I want to say this game rocks. I was left frustrated when I finished the last Mario four times in a row, and when I had to wait six years to finally see a new installment of the happy little Italian plumber. I was expecting something great, and let me tell you that you CAN get your hopes up extremely high. Shigyeru Myamoto and his team of crowd pleaser did a great job. My hopes about this game were by far overwhelmed. The good thing is this game is long. Very long. Unless you know everything by heart there is no way you will finish it in less than thirty hours, accounting for the fact that you want to get all the shines. And there is 120 of them soooo...heheheh! The graphics are excellent, the water effects are the best i've ever seen(maybe along with the water effets in STARFOX Adventures)
The sounds are great, although it is pretty hard to hear the characters talk during the cutscenes because the music is very loud (yes, they have actual voices now! Alas, Mario is the only one who does not. Although was given profusion of woohoo's, yehaa's and yahh's for this game by the great Charles Martinet.)
The controls are tight, so very tight, like any Mario game, and you can expect finding the trademark moves, like the triple jump, super jump, plus some new ones (about 30), provided by the water nuzzles you get. The only glitch I see in this game are the difficulty at times, where you wish your controller was made of concrete when you throw it at the wall in sheer frustration because you lost 20 lives trying to reach that one platform. And believe, me, it as happened to me and I'am not exagerating. Also, when will anyone figure how to make a platformer with good camera movement. There is always that one platfom you miss because of the lousy camera angle. (sometimes it even comes to having a building between you and the Marioman, where Mario becomes a shadow you see through solid concrete. That was what I liked about Luigi's Mansion. Objects would get transparent.)
Other that that I have 51 shines right now, and have not yet resorted to using a guide, but I'm this close.
Overall, I give this game 11/10. If you love Mario, and all related to it, get this game as soon as possible. Otherwise, get it anyways.
I want to say this game rocks. I was left frustrated when I finished the last Mario four times in a row, and when I had to wait six years to finally see a new installment of the happy little Italian plumber. I was expecting something great, and let me tell you that you CAN get your hopes up extremely high. Shigyeru Myamoto and his team of crowd pleaser did a great job. My hopes about this game were by far overwhelmed. The good thing is this game is long. Very long. Unless you know everything by heart there is no way you will finish it in less than thirty hours, accounting for the fact that you want to get all the shines. And there is 120 of them soooo... heheheh! The graphics are excellent, the water effects are the best i've ever seen(maybe along with the water effets in STARFOX Adventures)
The sounds are great, although it is pretty hard to hear the characters talk during the cutscenes because the music is very loud (yes, they have actual voices now! Alas, Mario is the only one who does not. Although was given profusion of woohoo's, yehaa's and yahh's for this game by the great Charles Martinet. )
The controls are tight, so very tight, like any Mario game, and you can expect finding the trademark moves, like the triple jump, super jump, plus some new ones (about 30), provided by the water nuzzles you get. The only glitch I see in this game are the difficulty at times, where you wish your controller was made of concrete when you throw it at the wall in sheer frustration because you lost 20 lives trying to reach that one platform. And believe, me, it as happened to me and I'am not exagerating. Also, when will anyone figure how to make a platformer with good camera movement. There is always that one platfom you miss because of the lousy camera angle. (sometimes it even comes to having a building between you and the Marioman, where Mario becomes a shadow you see through solid concrete. That was what I liked about Luigi's Mansion. Objects would get transparent. )
Other that that I have 51 shines right now, and have not yet resorted to using a guide, but I'm this close. Overall, I give this game 11/10. If you love Mario, and all related to it, get this game as soon as possible. Otherwise, get it anyways.