Four players on the same couch, and a friendship that doesn't survive level three.

The community profile is odd, and rather endearing. On the desert island question, New Super Mario Bros. Wii lands ahead of 82% of games: the kind of cartridge you take because you know it'll still work years later. But everything else settles into the middle. Connection, fun, feel in the hands, music, all cluster around the average. And then there's the art style, right at the bottom, ahead of just 8% of titles. That's the tension: a game you'd keep forever, but one that left almost no visual mark. Careful though, several of these criteria rest on very few votes, so treat them as early signals, not a verdict.

That's the fate of the New Super Mario Bros. formula: a 2.5D platformer of surgical precision, dressed in a deliberately neutral, clean, interchangeable look. Next to the Mario games that take real visual risks, this one chose readability for four players at once. It pays for that on exactly this criterion.

So, who is it for? For you if you love a sharp platformer to share, millimetre-perfect jumps, the joyful chaos of local co-op. Much less so if you want a game that stays in your eyes long after the credits.