I honestly thought the story would be something like Bowser getting the ability to turn everything to gold and he'd use it to get rich or something. Maybe him and his kids used it to buy some fancy gold weapons or something. (you know, for bosses. xD )

I know everyone's saying the story doesn't matter for a Mario game, but for real. I'm not asking for a drawn-out epic here, just give us something different than the usual "Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach". Except now its Bowser Kidnaps Princess Peach + Mario wants coins! What? It feels so tacked on. Actually integrate it into the storyline of the game. Its not that hard when I could sit here for 5 minutes and come up with several simple storylines that a new Mario game could use.

Well the trailer from last night was better than anything at e3.

How can you say that

Was better than this?!?!

But otherwise yeah.

I didn't really like last night's trailer, I couldn't concentrate with that guy speaking over it ._.

I would be completely hyped for this game if you could share your coin rush records via spotpass as well as streetpass. I mean, is Nintendo allergic to online or something?

And put me in the "who cares about the story" club. There's Paper Mario and Mario and Luigi for that.

I take bad what I said, it might be the final music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgi3n3LD3Ko&feature=related

I still liked the music from NSMBW though.

Figures...the trailer didn't have that annoying music...making me think they finally changed the theme...T.T

I definitly like the new(even though it's practically the same) NSMB2 main overworld Grass land music better than the ones before it. the extended "Bahhhhhhh ahhhhhh" sounds more cutesy, as if Nintendo hired a band of Smurfs to sing along.

But the rest? The Forest and Desert Music sound EXACTLY the same as NSMBWii....Same deal with the Castle stage although Nintendo slipped in the "bah Bah-ah!" lol If NSMBU sports the same music, I'm going to rip my pippy long stocking hair out while watching 'this' tubular video 5000 Times in reverse! This is actually where Nintendo's B-Bomb originated from. This version should be a Subcon Dream boss in the inevitable(I'm dreaming) SMB2 USA sequal.

Why must they reuse the same themes? More than half of the trailer were the same backgrounds from the first two entries. The night level looks interesting but other than that, nothing really spectacular. Poisonous water in the jungle world, sandy beaches with the same background, cloud levels with giant mushrooms to land on with green koopas in the way, and was that the exact Toadstool castle from NSMBW? Shocker. $1 says that Bowser is the antagonist.

Nice to see the new additions. Even if the Tanooki tail is old school.

I sold my NSMBW (all my Wii games actually) to get trade in cash for Wii U and 3DS. I loved NSMBW so this is kinda a replacement but at the same time it's different. The coin aspect will have the whole thing (gameplay wise) give a different feeling. Like a challenge mode of NSMBW.

Still not thrilled that there's recycled NSMBW music in this, even if remixed, but I'm hoping the frantic coin collecting and some new backgrounds make up for it.

I like that the main overworld is remixed. Still not happy that they didn't put more work into the soundtrack. I mean, Super Mario 3D Land had its own original soundtrack and that game was rushed to be done by Christmas. What's the excuse this time ._.

If any tracks could've been reused, at least use the original New Super Mario Bros. music, since this is the sequel to that if that matters. However, I don't know if anyone has noticed, but when you have the coin powerup going on, the music is remixed. Its like sped up and has a different key. So there is some things new about the music, but besides that not much.

@WaveBoy, I'm pretty sure New Super Mario Bros. U will have original music, judging by the trailer. And the strong sense of mine that they're spending way more time developing the Wii U game than the 3DS one.

This will still be a fun game, but someone has to say it.

I guess this is what happens when you're rushing to make two Mario games at the same time.

This looks fantastic. <3

This reminds me, I was never allowed to watch the Smurfs as a kid, and I have no idea why...

If Coin Rush was Spotpass as well as Streetpass, I'd be all over this.

Yeah I agree. Street Pass hasn't been much of a feature for me. I hardly ever get any tags. So it'd be nice to have Coin Rush competitions with your online friends.

Speaking of online friends. Can I add some of you? The 3DS Friend Codes thread is a mess.

@NintyFan

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Add me if you can

I love how all these people keep dissing on the "difficulty" of the game when none of us have even played it yet. So you'll get 99 lives really quickly from all the coins. When was the last time you saw the game over screen in a Mario game? Rayman Origins has infinite lives and it still makes me wanna throw my controller sometimes.