AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Blah blah late to the party again

It's kind of ridiculous that Yahtzee is complaining that Super Mario Galaxy 2 is the same as Super Mario Galaxy 1. That's kind of exactly what it's trying to be. The first Super Mario Galaxy was really good, and players loved it and wanted more. Also, the first Super Mario Galaxy was really successful, and Nintendo wanted more cheddar. Sort of a win-win, if you don't think about it too hard.

Let's face it, the only people who bought SMG2 were those who got the first game, loved it, and decided another one was worth the fifty bucks. SMG2 never tried to trick customers into thinking it would be a groundbreaking sequel that would put the old game to shame. Everyone who bought the game knew exactly what they were getting in to.

I mean, I'm a supporter of the video games are art argument, but looking for artistic merit in SMG2 is like nominating Step Up 3D for the Academy Awards just to watch it lose.

As for the game, I love it. I find myself laughing while playing, not in a humorous way, but more of a "ha ha oh man this is awesome" kind of way. The second world's boss (the first Bowser level) was probably the perfect amount of challenge for me. I got through it in one try, but I was on my toes the whole time. It was really great. From then on, things just got harder and dying began to get a bit frustrating, but a little perseverance never hurt anyone. Right now I'm at eighty-something stars.

The one part of the Yahtzee review that resonated with me was "Get stun-locked down one bottomless pit, been stun-locked down them all." It's become apparent to me how erratic this game's difficulty is. Well, it's not difficulty that's wavering, per se, but how forgiving the game is. Arbitrarily, the space underneath platforms might be bottomless pit (instant death), quicksand (instant death, unless it's one of those sandstream things that will carry you away), or lava (a measly one unit of damage). Run into an enemy and you might just get hurt, or you might get knocked off and fall do your death. Get hurt while on Yoshi, and you might just fall off and have to catch him and jump back on, or he might disappear completely and you'll have to go back to a spawning point to get him. That's really my biggest problem with the game.

Oh, um, the music is really, really good.

All I know is that I can't be bothered to get all the stars this time around.

Yeah. I've been around 200 for an awfully long time now.

I got all 242 stars to prove to people that it was easier than Galaxy 1.
Okay it is a bit harder but shut up.

It wasn't as fun.

Wait, 242? I thought there was only 241.

Yeah except Super Mario Galaxy 2 feels like... less than the first one.

Everything just seems a little bit worse.

For example I didn't particularly like any of the new music, and I noticed they re-used music a lot more often. The levels felt far more bland and linear. They also removed a lot of things I liked from the first game. Like Ice Mario. I really liked Ice Mario.

Basically, if I were to play Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario galaxy 2 without knowing which was the first and which was the second, I'd think Super Mario Galaxy was the sequel.

So, in the end, Yahtzee does have a good point. The only significant thing that SMG2 added was Yoshi, and Yoshi wasn't even used all that often.

I like Yahtzee, and I probably agree with his review of Galaxy 2 more than any other one of his videos. However, since he only looks for the negatives in basically everything, people shouldn't treat his opinions as god. I loved Galaxy and I wanted to play it again with new levels--that's exactly what Galaxy 2 was. He shouldn't call it a rehash or anything else obscenely negative. If you like the taste of something, you want to eat it again.

I was however disappointed that the Throwback Galaxy was only one SM64 level. Different levels as planets would have been awesome.

Yeah, while Throwback was AWESOME, they could've gone a lot farther.
Snowman's Land as Fire Mario, anyone?

Just got my 200th star in SMG2.

Chomp Works galaxy, third green star, if anyone cared which one it was.

I got my 242nd star in Super Mario Galaxy 2 earlier today!

DEAR LORD THAT LAST CHALLENGE.
It's easy when you can get hit, but when you can't you realize how bad you actually are when it comes to timing your jumps over those Spiked Sentry Beam lasers.




Also it REALLY HELPED to discover I could crouch under boomerangs.

...oh my god really ;-;

(also the sentry beams were actually one of the easiest parts for me, whoops!)

I always save at least two cloud puffs for the sentry part of the level, otherwise I just die.

Yeah, I ended up doing this after the first few tries. :V

I managed to actually get it so I have three clouds left for that part, which is fantastic.