Hahahahahaha funny :P

heh, I was playing with my wife, mom, and dad, and my mom is the worst out of the 3. We got to this section (in world 1) with spinning blocks so I told my mom I'd carry her accross. Half way through I saw one of the big gold coins out of reach down in a pit so I threw her at it, picked up the coin and continued on my way. I told her it was for the greater good

Just what a gamer would do when s/he sees a coin. Willing to throw his/her mom at it...

http://www.crispygamer.com/features/2009-09-10/those-games-mean-nothing-to-me.aspx

That may be all that is needed to be known regarding this technology writer who has become a game critic. (The above makes fun of the NYT reviewer who claimed Beatles: Rock Band "may be the most important video game yet made."

Mike from Morgantown

straw man argument here for nintendo fans.

Really starting to like this phrase, straw man argument.

BWAHAHA That made me laugh so hard, I played with a bunch of core players and they were too busy killing each other for no reason and rushing to get all the star coins.

My brother threw mi sister's craracter in world 2 XD i told them forget while laughing when I died 4 times in that area.

Here's a small tip, play the game by yourself.

It is damn near impossible to beat the game with 3 other people, I farmed lives and by the time I finished playing, I was down to 27 levels from 80 something.

Most of my deaths were from moronic butt hat nimrod team mates, that at first say sorry sorry then don't even apologize anymore.

just play by yourself in the dark, it's the way Mario is meant to be played.

The co-op mode is not co-op at all.

take them with you...

I also think dying with other people iss funny...

So far, I'm playing the game and its not like its completely OMG HARD. But I am having a bit of trouble trying to get a couple star coins. The thing I am finding with the game however is, while I can see that the game definitely has an increased difficulty over any recent 2D Mario, such as NSMB DS, it seems to have a lot of that difficulty based on a sort of 'cheap' way.

When I say that, I mean it comes at the expense of making the player memorize the path ahead, and not exactly based on skill or 'timing'. Take level 3-2. You have tons of Spikes throwing spiky balls at you, not unlike in Mario 3. But unlike in Mario 3, now the balls bounce on the ground and the guys seem to aim the balls directly at you. Well, obviously you just compensate for this, but as a veteran of Mario games, its your instinct to try to jump over the spiky balls to avoid them. This leads to a lot of running and making the screen move....which then causes more enemies to spawn, which then immediately causes a chain reaction of more spiky balls heading your way. And on some areas of the level, there's even platforms you have to jump on that causes the enemies you throw their projectiles at you when you can't even see them.

Its stuff like this that kind of makes you realize that the game IS as hard as the developers said the game was going to be. But not quite in the 'old school' way based on creative tricks from the level design that cause you to slide under a thwamp wrong. More in a repetitive annoying way that purposefully trap you between two enemies and get you killed.