Wii U, the only Nintendo home console without a must have Mario platformer?

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Ka-pi96 said:

Soundwave said:

The first half is designed primarily for kids/family play. I don't know if you remember being a kid, but you might recall that being a pretty key demo for the Mario games. It's not like the first half isn't good, it's just the game ratchets up to "god tier" game design/orchestrated music/level design/post game surprises/challenge up the wazoo in the second half. 

It's more akin to a great athlete who plays pretty good in the first half, gets the sweat going, and then totally takes over and dominates everyone else in the second half and show's why he's the motherf**king king. 

That still doesn't really make sense for me. I tried a bit of the first half, it was alright but nothing special, so I traded it in. I don't see the point of slogging through the rubbish stuff just in case it gets better later on. A good game should have a good beginning as well as a good ending.

If you didn't enjoy any of the early levels you're clearly not a platformer fan and why are you playing Mario in the first place?