New Super Mario Bros.

Well it isn't Koji Kondo handling the music for this game. Probably because he's busy working on Twilight Princess. I'm sure if he would have been on the job it would be much different. I too admit it doesn't have the usual Mario music feel to it. But that doesn't really matter too much as the game rocks and I'm sure there will be some songs in there that will be very good. And really now, that was just from a few levels. The entire game isn't like that. In fact it supposedly has a lot of great remixes from what I've heard.

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Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

Except the Koopalings didn't look like clones of Bowser (a big plus) and actually had some sort of personality based on their designs Larry was my favourite.

Their appearance in Mario and Luigi: SSS, while cool, was also a lame attempt to bring them back, as they never spoke once. It's like they were just slapped on at the last minute to appease the fans or whatever.

Um, I don't remember the Koopa Kids/Koopalings/whatever talking in Mario 3 or Super Mario World ever. I never really quite understood the facination with them. Probably because I never really enjoyed SMB3 as much as everyone else or SMW's bosses. I played the games for their levels. Anyway, with the Koopa Kids you basically got the same type of lame boss each time but with a new jumping pattern or something.

Bowser Jr. was sort of annoying but at least he changed his strategy slightly as the game went on. I'd rather have him as a midboss and then have a Yoshi's Island-esque unique boss as the main attraction. Bowser Jr. also made an amusing show of telling how Princess Peach was dragged to the next castle after being defeated. Sure that could be remedied by just having Peach in the final castle the whole time but I think this way was more fun.

I think the Koopa Kids will come back someday but not the way you fanatics probably want. I don't even think they were even Bowser's kids. Probably his nieces and nephews or very young cousins or something which begs the question "Are there other giant lizard Bowser things out there breeding?" However, that's trying to dig some sort of story out of the Mario universe and well it works to an extent but you're really just grasping at air.


Oh by the way, I just beat this game last night. World 8 is fucking badass but I want to get something off my chest.

I really enjoy how they DON'T tell you that once you've beaten the game you can then save whenever you want by pressing start. That would have been really fucking helpful to know before I went and got a game over and lost a whole lot of progress on World 4. Thanks a whole fucking bunch, Nintendo. Sure you can make a crazy background for a code to play as Luigi but you can't tell me I can fucking save whenever I want. Seriously, priorities must be a puzzle to these guys. A little tip off of some sort would have really been nice. =/

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well just about everything in Mario & Luigi was pretty fresh. I thought they were fun bosses in that game. I didn't care for them in SMB3 or SMW. I think it's because I'd been spoiled by the Yoshi's Island bosses which are to this day my favorite set of platformer bosses.

But yes I do agree that Bowser Jr. was a watered down Boom-Boom and with your spoiler.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Go to a mushroom house? I forget if it propts you to save after you visit one or not. Can anyone confirm this?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

Actually, they do, in the instruction booklet. You = fail.

Oh they do? Still, it should be somewhere in the game that it tells you have this new save system. My point still stands.

I was speaking idiomatically.

But New Super Mario Bros. did not notify me that Ganon is bad and that Link is pretty rad. I'm gonna go angst all over the place. Better go get some paper towels! >8U

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

They died a long time ago. Ran out of fucking lives! >8U

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