Yesterday, New Super Mario Bros. for the DS was released here. I went to pick up my copy in the Bic Camera in Shinjuku and due to my bad Japanese almost ended up accidentally buying a new DS Lite as well. I realised I had been queueing in the DS Lite queue just before I would have had to buy one, and instead just picked up the game. It’s pretty good and has lots of nice new bonuses like the giant mushroom and the tiny mushroom, both of which work really well. The music is also really good, lots of new versions of the classic Mario Brothers tunes. It feels pretty much like playing a remixed version of the original Super Mario on the NES…only much, much easier (which wouldn’t be too hard, seeing as I can hardly finish the first world on the original these days) and much, much prettier. I’m really liking the really simple interface and the small touch screen moments, and especially the nice touch of action moving to the lower screen when Mario goes down a pipe! Looking forward to getting home tonight to play a bit more! I’m starting to get a bit backlogged with games at the moment. I only really play my DS and PSP on the second half of the commute to work (the first half, I read), and so now have about 5 games as yet unfinished…all a good way of preventing me spend any money on new ones though!