new super sam’s club u

is actually fantastic. it alone is the second best new super mario bros game. i feel genuinely bad people who bought the switch port of mario u because they didn’t get this one along with it.

i shouldn’t be reviewing this because it’s not technically a mainline mario game and makes my lack of a review for yoshi’s island seem that much more suspicious

(it’s because i didn’t like yoshi’s island)

but fuck it, it’s technically dlc and therefore i’m reviewing it

i will be giving this game an honorary ranking both as a standalone and as a dlc pack, which means at the end of this thread there will be a ranking with nsmb u on there three different times. i’ll take it out in the final rankings and only feature base nsmb u at the end.

let’s talk negatives

this game looks and sounds like nsmb u. therefore it has no unique personality FOR THE MOST PART. but it’s a lot less offensive when you realize this is technically a $20 game, bc then it becomes really neat all of the things they did to differentiate it.

all of the secret exits in the game are bullshit to find. most of them involve ground pounding in random spots that aren’t marked and don’t stand out among the rest of the level. really dumb.

and that’s literally it for negatives. this game was such a massive improvement off of the original package i can’t even believe it