Nintendo's gaming guru Shigeru Miyamoto believes that player will find New Super Mario Bros. Wii more challenging than the DS original.
"I do think the game has a lot more oomph to it than the first New SMB," Miyamoto told Japanese magazine Famitsu. "World one and two are pretty forgiving, things ramp up starting with World three, and it gets even harder at World six. I think by the time you master World six you'll have all the skills you need. You could say this game is a challenge to gamers, to see if they have the perseverance it takes."
In the same interview, Miyamoto also compared the new Super Guide feature to the P-Wing in Super Mario Bros. 3. "In Mario 3 there was an item, the P-Wing, that basically let you skip a single stage at any time," he said. "I figured that since that game has 80 levels or so anyway, it'd be nice to let gamers take a pass on at least one or two of them; then, once they beat the game, they could go back to those stages and try them again. In New SMB Wii, we took that to another level."
You can read more from Miyamoto in a special celebratory 50th issue of the Official Nintendo Magazine which goes on sale on Friday 20 November. Click here to read more about it.
Good to hear it is harder. The DS game was, to be fair, jokenly easy (still great fun). As long as it is has hard as SMB3 I'm happy. (And as long as it isn't as rock hard as the Lost Levels as well.)
Yeay, I'm so gonna get this 2morrow. They even called from gamestop 1½ hour ago to confirm my pre order.
I just fear that I might end up buying AC2 as well, just have something to fall back on if it gets too frustrating and I need something to clear my mind with.
But this game has been absolute top of my list since E3. (I don't have a ds, haven't played the original) This and SMG2 ofcourse.
I may play all sorts of fancy stuff on powerfull consoles, and I have very few but selected wii games, but I bought my wii for these, and these are the games I still love most.
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