My take on NSMBU is that it should have been a Wii game. The only change would have been 480p and it would have been a great swan song and sold a ton on that console. I think a lot of the criticism comes from people just being tired of the "New" games by then. Some were better than others, but none of them had the charm of the originals (minus Lost Levels). NSMBU is a good game and I did really like the overworld, but the squirrel power-up was pretty lame and I do have to agree with @curl about the visuals for a WiiU game; playing Tropical Freeze after Mario was a night and day difference.







