What WiiU Needs

[KungKras]

mai said:

KungKras said:

The mushroom kingdom isn't expanding anymore, and that will cause people to get tired of it. The music in insanely stale as well. For a game of this caliber, it needs great producton values and new content. Imagine if every new 3D Mario used a remixed Super Mario 64 soundtrack (no orchestra) and the same story and worlds (although remixed) as Super Mario 64.

Yes, NSMBU is not we all dreamed of, no new worlds, recycled music. But there's a lot of redeeming qualities in this game: new enemies, new items/suits, challenge and length of the game looks satisfying, hubworld is good, even backgrounds are gorgeous (especially that one, van Gogh'ish, on ghost ship level). Besides Nintendo could get away for being slacky with Mario sometimes as there's really no competition in the genre, even COD couldn't afford that (for every COD there's Battlefield). My guess is the price being the biggest obstacle here.

The things you mention are all things that people see after having bought the game.

Awesome music and graphics would help people get over the edge and actually buy it. So far, the trailers and screenshots aren't exciting anybody.