A pair of fungus-crowned Toads join iconic plumbers Mario and Luigi for a four-player side-scrolling romp through the Mushroom Kingdom. Players cooperate for progression and compete for coins and power-ups, making their way across 10 successive worlds (that we saw, anyway).
What's New for E3?
As one of Nintendo's big E3 reveals, New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a bone for all the hungry hardcore gamers. I think Nintendo's press conference kind of mischaracterized it as an enhanced port of New Super Mario Bros. for DS, but it's a lot more than that. My brief hands-on session saw the players bopping each other on the head, scrambling to procure power-ups, and accidentally scrolling the biggest slowpoke (typically me) off the bottom of the screen for a cheap death. An end-of-level battle pitted us against Larry Koopa, one of king baddie Bowser's seven bratty kids. The Koopalings are back, people.
Dang, who the heck wants to be a stupid toad?
Ryan says: It's a return to classic Mario form. Some people might take issue with that, accusing Nintendo of unabashed unoriginality. But a four-player side-scrolling Mario game? Please and thank you.
