New Super Mario Bros - Wii

⭐ 9.0/10

(Originally written by Joseph)

I didn't actually play through this whole game so this is not a true review. About a year ago Jess and I started playing it together because we thought it would be a fun way to spend time together and do something that involved teamwork. It didn't work that way. We hated each other every second we played together. I hated her because she was better then me and wouldn't suffer my incompetence, and she hated me for holding us back and because I accidentally killed her every 5 minutes.

Fast forward a year that I'd spent honing my platforming skills, and now Jess comes crawling back asking me for help with the final levels. Again, we mostly spent our time bickering then yelling then threatening divorce. But we worked and grinded, and finally emerged victorious. Dropping Bowser into the depths of the molten hell of his own creation was possibly the greatest satisfaction I've experienced in my time as a gamer. It was also the highest point of our marriage and I have never loved Jess more then when she jumped on the final button as small Mario while I was in a death bubble trying to get back to her. That moment almost entirely makes up for the fact that this game was damn well two deaths away from ending our marriage in the first place.