would be great to have a hard mode, leader-board, and online multilayer. however i seriously have doubts its going 2.

If your goal in playing these games is the simple point A to point B which is these game's base, then sure it's not very hard. Try getting every big coin on every NSMBWii level without getting help from a strategy guide or online, and still make a claim that it needs to be harder.

Point A to point B ranges anywhere from easy to pretty challenging on these games. Adding in the added challenge of not dying while getting these obscurely placed and hidden coins makes the levels that much harder.

To even further this point, games like DKCR are like this even moreso.

So if jumping over 'goombas' alone just isn't enough for you, (goomba's being synonymous here with all of the game's challenges) then dedicate yourself to completion. Suddenly some of those 'goombas' will seem more strategically placed.

The author of this piece may want to revisit some classic Mario games like Mario 3 and Mario World. I just did that recently, and even without warping, they're not THAT hard. In fact, New Mario Wii felt just as challenging as those games.

"A lot of people rightly complain that the New Super Mario Bros. games are too easy." yeah no there's just too lazy to make an effort to do self impossed challenges. If it's ok to tell someone who's bad at a game to practice,then it's hypocritical far people wanting a challenge to complain that THEY CHOSE NOT TO TRY. A game is only too hard if you don't make an effort to get better,a game is only too easy if you never try to make it harder.

the Manga creator.

not the creator creator