| kratos3390 said: I dunno, am i the only one who is skeptical about this? I mean SMG was fun, but highly overrated. And from what i've seen, SMG2 takes A LOT from what SMG had and just puts it back in with differently shaded planets. I really don't understand how a game like this can get such a high score when it blatantly takes sooooo much from the original. I dunno. That's just what i think. I mean there's still no story. Wtf is up with that? They can't be a little bit more creative and throw something together? Just something DIFFERENT, although that is a big word for Nintendo... |
The day Nintendo forces a story into a Mario game, one with a brooding masculine lead role, exciting edge of your seat quick time cut scenes, a plucky/snarky side-kick, ridiculous plot contrivances and witty banter between the lead characters, is the day that it stops being a Mario game and I stop playing it.
They might as well release Godfather IV: The Godfather's Son, a new romantic comedy starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston. Sticking a story into a Mario game now, after 25 years would simply change the game into something that it isn't.
You may feel that Galaxy is overrated but you would be in the minority in that belief and likely your skepticism would only be shared by those others who felt the first game was overrated. Of course Mario Galaxy 2 is similar on the surface to the first game, it's a platformer......starring Mario, that doesn't mean the level design and underlying mechanics are exactly the same, and more importantly, any less satsifying.
Too many gamers these days seem to be falling into the trap of seeing games as a checklist of features and are convinced by the hype and the PR that the sequel to their favourite franchise is better because it's got more stuff. You get fed a game that's superficially different but is fundamentally the same game. Mario games may always be superficially similar but they are different enough underneath to provide a fresh experience, read the reviews and that is the one thing that nearly everyone agrees on about MG2.
Even if this was the same game with new levels using almost exactly the same mechanics as the first game, it's still a sequel to a game with pretty much the highest Metarating this generation, a title of debatable merit....but that's a discussion for another thread.
