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Why did Super Mario Galaxy 2 get so much praise?

It’s no surprise that, not too long after one of the biggest Wii success stories, a sequel is revealed and released. The first game did so much in terms of unique game mechanics and changing how people think about a 3D platformer should play like. Some say it was the perfect 3D Mario game. So, what can go wrong in the sequel?

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ps360wiihdera4444d ago (Edited 4444d ago )

Super Mario Galaxy 2: best game this generation, best game of all time..

This hot garbage of an article screams for controversy & hits..

Nutsack4444d ago

SMG2 best game this gen? Debatable, not a given.

SMG2 best game of all time? ROFL!

Are you gaming since this gen or something?

ps360wiihdera4444d ago (Edited 4444d ago )

Judging by your reply you know nothing of Super Mario Galaxy 2 so why don't you stfu and go "rofl" someplace else, nutsack..

kikizoo4444d ago

"SMG2 best game this gen? Debatable, not a given.

SMG2 best game of all time? ROFL! "

if i'ts "debatable" for this gen (but sure, it's not, since we have so much better games), it's debatable for all time (as a gamer since atari 2600, i can't deny the fact that gaming had never be better than this gen...it's just logical and technic progression : more money + better hardware = better games)

Nutsack4444d ago

@ Ps360wiihdera

I own a Wii, got SMG1, 2, play since the early days of consoles and played more then you could ever imagine playing. Maybe you should be more polite and respect that Wii and SMG2 isn't god and certainly not 'of all times' that sounds just like Wiiboy fansh!t.

@ Kikizoo

Depends on what you define as 'best gaming this gen'. Its not all about highest resolution, sharpest textures. At heart its about gameplay and gameplay has seen better days IMO. Today its a lot of shooters, another shooter and little creativity as big budgets demands big names only. Actually I liked the time period 1993 till about roughly 2002 the best in the games it brought.

Actually there are games with deeper gameplay and more creativity with less resources often.

Lucretia4444d ago

Um Ps360wiiHDera

u obviously must only own that game and a wii.

because even the wii has better games than that. its an insult to the wii line-up to even say what you did

Lucretia4443d ago

stop whining, its clear you haven't played many games. and it is ur opinion, but *shrugs, its called disagree with ur opinion

Smashbro294443d ago

It's quite debatable if we're gonna talk Wii only.

Megaman_nerd4443d ago

I have to say I was kinda stunned when i realized it, but Mario games have suffered from bad camera controls since they moved to 3D platforming. And camera is just something you can't get wrong, especially in a game about precise jumps in a 3D environment. I mean, look at Sonic! His games have been cursed with bad camera for over a decade, and we never let it slip. We knew they were bad games and we said so.

And then there are the changes between each game, or lack of thereof. In Sunshine, you get a nozzle with 4 abilities: clean stuff that is dirty, hover, jump higher, and run faster. "More jumping" is hardly a power-up in a game that is already about jumping and "getting to places faster and allowing longer jumps" (again, more jumping) isn't either. Hovering was an interesting addition, I'll give it that.

And then there are the galaxy games, which 'innovate' by doing what flash games have been doing since the dawn of time: adding small planet-like thingies you can run around. Aaaaand that's pretty much it. Not to mention the difficulty was severely downplayed, with 90% of stages being a breeze to go through.

ReservoirDog3164443d ago

SMG2 felt too samey to me when compared to SMG1. Like it felt like it was SMG1.5 and it didn't have the almost....Disney-like magical quality too it that SMG1 had. The storybook was one of my favorite things about 1 but it all felt so constricted in 2.

Was it really good? Of course! But it didn't touch SMG1's greatness to me.

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Titanz4444d ago

From Yoshi's IR tongue control, to great level designs - it's a completely different (and way bettter) game than SMG 1.

DA_SHREDDER4444d ago (Edited 4444d ago )

You mean Super Mario World? Dude, Mario is the best platformer ever!

tweet754444d ago

ive never got so much pleasure from a game in many years than when i played through mario galaxy 2

brettyd4444d ago

I enjoyed the first one. Even my ex gf was hooked and she doesnt like anything. I have yet to play 2 but definetly will eventually.

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos10d ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H910d ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX9d ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

H99d ago

I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that

ZeekQuattro9d ago

Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣

Kneetos8d ago

At least they are safer from layoffs with Nintendo then any other company

banger8810d ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk7710d ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos9d ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

SonOfOsiris9d ago

Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day

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Game Developers Have Begun Confirming Nintendo Switch 2 Support

Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.

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How Many More Victims, Like Garry's Mod, Will Nintendo's Hurtful Crusade Create?

Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."

RiseNShine27d ago (Edited 27d ago )

The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.

gold_drake26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.

nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.

people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly

mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.

zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.

nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.

its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.

but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.

Inverno26d ago

Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.