Wyrdness on 24 February 2010
Although you have a point Galaxy has one thing the other 3d Marios and most other games for that matter don't, a concept with almost infinite possibilities in platforming, the gravity concept practically allows 100% freedom for level design allowing the concept to go on longer then any other in platforming due to high number of possibilities. This means that it can be Galaxy 2 in name but doesn't mean playing it will be the same as Galaxy, it will be no different then playing SMB3 then moving on to SMW for all we know, as for the release date Australia is the Pal region so this date probably corresponds to the European release as well.
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