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Title: Mario diluted
Review: You make no friends by saying bad things about a Mario game, but this is my honest opinion. Nintendo would have been better off to make a simple, fun side-scroller in the style of New Super Mario Bros (DS) instead of this.The art style is brilliant, as is the character design, and the platforming areas are usually great fun. But the game is let down severely by the pace: for every fun platforming area, there's twice as much irritating, unnecessary talking, hunting for items, and using the gimmicky "flip to 3D mode" to find secrets. I was actually relieved when I found Save Points in the game so I didn't have to keep playing.I thought that the Wii was meant to feature lots of pick up and play games - a criteria the standard, start-to-finish platformer would have fulfilled nicely - not ones that dilute what made games featuring Mario great in the first place. Really, really disappointing.
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