Great for those who love and devour those kind of things, but repeating the same levels over and over has never been my cup of tea.Īs for the 3D effect of the game, well, it's pretty much non-existent. The game includes co-op (local only, which is a shame), a first for handheld Mario games, as well as a Coin Rush mode, which is an attempt at making speed runs and coin collecting a multiplayer experience. (I've still got some of the secret ones to make it through, though). It's also quite easy: by the time I beat the game I had 110 lives stocked up, and the last level was the only one that took me a decent amount of time to finally get through. While DLC levels are promised, that's somewhat short for a main offering. Each world's miniboss is a recycled Reznor that barely takes any skill to get past, and I wrapped up the main levels in just under five hours. The game suffers from a few of the regular "New Super Mario Bros." maladies: You can only save when beating a castle, you only have six real worlds, not including two forced 'secret worlds, and a bonus one unlocked after beating the game - the bulk of which can be completed quite quickly, and they all follow the same geographic themes we've seen time and time again.
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Whatever the reason, the game showers golden coins at Mario left and right, but doesn't develop the concept What starts at an attempt to freshen up the series takes some time to get off the ground, and does manage to capture a slice of that "Mario magic," but falls short of being overly memorable. Because they're shiny? Was Mario also hit hard by the recession? Or does he just have kleptomania? Sure, collecting 1 million coins sounds like a fun idea, but the game never even attempts to come up with a reason as to why I'm collecting all this loot.
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The game's new hook is coin collecting, an interesting idea and concept, but one that it fails to deliver on or take as far as it should. 2″ for the Nintendo 3DS gives Mario one of his coolest, and shiniest, outfits yet.