Those hoping for a 100 hour epic may now go and cry.

The upcoming classic side-scrolling style New Super Mario Bros. Wii is Nintendo's biggest Mario game this year. So you'd think it was filled with hours and hours of gameplay? Apparently not, according to the UK's Official Nintendo Magazine.

When answering reader questions on the title, they remarked that while great fun, their reviewer was able to "blitz through it" in six hours. Granted, this is without going back to collect all Star Coins, which require multiple play-throughs to complete.

Nevertheless, a gameplay time of just six hours is not long by anyone's standards, and many Nintendo fans will surely have been expecting more.

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