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retroed

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lawks, sweet sweet galaxy upped the ante a bit. Lost 5 lives on that bugger.

Anyway 10 stars GET and off to bed with me. 10/10 after 3 hrs play. I dont want to stop playing :)

I've just got my tenth star, too. I want to keep playing but am going to hold off until tomorrow!

Super Mario Galaxy is fantastic, I am in awe at just how great it is. I'm grinning from ear to ear just thinking about it. ;)

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Anybody else swamped by an essay/essays at this time? It's horrible. I have no essays for university for weeks on end when there's a distinct lack of good new games, and as soon as Mario Galaxy slithers through through the door I get set two horrendously complicated, research-heavy bastard essays. Great. ;)

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I think the difficulty is just about right at the minute. I died about 3/4 times on the first 13 stars which seems fair enough for early levels of a Mario game. A couple of levels were genuinely nail biting like the

monkey ball

one. That you now only have 3 bits to the health bar means you have to be on your toes.

There are just so many brilliant little touches that it's easy to forget about them because they're gone and never used again once you've finished with them. Jumping on enemies is much less difficult than I thought. One thing I've noticed is that Mario's jumping seems quite different to how I remember it in 64, his second jump of the triple jump seems much lower.

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Keep on trying to tilt my head upside down as Mario goes under planets but I guess I'll get used to that

I found myself doing this, the gravity thing really does mess with your head for a while.

My quick impressions - after playing for a few hours last night, and 13 stars in. I have to say that a little bit of me died inside when I read the manual and found you had to shake the remote for the spin, but this actually works really smoothly - and it's a game where the motion controls don't feel forced on you.

In fact I've really quite enjoyed the motion control of the Manta racing and the rolling around on a ball thing. What's also felt really fresh about the game is the fact that you don't need this consistant environment, like a fire world or ice world (in what I've seen so far anyway), you can just blast from planet to planet in a single level and have wildly different environments to contend with - and it all fits together perfectly.

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5 Stars in - fantastic

I get very disoriented when you go under a planet and release the controls I always end up running in the wrong direction momentarily.

I think I'm really enjoying it although it still feels a bit claustrophobic so far, although the playfield is obviously quite large when you take into account the whole planets surface I feel like Im only running around on a tiny portion of it, I'm not sure I totally like the spherical nature of the levels as much as (dotn hate me) the open plan of something like sunshine.

I'm not a fan of collecting the star bits either.

Saying all that I cant wait to get back to it tonight so that sums it up really.

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5 Stars in - fantastic

I get very disoriented when you go under a planet and release the controls I always end up running in the wrong direction momentarily.

I think I'm really enjoying it although it still feels a bit claustrophobic so far, although the playfield is obviously quite large when you take into account the whole planets surface I feel like Im only runnign around on a tiny portion of it, I'm not sure I totally like the spherical nature of the levels as much as (dotn hate me) the open plan of something like sunshine.

I'm not a fan of collecting the star bits either.

Saying all that I cant wait to get back to it tonight so that sums it up really.

.::: You get used to it. The first time I played this I was actually thinking about how much this corresponded with the first time I played Super Mario Bros. Just so many things to take into account and learn, but as you progress you get better and you start to anticipate and know how everything clicks.

Another way this is emphasized is the famous cookie-cutter level (Rocky Road). It's already pretty tricky navigating past the gaps, but at the end it throw shapes at you that give you a sense of vertigo and can only be done with some speed. It was like I hit the "HUGE GAP from a single block" jump from SMB's World 8-1 again. Only earlier. :lol: It's something you are too scared of doing to start with but as you master the controls you become more reckless, experienced and daring.

This is exactly what made DKJB so good and exactly what has been missing from Mario since god knows when...

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.::: You get used to it. The first time I played this I was actually thinking about how much this corresponded with the first time I played Super Mario Bros. Just so many things to take into account and learn, but as you progress you get better and you start to anticipate and know how everything clicks.

Another way this is emphasized is the famous cookie-cutter level (Rocky Road). It's already pretty tricky navigating past the gaps, but at the end it throw shapes at you that give you a sense of vertigo and can only be done with some speed. It was like I hit the "HUGE GAP from a single block" jump from SMB's World 8-1 again. Only earlier. :lol: It's something you are too scared of doing to start with but as you master the controls you become more reckless, experienced and daring.

This is exactly what made DKJB so good and exactly what has been missing from Mario since god knows when...

Bloody Rocky Road. Grrrrrrr. I had a couple of goes, got scared and left to go to a safer planet. I'll be back though when I'm more practised.

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Eeeeee well I 'm going pick this up soon!! But then I'm going on a train back home to visit family/etc!! Grrrr SUCH BAD TIMING. Ah well, thankfully there is a Wii already at my folks place.

I'm practically bursting with excitement :lol:

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cassidy

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Bloody Rocky Road. Grrrrrrr. I had a couple of goes, got scared and left to go to a safer planet. I'll be back though when I'm more practised.

The shapes bit at the start isnt that bad, its when you get to the round platforms, moving forward, electric fence that it got tricky.

Why is work necessary :lol:

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In today's Metro there is a full page Mario Galaxy advert. The headline of it is "MAY THE FAUCET BE WITH YOU". Faucet? I thought they were called a tap here?

In other news I've recieved two emails from different companies stating that Galaxy has been shipped, seems I forgot that I ordered the first. Lets see who wins, The Hut or Powerplaydirect.

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