Shigeru Miyamoto believes that gamers will find New Super Mario Bros. Wii more challenging than the DS original.
"I do think the game has a lot more oomph to it than the first New SMB," Miyamoto told Japanese magazine Famitsu. "World 1 and 2 are pretty forgiving, things ramp up starting with World 3, and it gets even harder at World 6. I think by the time you master World 6 you'll have all the skills you need. You could say this game is a challenge to gamers, to see if they have the perseverance it takes."
In the same interview, Miyamoto also compared the new Super Guide feature to the P-Wing in Super Mario Bros. 3. "In Mario 3 there was an item, the P-Wing, that basically let you skip a single stage at any time," he said. "I figured that since that game has 80 levels or so anyway, it'd be nice to let gamers take a pass on at least one or two of them; then, once they beat the game, they could go back to those stages and try them again. In New SMB Wii, we took that to another level."
What do you think about Miyamoto's latest comments? Did you think New Super Mario Bros. was easy?
You can read more from Miyamoto in issue 50 of Official Nintendo Magazine which goes on sale on Friday 20 November. Click here to read more about it.
