New Super Mario Bros

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

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

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

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