Super Mario Galaxy [Archive] - The Technodrome Forums

Peanut

11-13-2007, 07:02 PM

So, it's pretty much out all over the NA, and Europe should be getting it in a couple days, so first impressions?

I really can't get over how good the game looks, first of all. Especially Bowser, he really has it going in this one, his animation is amazing. Second, the music is phenomenal. I'd like to see you argue midi over orchestral scores with this one, TMB. All the remixes in the side galaxies are just amazing. And it plays so damn smooth. Every facet of it is so polished and just...perfect.

I've got something like 30 stars right now, just finished off the Beach Bowl Galaxy in the third dome.

So, how about everyone else?

Mr. Snackpants

11-13-2007, 08:16 PM

I'm about to go play it right now. I just put a couple hours into Assassins Creed. Glad to hear its good so far.

Cure

11-13-2007, 10:18 PM

The first fight with Bowser is so awesome I did it twice. TWICE. And yeah, even the music in that fight was breath-taking. I have exactly 30 right now.

Wildcat

11-14-2007, 12:49 AM

Well I had mentioned awhile back on here that I didnt like Super Mario 64...Sunshine was ok,actually liked it better for some reason.

So having said that,even though Iv been looking forward to playing 'Galaxy' since it looks far more superior than 64 and Sunshine...and Mario has new costumes(which we havnt seen since Mario 3,which is my fave Mario ever)....Iv had doubts about 'Galaxy'....since at its core,its still all about collecting Stars.

I know alot of people are gonna disagree with me...its fine,this is all just my own opinion...besides,Iv come across a few others that didnt like Super Mario 64 either.

Brodie

11-14-2007, 12:53 AM

Why does this game suck so much?

Kendamu

11-14-2007, 12:58 AM

Why does this game suck so much?
What're you talking about?

Barkworm

11-14-2007, 02:58 AM

The wait is KILLING me!!!!!!

GK Punk

11-14-2007, 03:10 AM

Why does this game suck so much?

because you touch yourself at night

Peanut

11-14-2007, 06:28 AM

It's like 7:30 am here. I've been playing Galaxy since about 6, and I don't need to be up for another hour or so. My body totally woke me up early to play.

Brodie

11-14-2007, 10:45 AM

Its finally good to have a pick up and go Mario game again. Like....it has some mechanics of Mario 3.

Only gripe is getting disoriented every so often.

The Shelf

11-14-2007, 12:42 PM

besides,Iv come across a few others that didnt like Super Mario 64 either.

*raises hand* That would be me. I liked Mario Sunshine better than Mario 64, but the only Mario games I enjoy playing over and over again are the 2d ones. I haven't looked at Mario Galaxy much yet. The trailers looked okay. My brother is going to get it, so I'll reserve judgment until I've played it. I think I'm going to like it, but if not, then my favorite 3d Mario game will still be Mario Sunshine, and that isn't saying much.

Bring on New Super Mario Bros. 2 please!

Peanut

11-14-2007, 05:01 PM

I've got something like 40 stars now, been running through as many Galaxies as possible and trying to finish any prankster comets I can. The game can actually get pretty tough in some places, which is awesome. Love it. Also found the soundtrack somewhere, which is nothing short of some of the best Mario music in years.

Mecha Cow

11-14-2007, 05:04 PM

Argh! Apparently some stores were already selling the game today! Oh well, only one more day...

Peanut

11-14-2007, 08:39 PM

Argh! Apparently some stores were already selling the game today! Oh well, only one more day...

Imagine how TMB is feeling on his annual Family Hell vacation? He's probably dead by now, playing Galaxy in...well...I guess Heaven. I don't know if people who have sex with Mario body-pillows go up there.

Leogeddon

11-15-2007, 12:33 AM

*raises hand* That would be me. I liked Mario Sunshine better than Mario 64, but the only Mario games I enjoy playing over and over again are the 2d ones. I haven't looked at Mario Galaxy much yet. The trailers looked okay. My brother is going to get it, so I'll reserve judgment until I've played it. I think I'm going to like it, but if not, then my favorite 3d Mario game will still be Mario Sunshine, and that isn't saying much.

Bring on New Super Mario Bros. 2 please!
I have to say Sunshine was fun, but IMO it didn't feel like the true Mario. In this game, everything, there's new things added and there's some old classic mario mixed in there. Even Bowser's voice is blood chilling!

The Shelf

11-15-2007, 12:26 PM

Yeah, I've been reading more about Galaxies, and it sounds pretty awesome. I think my bro's going to try buying it today, so I'll find out if I like it or not soon. People are saying that it feels a little like SMB3 which is great news. Anything that feels a little like SMB1 or 3 is awesome imo. I'd still like to see a New Super Mario Bros 2 that's based on SMB3, though. Bring back Raccoon Mario, please!

Mecha Cow

11-15-2007, 02:16 PM

Imagine how TMB is feeling on his annual Family Hell vacation?
I didn't even notice he was gone again. Poor guy. :lol:

Anyway, got the game. It is beautiful.

Wildcat

11-15-2007, 08:07 PM

*raises hand* That would be me. I liked Mario Sunshine better than Mario 64, but the only Mario games I enjoy playing over and over again are the 2d ones. I haven't looked at Mario Galaxy much yet. The trailers looked okay. My brother is going to get it, so I'll reserve judgment until I've played it. I think I'm going to like it, but if not, then my favorite 3d Mario game will still be Mario Sunshine, and that isn't saying much.

Bring on New Super Mario Bros. 2 please!

Yeah New Super Mario Bros on DS was great!...Id love a sequel.

Iv always liked the 2D Marios better too....and your right,they should bring back Raccoon Mario,he's awesome.

Barkworm

11-17-2007, 01:33 PM

I don't even know what to say about this game because I usually like to nitpick instead of saying what I like. So... ummm... the camera is not perfect... errr.... the colours in Mushroom Kingdom seemed a bit off... That's it, I guess.

Mecha Cow

11-17-2007, 02:22 PM

Yeah, the camera is a bit wonky, but aside from that the game is perfect. Is it too early to say it's better than Mario 64?

Barkworm

11-17-2007, 03:37 PM

It's TONS better than Mario 64.

ThirdMarioBro

11-18-2007, 10:44 AM

Best Mario game ever made? Yup. Sorry SMB3.

Favorite video game soundtrack? Yep. Fu*k MIDI.

Epic scope? In a Mario game? Somehow...yes. I love you Miyamoto.

*goes back to Wii for all-day binge marathon*

Peanut

11-18-2007, 11:40 AM

It's not better than Super Mario 64. With the increased difficulty of the late game, there are points when the controls have a hard time wrestling with the insane level design, and it will constantly lead to a cheap death. Also, a lot of the charm of the costumes wear off completely. The only two cool ones are limited and one of them is used in a SINGLE level. Spring and Boo Mario are also terribly un-fun to use. They even have repeat level designs, except mirrored and with a different colour scheme. That's completely unacceptable.

I've been playing it for a good long while now, and while it's still amazing and still one of the best games I've played this year, there are some missteps that keep it from reaching true legendary status in my mind. Maybe once I beat it, I'll feel differently, but I was playing it late last-night and getting kinda frustrated at the controls during a few parts, and that should never ever happen with any game.

Edit: Just beat it. I don't know.

ThirdMarioBro

11-18-2007, 10:41 PM

The only two cool ones are limited and one of them is used in a SINGLE level.

*coughkuribosshoecough*

This game blows SM64 out of the water, sodomizes Sunshine, and shares a bottle of Scotch with SMB3.

Peanut

11-18-2007, 10:53 PM

I still don't think it does, but it is close to matching the perfection of SM64. I think on the whole it WOULD have been a better game, but I dunno. My problem is almost fully with the Wii controls to be honest.

But you know what? SMG still blows the f*ck out of everything that's been released this year, and that's saying a LOT when you look at the insane line-up we've had this year. It's easily one of the best games this decade.

Edit: OH! I've been meaning to bring this up, but does anyone else absolutely cringe in pain when you first go into the Wii channel for SMG, and Mario yells out the SUPER shrill "SUUUPER MAAARIO GAAAAAAAALAXYYYYYYYYYYY!"? I actually have to mute the damn thing.

Wildcat

11-18-2007, 11:09 PM

*coughkuribosshoecough*

This game blows SM64 out of the water, sodomizes Sunshine, and shares a bottle of Scotch with SMB3.

:lol::lol::lol: .......anyway....

though I have not played Super Mario Galaxy yet....I think the reason some poeple say Super Mario 64 is better,or will always be better is because that was the first 3D Mario and first big 3D platformer to be released.

People arnt looking at 'Galaxy' as a new Mario,thier looking at it as something to compare Super Mario 64 too,which you cant do...you cant base what you think on how much fun it was to play the first 3D Mario.....it would be like basing how much fun it is to play a 3D console today on the first time you played a 3D console 8-9 years ago.

We wouldnt say...Oh,the Wii or Xbox 360 is not as much fun to play as it was to play the N64 or Playstation 1.....you just have to think of Super Mario 64 and Galaxy in general terms,as if 3D platformers have been around forever.

Barkworm

11-19-2007, 01:46 AM

Edit: OH! I've been meaning to bring this up, but does anyone else absolutely cringe in pain when you first go into the Wii channel for SMG, and Mario yells out the SUPER shrill "SUUUPER MAAARIO GAAAAAAAALAXYYYYYYYYYYY!"? I actually have to mute the damn thing.
Totally. I usually like Mario's voice actor but that line is beyond annoying.

ThirdMarioBro

11-19-2007, 02:01 AM

Yeah, it is overkill, but I got all giddy whenever Gamestop forgot to take me out of their computer after I canceled the preorder and Mario/Charles Martinet called me Sunday morning and left a funny message on the answering machine.

Nintendo really needs to do more cool stuff like that. I love Charles, but he needs to put a little bit more Italian back in the voice and a lot less falsetto like it was around 1997 (Mario Kart 64 era).

On another note, anybody notice Nintendo's getting a little more ballsy with the Mario death animations? Its childish for just about any other game in the industry, but this is "green blood Ganon" Nintendo we're talking about here. It started with New SMB's Bowser getting his flesh melted off when falling into the lava. Now in Galaxy, Mario gets electrocuted and his flesh burns off in powder dust leaving a crumpled skeleton? Mario sinks in sand and a hand reaches up to suffocate him and pull him down?

Awesome. :lol:

Seeing Rocky Wrench brought a BIG smile to my face too.

I never once thought I'd call a Mario game epic before, but dammit Galaxy is. Hell, Koji even blew my "MIDI dynamic/adaptive music" argument to hell by pulling off dynamic music with a full orchestra. You're the fu*king man. Screw MIDI. It has no use now on consoles.

Fang Wolf

11-19-2007, 06:01 AM

That Game look was Funny, I wait for Play it :P

R-iZZy

11-19-2007, 07:53 PM

Anyone see this game become the greatest reviewed game of all-time, now? According to GameRankings.com, it actually surpassed Ocarina of Time!

I have the game, but studies have been screwing my time up, so I haven't taken it out the plastic yet. This upcoming Thanksgiving weekend, though, will be the time I spend getting into this game.

Still can't believe it's overall had better reviews than Ocarina of Time! That's gonna get to me for a while.

Peanut

11-19-2007, 09:14 PM

OoT had a good run. What, 9 years? Fitting that a Nintendo game would be the one to take it out of the top, and even more fitting that the king of video game characters did it.

Cure

11-19-2007, 09:35 PM

OoT had a good run. What, 9 years? Fitting that a Nintendo game would be the one to take it out of the top, and even more fitting that the king of video game characters did it.

9 YEARS?! I feel old, man. :(

On topic...

One thing I can gripe about is the fire flower. Why has one of the most iconic Mario power-ups, nay, iconic power-ups of ALL TIME, be reduced to a limited time, awkward thing? I dunno, they just coulda done it differently, in my mind. Like, use the pointer to aim it and NOT have it be time restricted.

Peanut

11-19-2007, 09:42 PM

Yeah, dude. It's totally f*ckin' lame.

Anyways, I was just thinking about this, but in the Bowser fight, how many people went straight for the tail? Show of hands. I know I sure did.

ThirdMarioBro

11-19-2007, 10:15 PM

*raises hand*

Yep.

And about the fire flower, I know the time limit blows ass chunks (one of that Mario 64 gimmicks that should have been done away with), but seriously, I was so happy to just see it again in 3D that I overlooked the time limit. Give me a month and I'll be bitching about it regularly though. :lol:

Mecha Cow

11-20-2007, 10:07 AM

Anyways, I was just thinking about this, but in the Bowser fight, how many people went straight for the tail? Show of hands. I know I sure did.
Guilty. I was actually a bit disappointed when it didn't work. :lol:

Spike Spiegel

11-21-2007, 02:57 PM

I played this game for about five minutes today at a GameStop...it was my first time using a Wii and I was a little confused by the gameplay.

Nice concept though...

ThirdMarioBro

11-21-2007, 03:49 PM

Just beat it. 96 stars.

Now for the rest.

Barkworm

11-24-2007, 03:27 AM

11-24-2007, 03:46 AM

A wise gaming sage once said "best a good game with few bad faults than a bad game with few good faults". It may have run out of steam towards the end, but at least you can always play the game again with it's brilliant levels at the start. Right?

Hopefully I can try this baby out at my local games store. If not, I'm going to be crying myself to sleep every night for missing out on everything.

Peanut

11-24-2007, 05:10 AM

I still haven't beaten it but I noticed that the last couple of galaxies can't keep up with the initial brilliance of the game. As Peanut said, there are recycled levels, as well as recycled bosses and some rather underwhelming stars. I don't know. It almost seems like they ran out of ideas towards the end.

Which was exactly my problem with the later portions of the game. It definitely isn't one of those games where I feel the ending becoming inevitable and slow up to try and savor it. I really felt it needed to end where it did, and honestly, it could have ended without the entire last set of galaxies and probably would have been better for it.

Barkworm

11-24-2007, 07:22 AM

I think it's really frustrating. Nintendo has been known for this kind of sloppiness in their games for a while. Wind Waker slipped towards the end, Twilight Princess as well, now Mario. Some of the missions in the garden seem like a sh*t stain on the rest of the game. I actually just stopped playing for a while because I got so frustrated with one of the galaxies.
I still think it's the best game Nintendo has released in many years but it could have been even more. Eh, whatever...

Dr. Doom

11-24-2007, 10:48 AM

I had no problem with Wind Waker or Twilight Princess, so I guess I'm safe from all this frustration.

Barkworm

11-24-2007, 12:04 PM

So you liked the Triforce quest in Wind Waker or the last dungeon in Twilight Princess? I guess we have different standards then.

Peanut

11-24-2007, 01:47 PM

Just wait until you beat it and get treated to your awesome post-game bonus, the ability to collect 100 coins in a level for a star. That's not at ALL frustrating. You know, when you've got to run all over a level, eventually collect 99 coins and CAN'T find the 100th; then somehow end up falling off a ledge...and have to do it all over again. No frustration in that, no sir.

Barkworm

11-24-2007, 01:52 PM

God, that's awful. And I wanted to play as Luigi, dammit!

Peanut

11-24-2007, 01:58 PM

120 Stars, buddy! With the sheer level of ultimate frustration the later stars in the game deliver, I'm not sure if I'll ever get 120.

Kendamu

11-24-2007, 02:12 PM

Buslady

11-25-2007, 12:05 AM

we got it over here. my hubby and my son LOVE it. they said the graphics are awesome and the music is pretty good. im more of a DS player so i dont play the Wii stuff much

Barkworm

11-26-2007, 07:00 AM

How many stars does everyone have? Anyone gotten all 120 yet? I'm at 115 now.

Mecha Cow

11-26-2007, 07:28 AM

You guys are going so fast. I have like 40. :(

Barkworm

11-26-2007, 10:50 AM

You haven't even beaten it? You're lame.

Mecha Cow

11-26-2007, 10:55 AM

You know who's also lame? Your mom. Yeah, try beating that.

Peanut

11-26-2007, 12:26 PM

How many stars does everyone have? Anyone gotten all 120 yet? I'm at 115 now.

I think I was around 102 last time I played it.

ThirdMarioBro

11-26-2007, 01:18 PM

I think I was around 102 last time I played it.

103, ha-ha!

Peanut

11-26-2007, 01:30 PM

103, ha-ha!

I haven't played it for over a week.

Barkworm

11-26-2007, 01:50 PM

120, bitches!

SUPER LUIIIIIGI GALAXY!!!

Mecha Cow

11-26-2007, 01:52 PM

You do realise you have to get all 120 again in order to 100% the game, right? :lol:

Barkworm

11-26-2007, 01:54 PM

Yeah, but I'm totally NOT doing that!

Mecha Cow

11-26-2007, 02:10 PM

But I read that if you get 666 stars and beat the game upside-down, you can unlock Master Chief. It's true, I saw it on the internets.

ThirdMarioBro

11-26-2007, 02:14 PM

Yeah, but I'm totally NOT doing that!

Oh HELL no. Once is enough. Sorry Luigi.

Barkworm

11-26-2007, 02:36 PM

Luigi also controls a bit awkwardly, some of the more difficult stars would be hell with him.

Mecha Cow

11-26-2007, 02:40 PM

Wouldn't his higher jump make things easier? Either way, it's not really worth doing everything all over again, at least not right away.

You have to keep playing until the ghost level though, just to see if Luigi will have to save himself.

Dr. Doom

11-26-2007, 03:32 PM

I think I'm somewhere around 30 stars at the moment. I'd absolutely love to play as Luigi, but I'm nto quite sure I'll have the resolve to collect 120, on my own. If I want to play as him bad enough I may just employ a strategy guide or something, I dunno. I'm really not sure how hard it's gonna be because I never went for all 120 stars in 64. I guess I'll see how I feel when I get towards the end. I may just have something else I wanna play anyways.

Either way, it's just really, really cool having him in the game.

Mecha Cow

11-26-2007, 04:09 PM

Yeah, even though unlocking him might be more than trouble than it's worth, I'm glad he wasn't ignored this time. It's nice that he plays a minor role in the regular campaign as well.

Peanut

11-26-2007, 04:57 PM

But you don't get the real ending, the last level, or the 121st star until you get all 120 stars with Luigi, so that means you haven't even beaten the entire game yet! Get to work!

Dr. Doom

11-26-2007, 06:29 PM

Lame. I hate when there's more than one ending based on your performance.

Dr. Doom

12-02-2007, 02:59 PM

The Gusty Garden Galaxy has probably the coolest music I've ever heard in a Mario game.

Peanut

12-03-2007, 12:34 PM

Yeah, it's totally awesome. That has to be one of the best galaxies, too. I also love the couple tropical level themes, especially when you go underwater and hear it get all distorted, depending on the depth you're at.

Ecto Jedi

12-03-2007, 02:29 PM

But you don't get the real ending, the last level, or the 121st star until you get all 120 stars with Luigi, so that means you haven't even beaten the entire game yet! Get to work!

What!? Oh, son of a...

Cure

12-03-2007, 04:01 PM

I think the buoy galaxy has the best music.

Mecha Cow

12-03-2007, 05:00 PM

Where the hell is the secret Star on the Ghost level (In the Kitchen)?

Cure

12-03-2007, 05:50 PM

Where the hell is the secret Star on the Ghost level (In the Kitchen)?

If I remember correctly, in the beginning of the second star, there's a rock towards the right and to the back of the platform you start on that's glowing. Hit it and it'll reveal a warp star thingie.

Mecha Cow

12-03-2007, 05:53 PM

Aha! Thanks, dude.

MrPliggins

01-23-2008, 07:24 AM

I've got 102 stars. I still haven't beaten the game. Can I beat the game, and still continue collecting stars?

One of the most frustrating levels for me so far was the lava galaxy daredevil run. It must've took me about an hour to beat that one level.

Cure

01-23-2008, 08:34 AM