Single-player
Super Mario Galaxy is a God on a disc! It contains one of the best single-player experiences you will ever play. Whilst there isn't much of a story, it does have more depth than previous Mario games. Basically, it's the annual Toad festival and Bowser comes in with a fleet of flying ships and rips the castle out of the ground with Princess Peach inside and takes it into deep space. Then, as usual, the big-nose, chubby body, blue and red plumber gets to work in attempting to rescue the kidnapped Princess. The story boasts some of the best, most genius level designs and whilst you technically complete the game after 60 of these well crafted levels, you can participate in another 60 levels bringing the total up to 120, not including an extra secret level at the end! The story should take you between 30-45 hours and will take you through a variety of stages including Lava, Ice, Green lands, Space, Underwater and many more zones. You will also battle a variety of bosses of which I will not speak as not to spoil the game for you. However, the main difference this Mario has compared to it's previous games is the innovative, fresh idea of gravity. Every land mass, space object and mini-planet in this game has its own gravitational properties allowing for some interesting level structures and unique puzzles. Going through this game is truely a blast with many clever puzzles, fun to use power-ups such as bee-mario and fire-mario, challenging boss-battles, top-notch level design and a ton of variety.
Multi-player
Super Mario Galaxy has no real multi-player mode to speak of, but it does allow for a second player to grab a remote and control the cursor to collect and shoot star-bits, which are the sort of currency used in the game. But, worry not, Super Mario Galaxy is a great game despite it's lack of multi-player.
Prensentation
Graphically, Super Mario Galaxy is stunning. It's attention to detail is simply eye pleasing and it uses some of the best water, lighting and grass effects on the system. It also has an incredible colour palette and is one of the most colourful games I've seen. It plays to the Wii's strength's trading realism and high-resolution textures for art style and colour variety and I must say, it deleviers and shows off some of the best graphics currently on Wii.
Controls & Extras
The controls in Super Mario Galaxy are for the most part good. They are not great and don't boast much customizability, but Nintendo did a descent job at finding a control scheme that works for the majority of players and whilst it is not perfect, it does grow comfortable very quickly and can be used with ease. The controls are mostly smooth and are as responsive as they come. Whilst there are no real extra modes, you do have the ability to replay any level that you have completed in an attempt to beat you high scores of collected coins and star bits and you are given the ability to view all these records and send them to the Wii message board.
Verdict
Final comment: 'A God on a disc, truly one of the best games on Wii. Unmissable!'
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "With the Switch getting on in years and the prospect of a new Nintendo console growing closer, now seems like an excellent time to take a look back at one of its mascot’s two big evolutionary lines, particularly since we now find ourselves in the longest wait ever between 3D Mario games. Today marks the seven year anniversary for the release of Super Mario Odyssey, and with no full new entry in sight, it comfortably beats the roughly six year wait between Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine, which should also be good news to anybody who broke a mirror that day.
3D Mario has delighted fans since 1996, maintaining an astonishing level of quality and bringing innovations not just to the 3D platformer genre, but gaming as a whole. Needless to say, it’s a hard task to rank a series where every entry is beloved, but I shall nevertheless undertake this risky venture with my head held high. Wish me luck."
One of the worst marios.. i hated the fact it was only about finding the moons and very repetitive with the same bosses. There is no exploration in this one.
Galaxy 2 is still unmatched
I played, completed, and enjoyed Mario Odyssey, but I tend to agree that I don't think it's the best 3D Mario. There was sense of sameness that prevailed after the first couple of worlds... not in the levels, environments, or aesthetics, but in the routine of each world. It just felt like each new environment was just the beginning of another checklist of moons to acquire, and the sheer number of them took away the sense of accomplishment I got from the stars in Mario 64 and the like. I can't exactly put my finger on why that is. Galaxy gets my nod as the best one.
I enjoyed it too but i won’t even place it in my top10 mario games.. as you said you are just looking for stars and that irritating music everytime you find one.
Also the bosses are pretty much the same from begging to end. I would have have like some koopalings instead of these dumb useless rabbits
I played a little of this game and freakin' LOVED it! But I forced myself to stop because I hadn't played Galaxy 2, which I've been playing every day for the past week. Cripes, Galaxy 2 is way better than I expected it to be! Even though I dislike the Wiimote and nunchuck controls, and it annoyed me a lot with Galaxy 1, part 2 just feels better and slightly less gimmicky when it comes to the controls.
Sunshine at number 7 no way. I get it's not perfect but it deserves better to date there has not been another 3d Mario that's managed to capture that same movement it's the most acrobatic feeling Mario to date.
It's by and large better than 3d land/world and I'd argue that galaxy 2 didn't offer any trie innovation it was essentially a DLC pack to 1
Personally it's
1) Mario 64
2) Mario Sunshine
3) Mario galaxy
4) Mario Odyssey
5) galaxy 2
6) Bowser fury
7) 3d land/ world.
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My top 3 are Mario 3, Mario World and Mario 64. Mario Odyssey is also excellent, and I enjoyed Sunshine but didn't care for the Galaxy series.
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