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Fresh New Super Mario Bros. Wii Footage

Ice flower. ICE FLOWER!

Oct. 16 2009

Posted by: Brad

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New Super Mario Bros. Wii

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Edited By PLWolf

Here comes all the content I've been waiting for all day. lol
NICE!

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Edited By Reverseface

Looks cool, but i wish the'd of used some really high rez 2d sprites, somethings not quite right about the way it looks.
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Edited By MOOFANATOR

if pachter is wrong about the WII hd im going to castrate myself with a spork drenched in taco shit, call me a graphics whore..............ok screw it , its fuckin mario :/

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@Reverseface said:
" Looks cool, but i wish the'd of used some really high rez 2d sprites, somethings not quite right about the way it looks. "
Was just about to post the exact same thing. We are now best friends.
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Edited By Erik

Looks like a Mario game...

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Edited By artofwar420

Look interesting....
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Edited By PolyesterPimp

I love mario platforming, I enjoyed new super mario bros for ds, I'll be purchasing this.

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This looks fun,but the graphics need some improvement i think...

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Nintendo's approach to Mario is pretty much unique.
 
While other studios focus on adding dispensable plots, rebooting the characters or awkwardly hammering in the mechanic du jour to stay relevant, Nintendo is releasing a game that someone who just woke up from a 24 year long coma could instantly get to grips with.
 
Even after refining the same game for two and a half decades they haven't lost the vibrancy and playfulness that made it so enjoyable the first time around. I'm really looking forward to this.

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@P4KO said:
" This looks fun,but the graphics need some improvement i think... "
You're not serious. I hope you're not serious.
It's a goddamned Mario game. It's not supposed to be OMG GRAFIX.
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Edited By andre

Yoshi!!!

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@Reverseface said:
" Looks cool, but i wish the'd of used some really high rez 2d sprites, somethings not quite right about the way it looks. "
Yeah I would've preferred 2D sprites as well
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@AnimZero said:
" @P4KO said:
" This looks fun,but the graphics need some improvement i think... "
You're not serious. I hope you're not serious. It's a goddamned Mario game. It's not supposed to be OMG GRAFIX. "
To be fair, this does look like it can be on the DS. You'd expect them to have a a better looking character model for Mario after SMG and Brawl.
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Edited By almightyseancore

god i hate that song.

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@AnimZero said:
" @P4KO said:
" This looks fun,but the graphics need some improvement i think... "
You're not serious. I hope you're not serious. It's a goddamned Mario game. It's not supposed to be OMG GRAFIX. "
I know its a Mario game,but this looks like a DS game.
Mario Galaxy is another story in graphics
But yeah,gameplay is more important
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Edited By Julmust

Will get it at some point. Maybe for christmas. Shit looks awesome.

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I'm already annoyed by the jump sounds.

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Edited By AV_Gamer

Looks like a SNES game. Poor Wii. It's sad when the best selling game for a console is hardly a game at all.

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Edited By yyZiggurat

ICE FLOWER, SON

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Edited By El33tPanda

Man, this is what the market needed, another MARIO game!

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I don't even own a Wii but I'd love to play this.

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You know, I wanna say I've played this game before.

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I fail to see why people are outraged or disappointed at a 2D sidescrolling Mario game that isn't even released yet.

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i cant believe that it took Nintendo 11 years? since the release of Super Mario 64 that a new 2d sidescroller would be a fucking good idea, keep these coming!  but, some part of me still wishes they had used a super high res 2d engine instead, to capture the cartoony look better.  looks great, but oh man, imagine super mario world looking super sweet, like braid.  Amazing.

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Mario Galaxy had an Ice Flower WAY before this! 
 
I'm boycotting.

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Sound track is good.

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Some more of this stuff and I will consider getting a wii

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Edited By MeatSim

I like that song for some reason.

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Edited By kraznor

Actually starting to get a little bit excited about this one, but that has to be the worst title ever. Why not call it Super Mario Bros. 4? It would add a ton of prestige and nostalgia to the game, not to mention it has four player co-op. Double Meaning!!

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Edited By Hamst3r

I really hate the run animation in the newer Mario games. It's like Mario is leaning back and swinging his arms straight out to the side. It also looks like he's sliding on ice all the time. Just doesn't look right and like it could be distracting / detrimental to timing jumps.

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Pow Block anyone?

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Edited By bybeach

2 Games now for my nephew, but i bet his parents will get him this one, i`ll do boy and his blob..

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Edited By Siriusface

/agree with all those who say 2d would've been better.  Because they're right.

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@Kraznor said:

" Actually starting to get a little bit excited about this one, but that has to be the worst title ever. Why not call it Super Mario Bros. 4? It would add a ton of prestige and nostalgia to the game, not to mention it has four player co-op. Double Meaning!! "

Shit, that was the only thing in my mentally prepared rant that hadn't been said yet, with the others being: 
 
Graphics (as in, a 'fuck off' statement to those complaining about them) 
POW Block's mighty return 
Ice Flower was already in Galaxy, albeit with different effects 
 
As well as agreeing wholeheartedly with: 
 
   

@Insectecutor

 said: 

" Nintendo's approach to Mario is pretty much unique.
 
While other studios focus on adding dispensable plots, rebooting the characters or awkwardly hammering in the mechanic du jour to stay relevant, Nintendo is releasing a game that someone who just woke up from a 24 year long coma could instantly get to grips with.  Even after refining the same game for two and a half decades they haven't lost the vibrancy and playfulness that made it so enjoyable the first time around. I'm really looking forward to this. "

    


Still, the game looks fun, and if any of Mario's OVER 9000!!! titles are an indication, it will be fun. 
 
Shame that for most people these days, something doesn't look fun unless it looks realistic. In turn, something doesn't look realistic unless it was the apocalypse overnight and everything's gone to shit, including the colour palette.  
 
Oh yeah, I was going to say at some point, somewhere on the internet that if they wanted to put Mario in 4D (as they said in E3 that they did want to) then why not just do what Yahtzee mentioned in his E3 hype massacre and make Super Mario Time-Space-Continuum? But I suppose that's for another article/video/slow day where I actually want to comment on anything.
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This seems pretty cool, don`t think I`ll get it on release day though :(

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@XXL_Bomb:  Same here.
 
@PlasmaMachine:
 Because it looks depressingly derivative, without any sense of originality. I mean the graphics is almost exactly like the DS new super mario bros, and they use the same song here, only with what seems to be a worse midi quality. 
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MARIO

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Edited By tyger_cheex

It doesn't show any multi-player power-up grabbing action. Does the game still pause the action for EVERYONE as a player power-ups?

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yeah, ice flower
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Edited By advocatefish2

Getting this for my Girlfriend for Christmas. That house will go up in flames if her family plays it together.

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Edited By LordAndrew

I thought this was going to basically be New Super Mario Bros. again, but it looks like it's much more than that. Man, this game deserves a much better title than what they're giving it. Who thought it would be a good idea to append "Wii" to the end of game titles?

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yay finally a good mario game