New Super Mario Bros Wii

It this game good?
Short answer: No
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
It seems like every year Nintendo fails yet again. Almost every Mario game to date is about a short sterotype itailian who saves a princess/relative from a evil castle, usually in control of a mini dragon who became emo in his teen years. Occasionally he gets unneeded and annoying help from his brother, but then Mario just kind of forgets him and runs away. You run around on a yellowish stone road to the castle, avoiding minor enemies and scary looking flowers.
Nintendo recently took that game, slightly tuned up the characters to look almost 3D, made it so there is four charcters, and then slammed the word New in front of it. Take a look for yourself. As you may have noticed, the only new aspect of the game is multiplayer. Actually now that I think about it, all Wii games are just you and 3 others beating each other up on a tiny map, complete with cartoon violence. Welcome to the club, new super mario bros Wii. Meanwhile, the Xbox 360 allows you to do this on a open map, with more compeling story, plot, characters, and everything else.
The characters in this new game, are Mario, Luigi, and two different color toads. That's like a super hero game with, superman, batman, and two recently hatched ducklings. Not that it matters though, because all the characters are exactly the same when it comes to ability. The plot is pretty much non-existant, and the concept got old about 20 years ago. The power ups are even designed so that only one person gets them too.
Even bad games have a place in history, sometimes even as teaching purposes, but this game doesn't deserve to exist. This doesn't even top previous mario games, at their standards, what so ever.
On the plus side, now you and three friends can all commit suicide at the same time...yay!