Super Mario Galaxy 2
I went into Gamestop at the mall today. I wanted to find out when this game comes out. Turns out, it already did.
Nintendo has not failed me, yet again. Same colorful, musical 3-D planetary adventure as its predecessor. Except now, there’s fucking Yoshi. Not only is it just fun to see the dino-pal back in the franchise, but with it comes new gameplay such as grappling, pulling, eating, and (I’m assuming soon) shooting.
There are some new Mario suits as well, that I have yet to experience. And the navigation from galaxy to galaxy is less annoying. Think SMB3 World Maps now.
I’d say the only lame thing is the poor classic story line. Bowser destroys party. Princess gets kidnapped. Star-people need stars. Mario saves everyone.
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It’s funny, I got an email about this yesterday and so I had been thinking about the game. I can’t say I’m that excited for it, although you may be able to change my mind there.
Yeah, I really liked Mario Galaxy. It was fun. But after playing the most recent side-scrolling Super Mario game with Hutch, I realize that I like that way more than Galaxy despite its inventiveness.
I’m anxious to hear what you think about the game a few days in; if it’s just a rehash of the first Galaxy but with Yoshi, I’ll probably pass. I understand Yoshi needed arms for all of the other games that featured him, but when picturing a full grown Mario riding atop a more anthropomorphic Yoshi I get the creeps. I liked it better when he didn’t have hands.
Sammy: Yoshi always had hands. Look at the box cover for super mario world.
Paris: It’s great that Yoshi is in the game and all, but, where’s the love for Luigi? Why does he always get screwed when it comes to being in games?
I loved, loved, loved Super Mario Galaxy. Got all 120 stars and then started all over again with Luigi. Just ordered this off Amazon with high-hopes.
For some reason, the side-scrolling Mario from last fall bored me to tears.
Ordering it off Amazon gave me a $20 voucher for another videogame purchase.
Now I want Red Dead Revolution, too.
As it so happened, there were two games I was looking forward to this year (possible three if the rumors of a side-scrolling Metroid are true) and both happened to come out within a week or so of one another.
Red Dead came out first and, frankly, I was far more excited about it despite my not that being into GTA and absolutely loving Mario Galaxy. Maybe it’s thatt I was already on a western kick (reading the second in McCarthy’s borderlands triology, watching Deadwood, whistling Ennio Morricone whenever anyone looks at me funny).
Justin, did you happen to play the sidescroller WITH another person at all? That’s really what made the game.
No, and I’ll wholly admit it’s probably a LOT different with other players. My friends are the sort to rarely, rarely touch videogames when we’re sitting around someone’s place… unless it’s Tetris. Which is why I usually stick to single player games.
As a single player affair: duller than hell.
How is RDR? This $20 Amazon voucher expires in a month, and it seems like it might be a nice game to pick up for $35.
Well, I have’nt played a GTA since Vice City and I never really even got into that all that much. And maybe it’s the Western setting which I love… but it’s just really fun. I love the characters, I love the random events, the battle system is really nice (there’s a lock-on element, but room to “improve” your shots with some manual modification) and the bullet-time system for fanning the hammer and getting multiple shots is crazy fun. Lots of little achievements and tons of awesome things to explore (and get the bandanna asap so that when you feel like being an asshole and tying a nun to some railroad tracks you don’t even up losing Honor).
And I haven’t even gotten to the Multiplayer aspect yet which I hear is fantastic.
All right. I’m sold on it. Not that I required much convincing.
Though it’ll probably sit on the shelf until I finish the amazing, amazing, amazing Mass Effect 2. So fucking good.
Awesome. Now we have a posse (apparently in multiplayer you can form 3+ man posses and do stuff.
Posses can include 8 people, I expect to buy this game this weekend.
http://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption/features/multiplayer
That posse stuff sounds fun.
I’m having a Super Mario Galaxy 2 day today. This game is very inventive. Only some of the bosses are rehashes.
The game seems way bigger than the first one too. Same number of 120 stars to get, but each stage has less missions (which calculates to more stages).
I don’t know how Nintendo stays so imaginative but they do.