26th October 2023, 4:50 AM
Thing is, New Super Mario Bros, as a series, also lowered the difficulty across the first few worlds compared to older entries. My expectation based on past experience is for that difficulty curve to rise as the game goes on, and only truly become challenging in the ever-present hidden "Special World". We'll see!
Heck I fully understand that "new shine" may be blinding me to flaws, but so far I'm loving it. Even the sections that don't involve magical fruits and their devilish effects are all filled with a unique charm that they couldn't have gotten away with back in the "New Super Mario Bros" series.
In fact, the only thing I can really complain about is Mario's new voice actor. I don't know nor is it my business what happened with Charles Martinet, but I think it would have been wise for the new VA to come up with a brand new approach to the Mario voice instead of trying and failing to imitate Charles. We've had unique Mario voices multiple times before after all. Captain Lou still stands out as one of the best interpretations of the character and it's the one all us 80's children grew up on, back when the U.S. also called the evil turtle king "Koopa" (and his servant in the turtle tribe were "Koopa Troopas", Koopa as an adjective, not a noun). No I'm not asking for Chris Pratt of course, just a talented VA to put their own spin on the character.
Heck I fully understand that "new shine" may be blinding me to flaws, but so far I'm loving it. Even the sections that don't involve magical fruits and their devilish effects are all filled with a unique charm that they couldn't have gotten away with back in the "New Super Mario Bros" series.
In fact, the only thing I can really complain about is Mario's new voice actor. I don't know nor is it my business what happened with Charles Martinet, but I think it would have been wise for the new VA to come up with a brand new approach to the Mario voice instead of trying and failing to imitate Charles. We've had unique Mario voices multiple times before after all. Captain Lou still stands out as one of the best interpretations of the character and it's the one all us 80's children grew up on, back when the U.S. also called the evil turtle king "Koopa" (and his servant in the turtle tribe were "Koopa Troopas", Koopa as an adjective, not a noun). No I'm not asking for Chris Pratt of course, just a talented VA to put their own spin on the character.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)