Fun is the most important aspect of a video game. But is it the ONLY aspect that matters?

User Rating: 6.5 | New Super Mario Bros. Wii WII
By Rod90 | Review Date:
New Super Mario Brothers Wii is the latest sidescrolling Mario game. The game is really fun, I can't deny that. But something about this game makes me angry. Fun is the most important aspect of a videogame, but it's not the only aspect that matters. This game could have been so much more. The game is fun, but this project was a lazy move from Nintendo. The graphics are almost the same as the DS version. Games like Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime show that the Wii hardware can achieve great graphics, despite it's limitations. The music is 100% nostalgia factor. No really catchy new tunes. Just a weird voice that says "Pa-Paaaaa" in lots of levels.
The multiplayer part of the game is a welcome addition to the virtually unchanged formula. The problem is the laziness of the development team again. NSMBWii propaganda was "Mario Bros. up to 4 players". But instead of giving the quartet of older Mario games, the Princess was replaced by a Toad. So we now have 2 generic Toads as the "new" playable characters. The game should have at least 8 playable characters.
The challenge of the game is big, and there are lots of hidden coins to find and exchange them for movies, so this adds to the replay value of the game.
It's sad the incredible success that this game had, because it shows that Nintendo can make lazy games and the audience will still buy them. With terrible graphics, no new things to the Mario formula (just 2 new suits), no story, only 8 worlds (please, in the NES era I can accept 8 worlds, not now), weird music and old sound effects, NSMBWii falls flat. Needless to say, it's still incredible fun, so if you can somehow do a blind eye to the game faults, you will have a great time (with a very high level of difficulty), specially if you are playing in multiplayer.
Rod90.

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