@Twesterm:

Fair enough, but there's still one thing I strongly disagree with: "It took what Super Mario 64 and Sunshine started and built upon things learned from both games."

This is simply not true. The game does not play like Sunshine and 64, and that has always been my main problem with the game. Super Mario Galaxy is far more linear than it's pedecessors. What made Super Mario 64 revolutionary was how wide open the game was. You had to do much more than get from point a to point b. Most of Mario Galaxy's stars were merely a basic obstacle course. There's no problem solving, puzzles, ect. All you got was basic, primitive platforming. That's not building upon what made Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine great. Instead, it's taking a step backwards and reverting back to life before Mario 64.

 EASY!? 

If you get the bare minimum of stars to be at Bowser, yes.

If you actually play the whole game, HELL NO! It's bloody hard. 

lol

Are you joking?

Eternal Darkness is not Nintendo's. However, I think Faxanadu from the NES is.

 So you mean to tell me that getting all 120 star in Galaxy (and I'm not talking about the Luigi segment either) is HARDER than getting all 120 stars in Mario 64.  I kinda find that hard to believe.  I played Galaxy (didn't beat the game only because I didn't have enough time too) and I didn't see a Game Over screen not once.  I had about 91 stars at the time!  I don't even think they have one nor do I know what it looks like.  The ONLY thing that's hard in SMG is getting Game Over.  You can't lose.  You can get about 5 extras PER stage/star and on top of that...that little mail toad gives you ANOTHER 5 1-up mushrooms from Peach everytime you START THE GAME!! Probably every time you get a star.

Oh and I don't even play Mario platformers that much because of that Mario 64 game. It was very difficult back then and that was good.

 I'm totally with stof on this. SM64 was far, far easier to finish completely. It's debatable if you just mean doing the bare minimum, but I found Galaxy infinitely more difficult when going for every star. I can't think of any part of SM64 that really gave me trouble, but I died like 50+ times on some Galaxy levels.

 But did you get GAME OVER in Galaxy??

The thing about Mario Sunshine and 64 is that you have to actually use your brain.

Mario Galaxy is just speed rushing to the star... and nothing else.