Topic: It's New Super Mario Bros. Wii Launch Day!

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That doesn't mean the controls are less responsive, it's that way for a reason. It prevents you from making a running jump off of a tiny platform, which allows for more challenging level designs. You've got to keep your momentum when making jumps.

Funny thing was, I had almost cleared the game before I discovered Mario's triple jump.  With the slower acceleration, there aren't so many places where it can be used.

[that Baby guy]

Why is everyone shocked about the abundance of 1ups? It has been like that since SMW, heck SMB3! The Mario games have always been generous with lives but IMO that does not make the games lacking in challenge. Maybe less frustrating in that you don't have to restart a huge chunk of the levels but I don't really find that fun going through everything I've done before.

I've gained 99 lives on a couple save files, some with and some without effort.  The thing is, after I hit the mark, I was still gaining an average of two or more lives per level, not including the one for hitting the top of the flagpole.  Virtually any stage I'd die in, there'd be a 1-up or two in-between the starting or midpoint and where I'd die.

There were a lot of one-ups in earlier Mario games, but this one truly has balanced the number for multiplayer.  It's not a complaint, not at all, but rather just something worth mentioning out of novelty. Lives mean a lot more with each additional player, which is just something to make the game more fun with a co-op/counter-op type of style.