The Official Super Mario Galaxy Thread

[ilovetogame]

super mario galaxy is pretty sweet. while it doesn't have that amazing new feel that sm64 had cuz it was the first 3D one, it does a lot of things better than either of the previous 3D marios. the graphics are amazing, the water effects are out of this world. wii maybe can't hold a candle to 360 and ps3 in terms of realistic graphics but when its cartoony like this its absolutely breathtaking. i love the variety of the levels too, feels like smb3 and i can't wait to get more power ups (when i see that first fire flower i might just cry). the sound and music is absolutely the best of probably any nintendo game ever, certainly any mario. at first i thought the game was decent but its quickly growing on me, i'm maybe like 10 stars in. the sweets level was awesome, specially since it had old school music. and one of the other levels had classic mario music that i love. defintely pretty easy but there have been a couple levels so far where i've died a few times. but yeah tons of extra lives to get.

the control is a little off, especially that turn-around jump. control doens't feel as good as mario 64 just to move mario around. i like the motion control levels, adds nice variety. and using the pointer to pick up star bits is actually really nice and useful so you don't have to run after them, i thought it would be retarded but its a good addition. my only gripe besides the controls are i wish the levels had more enemies in them. that would raise the difficulty and just create a lot more action. i feel like in all the 3D mario and zelda games there aren't nearly enough enemies and usually they are way too easy, nintendo has yet to rectify this. i'm guessing i will continue to like this game more and more as i play through it, so far its good but i'm definitely missing the difficulty and sheer number of baddies and other things to avoid/kill like in the old 2D games. a few hours in i'd give it an 8.0 right now, although its getting more and more fun as i go.