Okay, artstyle sure don't but what does? Gameplay mechanics? I can know those by lookin g at a review. And I'm not talking about srtstily. I'm talkingm about content. And we are talking about Galaxy 2, that despite being not much more than an expansion of Glaxy 1, gets a GOTY.

Hooray for SMG2!!!!

No better game this year imo!! :D

Once again, you speak of things you actually know nothing about, except what you've read in reviews, most of which don't even complain about mario galaxy 2 being similar to 1, because guess what, it innovates what MG1 already did, thus no one felt it was stale or repetitive, instead the general concensus is that it expands greatly on the original abnd mantains the fresh feeling few game on the market have today.

Tell me, to this day, how many games are like MG2.  Only 1,  and MG2 is better in almost everyway.  Anyway, I'm not going to continue arguing with someone who refuses to acknowledge the fact that he can't judge a game without having played it.

Platformers get 80% of their innovation from level design alone which Galaxy 2 is superior to then its predecessor, also new game mechanics like the Yoshi, drill and cloud adds even more design possibilities for levels, level design is the most importent element to all platformers. What they did in Galaxy 2 is add a few new mechanics to the gravity based concept to open up level design even more it's also the only non sandbox game to have a large variety of gameplay with platforming, puzzle solving, racing etc...

You wouldn't know that because you haven't played it, simply watching a video won't tell you anything here, by your logic every sequel is an expansion even the DKCR game you bought, 240 stars is much more then 90% of sequels out there on average give you and right now you're basically arguing blind as you have little to no idea what's in the game which is why people are calling you out here.

I stopped a couple of pages back, but good to know I'm not the only one who's confuzzled by Beuli's logic.

I'm quite surprised. I was expecting Mass Effect 2 to sweep up this year but so far 3 have given SMG2 the award. I'm glad though.

Then my plan has worked. Anyways, I jsut think there were better games released this year than Galaxy 2 that deserve the GOTY more.

To each their own, I guess.

I think DKCR is FAR more deserving of that title, but I still give em props for merely breaking the mold and giving GOTY to a Nintendo game..

How so?

I've played both quite a bit recently, but I find Mario Galaxy 2 to be a more solid game with A LOT more variety; actually more variety than any game I can remember ever playing. Though, I would like to hear your thoughts as well.