New Super Mario Bros.

1up just posted a nice preview of the upcoming New Super Mario Bros. for the DS. For me, Mario games are a reason to live. They are on par with the Sistine Chapel or Da Vinci's Mona Lisa for sheer artistic brilliance. If gaming were a religion, Super Mario Bros. 1,2 and 3 would be the requisite holy books (That's the American Super Mario Bros. 2. The Japanese version would be something like The Book Of Mormon). And those blasphemous gamers who have forsaken 2D for 3D would be heathens. Their blood would flow through the streets.
I guess what I'm trying to say is... I like Mario.

The game has been pushed back to May 15th in the US and May 27th in Japan. I'm supposed to leave Japan on the 27th, so hopefully I can buy a copy at Narita or something. DS Lite + New Mario= Best 14 hour flight ever.