[Primewax]

OK, time to finally state my opinion of this game in a format other than 140 characters at a time on Twitter.

Anyway, I say Over. The game was fun at first. Kind of hard to control, but the learning curve wasn't bad. But I noticed the more I played, the more nauseous I got. I just chocked it up to not being used to the game. But it happened more often the more times I tried to play it. And it
wasn't just me. My wife had to leave the room when I played it because she almost vomited. I ended up trading it in pretty quickly, but figured we were part of a small group who couldn't handle this game. However, I noticed when the game would come up in conversations with friends, more and more people said that it made them sick. One person even said it gave them worse headaches than a Virtual Boy. The problem seems to be pretty widespread.

OK, so some people can't play it. All games are that way to a degree, I suppose. However, its usually not due to physical illness. And my main problem? This is supposed to be a MARIO game, aka accessible to anyone, yet so many people just can't handle it. I guess I'm bitter, but it seems to me that a game people say to be one of the greatest Mario games of all time shoukd be playable by all. And the fact that so many people can't play it, that fact takes away its essential "Mario-ness" and therefore removes it from the list of great, or even good Mario games. I traded mine in and bought Super Mario 64 on VC and didn't look back. The planet gimmick was a cool idea, but it took away everything Mario stands for.