I love the amount of hidden stuff, but yeah it definitely ramps up the difficulty on later levels. My coworkers and I spent a good three nights trying not to get electrocuted in a giant ferris wheel puzzle.

Very annoying 'physics', and the control runs the range from 'fair' to 'downright awful' at times. I shouldn't die 4 times jumping over 3 cactus! The game does look good though (The mexican 'Day of the Dead' levels are eye candy in the extreme!). I give it about a '7' overall...maybe '8'

This game kind of reminds me of Yoshi's Island 1. You can beat the game relatively easily, but if you want to get 100% of the items it gets much harder.

I finished the story mode over the weekend with about 60% of the items, but then again I've never been one to get 100% of all the stuff in any game.

I never really had much of a problem with the controls. There are times when you accidently jump 'back' into the level and it gets annoying, but other than that i thought most of the time the controls worked great.

Has anyone tried to make a level? I haven't.

I've messed around a bit. I really wanted to play the entire game first to see how MM implemented a lot of stuff, sort of learning by example.

I completed all 8000 tutorials for the level creater though. The level of flexibility is crazy, I saw a video of a side scrolling shooter level that someone made in the game. Very impressive.

ARRRGH, been working 60 hour weeks for the past month. I wanna unwrap my copy and play the shittouta this game!

pulled the trigger on the PS3, thinking about getting this game.

will my 4.5 year old daughter like it?

she will cause it's really colorful but it is pretty tough sometimes (then again i suck at platformers). i'm seriously thinking of having a stunt controller....and maybe a stunt tv to throw the controller at.

stunt controller = old, dead controller that you throw instead of your new one that replaced the old, dead controller.