Definitely don't agree with some of you guys about the 3D effect. It's really crappy IMO. Blurring the background is not a good way to do it, Mutant Mudds did a WAY better job using 3D in a 2D space than this game. It looks horrible and just destroys the scenery IMO.

I'd say it's not worth full price. But if you can find it cheap, buy it.

I had that exact same feeling fro 3D Land. I didn't even finish all the secret worlds in that game. I'm having way more fun with this, level design is great and the coin collecting, while pretty pointless, ends up being rather addictive. Especially since you can always see your coin count in the bottom corner.

I'm liking it a lot more than 3D Land at the moment.

Well, it's just kind of funny to me, how for years they were going different directions with it after the NES days, such as with Mario 64, Sunshine, and Galaxy, but then they kind of went backwards and made things look simple how they did on the NES. Again, it's still good stuff they are putting out. Mario is just plain out a quality name. But, they can do more with these games in this day and time, and they keep wanting to limit themselves to be more like the NES games in my opinion.

does anyone think we might get dlc for this game this week?

Errr..I doubt it this early on, but I wouldn't put it past Nintendo...
My guess would be next week.

if it's next week then it's proof its scrapped and hold for dlc

I found 3D Land to be very original. I basically classify original as being able to remember the game for itself, apart from the series. So pretty much being able to remember the standout things in a game. I can remember a lot of unique things about 3D Land, specifically the main theme music and the retro 8-bit block levels. For NSMB2, I'm definitely going to remember its coin theme. Can't say I can tell apart my memories of NSMB and NSMBW, nothing really stood out about them. What I'm saying, people may complain now, but I'm sure you'll remember more distinct things about these most recent games than the other two I mentioned. I'm sure later on they'll be more appreciated, I would hope.

How sparkly is the file when you go for a no white suit? Because mine had a little tinty sparkle yesterday, and Punny said it should have more, but I beat it again and restarted the last save point when I saw the block, but it's still the same sparkle..... I'm kinda mad if I have to replay for a 3rd time, I wanna find all the star coins and exits... At least the coin count stays

Don't worry, replay a level that you use the tanuki suit on to get your shine back. No need to reset.

Just got it, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far. :3

To those who are wondering why there's so many coins story-wise, I think I know. If you watch the title screen sequence, You'll see the Koopalings do a spell and then a boatload of coins come a tumbling down.

Ok thanks but I'm wondering if mine is sparkly already, I see a sparkle but my friend said it should have more sparkle, but then again it was sunny out so he might not have seen it, anyway I'll take your advise and replay it even though I reset it when I died.

Just got this game today,and i got to say this game is way better then i thought it would be.

Where's Wario?

Crying his eyes out.

Oh how I wish he was in this. They could've at LEAST made him have a surprise appearance at the end of the game saying "getting coins is MY job!"
Just something, anything, would suffice.

Although the game is lacking charaters that people want (ex.wario, yoshi, waluigi?), where is Bowser jr?

He died.

TBH, I don't know, but I'm happy about it. Only liked him in Sunshine, as I thought his personallity was great. But now they forget about it.

I've been playing Super Mario 64 DS lately (it's actually new for me). Man, at least when they did a remake for that, more characters were added in and things were tweaked around a bit. All the "New" Mario games seem so similar, but I still like them and all. Although it seems that NSMB2 is better then many on here expected (I've yet to get a copy, hopefully sometime this week). I just wish Nintendo would make a risky move and change things up with the plumber for once.

Bowser grounded him.

I find it strange he's not in this game though. He was a key character in the original NSMB and was alongside his siblings for the first time in NSMBW...what happened?

^that was exactly what I was thinking, he could not have died but if he did he could always become dry bowser jr and the only one that should be grounded is Roy koopa