Beat it! Final boss was kind of annoying, but overall the game has been a lot of fun. Lookin' forward to the complete-athon now~

Finished the 6th world yesterday, and finished the last special world today.
Great game...again like everyone seems to say, pretty much more of the same as previous New SMB games.
I think it would help, if the games at least looked, and sounded somewhat different.

Look at the first 3 Super Mario Bros games (not so much with what's known as 'lost levels' over here), and Super Mario World.

You have 1. Completely original game. Start of a legendary video game series.
2. (the one with Wart in it). Many differences then 1, and it had 4 unique characters to choose from (something I really wish they would being back).
3. Major improvements where made here. Another new look, new music.
Super Mario World. Yeah. Similiar gameplay again, but yet, has a new feel to it. Yoshi was brand new. New concepts. A world map that isn't straight forward.

I the New Super Mario Bros series really is great, but they are all way too much alike. I really hope they at least change it up a little more with the Wii U game...it's looking great honestly, but I just want it to actually be more remembered for it's own originality, and look, like so many of the old ones are.

I found the Ghost House in world 6 real easy.

Not as bad as the Wii's finale though...though I'm talking about difficulty or whatever. I just remembered dying ten bazillion times on the Wii's battle.

World 5's castle gave me some frustration at times. I'm now in World 6 and I just ran out of time in the ghost house.

I feel as though I need to post today's bitf strip. :3

New Super Mario Brothers 2 feels different from previous NSMB experiences with its coin theme. I mean I have never felt so encouraged to race through the levels and slowdown to explore levels for multiple routes as I have with this entry, where as in the rest of the series it was just about beating levels and defeating Bowser to save Peach. The one million coin goal really opened up this game and made it very rewarding. What was the reward for completing a level in the prior entries? It was moving onto the next. This game rewards with each coin collected, and each level has a volume of coins to snag. I also believe there were quite a few instances where the game worked with a new interpretation of its themes, with the cannon levels and Star-1 sticking out. Personally, I felt the game sounded different enough from the previous two titles, though I have pretty much forgotten most of NSMB Wii so that may be why.

Anyone else notice that there's a secret path of flying koopa paratroopas in W5-6? After defeating the koopas at the start of the level, do a triple jump off the ledge and flutter as raccoon Mario until you reach the first one, and if you're going fast enough, you should gain enough height from stomping on it to reach the next koopa. I stomped on the first two or three, but lost my suit and died when I hit some spikes. Anyone know what's at the end? I googled around, but it's not in any alternate exit guide and I have all 3 star coins for the level, leaving me stumped as to what could be at the end. I guess someone could use White Raccoon Mario to get to the end without having to worry about the spikes.

@Metabble_king got near the exit about halfway up in the sky, and I noticed some coins in a straight line, similar to how they do when a pipe drops you out of the sky.
Edit: Never mind. There was just another paratroopa, and then the coins led down. (for the record, I did not use white raccoon, just an invincibility star and a normal raccoon. Imma gonna have shiny stars forever! )

Maybe there's a pipe there, then? It's not a star, alternate exit or star coin, so what could be at the end? I keep dieing after the first few koopas, either from hitting the spikes or not getting the altitude and velocity to reach the next one.

EDIT: So... there's nothing? Wow. Nintendo is trolling us. Seriously. Why put a random string of Koopa's up in the sky surrounded by spikes that lead NOWHERE? ;_;

The world coin total has now hit 50,000,000,000 (50 billion)

Hmm, I was hoping these SpotPass notifications would be a little more exciting, but they're not really.

never felt so encouraged to race through the levels and slowdown to explore levels for multiple routes as I have with this entry

Agreed. The coin mechanism got very easily dismissed by lots of reviewers but they got it wrong and Nintendo, as always, got it right. It adds an extra level of motivation, new goals to achieve and a sense of competition.

Beat the game a while ago. I'm aiming for all 5 profile stars - but without looking up guides or help for secret exits, star coins etc. Mario newbies might need them - but I'll be finding them myself.

Does anyone have any cash cow tips? I found a pretty big one on world 2-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VwYq7a2izY&feature=youtu.be
got me 7000 in one try. THough coin rush is where its at. my high score is like 11000

Beat the game yesterday. I think it's awesome! The graphics and music is pretty much the same as in the other games, true. However in terms of level design this game really tries some new things.

It seems that the noly reason people are not liking this is because of the graphics and music. I bet if they made this game in 16 bit graphics everybody would hail it as the best and most innovative Mario game in years.

mario 2d side scroller should be 2d nor 2.5 d

so bring back the sprites

We're just wishing they would change the theme already, lol.

2D does not equate to sprites.

@Geonjaha 1000 Mario points to you, if you can accomplish this feat. It's worth it!