Fairly easy? Come on, have you even tried to get all 121 stars?

Yeah it shits me when people say its way too easy, sure maybe to get 60 and have the boss battle. But to get all 120 stars can be lesson in frustration. Once you have 100 stars, this game is a ball breaker.

Being an Australian I only jsut got this game last Thursday. I then promptly got sick... but played it anyway. I now have 72 stars. To me that says it all. Any game you want to play even when you're stomach is doing nothing but trying to empty itself is one awesome game.

In comparison to Mario 64, I think a lot of people are seeing Mario 64 through the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia. I actually do think that Galaxy is better, not just technically but in terms of the sheer amount of creativity that went into designing each level. More than once I found myself just looking at the screen in slack jawed awe thinking surely that did not just happen only to realise, much to my delight that yes, the impossible did just happen and it was way, way cool. More to the point, even when I'm dying I'm having fun. I'm not throwing away the game in disgust, I'm plotting revenge, working out my next move and hurling myself at it with an enthusiasm I'd quite forgotten I ever had.

People ask how Galaxy can get away with having a weak storyline and a pudy Italian plumber for a star. My answer is simply this: Galaxy takes us back to what Mario has always been about; pure and unadulterated gaming joy. I've waited a long, long time for a game that doesn't care about anything but fun and I'm happy that when it mattered most, Nintendo once again had the mettle to stand and deliver.

On another note... Prime only came out 3 weeks ago in Australia and Galaxy is cutting into my replay time severely...

i think the game is groundbreaking. It is so much better than SM64 in some aspects, but not in others. I generally found the general atmosphere and levels to be much better than in SM64; i liked the gravity effects on mario in certain stages, and the music was amazing. Also, this is actually the first mario game where Bowser actually seems evil, in all the other games he just seemed quite pathetic tbh.

What i didnt like in comparison to SM64 was the exploration of the levels, as someone said earlier. The levels in SMG arent as expansive or explorable as in SM64, nor as rememberable. I remember every single SM64 stage as they were all so diverse and different, but i probably dont remember half of the SMG ones.

There are also the gripes that Swimming has its problems (it does get easier though), and the flying star thing (which i think is horrendously hard to control).

Overall, i think that SM64 and SMG are both very different games, each has its pros and cons.

same here, how can you judge the games difficulty by the first half of it, when in almost all cases in gaming, games get progressively more difficult

The purple coin challenges are pure genius.

Final fantasy

33? WTF?

I haven't even had time to finish Prime.  Before i could galaxy came out. before i could finish that sonic & mario at the olympics came out.  just as i unlocked all events umbrella chronicles came out. played that for a bit and will now go back and finish galaxy. when i finish that i think i'll finish umbrella chronicles. after i finish that i'll finally go back and finish Prime. i hate it when multiple games i want come out so close together after there was a gap of like 4 months with nothing i wanted

Corrrection"Evil Genius"

Agreed ^.. Man the purple coins on the Luigi Face is really starting to piss me off.