Iwata - New Super Mario Bros. 2 isn't your "usual Mario"

Satoru Iwata supposes that, after taking a quick glance at it, people will think New Super Mario Bros. 2 is “the usual Super Mario.” But according to the game’s art designer Masaaki Ishikawa, Nintendo added new features to Mario’s upcoming Nintendo 3DS title to make a fresh impression.

[lizard81288]

A hard mario game? It would be nice, but they have said that about NSMBW and that never happened. By the 3rd world or so, I had 100 lives.

[live2play]

was rayman origins a hard game? were the treasure chest levels hard?

if your answer is yes

then i say this

rayman origins had no lives

is super meatboy hard?
no lives on supermeatboy

lives in mario games are just tradition now.

try playing the later levels with no checkpoints and no powerups. just plain mario.

[live2play]

amano director of nsmb 2"something I would like to boldly proclaim to people who have said that so far the series hasn't been that difficult is that this time you can play some challenging stages"

and to dlc

Yet with under a month to go until New Super Mario Bros 2 is released in the UK, Amano admitted that the team "HAVENT MADE ANYTHING YET" and will only start working on New Super Mario Bros 2 DLC WHEN THEY GET FEEDBACK from those who have played the game.

Takashi Tezuka said: "We'll make the additional stages with an ear out for opinions on what is a hit in the main stages."

According to Iwata, this is to ensure that it doesn't feel like content that could have been included when the game was released