Super Mario 3D Land review: Depths worth plumbing

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.c.../3dland114.jpgFor the early portions of Super Mario 3D Land, I was under the dual misconceptions that I didn't like it very much, and I wasn't doing the review. Both of those assumptions proved false after I found myself playing through about half the game in a single, nonstop session. It became clear that I liked it much more than I thought I did -- and I had inadvertently gotten well ahead of our assigned reviewer during my Mario fugue state, hence the duty shifted to me.

I also spent that first half of the game thinking this was the easiest Mario platformer I'd ever played. That turned out not to be the case at all.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/09/su...d-land-review/