Wii - Super Mario Galaxy 2 E3 Preview
Date: Thursday June 4, 2009Posted in: Preview, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Wii
Yesterday, we relayed the fact that Super Mario Galaxy 2 was announced at this year’s E3. Today, we’ll break down everything we KNOW about the game, everything we’ve HEARD about the game, and everything we can INFER about the game from screenshots and trailers.
Words About Super Mario Galaxy 2 From Nintendo
From their own press release:
Super Mario Galaxy™ 2: This upcoming adventure for the Wii console marks the first time a second 3-D Mario game has arrived in the same console generation. In the game, Mario rides his trusty dinosaur companion, Yoshi™, to new stars and the fantastic worlds found there. This 3-D platforming adventure provides longtime video game fans with a fresh round of out-of-this-world challenges in the style introduced in the critically acclaimed original. The game is planned for 2010.
We also found this quote from Miyamoto reported on Kotaku:
…Miyamoto said that the original plan was to “essentially create new variations of the worlds in Super Mario Galaxy.” But, over time, the developers have had so many ideas that Miyamoto estimates that 90% of the game’s levels are all new. The rest, he said, are levels from the original Mario Galaxy with different objectives.
The controls haven’t changed, but Mario’s been given new abilities via the addition of Yoshi and a drill item. Miyamoto also told Kotaku that “there’s something that might be kind of a little bit ghost like but still a little different.” …
Our Take on Super Mario Galaxy 2
Let’s start off by saying that while we were big fans of the first Super Mario Galaxy, we got all the way to the end, lost interest in it and to this day never finished it. Of course, if there were achievements involved, it’d probably be a different story but there weren’t (’cause it’s on Wii) so that’s where we are. That being said, um…
It sounds like by all accounts this game is going to be more of the same of the first one. Sure, great playing and great looking game, but after the millionth planet and millionth star, what ends up driving you to play it? The answer to that is STORY but as we all know, most of the Mario games seem to follow the same path which is probably the big elephant in the room as to why we stopped playing the first one. So why knows. And if we stop and think of it, we don’t think the inclusion of Yoshi is going to be enough for us. But maybe that means we’ve grown out of the target demo. We’ll have to wait and see!
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