imho it devalues the game. beating the game means less with this feature in place. So what if you have seen the end credits - that proves you got as much skill and problem solving abilites as a potted plant. Its cool for kids, but there's no shaking the kiddy image of Nintendo now. They arent even making games anymore, interactive art maybe? Games have a winner/loser and challenges that have to be overcome for rewards and to advance, this feature puts it on the level of a movie or some sort of leapfrog game.

Look, if it lets me share Mario with my mom....

mho it devalues the game. beating the game means less with this feature in place. So what if you have seen the end credits - that proves you got as much skill and problem solving abilites as a potted plant. Its cool for kids, but there's no shaking the kiddy image of Nintendo now. They arent even making games anymore, interactive art maybe? Games have a winner/loser and challenges that have to be overcome for rewards and to advance, this feature puts it on the level of a movie or some sort of leapfrog game.


Did You not read

It is optional

i agree with noname2200, sometimes i need to be forced into learning how to do something - there are parts of some games i've played that i'd have loved to skip, but i had to try them over and over again until i got the hang of it. then i was able to use the skills i learned at later points in the game.. and i feel proud of myself when i've done it

on the other hand tho, i could have done with this when i was playing OoT (damn that water temple, damn it to hell! lol)

a bit of a balanced opinion from me, so far i can see how this would benefit new/younger players. but i didn't become a level 4 Cloud Master at the age of 5 for nothin', you know. i played that game til my hands ached so i could compete with my dad. take away the challenge, and people become lazy. (again the same point noname made).

i also dont like how it says "without purchasing a strategy guide or resorting to websites that list cheat codes." Someone looking for a strategy guide doesnt need to purchase one, they're available online. And most of them don't have cheats per se, just the same info as an official strategy guide.

hmm.

TP and WW were both very easy for Zelda games. In fact, the easiest ones in the franchise, IMHO, with PH being an exception - that one was very easy too.

There's no way to add a difficulty setting to a Mario game without fundamentally changing the gameplay. Unless you just make the guy jump higher or something stupid like that.

Will it though? I understand what you're getting at, and if I thought things would work out that way I'd be all in favor of this. But what's most likely going to happen when you co-op with your mother? My guess: the two of you will have fun both playing NSMBWii for the first few levels, you'll hit a part she can't handle (and will auto-out of), you'll play the next few levels (save for the parts where she needs to use that skill again, one she hasn't developed due to using this feature) until she hits another, new obstable, which she'll auto-out around, and so on and so forth, until it gets to the point where the parts she can't handle are more numeroous than the parts she can, at which point she's just watching you play, rather than playing with you.

I think there's a very serious risk of this happening, and I don't envision it as being much fun for either of you.

people should somehow be punished for using this

Ive always wanted this kind of feature. It can attract casual gamers to hardcore games.