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I'm clearly a ham-fisted fool. I died twice on the level where you collect five pieces of the star for the first time! Looks like there will be plenty of challenge for me. I've only got 3 stars but I just want to go home now and play it some more. Curse work.

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I'm clearly a ham-fisted fool. I die twice on the level where you collect five pieces of the star for the first time! Looks like there will be plenty of challenge for me. I've only got 3 stars but I just want to go home now and play it some more. Curse work.

.::: Don't fret, the very first time I set free foot on a planet with a BH inside I jumped right in it. :lol: It screws around so many things. Some you don't even realise.

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I'm clearly a ham-fisted fool. I died twice on the level where you collect five pieces of the star for the first time! Looks like there will be plenty of challenge for me. I've only got 3 stars but I just want to go home now and play it some more. Curse work.

I died straight away too, as soon as I was able to fall off the planet I did. Since then I've really got to grips with the controls and it works perfectly. Was the spin attack put in to help people hit enemies whilst upside a planet or something? So far I've had not problems jumping on Goombas and the like with pin point precision.

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I feel like I might spoil it when I play it with the kids tonight if I play it myself first. I'd quite like us all to discover it together, if it's as wonderful as people are saying.

I don't have kids myself, but this game is so full of joy, you'll definetely want to share the experience with the little 'uns. Just make sure they've not had any sugar-loaded snacks before hand. They'll be bouncing off the walls in excitement over this :lol:

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I died straight away too, as soon as I was able to fall off the planet I did. Since then I've really got to grips with the controls and it works perfectly. Was the spin attack put in to help people hit enemies whilst upside a planet or something? So far I've had not problems jumping on Goombas and the like with pin point precision.

.::: I think it's in there so you don't have to aim your basic attack. Like you had to in SM464 and SMS. It also doubles as a Float. (Backflip into Wall Kick into Float = Hello top of the structure!)

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.::: You get used to it. The first time I played this I was actually thinking about how much this corresponded with the first time I played Super Mario Bros. Just so many things to take into account and learn, but as you progress you get better and you start to anticipate and know how everything clicks.

Another way this is emphasized is the famous cookie-cutter level (Rocky Road). It's already pretty tricky navigating past the gaps, but at the end it throw shapes at you that give you a sense of vertigo and can only be done with some speed. It was like I hit the "HUGE GAP from a single block" jump from SMB's World 8-1 again. Only earlier. :lol: It's something you are too scared of doing to start with but as you master the controls you become more reckless, experienced and daring.

This is exactly what made DKJB so good and exactly what has been missing from Mario since god knows when...

The cookie-cutter level already made me scream each time I missed a platform. And I liked it!

Later on, when I got to a 'bonus level' (or 'mini-galaxy') in the second observatory, both the joy and the frustration rose to incredible levels. I'm talking about

the one where you have to stand on a ball with a star in it and roll it through the level.

The interactive music, the tremendous fun, the incredible frustration: the everything! :P

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I've got it sat next to me on my desk, and I'm working.

I feel like I might spoil it when I play it with the kids tonight if I play it myself first. I'd quite like us all to discover it together, if it's as wonderful as people are saying.

Seems to me like the best thing to do is selfishly play the game yourself, but to do so with the kids so they can take turns to use the second remote to pick up all the star shards you leave behind. You could let them have a go with Mario himself, s'pose, but it's an awfully generous and philanthropic soul who passes over control of this game.

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Gamestation are doing it for £35 as well. They didn't even have it in the new releases section for some reason.

Your kidding!?! i just bought it from the nottingham gamestation...and it was £39.99. BAS**RDS! :lol:

**EDIT** Hang on, im not sure now.....i knew i shouldnt have got my girlfriend go buy it for me. I wont know till she brings it round mine later. She text me to say it cost £39.99...but shes prolly being dippy.

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Got my first 5 stars last night, it's good.

Still need to get my head round the controls a bit, not that they've changed since SM64, merely the fact that i'm now using them in crazy gravity environments.

I've died a lot more than I thought I would, mostly due to mis-timing my spin attack on enemies, or just missing jumping on them completely. I've actually walked into enemies a few times because the remote didnt register my shake, a little annoying. Also, only 3 bits of energy per life?

I want the weekend now.

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this has been the most overwhelmingly positive thread on a game I've ever read.

could this be - the best game ever made?

surprisingly, my hype levels have been low for this for some reason. I know it's going to be great and I'm looking forward to playing it... but I was massively pumped for Halo 3 (and they hype turned out to be justified). Maybe it's because I don't see adverts for it everywhere... I think Nintendo are really intending to use word of mouth with this one as well.

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I’m going away to the Lake District this weekend with the girlfriend and I’m a bit low on funds as I’m buying Rockband next week, so I thought I’d be missing out on this...

So imagine my surprise when she just text me saying she packed my Wii for the weekend, and she’s also purchased ‘Mario’ for me too.

I MAY WELL PROPOSE ONCE I SEE HER AFTER WORK.

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I’m going away to the Lake District this weekend with the girlfriend and I’m a bit low on funds as I’m buying Rockband next week, so I thought I’d be missing out on this...

So imagine my surprise when she just text me saying she packed my Wii for the weekend, and she’s also purchased ‘Mario’ for me too.

I MAY WELL PROPOSE ONCE I SEE HER AFTER WORK.

She sounds like a keeper. Play it cool and she might invite you round to her castle for "cake".

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this has been the most overwhelmingly positive thread on a game I've ever read.

could this be - the best game ever made?

surprisingly, my hype levels have been low for this for some reason. I know it's going to be great and I'm looking forward to playing it... but I was massively pumped for Halo 3 (and they hype turned out to be justified). Maybe it's because I don't see adverts for it everywhere... I think Nintendo are really intending to use word of mouth with this one as well.

There is a full page advert in The Sun.

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I’m going away to the Lake District this weekend with the girlfriend and I’m a bit low on funds as I’m buying Rockband next week, so I thought I’d be missing out on this...

So imagine my surprise when she just text me saying she packed my Wii for the weekend, and she’s also purchased ‘Mario’ for me too.

I MAY WELL PROPOSE ONCE I SEE HER AFTER WORK.

Wow!

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So imagine my surprise when she just text me saying she packed my Wii for the weekend, and she’s also purchased ‘Mario’ for me too.

I MAY WELL PROPOSE ONCE I SEE HER AFTER WORK.

You may re-think that proposal when it turns out to be a pre-owned copy of Double Dash for the Gamecube. JOKE.

I've just picked this up from Gamestation and, in a similar move to Scottcr, finally got some use (albeit monetary rather than entertainment) out of Bioshock. I'd say "roll on five o'clock" but I'm actually going to the Christmas markets with my girlfriend after work for a mulled wine and then meeting a friend at 6pm for another drink.

There's a slim chance that I may be restless during both of these rendez-vous.

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this has been the most overwhelmingly positive thread on a game I've ever read.

could this be - the best game ever made?

I'm 21 stars in. I'll call it the best made game, ever made. It all seems to work. As long as the variety is kept up throughout the scenarios and challenges it'll better Mario 64 easy IMO. Sunshine was left behind, packing it's bags at the hotel from the completion of the first set of stars...

I’m going away to the Lake District this weekend with the girlfriend and I’m a bit low on funds as I’m buying Rockband next week, so I thought I’d be missing out on this...

So imagine my surprise when she just text me saying she packed my Wii for the weekend, and she’s also purchased ‘Mario’ for me too.

I MAY WELL PROPOSE ONCE I SEE HER AFTER WORK.

That's wife material right there. DO IT! :lol:

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