Yes, I know. I’m still halfway through NSMBW and NSMBU. Shh.
Initial impressions aren’t great. The text is really hard to read – had Nintendo never heard of kerning? – and the controls feel a bit imprecise. This may be because of the travel on the buttons on the Wii gamepad, and the use of the analogue stick. In any case, after a while the controls weren’t an issue.
In this screen, you can see Mario rescuing Yoshi. Two things to note here: Mario seems to be able to float in mid air, and Yoshi is singularly useless, getting captured around 100 metres from his home. It hardly seems worth the effort.
I completed the first set of levels pretty quickly, and then got stuck on the first level where you can collect the feather that turns into a cape. That cost me three lives, because I kept expecting Yoshi to be able to swallow the baseballs lobbed at him.
I finished at the second level in Donut Plains, annoyed with the red dot indicating that there’s a secret exit on the first level. I know how to get to it – you need the green switch palace – but I hate leaving it blinking there.