One tiny disclaimer before I go off on this, I do think that New Super Mario Bros. wii is a very good game. So please don't whine or piss and moan.
If you've been even remotely connected to gamespot for the past 3 months, you'll know that NSMBW is a strong achievement on the Wii. But what I ask is why. Why would Nintendo just keep scraping all they can find off of the moldy wall we know as nostalgia. Sooner or later this crap isn't going to fly when Nintendo is constantly remaking the first 4 mario games complete with chirpy 8-bit sound effects fully intact!
Nintendo,what was the point of the last 25 years of gameplay innovation if you're just going to keep retreading old ground? The same goes for your precious Legend of Zelda! You haven't created a new formula for Zelda since Ocarina of Time. Now, if you've known me for a while, than you know that I sounded like a complete fanboy in my Ocarina of Time review, but now it's starting to bore me and I'm noticing a few flaws. (Keyword, FEW.) Sometimes it's a bit difficult to place your jumps and I find myself wrestling with the camera a lot.
I played Mario Sunshine and Wind Waker before Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time and I thought the Gamecube installments were miles better! They used the same formula, but at least these ones were more refined. Super Mario Galaxy and "Ocarina of Twilight" aren't at all refined. If I had to give it a name, it would be called "50 Dollar Expansion Pack for a game that came out 14 years ago." I say this because when I played Mario Galaxy, all of 64's flaws were there with it. I had to wrestle with the camera every minute and a half and it was still difficult to place your jumps half the time.
My final point is that Nintendo should stop retreading old ground and give the gaming populace something new to beat and twiddle their thumbs waiting for the next one. If that new Zelda wii game is just another Ocarina of Time clone, than this crap WILL NOT FLY! I may have sounded like a fanboy but I wanted to get my point out there. Have a nice day. Hopefully you've been reading this long enough to be within the blast radius of this message's self-destruct bomb.