{"id":5401,"date":"2009-10-10T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2009-10-10T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T12:06:06","slug":"super-mario-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Wii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/95316-New-Super-Mario-Bros-Wii-Reportedly-Wicked-Hard\">The rumor I heard over at The Escapist<\/a> is that the new Super Mario Wii is going to be self-esteem-destroying hard. Although, looking at the gameplay footage, it looks like the game recaptures the elegance and purity of the series that we haven&#8217;t seen since Mario went 3D.  It sounds like Nintendo heard all the outrage about the platform catering to the casuals, and decided to give them a double-barrel dose of challenge.<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XqOMinDz0mE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XqOMinDz0mE'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>This video makes a convincing case that they haven&#8217;t even begun to exhaust the neat ideas and interesting challenges of a 2D world.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to sound like a Mario fan.  I&#8217;m not.  I admire the series from a distance.  I&#8217;ve never enjoyed doing long sequences of jumping puzzles for much the same reason <a href=\"?p=5094\">I don&#8217;t enjoy racing games<\/a>.  When I lose I&#8217;m frustrated, while I&#8217;m playing I&#8217;m stressed, and when I win I feel less stressed.  On the other hand, I love watching skilled players work their magic on the game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumor I heard over at The Escapist is that the new Super Mario Wii is going to be self-esteem-destroying hard. Although, looking at the gameplay footage, it looks like the game recaptures the elegance and purity of the series that we haven&#8217;t seen since Mario went 3D. It sounds like Nintendo heard all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}