“When you want to spin your character in the air to float a bit while dropping, you need to shake your remote. You also have to shake the remote, and hold a button, when you want to pick up another player. Both of these work relatively well, but it can feel awkward switching from straight-up button controls to motion in the middle of a run.”

i know it has waggle when you’re on some boat and you control a light on the boat that is the only light available. it was shown in one of the videos out there. i dont think it features too heavily though (thankfully).

MadWorld made a decent effort at making motion an integrated part of combat rather than an after-thought.

But this is Mario, will we need anything more advanced than A for jump and B for ‘fire’?

I DL’d Super Mario World on VC a while ago, thinking that it would just work fine with a Gamecube pad like Mario Tennis does.

But the buttons were arranged so that it was almost impossible to sprint and jump at the same time, pretty much making the game impossible to play.

I was basically forced to buy a Wii Classic Controller.

Knowing this, and knowing Nintendo, I can imagine them jumping up and down with glee at the idea of selling up to four Classic Controllers with every copy of the game…