I'd like to know why people think SM3DW is an awesome game. This is what was all over the internet after its launch until like February:
- deserves every Game of the Year award
- a fresh platformer
- lots of new things around every corner that haven't been seen in these games before
I have played through 3 worlds, I know that's not much, but I have yet to see anything great. The music is uninspired and the same in almost every level. The levels are just about running through them and collecting (too few) things to "complete" the game and it is WAY too easy. I read it will be harder when it comes to the last world but seriously, just one world that is challenging? I don't see any fresh and new stuff either. I can be another animal, great. Wall climbing is nothing new. Collecting stuff, even if it's a different color or a stamp, is nothing new (what happened to all the different tasks Mario games had in the past? Just put all those ideas in one game already and not just a tiny part each and every iteration!). The bosses are nothing new, even if they seem kind of new to the Mario world because of their settings. The Gamepad levels are nothing new the world hasn't seen before. etc. There were a few cool levels that I enjoyed and that felt fresh but it's all way too short and rare.
I only got this game because people were talking. I always loved Mario games, even the unloved ones. But after Wii and most DS games I didn't want to get any Mario game before a massive price drop anymore. All the talking about it being an incredibly awesome fresh platformer got me and I bought it, just haven't played it before because I wanted to finish other games. After all the other huge companies creating hype and senseless talk it seems this stuff has now reached Nintendo as well. I really wonder how this game got any Game of the Year award, unless all other platformers were really bad.
This is not supposed to be a "you're wrong"/"your taste < my taste = fact" topic. I want to see the arguments why this game is oh so great and understand why people say so (really!) and I won't counter any argument, just want to read them and see if I can understand them when I go on playing. At the moment I just think it was an attempt to hype something that needed success, now it's time to prove that thought wrong!
