Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros. 2

[Mr Khan]

TruckOSaurus said:

radishhead said:

TruckOSaurus said:

radishhead said:
Wouldn't getting 1 million coins mean that you'd get 10,000 lives on the way to that target, not including 1-ups? Talk about taking away the challenge :p

It's no different than getting checkpoints every 5 minutes.

I'm sure there's only one checkpoint per level in NSMBW/DS

I wasn't talking about Mario games, most games nowadays have plenty of checkpoints which also reduce the challenge in the same way that having 10,000 lives in NSMB2 will.

Super Mario 3D Land was oriented with 1ups in place of score, and it seemed to work out okay. 1ups just void the game-over possibility (which itself is a slap on the wrist with constant saving, unless you're trying to build a huge score), so it's all moot in the end.