Super Mario Galaxy
 

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?

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.

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.

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.

Why does this game suck so much?

What're you talking about?

The wait is KILLING me!!!!!!

because you touch yourself at night

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.

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.

*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'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.

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.

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!

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!

I didn't even notice he was gone again. Poor guy. :lol:

Anyway, got the game. It is beautiful.

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.

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.

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?

It's TONS better than Mario 64.

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*

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.

*coughkuribosshoecough*

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

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.

: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.

Totally. I usually like Mario's voice actor but that line is beyond annoying.

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,

Awesome. :lol:




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.

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

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.

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...

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.

*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:

Guilty. I was actually a bit disappointed when it didn't work. :lol:

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...

Just beat it. 96 stars.

Now for the rest.

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.

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.

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.