New SMB U Better than I thought

I kinda thought it was just new suits and the ability for a fifth player to mess with stuff a la Mario Galaxy, but this extended video seems to reveal a lot more going on if you pay attention to details:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWan9JRCoc8

Most notable to me is the auto-scroll, which certainly has drawbacks, but when playing with multiple players it certainly solves the issue of one player charging blindly ahead while others die because they were foolish enough to want to collect a few coins or try for a secret pipe.

Auto scroll will make it more difficult at the same time! Those were always the hardest levels in earlier Mario games.

I read some reports today that make it sound even better. The ability of the pad wielder to lay out coins for boost mode in a level then can save it and let others go through the level you created. Mario user made content? Im sold.

That sounds SWEET!

And yeah, Streex, it does make it harder- except when you consider how often your teammates scrolled you to death before, it might actually make it easier. Also, when you played single player, there was some exploration involved, but with multiplayer, exploration is kind of too clunky to work, anyway, so might as well throw it out in the interest of pure platforming action.

Problem for me is that I never played with anybody of much skill on NSMBWii. I was the one scrolling others off the screen. lol. I'm assuming it's always autoscroll and not just in multiplayer?

For that I have no idea. In fact, I did see cases where the scroll was still manual, but only in areas where not much was going on, such as leading up to a boss. It might even just be the competitive mode that has auto-scroll rather than the co-op. I only know what I observed- not what it means overall.

Stoked about this game, glad to see its not just "create a platform for losers".

No, but I'm looking forward to using the pad while my kids and friends play co-op and using it to kill the best players and help the worst ones. LOL. Does that make me a communist?

HAHAHA socialist pigdog.

Nyet, comrade!