A lot of things can be debated. What is Dio's best song? Holy Diver or Rainbow In The Dark? (Uh, Rainbow In The Dark). Is Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels better than Snatch? (They seem oddly similar in plot. Hmm). Is Lebron as good as Michael Jor...hahahaha...ok, bad example. Point is, things can be compared. That's mostly what culture does for us. Culture filters out some options and bombards us with others. Thanks Bud Light, we get it, you make beer and I should drink it. Let me watch more than the opening kickoff before a commercial break. Fuck. But sometimes items and characters and experiences are not going to be debated. They will be accepted. Like Hey Jude or hamburgers. Mario is that good. He's a mustached icon bigger than Burt Reynolds and his games are always excellent. This one topped them all. First time I walked on that opening grass covered planet and saw the mechanics and camera view that all shifted so smoothly, I was stunned. Hadn't even gotten my first star. Some games can't get camera angle right if you're just walking straight (Turok) or swimming (every game ever) much less jumping from planet to planet. This games colors were vivid, levels were varied and fresh and even the motion controls didn't gum up the works. My blue dot would just be blurring across the screen when I got shot out of a star. STAR BITS! NUM NUM NUM. I got every star. Finished it again with Luigi just for kicks. And even played that Luigi shaped planet with all the purple coins twice. You'd get the rhythm of that down, jumping from flip panel to vanishing panel. Should I have jumped there? Gotta backtrack sooner or later. LONG JUMP.....Nailed it. You'd be flowing through that. Kanye flowing to a beat..Too many Urkels on your team that's why you're...and then someone walks in front of the screen and you're wallowing in black muck. MOM!
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