Super Mario Galaxy

Post by **fastbilly1** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:18 pm

So I took a half day off at work - have to burn my vacation days in parts since all the Fridays an Mondays for the rest of the year have already been taken by coworkers, and picked up Mario Galaxy. After the lengthy tutorial parts I finally got to the meat of the game, and man was it well worth the wait. Everything you have heard about the game is correct. It is the best looking Wii game, it does have the occasional camera problem, and sometimes you do get disoriented, but it is by far one of the best games of the year. It has a strong Mario 3 vibe and I give it my choice for game of the year (Mainly since I think they buggered up the port of Ghost Squad to the Wii - Im still buying it).

The controls are spot on, the wiimote integration is not "tacked on," and the game is simply fun. Could it have been done on another system, yeah, but I couldnt see me playing it any other way. Ever part of it just works, Ill live with the occasional camera foible.

And so you know - Four hours in and I have 25 stars. I would have more but I spent an hour or so just playing with gravity fields and the long jump. Feels like an seven or eight hour base game (that means 60 of the 120 stars - and not counting the replay through as Luigi).

Post by **RadarScope1** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:07 pm

Holy hell I want to play this game. It looks awesome, and there's just something special about a new Mario game coming out. There's nothing else like it.

However, I have to say this - My cousin recently got a Wii and I went to his place to check it out. Spent a couple hours playing Wii Sports and RE4. I don't want to get off topic or start a flame war (like that would really happen on this board) but I just don't think the Wii is for me. I can't see myself playing any of those games for more than 30 minutes.

BUT Mario is different. If my cousin doesn't get this game I'm going to slap him. The Mario 3 comparisons I've been hearing make my mouth water even more!

Post by **droorz77** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:54 am

I picked it up yesterday after work. I have to agree with you totally, it is great fun. Controls are perfect, graphics are as nice. Really fun game, worthy of dusting the Wii off, that is for sure.

Adam S

Post by **Mozgus** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:12 pm

This is great and all but I wish everyone would stop calling Sunshine a failure. Anyone who tried it, loved it. The rest just sat back and called it gay because of the name and the water play mechanics.

Post by **Espio 1919** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:28 pm

If Super Mario Galaxy is like SMB3, then Sunshine must be the Super Mario Bros. 2 in the picture; you know, the one that is the oddball of the trio and doesn't seem to fit in with the other two games (Galaxy and SM64).

Post by **marurun** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:30 pm

From the footage I've seen Sunshine owes a lot to Mario 64. That said, I've not played any of the 3D Mario games and I have some trepidation about them.

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:35 pm

Mozgus wrote:This is great and all but I wish everyone would stop calling Sunshine a failure. Anyone who tried it, loved it. The rest just sat back and called it gay because of the name and the water play mechanics.

yeh I have to say Mozgus, I absolutely agree with you there...

Sunshine was brilliant IMO, I still havent completed it tbh, (Im stuck on that annoying collect red coins off the pirate ship in the playground stage), but I think it is beautiful artistically and very good fun to play, and I honestly don't see how it is not a worthy successor to Mario 64, apart from the fact that it isnt 'ground-breaking' or 'genre-defining' etc.

Yeh the way a lot of reviews of UR MR GAY go on is as if Sunshine is like a blight on the noble Mario history which is 'best forgotten' - IMO this is ridiculous.

Then again I bloody love Wind Waker too, and ESPECIALLY the sailing bits, I find them thereapeutic :p

I am extremely looking forward to Mario Galaxy though in all seriousness, it does look incredible, and Super Paper Mario has put me in the right mood after completing it last week

Post by **samratty** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:58 pm

I agree Sunshine isn't as bad as it's suddeenly made out to be. I do think it's the weakest of the 3D mario's tho, including Galaxy obviously. But in many ways that's a compliment when compared to the rest of platforming, which mostly struggle even to meet Sunshine.

I can't wait to play Galaxy properly, unluckily it seems to be next to impossible to find a Wii in the UK without a stupid bundle including terrible games.

Post by **fastbilly1** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:03 pm

Lets leave that brilliant WindWaker out of this discussion. Personally I have only played a demo of Sunshine, the part I did play I enjoyed, but I did not feel it was worth $50 for the game. A friend recently picked it up used and loves it, sadly the only copies I can now find are Greatest hits, and well I am a bit of a perfectionists with my cases. If I have to bite I will but I am trying my best to find a none Greatest Hits version. Now that I have $50 to spend at ToyRUs my search has changed more to finding any good GBA/Cube games...

But Galaxys does bring back my favorite obstacle from the Mario games; arms of fireballs. Gotta love those slow moving walls of death. I do have one problem, I feel the hits you take are ill proportional to the amount of damage done to you. But I am basing this more on the Mario 64 model than the traditional Mario model. Now we need a "spiritual successor" to Mario 2/Doki Doki Panic...or a real sequel to Mario RPG.

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:25 pm

fastbilly1 wrote:Lets leave that brilliant WindWaker out of this discussion. Personally I have only played a demo of Sunshine, the part I did play I enjoyed, but I did not feel it was worth $50 for the game. A friend recently picked it up used and loves it, sadly the only copies I can now find are Greatest hits, and well I am a bit of a perfectionists with my cases. If I have to bite I will but I am trying my best to find a none Greatest Hits version. Now that I have $50 to spend at ToyRUs my search has changed more to finding any good GBA/Cube games...

But Galaxys does bring back my favorite obstacle from the Mario games; arms of fireballs. Gotta love those slow moving walls of death. I do have one problem, I feel the hits you take are ill proportional to the amount of damage done to you. But I am basing this more on the Mario 64 model than the traditional Mario model. Now we need a "spiritual successor" to Mario 2/Doki Doki Panic...or a real sequel to Mario RPG.

I dunno if you like or consider it a true Mario game, but Super Paper Mario also has those spinning fire arms if you're interested