Super Mario Galaxy Preview

[Krovvy]

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Super Mario Galaxy is a wonderful, and wondrous, gameplay explosion. It is a much-needed return to form for marquee Mario games--not slick and playable but unsurprising, like New Super Mario Bros., or ambitious in slightly misguided ways, like Super Mario Sunshine, but a joyously fresh and ambitious experience that is also eminently slick and playable. I was able to check out numerous levels from the game during Nintendo's recent fall summit in San Francisco.

Crucially, it is also a genuine 3D platformer in an age when the term "3D platformer" has been unfortunately twisted to mean "accessible 3D action game with some jumping." Super Mario Galaxy is no such thing. It is a game in which control of your character is the star of the show, something the best Mario games and other true platformers have always championed, and where bland 3D action platformer gameplay is nowhere to be found. To an extent, Galaxy picks up where Super Mario 64 left off; where Mario 64 showed how games should be taken into the third dimension, Galaxy shows how they can nearly dispense with traditional Earth-inspired physics altogether. Certainly Galaxy cannot hope to be the design-shifting landmark Mario 64 was, and its particular brand of game design brilliance is less widely applicable than Mario 64's, but it certainly has big waves to make within its own genre.

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Sounds ****ing awesome, if I can find a Wii I'm buying it for this game.

 

[TroiK-]

Wow im definatly buying a Wii now first i was getting it for supersmash bros brawl now this god im gonna jizz

 

[Wing Zero]

the bee suit is intresting

 

[Krovvy]

Yeah, I was wondering about the Bee thing.

 

[Lizardbreath]

My friend has a wii and this game is one of the few reasons why he bought it. Hopefully it turns out as awesome as it looks.

 

[Wing Zero]

lol some how my friends gamestop has a copy in teh back. he said the controls are gay but its fun as ****

 

[Krovvy]

I want it so bad! I skipped Mario Sunshine (I had a Gamecube), and haven't touched a real Mario game since the Nintendo 64 .

 

[Wing Zero]

haha sunshine
what a gay game

 

[Lizardbreath]

I have to admit sunshine was a pretty gay game haha.

 

[Majesty]

yeah, I pre-ordered and freakin' STOKED.

speakin' of sunshine, a dude in 1up made this comparison:

mario galaxy is to super mario 64 and sunshine the same way super mario bros 3 was to super mario bros 1 / 2. and 2 was just a big faker, and 3 was a jugganawt :[

stoked.

 

[Wing Zero]

http://www.gamespot.com/video/915692/6182496/
9.5 on gamespot

 

[Krovvy]

Ah it's so sweet, I'll have to wait until Christmas cash starts pouring in though.

 

[Wing Zero]

played it at my local gamestop. its pretty good but i dunno if i will replay it

 

[Hamtaro]

Its a great game. Awesome graphics, unique storyline.

Although, I wish it didn't always begin with a party at Peach's castle than she gets kidnapped. Everything else is good, though.

 

[Wing Zero]

bought it today. its addicting

 

[Cogumelos69]

Amazing GAME! Woaaaah! I have it for Nintendo Wii... Oh so cool! Play it!!!