so... the game that was too hard for Americans now lands on the VC.  IGN reviewed it, and said NOA made the right choice 20 years ago not bringing this outside of Japan! 

http://wii.ign.com/articles/824/824330p1.html

 "The Lost Levels are hard, and frustratingly so. You may begin to understand just why this game was denied American release on your fifteenth attempt to get Luigi to land properly on that one-block-wide platform while being assailed by the swarm of flying Cheep Cheeps and the one stray floating Blooper."

i downloaded this the day it came out... and yeah, it's pretty hard.  what do you guys think?  too hard for non-Japanese gamers?

ps. and if you haven't downloaded this, and have never tried it in other releases, get it now!!!

It does not matter what country you are from. Any American/European/Australian etc. can be just as good at that game as any Japanese person with some practice.

It's hard, but satisfying (kinda like Ninja Gaiden)

I don't have the VC version though - I played it years ago on Super Mario All-Stars for the snes.

me too. That was my first video game, All Stars and Super Mario World. ^_^

I played it when it first came out, and I felt it was challenging, but extremely fun (much more so than the original SMB). More than anything, it was fair and rewarding - especially those insane "full speed running, jump on trampoline, get blown sky-high, land on another trampoline, then get blown sky-high again" routine (starting on level 6, I believe?).

Will get the VC version, just for posterity's - and nostalgia's - sake.

This or Sin and Punishment, both are getting such high praise, but I'm not sure which to get...

To sum it up... YES! it's to flippin hard.

Both. Buy one now, and when you can get more points, buy the other.

I'm getting sin and punishment with my next check (i've got 10 dollars to my name at the moment). I played lost levels back with Mario allstars, and yes it's hard. Very hard.

I remember playing it alot on Super Mario All-Stars