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[Flavio]

Flavio was exited when Flavio got Super Mario Galaxy, but does it really live up to the hype?


HELL NO.


You start off with a shitty storybook styled cutscene about some comet. Major turn off. Flavio absolutly hates storybook cutscenes. Luckily, this is one of the few ones in the game, and most of those are optional. Anyways, the game starts like most Mario games; Mario gets a letter from the Princess, then the Princess gets kindnaped. Whoop-dee-doo! We're in for a REAL original story here!

But Mario games aren't known for their storyline, they're famous for their gameplay. The gameplay is similar to SM64 and SMS, except with a few changes. This time the jumping has been simplified alot. You no longer have multiple types of jumps, you can still do the higher jump by jumping multiple times, but that's about it. You can do some crazy backflip by crouching down and jumping, but it's pretty much useless. Oh, and this really pissed Flavio off, they removed the diving. That's right, no more diving.

You now in addition to stars and coins collect Star Bits. Though, this is a chore. You'll barely use your star bits. Ever, though you still get about 200 a level. You can shoot them using the B button, but that's useless. You can feed them to Hungry Lumas to get a galaxy, though Hungry Lumas are so rare it doesn't matter. If Flavio could shoot Star Bits, well Flavio would put it to use, but Nintendo didn't think about how they could be used in real life.

The controls are nice, you jump using the A button, you shoot Star Bits with the B button, you crouch down with the X button, and the C button doesn't really do anything. You 'control' the camera using the D-Pad. SPOILER: The camera is really dreadful. Often times you'll have it in a bad angle, and when you attept to change it, the game won't let you. It would have been great if it let you have free control over the camera, but sadly it didn't. END SPOILER. You aim the wiimote at the screen to collect those annoying starbits. Oh, and you shake the wiimote to make Mario spin. Spinning is your main attack in this game, replacing the punch, and FLUDD.

THe levels, or in this case galaxy seem more arcadish than the levels in the previous games. Rather than having a small world to explore, you travel between multiple panets, with no backtracking, and barely any NPCs to talk to. Most NPCs are either Lumas or Toads, who don't really have anything to say. But, back to the no backtracking part. You travel from planet to planet, to reach either a goal or a boss. Though, some galaxys have more exploring (like FreezeFlame, and ToyTime) though these are few out of many. Most stars are straight forward to get, unlike previous instalments you'll only get 3 stars per level (there's a few hidden stars in some levels) rather than having multiple missions. Most stars come from the comets that orbit levels. When a comet is orbiting a galaxy, many things could happen. Some times you'll race Shadow Mario, sometimes you'll fight a boss with your max HP being 1. Though, all the time these comet missions are boring.

The games difficulty is pretty low, Flavio has only played for at most 10 hours and Flavio's almost done. (with the main story, mind you.) Though, collecting all 121 stars would take a long time.

And the end of every section you'll encounter an "enemy base." These enemy bases are usually pretty short, with a boss battle at the end.

People call this a gaming revolution, though there's nothing revolutionary about it. It's fun, but not the greatest.
6/10
MORAL OF THE REVIEW: Don't fly off to other galaxys, our galaxy is just fine.

Oh, and Flavio knows that Flavio didn't cover everything, expect this review to be revised tomorrow.

[Sind]

It really isn't your type of game, right?

[Flavio]

[Super Cyber Mario]

Yeah. I was super-duper excited for this game. And I played it for 15 min. and loved it. But then I started to think it wasn't all that good. I'm leaning towards maybe. Hopefully i'll get the game and will be able to make my final decision.

[Para]

What do you mean, removed the diving?

[YagamiMirror]

Meh, your review is..okay.

But you have a point, Galaxy seems really exciting as first, but it gets repetitive later and more boring later.

[Fancy Wario]

A few incorrect things here..

[Yoshi]

[Flavio]

[Tyler]

[Yoshi]

[Fancy Wario]

[Pure-???]

to be totally honest, I didn't think sunshine was that bad. certainly nto better than this, but it's not horrible IMO.

[Myst]

The part with camera controls is NOT a spoiler. And you need to learn just HOW to have fun, because I disagree with every point of this review.

[Flavio]