Topic: Damn the new Super Mario Brothers Wii is hard

I got the game yesterday and have been playing non stop. I must say though as much as I am enjoying it I have been breezing through it so far upto World 5. That isn't a complaint though as I still have to get some big coins in a lot of levels and it has been so much fun.

Well, I'm a bit disappointed. Here I am doing the online GAME pre-order for in-store pickup because

A. I figure like usual the RRP of £44.99 will be the in-store price
B. I figure the shop will get it promptly and I'll avoid potentially having a notice slip instead of a game pop through my mailslot.

Then I get to the shop to find

A. The online price of £34.99 is the same in the shop
B. My pre-order isn't there and I'll need to check back tomorrow

So basically I could have not pre-ordered it and used store credit to get the game for the same price I paid online and I'd only be out the double loyalty points. Plus I could have gotten the tin (though I don't really care about that).

Weak!

You should have pre-ordered for delivery Sean, I pre-orderedfrom GAME and got my copy with the tin delivered yesterday for £34.99. Can you not cancel your pre-order now and just buy it using your credit?

Damn, this game is hardcore. I thought the rotating-cogs-over-lava level in the various trailers would be world 3 at the very least. But, it's World 1-8? Jesus. I love this game :3

got it today dor "free" (traded in some old GC- and NDS-Games) and it's f***awesome. i loce the higher difficulty. Playinf this trough woth my girlfriend and we can't stop it...

BTW: did you know....for e spin atack in front of a "background-flower" you earn yourself a coin

It's £32.99 at GamePlay... you know that, right? And it was £29.99 if you pre-ordered.

Anyway, I played right through to the World 7 Boss, now I'm going back to get all the coins and such, I will return to the final few worlds once everything has been tidied up.

And yes, it's hard. Certainly harder than World, which is a bit of a walkover, and probably harder than Bros 3, although that could be because it's shiny and new.

I don't have anyone to play with. Will it be like FSA, where it's far easier in multiplayer?

Its easier when you have 2 peeps, preferably an experianced player, but 3+ is hard.

Well, that's odd. I just finished a level, but when Mario reappeared on the map, he did so without his hat. I don't recall losing it at any point in the level (I wasn't even aware you /could/), but I'm now playing a level in World 2 completely hatless. Anyone got any idea what triggers that?
You get your hat back if you die, too. Huh.

If you beat a level with 99 lives you lose the hat, if you die you get it back again.

Ah, that'd explain it. Wheee~

Thats pretty cool, time to start racking some lifes up to see this for myself.

Pretty nice game. Thank you Nintendo for making a hard game again!!!

I died alot, coursing all the time, but I always get extra lifes. I am always around 50 right now. It seems in every world I keep adding up my life level by 10... First World was 30, second world 40 and now in the third world 50... I never used the 99 lives trick, just collecting as much coins as possible.

I have a question, how do u unlock more movies in the castle. I only have one video for a level. But there are 5 more blank spaces for videos left. I haven't bought any yet. Do I need to buy the first movie for each level to get the other ones???

Not sure how this works but I never visited the castle until I reached world 6 and I had a lot of videos unlocked, but still some blank spaces, I think it mayhave something to do with the number of star coins you collect.

I only have four levels that I didn't get all star coins so far. I finished the mid-castle in world 3. haven't found the secret exit to the cannon in world 1 and 3 though...

I had the Super Guide pop up on me yesterday. It made me feel...pathetic. I felt even more pathetic after I actually used it

i got to World 8-Castle. Its really not that hard

Getting the star coins basically adds the difficulty but some of the levels are super hard, so getting Star coins in those levels makes for a very formidable experience on par with Super Mario Bros on NES.1UPS are easy to come by so If your good you may never see the "Game Over" screen , i haven't yet. This game blends the Mario games together very well and i consider it a classic. So far I've gotten up to level 4 with all coins collected minus the ship. I've unlocked world 5 and 6 though through the warp pipes and been trying those levels too.Great designs. I could breeze through the game but the fun is unlocking stuff so I'll play each stage over until i have found all of it's secrets. I've managed to get 95 mushrooms saved with my items collected by the mini game. Other suits are rare. I find myself Running through the first level on the first world to get a Propeller suit alot

it is quite easy, ive never died more than 4 times in a level and it is too easy to get lives (im on 89) good game but not as hard as it should have been

btw im on 7-2