ill play it this afternoon and find out :)

for a certain reason I think LBP and NSMB are different.. LBP focusses more on the sharing levels online and building them yourself-experience while NSMB is purely focussed on gameplay..

I can't stand to play LBP on my own but in splitscreen its great fun, I can play LBP online due to downloadable levels though.

All I can say is when I watched gameplay videos of LBP on teh webz I knew I needed to get the game. When I watched gameplay video of NSMB Wii on teh webz I knew I didn't really need to get the game even though it looked fun.

I haven't regretted either decision so far.

Of course no one ever regrets not buying a game.

I've no doubt NSMB Wii is a superior game to the sidescrolling 2D platforming connoisseur. It has all the standard elements of the 2d platforming games of old that have stood this genre in such good stead.

LBP does have power-ups, bosses and enemies they just come in forms that you don't expect or even recognise. What is "wrong" with LBP is that it strays too far from the 2D platforming safe zone. That only appeals to a minority of 2D platforming fans from way back. I'm not a 2D platforming fan from way back, so the things that 2D fans don't like about LBP either appeal to me a lot, or don't bother me in the slightest. The only other 2D platformer I've really loved is Oddworld, and I'm sure the hardcore 2D platform fans would rate any Mario 2D game ahead of the PS1 Oddworld games. But has Mario ever farted in a game?

mario has everyone brainwashed with his mustashe, theres just no way to stop him =/

its over once you look at the mustache , ofcourse i figured this out before i saw him and only look at the M on his hat, im not letting that damned mustache get to me -_-

I pick NSMBW because I have the game, but I do think they don't really compare like some of you said. They are great in their category.

I was actually kind of disappointed by NSMBWii's multiplayer. It's pretty good in two player, but as you get above that people start running into each other when trying to perform basic jumps, or jumping into the bottom of someone else who jumped a second before, which leads to death, which leads to that weird pause on someone's death when everyone's controls stop taking any input, which often messes up the timing on people's jumps, which leads to more death. Add to that the whole turning into a bubble thing, and if people aren't really going out of their way to work together the game seems practically random with four players, and because it's such a finely tuned, skill-based platformer in single player, it makes you repeat sections way more often than LBP, which becomes annoying when you only died because you couldn't quite account timing-wise for the game freezing twice in a row when your teammates died while a monster was a step away from you and you were in mid-air.

That said, Mario clearly wins in single player.  And I probably won't play a multiplayer game this gen I truly enjoy more than LBP, so even if mario multiplayer didn't seem oddly unpolished to me, I still probably wouldn't put it above LBP.

Funny you should mention the moustache. It is both compelling and repelling at the same time. I don't know whether it's more Village People or 70's Italian Pron Star. If he was a real person there'd definitely be some candid video of him posted on the internets of him doing things that would make parent's groups wring their hands with worry over the influence his personal behaviour would have on the children.

Of course sackboy/girl would have a nasty drug habit.

lulz, drug habit