I recently sat down and started to play through New Super Mario Brothers Wii with the intent of putting up a review.  As I progressed through the game, however, it occurred to me that while the game is, in fact, excellent, and a great addition to anyone’s Wii library, it’s still “just a Mario Bros. game.”  There isn’t anything particularly innovative in the single-player version of the game that would warrant a full review.  With that in mind, I turned to the “new” in the title and decided to try out the “simultaneous multiplayer” that had been touted as one of the game’s main selling points.  I picked up the hotline and assembled a crack team of Mario players to tackle this game the way it was meant to be played.  I had, unfortunately, forgotten one key problem with my using my friends as a multiplayer “team”:

My friends are jerks.

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