That is if you don't count Paper Mario Sticker Star! I can understand that this is a traditional thing, but IN THE SAME YEAR? This is just flat out uncreative and LAZY. Don't get me wrong New Super Mario Bros. U is gonna be the best Mario game yet and I'm getting it at launch, but this is ridiculous. couldn't you have Daisy be the victim or just ANYBODY, but peach. Oh, yeah and the Koopalings are in it AGAIN! I was hoping to see the bosses from NSMB on DS appear in NSMB2. But, instead we got Koopalings so I thought "Okay, maybe they'll be in the console one that makes sense." But NO! Why is this so repetitive. I know the peach thing is kinda not a HUGE deal, but the Koopalings are WAY TOO EASY. Can we please have SOMETHING different for a change in the story. I didn't expect a lot from a Mario plot, but I did expect SOMETHING. I am dissapointed in Nintendo. But at least it'll be an awesome Mario game if not the best.

Haters gonna hate.

Did you just skim through my comment. I already said this was gonna be the best Mario game. T_T

Daisy's voice irritates me far more than Peach's, though. If anyone's gonna be screaming for help, i'd rather it be Peach.

I did read, but theres nothing no one can do about the peach problem...

I don't mind.

What I'm hoping for though, is that they're more creative with the Koopalings. They should change their patterns. NSMB2 practically just took the bosses from NSMB.W and threw them in the game. I want them to fell new in NSMB.U, not like I've played them two times before.

I don't mind peach getting kidnapped 24/7

What I do mind is daisy always yelling "Yahooo!" on Mario kart 7
I enjoy watching her getting hit by red shells and being exploded by blue shells!

Yeah, i know, daisy is so obnoxious!

Who cares? Good fun games are good and fun.

I think Mario should go back with Pauline.
The worst he had was only DonkeyKong.

Peach could do something, she could learn Karate or some other self defense form of combat, she could get toad guards to watch her around the clock, she could visit the Call of Duty universe and take a ton of weapons, give'em to her toads and tell them to train with them so they could shoot bowsers fat hide the moment he appears to kidnap her, or she could have Mario buyout all of Bowsers castles with the coins he got from NSMB.2 and put escape tunnles in all of them.

Either way, it doesn't bother me since I didn't get NSMB.2

I'm seething with noticeable indifference.

If a freaking recolor is good enough for you, why are you even complaining in the first place?

Lolwut?

I don't care who's in trouble. I don't care if they make a Mario game where I play as Peach. I just want the box to say Something Mario Bros. Number or Blankety-Blank Mario Blank along the same tight gameplay and control I've come to expect from the series..

Forget Pauline, she's just as ditsy as Peach
I think Mario should open his options for Ms. Mowz from Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door.

She even has her own theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSG3x_YXMKw
It gives me great memories of the game hearing her theme.

i hate peach. mario is a desperate lover.

becuase of baby yoshis+ ice flower!

Because we all know the most important element in a Mario platformer is an engaging and thorough storyline, try not to think too much about it. The NSMB franchise to me has always been a series of Mario Cliches mixed in with their own central concepts (NSMBW-Multiplayer; NSMB2-Coins; NSMBU-Miiverse integration)

I would've liked to have something a little different for the stories of NSMB2 and NSMBU, but since when has Mario platformers been centered around story outside RPGs? I even think NSMB2 is my favorite Mario game on the 3DS so far. The gameplay is where it matters most.

Maybe Nintendo is paying back the Koopalings for abandoning them for 18 years between SMW and NSMBW? I'm fine with them coming back once again in NSMBU, but I hope that their fights are more unique. The Ludwig fight in World 5 of NSMB2 with the cannons was a step in the right direction, but next time the Koopaling fights should be more like the ones in SMW.

I think Peach is cute. It's fine for her to be kidnapped as long as it wasn't for no reason like in SM3DL.

But if it's that ugly-looking Pauline, I'll be mad.