Super Mario Galaxy on the way for Wii

[Calashnikov]

I'm guessing the 'being fired from planet to planet' is kind of automatic. You regain control once he lands.

[JPickford (retired mod)]

Yeah

[layten]

Good too see it's basically the same game with nobs on 10 years later

Yet we all know it will be better than 99% of all other games.

Hell even a poor Mario game (I'm looking at you Sunshine) is better than most other games.

[emps]

I'm guessing the 'being fired from planet to planet' is kind of automatic. You regain control once he lands.

The fact they've stuck so much of that at the start of the video has me a little worried. I don't really like the idea of the flying given it's not interactive, at least not from what we've seen of it. I do like the way it (usually it seems) shows you where you're going to land before sending you off in a ridiculous arc.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

Sky. That must mean it's part of a bigger planet.

[Straps]

Sky > Space.

Innit.

[Strafe]

Funnily enough the game's not just Mario being bounced around at high speed while the player tries in vain to point at things on the screen before they fly out of view.

You're going to have to refer me to the bit where I said it was.

[Strafe]

Sky. That must mean it's part of a bigger planet.

Or it has a floaty thwwomp section with a sky background.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

Or it has a floaty thwwomp section with a sky background.

Oh Strafe.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

LittleBigPlanet can go fuck itself with it's create-your-own-game mentality

Jesus wept.

[emps]

Maybe that's why there's so much non-interactive flying. Each island is user-created and the whole galaxy is a combination of everyone's ideas through WiiConnect24. It's out Spore-ing Spore!!!

[scottcr]

holy shit - that looks amazing.

confidence restored.

[therearerules]

Plus I don't recall seeing a cursor on screen.

That's pretty bad recall.

[SPE]

Even though it's looking more NiGHTS than Mario 64, and I have doubts over the motion controlled action bits, I can't imagine how anyone could watch the recent video with anything other than a massive LittleBigPlanet-style grin on their face.

[Strafe]

That's pretty bad recall.

Ok, there's that star at around 50-55 seconds in and again at the end but for the most part it's not there.

[Harmunt]

Excited GET!!

[siread]

First watch and I'm thinking, 'what the faff is going on?' Second watch and i'm thinking, 'I don't care what's going on. It's looks fucking brilliant.'

[scottcr]

I love one of the bits when you are propelled up - only to turn upside down and stick to the underside of another platform to walk around.

this looks as though it's going to mess with your head. Real - proper - 3D platforming... like a game full of void levels. oh yes.

[scottcr]

I can't imagine this scoring high on the wife-o-meter, but she did love watching me play Mario Sunshine, particularly the void levels.

Just release it now please.

[SPE]

this looks as though it's going to mess with your head. Real - proper - 3D platforming... like a game full of void levels. oh yes.

There was a similar level in R&C3. The huge, spherical asteroid one. That was ace, but at times stomach churning. Hopefully SMG won't make me puke up.

[Calashnikov]

I really liked this simple wee section of the clip:

Nothing too exciting, but that pile of ledges and blocks in front of eachother is probably how I would imagine Mario to look in 3D, had I no prior knowledge of a 3D Mario game. I'd be basing my idea on a 3D version of Super Mario Bros 3. That's what I thought about when I saw this bit.

[Calashnikov]

Also, this isn't particularly clear in my grab here, but inside this capsule-style planet looks like platforming PORN:

I can't wait to dick around inside that thing.

[SPE]

The beauty of having levels made up of smaller, open, rotating planets, all viewed from a reasonable distance, is it should remove the camera woes that blighted the latter stages of SMS.

[M.M.S]

Who's upset? It's just the internets.

You can pick several Mario clichés in that vid, swiming levels, those star outline-things (cannons, to you and me). I'm going to go for a wander until I have something positive to say, lest I be accused of trolling.

Yea, maybe they should give him guns and let him drive a car this time. Maybe set it all in a real-time city or something?

Way to miss the point about what defines a Mario game. idiot.

Needless to say, I'm mad-excited about the game, it just looks like so much fun.

[SPE]

Yea, maybe they should give him guns and let him drive a car this time. Maybe set it all in a real-time city or something?

This makes me sad. Poor Jak, he didn't deserve it.

[M.M.S]

This makes me sad. Poor Jak, he didn't deserve it.

I was thinking more Shadow the Hedgehog...

[citation deducer]

I really hope this is shit.

[joeplus]

Trailer is massively exciting. Gravity effects! Petey Piranha!

And anyone complaining about these "rehashed, tired ideas" can eat shit as far as I'm concerned. It's got a completely new style of gameworld, some fun-looking Wiimote innovations, and it's on a massive scale. What the fuck do you want, Mario racing around in a car, or playing tennis, or beating people up? Oh wait...

It's a proper Mario game. If it didn't have the basic elements, it wouldn't be a proper Mario game. Go and play something else.

[giant_frying_pan]

I really hope this is shit.

Have you previously made a bet of an anatomical nature?

giant_frying_pan

[Alex W.]

Looks like a blast to me. Trying to navigate those big spaces will be entertaining, and I like all this use of the pointer to get around. I can't help but wonder how much better Galleon's swinging system would've been if it had been delayed an extra 5 years and made a Wii title.