![]() ![]() ![]() Not at the moment, thankfully, but New! Super Mario Bros 2 won’t be winning any awards for advancing the franchise like the excellent Galaxy games did. ![]() Are Nintendo in danger of killing their prize cow? From a company that only released one Mario game for each console in the 1990s after the handful on the NES, we’ve had a lot of Mario recently with one DS game, three Wii games and now two 3DS games and that’s without including all the numerous racing, party and Olympic spin-offs. Now I’m a big fan of the Super Mario games, but I am a little nervous. The newest outing in the series sees a graphical and gameplay kick added to the classic Mario games of the 1980s and 1990s to bring them up to speed with the tastes of modern gamers, with this edition landing on Nintendo’s flagship 3D handheld. Just don’t mention the Mario Movie.Īnd here we are with the latest instalment in the series, the mouth-numbingly titled ‘New! Super Mario Bros 2’ on the 3DS, the spiritual follow-up to the 2006 DS game and the more recent Wii version, and the next in line before the Wii U iteration hits within the next twelve months. Ever since he stepped out onto the world stage in the mid-eighties the Super Mario franchise has been a core part of Nintendo’s magic and one that has been consistently good over the past twenty-five years. Like Mickey Mouse is to Disney and Sonic is to Sega, Mario is Nintendo’s key character and synonymous with the company. ![]()
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