December 8, 2012

New Super Mario Bros U

Date played: December 8th
Platform: Wii U
Session fun rating: 8/10

I played through the end of the forest world and the first half of the mountain world with my girlfriend today. Again, the difficulty is way up there for a modern Mario game. It might be because there are two of us but man, some of those levels are real tricky. The forest world had some really good looking levels, using a sort of Van Gogh art style. Even the pipes and blocks were stylized.
We played some beautiful levels

The boss level wasn't as hard as Wendy but it was still challenging. The mountain world had some very tricky stuff too, this time revolving around rotating platforms, moving blocks and a old favorite enemy, the fuzzy's. Those little black bastards move on tracks and always seem to be in the worst possible spot. Thankfully, we made it through, sometimes with Yoshi's help as he can safely jump on them.