The September issue of Australia’s Ultimate Nintendo magazine features the “world’s first review” of THQ’s upcoming Wii platformer de Blob.

Aside from giving the game a perfect 10/10 score, the magazine also proclaims it “would have Mr. Miyamoto bowing in awed respect.”

Praise seems to have become the Internet standard for de Blob, as well. IGN posted yesterday a detailed hands-on preview of the game’s first six worlds and hailed its polish, atypical for a Wii title:

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Atari’s squeaky clean platformer remake N+ is looking, well, pretty clean, cool and collected in this sample game play video. The platformer ain’t dead folks — it was just sleeping!

For a few hours today, as I played through the first three levels of Contra 4, I was transported back to the late 1980’s in mind, body and gaming experience. For a moment, I had reverted back nearly 20 years into the immature little troll that had stamped his feet on the floor of his parents bedroom (that was where the NES was back then). Almost immediately, I realized I was using language so foul and offensive it would have made Xbox Live voice chat blush.

And as the “Base” stage boss took the last life from the last of my five continues, I could think of only one thing to say about this incredibly difficult, mind-numbingly frustrating game.

More please.

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