Update: 94 on MetaCritic! Super Mario 3D World: A Game Once Doubted Is Now Highest Rated Game of The Holiday! Anybody Eating Crow?

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Podings said:

F0X said:
Tied with Bioshock Infinite and one point behind The Last of Us.

Not that it matters. Super Mario Galaxy 2 was 2010's highest-rated game, yet it didn't win very many GOTY awards. Granted, Red Dead Redemption was and is still the best game Rockstar ever produced.

 

Galaxy 2 wasn't really GOTY material in the sense that it stayed rather close to the formula that won the first Galaxy almost all GOTY awards. Can't be super original with the same thing two times over.

Maybe so, maybe no. Both Galaxy and Galaxy 2 are ambitious in different senses - the first for establishing a brave new approach, and the second for devilvering far more of it and generally turning it up to eleven. But I can't pretend to know how critics think, and if I did know, then I'd might go insane with the knowledge.