GuyDuke on 19 April 2010
To answer the question, an instant classic for me is a game that redefines the rules of its genre. It brings brand new concepts and develops them with extreme precision and cleverness. If it is not a new IP, it has to keep the nostalgia of the previous iterations and bring freshness.
Super Mario Galaxy answers to all those criterias with brio. It brings lots of new concepts - power-ups, gravity, motion controls, star bits, launch stars - but keeps its nostalgia and classic gameplay that made Super Mario 64 a classic.
Super Mario Galaxy is a classic. Let's see if the second will reach that statue too.
