Super Paper Mario (Wii)

Super Paper Mario is a mixed bag; it contains some sparkling examples of excellent game play and wit, but for each jewel you will have to fight through lashings of dullness and repetition. I would heartily recommend a "director cut" version of Super Paper Mario (at half its length) but Super Paper Mario is too wordy and repetitive. Wii games will live or die by its control system, and luckily Super Paper Mario has not gone down the "forced waggling" route. The basic controls take after Super Mario Bro. on the NES with the wiimote held sideways akin to the original NES controller. It does require the odd waggle for special features but they ...

We bought Super Paper Mario not long after it came out. We'd seen the adverts and though the 2d/3d dimensions of the game looked appealing. We managed to pick up our copy from Sainsburys for £29.99. I don't mind paying that for a game if I'm going to get my money's worth out of it, but I begrudge paying much more for one. My other half was the one who really wanted this game. He thought I would like it and he thought he would enjoy it as well despite being into first person shooter games most of the time. **Storyline** There probably isn't a person alive who hasn't heard of Mario. The plot lines are usually the same, being you have ...

To begin with, growing up i was never a mario person, or even a nintendo person; my brother always had nintendo's and i always had sega, and we crossed paths on PS2... That was until the SNES Super Mario game. I thought that version of the game was astounding, with the addition of Yoshi, who was a great character, and if memory serves, the flying cape et al made for a great game... It was also for me, the beginning of the type of large games we see today, whereas before, most games were easily completed in a short space of time. We happened upon paper mario by chance, not intending to buy it (i was waiting for Zelda - which i now have also, awesome ...