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Super Mario Galaxy
System: Nintendo Wii
Genre: 3D Platformer
Year: 2007
Rank last year: 17 (v 1)
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One of the best platform games ever made. The design of Super Mario Galaxy is so brilliant when building levels out of a couple small areas at once, made the underpowered Wii able to have one of the prettiest games of the 7th Generation. The game is my personal favorite as far as 7th Gen exclusives go. The game got a sequel, which is likewise of extraordinairy quality, but to me it loses out because the first game includes the excellent Comet Observatory as it's hub-world.
The gameplay is designed around this idea of walking around spheres, which was first shown in a tech-demo for the GameCube system, and later tried out in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess where the player can walk up walls and ceilings and end up walking upside-down using a certain item in a particular terrain. In Super Mario Galaxy, Mario can walk around these spheres at all times because of the concept of gravity. Each sphere is it's own 'planet' and the player must find ways to get from one to the next in typical top-notch Mario platforming fashion. This concept opens up many gameplay aspects (all perfected Nintendo-style) never before seen in any game, which makes this an extremely unique and special game.