One small step for Mario, one giant leap for Nintendo... Actually, that's not entirely true. Mario makes some pretty impressive leaps, too. 'How?' we hear you cry! Well, if the title didn't make it obvious, Nintendo has taken Mario into space. Zero gravity would make you jump pretty high, too...
Some nasty folks have had away with Princess Peach and made off with her into space. Fortunately, Mario has found himself able to follow, so off he trots... well, flies. That's the plot. 'Nuff said.
The real leap here, of course, is from the tried and tested controller to the Wii's remote and nunchuck combo.
You can use the Wii Remote as a pointer at virtually any, um, point in the game, collecting small stars from the ether and firing them back at enemies or obstacles. But that's only the most basic incorporation of remote control that Mario Galaxy has to offer. With intuitive use of Remote movement, Mario can also spin, roll, shoot fireballs, catapult himself, tractor-beam himself through zero gravity areas, and do other things that you'd be better off finding out independently . In boss fights, too, Wii Remote movements are used for the delivery of attacks and killer blows while the Nunchuk's analogue stick controls Mario's basic movement.
Happily for long-time Nintendo fans who were beginning to suspect that Nintendo had given up entirely on producing real games with real gameplay challenges, Galaxy is not easy to complete. The trick Nintendo Tokyo has pulled here is quite an ingenious one: Galaxy gives you all the moves you'll ever need and makes sure that it's perfectly easy to use every last one of them, but then it takes the liberty of pushing Mario to his outer limits through a long string of stages that appear to have been designed by madmen. There's something of The Prisoner about it: you're trapped in a pretty messed up place where nothing is ever quite what it seems, and you find yourself in ever more bizarre situations. In comparison, looking back, the level design in Super Mario 64 is tame.
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This game is the ultimate Mario experience because it balances its key elements superbly. The mix of game play styles, the challenging yet intricate controls, the constantly shifting objectives all make this game a true pleasure to play through. No longer are re-visiting areas and re-treading paths with only a marginally different star location. ‘Galaxy has you visiting mini-world, figuring out how to get off them in any number of ingenious ways, all while executing the most smooth move system I've ever encountered. The camera, now an auto-shifting masterpiece, helps you navigate the true third-dimension like never before.
Galaxy improves on it's predecessors in every single way. I cannot think of one area where this game failed in that regard. The graphics, the presentation, the sound, the controls, the last-ability, the vision, the heart, the passion, the direction are all superior to that other Mario title. And, they are all superior to any other game in this (increasingly mutating) genre. The other Mario game, the one that is on everybody's 5-star list, has now been dethroned, and this time they didn't need to add a dimension, just explore it to the fullest.
A few years on, this is still easily one of the Wii's finest games. A visually stunning successor to Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario 64, it comes packed with some impressive gravity-based planetary level designs. The game as a whole is quite varied and, at times, very challenging. Fantastic score and an unexpectedly touching (albeit fairly simple) story, too.
Love Mario? Love platformers? No...love games?! If you're considering purchasing this product, you undoubtedly should. Super Mario Galaxy is a title of utter perfection, from its amazing graphics, phenomenal gameplay, trippy physics and total polish. Princess Peach has been captured along with her entire castle by Bowser, and Mario must venture into space to retrieve her. The main gameplay device in this game is GRAVITY. You use gravity on planets complete puzzles and defeat bosses, it's masterful. I highly recommend this game.
Its a me. Its a Mario. If you have the WII and like the Mario then you must get this game. The Mario in space angle really brings new life to the series that sunshine did not deliver. It provides hours of fun.
A game which is good for those who have not used the wii to a great deal. The use of the nun chuck and the wii remote are well integrated into the game, but can at time be annoying. One aspect which I didn’t enjoy was the story line, I consistently found myself thinking “just let me play the game.” And the retrieval of stars wasn’t much of a motivator.
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