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| Game Details | Released
16 November 2007 | | Format
Wii | | Developer
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Super Mario Galaxy
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Shhh! Don’t say it out loud in case the fanboys hear you, but Mario’s last adventure - Super Mario Sunshine on GameCube - wasn’t that good, and diluted the delirious platform hopping of earlier excursions to the Mushroom Kingdom by giving players a rubbish jetpack. But in Super Mario Galaxy, Nintendo devotees finally have a game worthy of being considered the spiritual successor to Nintendo’s hallowed genre classic, Super Mario 64.
Set on a series of alien planets packed with puzzles, the game returns to the intelligent platforming action of old, assaulting players with endless brain-ticklers that must be solved to progress, each bound in the fiendishly addictive jumping action that made Mario a household name. Like The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the game also uses the Wii’s motion controls in a subtle and intuitive way, never shoehorning gesture-based controls into the action and only using them when they complement the delirious action.
A range of costumes that imbue Mario with special powers - flying, hurling fireballs, transforming into a bee - also help refine the formula that made SM64 one of the greatest videogames ever made, and the naysayers who criticise the Wii’s notoriously shoddy graphics will also be shocked by the crisp and imaginative visuals that give similar titles on the PS3 and Xbox 360 a run for their money.
A genuine contender for 2007’s best action game, Super Mario Galaxy is a platformer that no Nintendo fan should be without.
Reviewer: David McComb
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| Super Mario Galaxy | | | A brilliant game that never gets dull. Great graphics, Great gameplay and Great soundtrack all add up to the best game on the Wii. It's a shame that the game is slighty easy and short but still terrific stuff that every Wii owner must have. ... Read More
| | | MovieWatcher45 About me | | 17:38, 11 December 2008 | Report This Post | |
| | | | The Greatest Game Ever Made. | | | A bold statement for sure, but after dusting off this utter gem of a game after finishing it a few months ago, there really are few other titles that can hold a candle to it. Well, maybe Mario 64, Tetris, Half-Life 2, Super Metroid or Metroid Prime (the first one) but you get my point. Everything just works perfectly, everything just meshes into such a brilliant whole that you can't help but wonder how Nintendo do it. The soundtrack, as I suggested to a friend, is to videogames what John William... Read More
| | | ChesterCopperpot About me | | 04:59, 30 August 2008 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Super Mario | | | very enjoyable, and although I love them wii, this is the best game for quite a while. ... Read More
| | | davieboy About me | | 14:34, 25 March 2008 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Fantastic | | | Brilliant stuff. What monkfishjoe said :D ... Read More
| | | Simba About me | | 17:34, 04 January 2008 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Fantastic | | | Brilliant stuff. What monkfishjoe said :D ... Read More
| | | Simba About me | | 17:34, 04 January 2008 | Report This Post | |
| | | | At last! | | | This is the game that Wii owners have been waiting for! Yes we've had some good games so far (Twighlight Princess was a great game, and Resi 4 was an excellent adaption), but this is the best game not only on this platform, but possibly any of the new Gen consoles. It has the accessibility that Nintendo covert, but with a level of depth and replayibilty that even the (dare I use the term) 'Hardcore Gamers' will love.
This is a game that just keeps giving and giving and every gift is one of ... Read More
| | | monkfishjoe About me | | 14:20, 28 November 2007 | Report This Post | |
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