Which game should I buy for my Wii: Super Smash Bros. Brawl or Mario Kart Wii?
I have a Wii entirely because I have small kids. We have no other consoles, never been a videogame sort of family. From that context, Kart is by far the better game. A family can pick it up and play it with almost no learning curve – you even hold the controller like a steering wheel and just drive the thing, holding one button for the gas and using another to throw stuff. Compare Brawl (or as my kids like to call it the “Punch Mario in the face game”), whose major selling factor seems to be the nostalgia of jamming every imaginable video game character from your childhood under one roof and having them fight it out. Can you do anything in this game, anything at all, without having to hit some combination of 12 buttons and hope for the best? Brawl is great for the hardcore gamers who love that stuff. Kart is great for the casual gamer who just wants to pick it up and play. I don’t know which you are, but that’s my review in a nutshell.
