I don't know, things change and it isn't something across the board. But as for 2D mario I played NSMBWii and it was terrible. Well...not terrible, but it was nothing compared to the NES titles. I suppose my biggest upset about it was the entire game tutorial. Every single time you got an item it gave you a tutorial on how to use it, regardless of how many times you've done it, used it, or have stockpiled in your inventory. Even while playing it has to motion you some controls as if you didn't know how to do it by the end of the game. There was barely a point in the game that I wasn't at 99 lives. What gives? I suppose the levels were good and the worlds were alright but it was very disappointing to me. Mario was always seen as a little kids game but NSMBWii is made for an even younger demographic...or something.
As for the rest of their games, their choice to create a system with the hardware power of last generation has really left them out of a great deal of innovation this gen. I want to see what they do with the Wii U, but it might take a while before they get use to the new tech they've been isolating their developers from for years.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
