WARNING: Unpopular Opinion Oncoming! The mini mushroom was actually really cool! You can run across water and even walls in the later games! It makes beach levels and levels with rising and lowering water so much more interesting! You even get a much floatier jump and skip the stage, but to balance it out, you die in one hit. You have to be strategic and skilled to use it right! It's so interesting. The fire flower almost never has any downsides, but you have to think a little more before you use a mini mushroom or not. It also presents a fun challenge against bosses, as seen in the DS game. The mini mushroom just offers a new way to play with Mario and I appreciate it for that!

To me, NSMBU felt like someone on the dev team wanted to make it more original, but the executives couldn't let go of Wii. For example, all the worlds being food-themed in some way, the beach levels looking more like some kind of mountain watering hole than beaches, the random painted ghost world in the middle of Soda Jungle, and the final world being Peach's Castle instead of just the ordinary volcano. But again, the executives wanted to capitalize on Wii as much as possible, so it watered down all these fresh ideas to make them barely noticeable.

It depresses me that I can't play with Yoshi for most of the game. I never felt this way until I played Super Mario World, then going back to Wii just made me sad to leave Yoshi behind. They didn't even fix this in New Super Mario Bros U!! Well, at least we had Baby Yoshis, which were pretty epic. I digress.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this

One of the only sins this game has is that Peach was going to be playable but didn’t became so because they didn’t know how to animate her dress. They could have just gave her shorts from the sports games or pants smh

I think it’s so funny how Bowser Junior consistently has some of the best fights in the entire Mario franchise (it honestly makes me mad he wasn’t in odyssey). Except for in new super Mario Bros DS but we don’t talk about that😅

My favorite thing about the Penguin Suit is the small touch where if you leave it idle it waddles slowly like an actual penguin.

YESSIR!! I've been waiting for this one for quite a while. NSMBW is easily my favorite NSMB game, and the one I feel lived up to the “new” title the most. It had a lot of new and returning concepts and all of them worked perfectly within the game.

NSMBW was really fresh and hype when it came out in 2009 and it really felt "new". This game introduced me to mario alongside mario kart wii, mario galaxy, and super mario world for the GBA. The DS version that came out years before was also really awesome with all the mini games and whatnot, and the wii version was different enough and still tried things nintendo hadn't done yet instead of just a half assed port. Nintendo was really pushing out quality games at the time with Mario 64 ds as well and some of the other stuff from that era. As a last side note, I really liked the surprise twist during the bowser fight in this game

This may not be my favorite 2D Mario game, that honor goes to Mario World. But this was my first Mario game, and the first game I played period, and I still love it today.

I have such fond memories with this game. This was the only game that my whole family played together and we had such a blast. From my dad mocking yellow toad's live continue noise, to me and my brother throwing eachother off the levels, to mom bringing out ice cream sandwhiches for a quick break. It was some of the best moments of my childhood

Honestly I love the Kamek boss battle in world 8’s fortress since Kamek boss fights in Mario platformers aren’t really a thing much. Heck I think this might’ve been the first ever one!

Another great thing about NSMBWii (aside from the awesome enemy rings), is that with the addition of the hidden wall technique, star coins could now be hidden far better, and their reward of accessing World 9 is far better than the 'shops' in NSMB. There are many aspects of this game that were well thought out by the game's creators.

Fun fact: The Penguin suit was almost the Chicken suit in development... it was supposed to be a better version of the Fire Flower a la how the Penguin Suit is a suped up Ice Flower. Maybe the chicken suit allowed you to peck and float? I wonder if Chick-Fil-A would have done tie-in toys if that happened... anyways yeah

The NOSTALGIA! This was the first video game I ever played. I remember playing 2-player with my sister. We would always try to throw each other off the levels. Those were good times! Easily my favorite 2D Mario!

I have to admit: I like the DS one better (as one of my favourite games period), but that's probably a big biased because it's my first video game and one I played for most of the day for a very long time

YES!!! Thank you for defending the Blue Shell from the first game, it was a very cool power-up! Which makes it sadder that it wasn't included in subsequent games...

Honestly I LOVED the Blue shell In New Super Mario Bros. But I just absolutely hated that it couldn’t be found normally in stages because it sucks whenever you get hit a single time and lose it and then can’t get it again easily….,

It's finally here!! I've been looking forward to this for a while now. New Super Mario Bros. Wii may not be my favorite 2D Mario game or New Super Mario Bros game, those honors go to Land 2 and DS/Luigi U respectively, but whenever I booted up the game I always had a blast. It introduced 2 of my top 5 power ups, the Propellor Mushroom and Penguin Suit, as well as having some great and unique level ideas, like keeping enemies off your raft, skullcoasters, water bubbles in the sky, just to name a few. Whenever I had friends over we always would play this game together, whether it be helping each other or throwing people into bottomless pits, those were and still are some of my favorite gaming experiences today. Even though I can't currently play it because it got scratched with my thousands of hours put into it, this game will always have a special place in my heart.

Man, this game is a big part of my childhood. I remember playing it when I was 4. Those were some good times...