Official Nintendo Mag gives Galaxy 97%

Issue 23 of the Official Nintendo Magazine UK hits shelves tomorrow with the first English-written review of Miyamoto's platform stunner, and the big, fat 97 percent slapped on it means they like it quite a bit.

"It's funny because the thing that annoys us most is that its fantastic graphics show us the sort of games we could have been playing for the past year had some developers bothered to pull their finger out," reviewer Chris Scullion says, in praise of the lush visuals we've been shouting about for months.

[Bolts]

My mom thinks I'm cool.

[Sam Fisher]

thats not wat she said last night

[Loopy]

How can you read your mom's thoughts?
That is really amazing.

[gamesblow]

Was there ever any doubt? Please, nintendo is so slanted... R&C smokes this games ass and rotates it twice and I don't have to sit with my arms ajar to play it or stand, for that matter.

[KeiZka]

Have you tried both of 'em? No? Bigot.

[TruthbeTold]

"Ratchet and clank is better because it's a PS3 game."
"Even though it hasn't been released yet so I can't play it, Super Mario Galaxy is teh suckz."

Thanks for the laugh "gamesblow". You must be 12 years old. If that.

[Blank1017]

your argument for thinking a game sucks is that your arms are ajar? way to pick possibly the lamest excuse to hate a game that isnt even out yet.

FAIL

[unsunghero28]

R&C is great. And Super Mario Galaxy is great.

That's all you have to say without sounding like a complete d*ck.

Not so hard, is it?

[Basch]

Yeah, it's an irrefutable fact that everyone HAS to stand up in order to play Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Red Steel [insert the countless other games that use the aforementioned gameplay mechanic here]... The only Wii games I have had to stand up for are Wii Sports and WarioWare (and even then you can bowl, serve and bat quite successfully whilst sat down and playing the former). Galaxy's gameplay largely consists of pointing with the Wii remote and navigating with the nunchuck's analogue stick – if you need to stand up to do this, I suggest you seek medical help.

[sajj316]

There are only a few guaranteed things in life. A critically acclaimed Miyamoto Mario title is one of them.

More quality titles like this that showcase the wiimote and its graphics will entice me to get a Wii.

[Maestro]

game of the year.

[mesh1]

this game looks better than ratchet and clank tbh in every sense.

[unsunghero28]

If a Sony whore hears you talking you'll be bubbless before you can say "7.5".

(NOTE: "Sony Whore" is a term of endearment. FYI, I like PS as well.)

[Basch]

Is a terrible publication that strives to award first-party games percentages in the neighbourhood of ninety simply to appease the fat-cats who fund them and consequently secretes a toxic level of rival-bashing usurped by five-year-olds across the internet. Having read about their verdict, I'm no less excited about the game itself: just sceptical about the honesty of Official Nintendo Magazine's review.

[unsunghero28]

Maybe.

Or MAYBE it's just an amazing game and you hate the idea of an amazing Nintendo game.

Please link an actual positive Nintendo-related comment you've given before I can trust you as someone who would EVER get "excited" about the game.

[Basch]

I think it slightly unfair that my excitement regarding Galaxy isn't deemed credible just because I [harshly, admittedly] bashed Nintendo's official magazine. Rest assured, being an early Wii adopter I'm elated by the idea of an amazing Nintendo game.

Sadly it's not really in my nature to make posts on these news pages simply to express how "OMFG I can't wait for Galaxy" – I like to think there is usually a less personal, more relevant point to make.
Forgive me, then, if the excitement I expressed seemed like it was shoe-horned in to cover my back (It wasn't) – I just use less exclamation marks than most genuinely excited people would when I assert my viewpoint.

I have defended Nintendo though, does that count?

http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...
http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...

[PLAYSTATION4EVER]

i got rachet and clank just like it so much been playing all day long none stop. Mario is going to be triple awesome game. Mario Galaxy = GOTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[unsunghero28]

and also respects Nintendo in some way, shape or form.

I'm going to give you a bubble for existing.

[IQUITN4G]

Ratchet better than Mario Galaxy, well that's pretty dumb and iv'e yet to play either.

Mario64 is still the best 3d platformer after all these years and that's a view echoed throughout the industry.

R+C on rails design aproach means no matter how gorgeous it looks(and it does), it can never compete with something as genius as Mario.

Galaxy looks set to match and maybe even surpass the current N64 king.

Lol to all those that think that not including Galaxy, there is a better 3d platformer than Mario64

[Rooftrellen]

One thing is for sure, the N64 gave us some games that may forever exist in gaming lore just by the amount of time they were the best of their genre before someone finally overcame it with a better game.

If this is indeed better than Mario 64 (but let's not get our hopes up about that, yet), Mario 64 will be first of the great giants of video games to fall.

I supose we'll them have hope of an adventure game being better than Ocerina of Time, or a FPS surpassing Goldeneye.

Maybe, if Galaxy can pass Mario 64 as the best 3D platformer...maybe.

[commadore65]

'I supose we'll them have hope of an adventure game being better than Ocerina of Time, or a FPS surpassing Goldeneye.'

Personally I don't really think that Goldeneye hasn't been surpassed.
It was a great game, but there have been so many good FPS' since. PC is the FPS platform anyway.

I'm really looking forward to Mario Galaxy, I reckon it'll be awesome.