A Night with Mario Galaxy 2

I must admit that I was a bit leery of Mario Galaxy 2 leading up to it’s release date. I mean this is basically just Mario Galaxy with new levels right?  That was what I thought at least until a took a look at Craig Harris’ review at IGN.com. He gave it “A PERFECT 10″? A miss-load no doubt. After having refreshed Google Chrome 2 or 3 times with the same result it had finally sunk in. Just weeks after proclaiming on the Nintendo Voice Chat podcast that Nintendo Fans shouldn’t Mario Galaxy 2 to be the first Wii game to receive a perfect 10 he did the very thing he said he wouldn’t.

With my interest pique’d I decided to race out and pick up a copy of the game to see for myself. I was still cynical though. I mean it looks the same as Galaxy 1, the controls are the same, the intro is the same… How could this possibility by better than the classic original. But I’ll tell you this, by the time I reached Mario’s “Faceship” I was convinced. This game has the makings of a true masterpiece. I don’t know how Nintendo does it, but somehow a game that looks and plays the same as the original feels downright “fresh”. And that was before I even found Yoshi. Once you start messing around with Yoshi you realize once and for all that the Wii remote and nunchuck combination offers new opportunities in gameplay. I don’t think that Yoshi would have worked in 3d without the pointer.

I’ll have more on Mario Galaxy 2 once I’ve completed my first playthrough. But so far it’s very very promising.