And so far, I'm thinking it's an 8/10.

Tops.

Does it get better? So far there have been ridiculous amounts of one up's, loads of waving the controller around at star bits and several mini games involving dull uses of the Wii Remote.

Are there some nice big juicy levels to get stuck into once all these control learning niceties are out of the way, Mario 64 style? Or is the whole game very bitty like this?