saw Pokemon Pearl - 24 pounds. Right next to it was Last Window - 12 pounds. And Another Code - 5 pounds. It's as if people have no taste these days. Pokemon games just... don't... age... They're still sold at nearly their original price and the retailer knows that they'll sell anyways.

EDIT: To add insult to injury, last year at GameStation we were trading in some games with my girlfriend - her beloved Trauma Center games that she completed more than enough times and Pokemon Battle Revolution. We got 12 pounds for Battle Revolution and were offered a pound or two for Trauma Centers. Battle Revolution is s*i, I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole wrapped in rags on the poking end for added protection and Trauma Center is bloody amazing in every way. We just... sighed.

 

[JulietStMoon]

It'sa Mario game. Of course it getsa the hype!
That's like asking why people flip their shit over a Pokemon game when they improve upon like 3 things every game entry.
Not that I don't enjoy either series, but it's always true to how it's been, and that's why it sells. Some people don't like change.

I couldn't agree more. But at the very least, Mario does get a truly awesome new game in the "main" series of 3D Mario games (the Mario 64 series, or whatever you want to call it) every few years, and with the exception of Galaxy 2 compared to Galaxy 1, all of them are truly wildly different and unique while keeping the core gameplay intact. Pokemon just... pulls 100 or so new pokemon out of its arse and throws it into a rehash every few years.

 

[Pleng]

I couldn't agree more. But at the very least, Mario does get a truly awesome new game in the "main" series of 3D Mario games (the Mario 64 series, or whatever you want to call it) every few years, and with the exception of Galaxy 2 compared to Galaxy 1, all of them are truly wildly different and unique while keeping the core gameplay intact.

Trouble is, you simply can't make a 2D mario game too "different and unique" whilst still "keeping the core gameplay". There's only so much you can do! I have to say from the videos this certainly looks different enough. Hiding in front of the walls in the bowser levels looks pretty cool. The dead fish in the castles looks good. Most of the traps and baddies look about as different as you might expect.

People complain that there's not much 3D, but Nintendo have themselves said that they're beyond using 3D for the sake of it. For a platformer, especially one that's relatively fast paced (as this seems to be, which again is a little different), overuse of the 3D would be distracting and dazzling, and would have the other half of the camp complaining. I think a 2-level effect was pretty much all you could expect. The only thing I think that lets it down is that (as far as I can tell, at least) there aren't any parts of levels where you go between the background and foreground - that could have been kind of cool.