Super Mario Galaxy

Excellent review, as someone convinced Sunshine was one of the most disappointing games of all time (A solid game, but the glimpses into mario magic like you mention in galaxy were too few and far between) . I'm curious about two things.

1. Linearity, one of the things that pissed me off about sunshine was the way you had to collect a specific 50 stars to beat the game, is Galaxy the same or can you go about it your own way.

2. Anything comparable to them god damn blue coin hunts? Their the only reason I haven't got all 120 shines yet.

And I'd say Prime 3 was the game to prove the wii not a novelty, I'm trading the garbage that was Super Paper Mario in for this day its out.

Hey Jonny, you can 'beat' the game with 60 stars, but they can be any 60 stars. So play as you please.

And yes, there are coin hunts, but they ain't blue.

Are they as annoying as the blue coin hunts?

Well, I didn't find those annoying. But I suppose if you did, yes...

Don't let such a small factor put you off, though.

I won't, this will definately be mine day its out, need to get rid of Paper Mario somehow.

Very nice review. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about a 98%, but 2% for a second of slowdown seems a little... dunno, seems like you just had to lower the score and were looking for a reason. It's a bit comical.

Nevermind, though.

OK mario galaxy looks and By your review sounds amazing like the sequel we are waiting for, but.....

and dont take this out of context, i want to see a true mario sequel to Mario 64, yeah its gonna be hellafun to play this game but, i want my platform levels my pipes my gommbas and koopas i want big open landscapes yet closed-in, galaxy look s like its going to be the best mario game to date, but i still want to back to the mushroom kingdom, and i want that feeling i had when i first switched on my N64 for the first time with a magical colourful and crazy world i entered, jumping into pictures and warping through pipes, it was taking Mario Bros snes and making it real!, even when you warped to new worlds seeing mazza head shape in the fade in and out was just great and i am worried that i just dont think this will give it to me?

But still want this bad boy soooo much.

looks really, really cooool

but i still want to back to the mushroom kingdom, and i want that feeling i had when i first switched on my N64 for the first time with a magical colourful and crazy world i entered, jumping into pictures and warping through pipes, it was taking Mario Bros snes and making it real!, even when you warped to new worlds seeing mazza head shape in the fade in and out was just great and i am worried that i just dont think this will give it to me?

errr, seems to me like you are missing the point. No game could ever recapture that the way you would want it to, because M64 is emotionally charged for you. I had the same thing with Super Mario World, and was happy like a baby with New SMB, but it still wasn't the same thing. I was 12 when i first played SMW, i'm 28 now, and no game is ever going to change that. By even trying to recapture that feeling, games can only fail even more. Just look at Zelda TP, which is better in every way than OoT, but times change, and so do people.

exactly my point, my post is just simpling saying what i want, but also pointing out i know i wont get it. It pointed out i was worried because its like taking Da Vinci`s art and just not being able to aprreciate it, after loving the Mona Lisa or seeing Michelangelo Sistine Chaple and thinking well his David was amazing but i just dont feel for this one, and Shigeru Miyamoto is the gaming worlds Da Vinci or Michelangelo and i cant appreciate it the same way. I will always see mario as its nostalgia, i was seventeen when it was released and it still shocks me that i got that emotional response at that age as it was with OoT, as i had those same feelings when i played Super Mario World or The first Sonic, i now live my gaming in a way through my kids, i see how excited my son gets (aged5) when a new Sonic or Mario game is played for the first time and i crave for that excitment, the last time i felt excitment over a game was seeing Gears of War at Gamestation i knew i had to have an Xbox360, but it didnt compare to my childhood emotion. .

But my post was to point out the fact that even though this looks to be the best game yet (mario world) i cannot relive that emotional response again, i believe the film Gregories Girl points out that childhood emtion, when they discuss the feeling of having a milkshaake as a child and how that feeling goes as adulthood comes around.

But god i wish a game could do it again...

I think scoring games with numbers in itself is comical, so why not? (And to be clear, I found three entire stages which suffer from some dodgy frame-rate trouble throughout, not just three momentary instances. Again, though, do not let this deter you from buying and loving the game!)

Maybe...as an adult gamer, you should try not to look to relive those emotional moments like you were a teen, but try to be open to expercience these kind of games in a complete new way.

I know i had some special feelings rushing trough when playing HLČ and comming up the first physics puzzle and went "OMG think of the potential" although Valve hasn't really fully banked on that potential yet. Then Prey and Zelda TP gave similiar feelings (TP had also a moment of dissapointment because no way in hell can anyone make a better 3D-adventure game without going complete mad with its core-design, so it also excites me that Nintendo is actually doing just that with Zelda).

Why? Because i fell in love with the sheer inguinity of the games, the puzzles, the balance, making it all slide so fluidly, actually having fun and not going thinking "right new room, shoot 5 baddies go to next room and repeat" which i'm having a lot these days really.

That's why i'm so bloody thrilled for Galaxy, it has innovation and ingenuity of the highest order gooiing from the screen. And i'll prolly will feel like a big kid while playing it.

This deserves 100%...

I'm at 87 stars and the framerate hasn't dropped a bit...

Your reason for docking the game points is lame. Please tell me the real reason it didnt get 100%

WTF? Taking 2% off for such a reason is honestly the most ridiculous thing I've read, ever. Unless the framerate goes below 10 for a considerably long period of time.. then I would understand.