Posts tagged mario

Played more of this with my wife over my extended birthday weekend. We’re both utterly hopeless at it, but we have a lot of fun.

We’ve got as far as the first castle in world two, but have died there more times than I care to remember. We did get to the boss once, but we both managed to get ourselves killed. We’ll get him next time, though. (Possibly.)

Arrived via the lovely Goozex service yesterday. (That’s my own referral link, by the way. Sign up and I’ll get a trade token, worth one euro.) I didn’t play long – yesterday evening was all about tiding the house – but I had to test it out, so went through the first few minutes. Didn’t actually play an awful lot, as there’s a whole lot of talking to get through, but I like what I’ve seen so far. Looks pretty lovely and I love games that don’t need the nunchuk, because it moves around the house of its own accord during the night and is never where I think I left it. Mischevious little bugger, it is.

Just a quick go. I died in World 4. As I always do.

I need italics.

This game is brilliant.

The wheel is a great accessory and really adds to the experience, after five or six races of falling off things, bashing into walls and failing to do tricks. I thoroughly enjoyed my time paying through the first couple of 50cc cups.

But where it got the italics was online. Just playing random people was amazing. No visible lag at all, which is incredible. Whether Nintendo have written amazing net code or amazing lag-hiding code I don’t know, but it was just as smooth as playing offline. Except, you know, instead of playing cheating AI characters I was playing real people in the UK, Germany and France. I just thought I’d try out a race or two and ended up playing for an hour. I only stopped because I had to get some potatoes out of the oven.

Played this for while with my wife. It’s getting very difficult now and I’m seeing the Game Over screen a lot more. (Shut up, deKay.) The Daredevil Comet in Deep Dark Galaxy took me about fifteen tries and when I died deep into a mission on the dreadnought I decided I’d had enough for the day. Not because I hate the game, but just because it requires so much concentration. It’s joyful and wondrous and easily the best game of this year – at least – but when it’s hard, it’s draining.