Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games

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Wii Sports was crap and this looks to be more of the same. Nintendo and other developers need to think of some better uses for that controller than crappy mini games.

Heh. Not gonna happen. The controller doesn't have that many uses. It's lightgun aspect is essentially good for shooters, and that's it, and the motion sensitivity isn't really good for anything except gimmickry. Yeah, Twilight Princess was awesome, and the bow use was great, but I'd still much rather have had a sword button than the swinging controller. The motion sensitivity is nowhere near what it needs to be to make it a meaningful game element, and, when technology gets good enough so that it can be a meaningful game element, it will probably still fail because gamers are insanely lazy and prefer interfaces that offer maximum control with minimum work, and the sooner Nintendo realizes this the sooner we can get away from the cheap gimmickry and get back to the good stuff.

As for the game, I'm sorry, it's a totally ridiculous concept. Mario has four basic abilities: Jumping on enemies' heads, shooting fireballs, hitting things with a hammer, and limited flight. That's fine. Stop introducing more and more things for him to do. Now he's some star athelete, he's got who-knows-how-many new abilities in Super Mario Galaxy, and it's getting rather ridiculous, IMHO. He's become Superman before Kryptonite and Doomsday. They're giving him so many super powers and strength that the character is just a cheap sellout. Move him back to platformers and keep him there!