Soleron on 06 June 2009
You might think Super Mario Galaxy is easy, but i think you're just too used to Mario games. When I first played SM64 it was really hard and took months to get 120 stars. Now I could do it in a week. I watched a 'normal' gamer play SMG and he struggled with just jumping on Goombas - just like I did with SM64. Making it harder would alienate beginners - which, as Iwata said, everyone was once.
Having hard segments for expert players is a better solution (Trial Galaxies) but the flaw was that they were three gimmick courses rather than being pure platforming AND hard.
