megaderived.co.uk » Platform http://megaderived.co.uk Martin Gaston Contains no Artificial Colours, Flavours or Preservatives Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:58:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 New Super Mario Bros. Wii http://megaderived.co.uk/20091127/new-super-mario-bros-wii/ http://megaderived.co.uk/20091127/new-super-mario-bros-wii/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:53:00 +0000 Martin http://megaderived.co.uk/20091127/new-super-mario-bros-wii/ post thumbnail

The negative qualities of the Wii are often mentioned. The common ones: it’s comparatively expensive for what you get, SD graphics look crummier than ever and the supply of quality games seems to be a little on the sparse side. Say what you might about Nintendo’s money-printing license, New Super Mario Bros. Wii proves that Nintendo’s premier design guru Shigeru Miyamoto is still at the top of his game. We’ll just forget last year’s Wii Music ever happened.

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LEGO games are for kids, aren’t they? That might be the whole point, but I’m 23 (and the best part of a half, sadly) and I merrily stroll through them every autumn, lapping up their inimitable sense of humour and simplistic platform mechanics. But whilst those youngsters might be happy to consume any old LEGO game in-between trips to McDonalds and committing knife crimes, I wasn’t exactly enthralled at the prospect of spending a week with Indiana Jones 2. It seemed like a bit of a lame duck from the start, signalling a deficit of creativity and inspiration from even its usage of inelegant numbering. Quite simply, I had the game flagged as an unnecessary stop-gap between the excellent Lego Batman and 2010′s Lego Harry Potter.

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