New Super Mario Bros. U
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
· Nintendo
Adventure, Platform
Release Date: November 18, 2012
New Super Mario Bros. U is a side-scrolling 2.5D platform game, and the fourth and latest installment in the New Super Mario Bros. series. As the sequel to New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the game is a follow-up game of New Super Mario Bros. 2. It uses new, more detailed background styles and models and introduces the Flying Squirrel power-up, acquired by Mario and his friends from an item called the Super Acorn, as well as utilizing the Wii U GamePad in Boost Mode. In addition to the core campaign, there are also challenge modes.
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Critic Reviews
2 reviews
IGN
5/10
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Super Mario Bros. has a solid cast of characters who are thrust into a psychedelic smattering of scenes hastily glued together in nearly offensively stupid ways, but it’s also strangely ambitious at times.
Giant Bomb
★★★
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This is both a perfectly fine Wii U launch game, and a little too much "new" Super Mario a little too soon.