YES, A HARD MARIO GAME! Haven't seen any of those since SMB3 or Lost Worlds. Arguably, every single Mario game has never been hard. SMG especially was easy as hell (Although it didn't stop the game from being good)
I hope they make the game hard. I agree with pervious posts saying Nintendo has gotten soft. The Nintendo game that gave me a hard time was Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. The difficulty spikes and super-intelligent AI makes the game difficult even for people who played previous Fire Emblem games. However, I can easily tell you that this only applies to experienced users. My 9 year old cousin has trouble with pretty much every Mario game, especially SMG, where as I can beat the game in 3-5 days.
There is a downside to making a game harder; you are alienating the casual group, however, with the Super guide, it can both comply to the casuals and hardcore groups.
All I can say at the moment is good luck to Nintendo.
This is the true definition of owning.
