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Brandon Boyer

AT 6:36 AM
Wednesday June 3, 2009

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E309: New Super Mario Bros Wii, the trailer

Nintendo's newest New Super Mario Bros takes the polygonal realism of the DS version and puts it in HD, and adds four player drop-in, drop-out play to the mix. New powerups, as above, include the propeller suit and the ice-ball firing penguin suit, and the game now banks on the same "co-opertition" aspect explored in Zelda: Four Swords.

Like that game, you can rely on the other players to help get you through a bind, but they can also undercut you in a mad dash to collect the most coins (by tossing you out of the way, or refusing to pop your Yoshi's Island-esque bubble that you return to life in), with a multi-player ranking at the end of each level.

3 Comments

freshyill

#1 – 12:50 PM June 3, 2009

Let's clear this up: If it's on the Wii, then it's not HD. Just because it's 16:9, does not make it HD. Still, the game looks great.

zachary

#2 – 3:51 PM June 3, 2009

They picked some pretty boring footage and music for the trailer. Are there stage and/or world bosses? What do those battles look like? Will there be an overworld map?

Patrick Arcee

#3 – 3:21 PM September 22, 2009


Note to brilliant people:

If you make a version with an NES/SNES skin and Nintendo doesn't, I'll buy your bootleg copy instead.

Note to Nintendo:

It would cost you less money to make a skin than to prosecute one guy.

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