Its not as good as everyone is hyping

Thats not to say its a bad game, it is rather good but it has exactly the same problem as every other 3d platform game and thats the damn camera. To be fair 90% of the time it does the job well, but has beern the odd life lost for me due to running into an area blind as I cant see where I am going. My other gripe with the game is the Princess has been kidnapped AGAIN! just once could they please come up with a different story.

The controls work well, nunchuck stick to move, a to jump, b to fire bits and shaking the controller to spin. The spin does seem a bit pointless at times, if you do it next to an enemy you stun them and then when you run into them they die, this is how the game tells you to kill things and fails to mention that jumping on their heads is a lot easier and kills them first time, if you spin and miss you cant spin for again for a second or two which is a pain when you spin and the enemy changes direction and you miss as it normaly means they will hit you and hurt you.

There is also a little star cursor on the screen, you can move this around to pick up bits which is some sort of drug that everything goes crazy for, pressing b fires a star at the cursor and if you hit an enemy they are stunned for a couple of seconds allowing you to run over them and kill them.

Just done a nice level where you turn into a bee, as a bee you can fly for a bit and walk on honey which lets you walk up walls. There is also a strange bit where you walk on the queen bee and she makes some very inappropriate noises that should push the rating up to at least a 12!

At the end of the day its a Mario game and is everything you would expect a proper Mario game to be (not some cheap tie in like strikers charged)

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