Better than the first!
One of the new features added to this game is the festival mode. This mode has you going through all the olympic and dream events, and verse bosses from the Mario and Sonic universe. Speaking of events, each of them are obviously based off real olympic events. The Dream ones, however, take one of the normal events and pimp it up with Mario and Sonic elements. And yes. They are better than the ones in the first Mario & Sonic game. Another feature is the shopping area. The shopping area lets you buy music from the mario and sonic franchise, and clothes to dress your mii. And here is a surprise. these clothes have different abilities that can upgrade your mii's performance when playing as them.
Now if you remember the first Mario & Sonic game, the controls were all "shake the wii remote and nunchuck to win" then do not worry. This game fixed that up. The controls are better, easier, and less frustrating. This time, it's mostly focused on tilting the wii remote and nunchuck, or flicking it. At times you have to shake them, but not ALL the time.
I still remember the time before this game was released. Almost a lot of people were asking for MORE characters that were never in Mario & Sonic olympic games 1. They mostly asked for Silver and Donkey Kong I think. Well guess what. Silver and Donkey kong made it! Along with Metal Sonic and bowser junior. I was more excited when Metal Sonic was announced. So, that is a good sign of fan service from sega and nintendo. You know what else? Levels and music from past Sonic and Mario games appeared. You can mostly play in these levels in Dream events. Same with the music. So, that is really nice of Sega and nintendo.
Alright. The last part of the review. Just so you know, every game has a something bad in it. Even this one. The only flaws i found were that the Festival mode is short, bosses were too easy, and there should have been online play instead of looking at online leaderboards. So thats pretty much it. Anyway, this is a great game. It feels a lot more like a crossover now. Hey! Maybe next time, there should be a Mario and SOnic adventure game! That would be great!