I now know how to play as Luigi, what can you say about your achievements?
Pretty satisfying platformer, not innovative, but filled with little charming details and level variety. Running through it may be boring, but 100%-ing can be quite challenging and gratifying , if not irritating with some secrets. Music is cool, yet I am kind tired oh Bah-Bahs in almost every track. Three new power-ups: mega mushroom, mini mushroom and blue shell. Mega mushroom is fun the first time and some rare times to pummel through open levels, but extremely unusable in any other scenario. Mini mushroom is more fun: you trade extra hits and ability to destroy enemies by jumping on them for extra mobility and diminutiveness. Blue shell is unintuitive to control, sometimes even detrimental to use, but can help you spin though level without getting hit or smash your way to secrets. Sometimes you are forced to use these power-ups to enter secret exit or find Star Coin, main collectible. And here is my biggest gripe with this game (which is the biggest gripe with some of the Kirby games): you have to use power ups from different level in order to collect everything. You see mini pipe or mini gap and sigh heavily, because you need to return to this level with mini mushroom, equipped or in stock. I understand the challenge to play the level with somewhat inconvenient powerup, but it wastes so much time to collect power-ups, keep it through the level you collected it and go through required level only to get one certain thing. And sometimes mini pipes only lead to extra lives and coins! And some secrets are not marked and placed in seemingly random spots, which is also aggravating. But even with these nuances it is satisfying to collect every coin from every level and find shortcuts, extra levels and exits. Sure, themes for bottom screen as a reward at the end is stupid to place after completing the game. And challenge mode is barely making any difference outside of two or three levels. But I had a lot of fun with New Super Mario Bros.
Mini games are mostly the same from Super Mario 64 DS. Some are good, but some are only here because they need to show you DS capabilities. But who am I kidding, enable my gambling addictions all night over poker table, Luigi, I know you understand me.
Pretty satisfying platformer, not innovative, but filled with little charming details and level variety. Running through it may be boring, but 100%-ing can be quite challenging and gratifying , if not irritating with some secrets. Music is cool, yet I am kind tired oh Bah-Bahs in almost every track. Three new power-ups: mega mushroom, mini mushroom and blue shell. Mega mushroom is fun the first time and some rare times to pummel through open levels, but extremely unusable in any other scenario. Mini mushroom is more fun: you trade extra hits and ability to destroy enemies by jumping on them for extra mobility and diminutiveness. Blue shell is unintuitive to control, sometimes even detrimental to use, but can help you spin though level without getting hit or smash your way to secrets. Sometimes you are forced to use these power-ups to enter secret exit or find Star Coin, main collectible. And here is my biggest gripe with this game (which is the biggest gripe with some of the Kirby games): you have to use power ups from different level in order to collect everything. You see mini pipe or mini gap and sigh heavily, because you need to return to this level with mini mushroom, equipped or in stock. I understand the challenge to play the level with somewhat inconvenient powerup, but it wastes so much time to collect power-ups, keep it through the level you collected it and go through required level only to get one certain thing. And sometimes mini pipes only lead to extra lives and coins! And some secrets are not marked and placed in seemingly random spots, which is also aggravating. But even with these nuances it is satisfying to collect every coin from every level and find shortcuts, extra levels and exits. Sure, themes for bottom screen as a reward at the end is stupid to place after completing the game. And challenge mode is barely making any difference outside of two or three levels. But I had a lot of fun with New Super Mario Bros.
Mini games are mostly the same from Super Mario 64 DS. Some are good, but some are only here because they need to show you DS capabilities. But who am I kidding, enable my gambling addictions all night over poker table, Luigi, I know you understand me.