This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Our hero must then work his way back to the purloined princess, travelling across mushroom-filled fields, over icy glaciers, and through deadly deserts, stomping on goombas and leaping between precarious platforms all the way. He reaches down with a giant hand and knocks Mario leagues away. The story begins with Bowser crashing a party at Princess Peach’s castle. Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet series in particular has really raised the graphical bar for side-scrolling adventure games, and Mario’s first HD outing doesn’t surpass its intimidating achievements in immersive textures and detail. However, its visual allure doesn’t extend beyond what we’ve seen in HD platformers made for competing systems over the last five or six years. Our Italian hero has all the polished cartoon-like prettiness of a Pixar character, and the backgrounds - brightly coloured layers of earth and sky - are nothing if not easy on the eyes. Is the most graphically advanced Mario game yet.
