You’ll unlock a few things from collecting your first few thousands, which doesn’t take long. So much that there’s a great big counter on the title and map screens keeping track of all of your collected ones. This time it’s coins, tonnes and tonnes of coins. different to other Mario games why does it exist? What’s the point of this one? Each Mario game has a central theme.

The story in Mario games are simply a starting point to get the ball rolling and get into that delicious Mario goodness. It’s the same old story of Princess Peach getting kidnapped yet again, but it doesn’t mean anything in the long run. So well tuned, in fact, that you know what’s going to happen the moment it boots up. 2 is a well-tuned Mario experience from the get-go. The good news is that New Super Mario Bros. 2 might be the second game by name (third in the series) but it feels a lot older than that, like we’ve all been here before. In that time we’ve seen only two games carry the branding which isn’t a lot by anyone standards, however how long can something remain new? What makes something remain new?

2D Mario games have been brandishing the ‘New’ moniker for a few years now, nearly 6 years in fact.

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