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TWRoO on 21 December 2007
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Nanaki XII said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Nanaki XII said:
Quick Q... Is Super Mario Galaxy shorter or longer than Super Mario 64?

I just remember Mario 64 being hard and long as hell but then again I was only 7 or 8 when I played it lol.

IMHO it's a shorter game. I spent a lot of time in Super Mario 64 looking for stars whereas Super Mario Galaxy feels like it does everything but draw you a map to the star.

 Dammit!!! I hope it doesn't ruin reply value once I buy it cause usually I can play Mario games over hundreds of times with the exception of the RPG Mario games (excluding Mario RPG LotSS).

I guess they made Galexy more kid friendly. Ohh well I'm still gonna buy it if I didn't get it for Christmas :) 

 


I have both logged on the Wii message board, I got SM64 for VC in the Summer, and played it for the first time (first Mario platformer i owned)

it took me pretty much exactly 30 hours to finish (and i have not yet been back to it)
Galaxy took me 28 hours to finish with Mario (same number of stars as SM64)


I would say they are pretty comparable in length.... but Galaxy i was immediately compelled to keep going with Luigi, (total time on Galaxy now 48hours) it seems a character change is motivation enough to go again.

I will also say there is a lot more work into replaying SMG, if you replay SM64 i would think it is much shorter than the first time, wheras Galaxy would be longer (so if i were to go through again i think Galaxy would probably be 15-18 hours, wheras 64 might only be 12-15).