This gives the player a great deal of accuracy in devouring pesky foes as well as fruits which sometimes affect Yoshi in strange ways. His characteristic long sticky tongue can grab most enemies by simply pointing at them with the Wii remote and pressing the B button. Yoshi, the friendly dinosaur from Super Mario World (Super Nintendo), returns with some unique abilities of his own. Nintendo sort of forgot how much fun these power-ups could be for awhile, but thankfully they're back and Mario Galaxy 2 adds a few more for good measure. 3 (NES) was really the first game that introduced the idea of Power Suits, which included such bizarre powers as the flying raccoon suit, the swimming frog suit, and the bouncy giant boot. Super Mario Galaxy was one of the most refined, polished video games I have ever played, and a second dose of that kind of fun is exactly what the doctor ordered. In this case, however, that's certainly not a bad thing. The sequel picks up right where the first ended, and in some ways it may feel a bit like more of the same. (The first Super Mario Galaxy recaptured the old magic that started it all while reinventing the 3D platformer with fun new gravity physics and power suits.
I wonder what the next new Mario game after Galaxy is going to be.
However, Mario is Mario and I'm hoping for a third installment in the series that will take a little more chances with this franchise. In fact, I wanted them over with quickly, which thank God it does. Not a lot of the worlds you go in really impressed me this time. It's still a Mario game and there are surprises in store like the Throwback Galaxy which I had a lot of fun in. If I was woken by someone landing on me or simply hitting me, I might try to fight you too. As I'm fighting this enemy that I just woke up from its sleep, I felt it was no wonder this thing wanted to kill me. In this case, Mario would bully a sleeping monster or a baby still in its egg and he would pick a fight with it just to kill it and steal that star he's been looking for. He reminds me of a bully in school wanting your lunch money. One thing that always bothered me about Mario games is that for a game for kids, Mario sure picks on enemies a lot. Sometimes you get these hot peppers and Yoshi runs real fast. Mario finds an egg, hatch it and ride Yoshi and uses his tongue to eat things and swing across. The only real addition is the use of Yoshi which adds an extra layer to the gameplay. You still waggle the controller for Mario's spin attack and the butt stomps and flying across to different planets. But the core of the Mario games has always been about gameplay and although Mario's gameplay is fun, it doesn't really deviate too much from the original. If you don't know what it is, look it up on youtube or something. I still think the first one had the upper hand cause it had the Good Egg Galaxy theme. It's a real marvel and Super Mario Galaxy 2 is no exception.
The first Super Mario Galaxy, which is one of my all time favorite games, had a full orchestra to accompany the score and it's probably the best video game, heck better than most movie scores I have ever listened to. If there was one thing I was excited about more than anything else, that would be the music in this game. You think by now Nintendo would switch things up rather than "Bowser captures the Princess" but that's the extent of the plot. I was hoping for something original to a Mario game.
After completing Super Mario Galaxy 2 which was actually a chore because for some reason I was never invested in the game at all.