Official Trailer

Coming: 2010

From IGN's Interview: "Reggie Fils-Aime on the Record"

IGN: You have a bit more insight on the development of Galaxy 2. What's the direction for the game? Do they really want to blow it out or will it be more of the same? 

Reggie: What Mr. Miyamoto has shared is that if the first Galaxy was maybe more inviting in terms of all the audiences, what Galaxy 2 is going to be is maybe a little more Nintendo fan / harder gamer focused. A little tougher. The use of Yoshi makes it a little more challenging. We showed some of the snippets of some of the activities -- it's a bit more challenging. It's going to be, if you will, for more of that passionate Mario fan who grew up getting challenged with Super Mario World. It's going to be much more in that area.

From "Shigeru Miyamoto Roundtable LiveBlog"

"With Super Mario Galaxy, it's the first time we really worked with spherical worlds and we had a lot of ideas about how to use gravity. However, when we finished the game, we realized there were a ton of ideas we just couldn't fit in," he says.

More than 90 percent of what you will see in Super Mario Galaxy 2 is all brand new. Maybe even 95 percent . . . Galaxy 2 contains roughly the same amount of content as the original. 

 Galaxy 2 is very, very far along, but since Nintendo has New Super Mario Bros. Wii, it's going to hold off and keep Galaxy 2 for next year. :(


Posted by Ravenprose Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:10:55 (comments: 443)
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Mon, 24 May 2010 19:26:40

Dvader, what is the name of that cloud level?
 
Mon, 24 May 2010 19:51:58

Agnates said:
What are you guys talking about the graphics and not having a difference in HD? From the videos and screens it looks the same as the first Galaxy to me, which was definitely spectacular more often than not, but yeah, what difference are you seeing in the sequel? It's the same engine, many of the same assets, and "just" new levels, enemies, bosses etc. Does it have less evident jaggies on a HDTV than before or what (I don't see how they could possibly change that)? Or do you just mean that, jaggies aside, the visual quality is excellent and doesn't feel compromised from the lack of power compared to the other consoles (which is also true for the first game)? I'm on media blackout btw, haven't really seen videos outside the "transmission" stuff and a few trailers as well as a few very early gameplay videos, I don't want the whole game spoiled by the time it arrives here or something... Damn.

It looks normal on my HD set when Wii games have a noticeable SD on an HD look to them. There has always been something off about Wii games, they look fuzzy, less defined, which is the whole point of high definition. It goes the same with trying to watch an SD channel on an HD set, it is a noticeable downgrade. This game looks fine, it looks natural. It may not be HD, but it doesn't have that SD downgrade look either. Yeah its the same engine as Galaxy 1 but with what I have come to call an HD filter or something. I don't know what they did but the game looks beautiful on my TV.

 
Mon, 24 May 2010 19:52:22

gamingeek said:

Dvader, what is the name of that cloud level?

I dont remember, it had windmills, its in the videos. The music oh my god.

 
Mon, 24 May 2010 19:52:33
Is it the fluffy bluff one?
Dvader said:

gamingeek said:

Dvader, what is the name of that cloud level?

I dont remember, it had windmills, its in the videos. The music oh my god.

The music. I've been listening to the soundtrack all day and it's heavenly. Just the godamn music gives me that Mario Galaxy high.

Check the Raptor Jesus.

The final Bowser battle will have you in rapture.

 
Mon, 24 May 2010 20:41:05
I fought Bowser for the first time. I hope they change up the fights cause it was a bit too simple, kind of like Galaxy 1. I hope for a more NSMB type ending.

Oh and yeah it was gg.
 
Tue, 25 May 2010 08:24:58
I am 50 stars in, world 4. Comets are now all over the place, I have Luigi showing up on many galaxies as well. The comet missions range from brand new objectives to simple things like kill a certain amount of enemies in a short time. The boss fights where you cant take damage are back but so far I only did one. One boss fight had a timer as a comet mission, they gave way too much time for that. No collect 100 purple coins in a giant level yet, so far the only purple coins I have seen was on hard focused platforming levels like the Luigi's purple coins mission.

The variety is still very impressive with some new gameplay hook for each new level. There are some stand outs and some meh levels too. Above all my biggest issue is that it still feels way too easy. There are stars where you do a really simple objective that lasts a minute, I feel like that some are filler. Because new elements are being introduced all the time so much of it feels like tutorial level difficulty. I rather them explore some of these mechanics and put them in crazy elaborate levels rather than these simple ones. I haven't seen any secrets that were hard to find. It is starting to feel like just more Galaxy which is awesome, but not this giant leap over the original. There are moments where the game soars but right after that you may enter a galaxy where you say "thats it". I am hoping for some harder more advanced levels later on.
 
Tue, 25 May 2010 12:46:33
I found the difficulty in the first galaxy to be perfect for me. How was it for you and is the second game harder than that? Because a lot of reviews say that there is the challenge should you want it.
 
Tue, 25 May 2010 18:11:06

gamingeek said:
I found the difficulty in the first galaxy to be perfect for me. How was it for you and is the second game harder than that? Because a lot of reviews say that there is the challenge should you want it.

Galaxy 1 was easy to me for the most part. But it was so amazing and fresh that it didn't matter. I am expected something more advanced. it's not about dying or something being so hard that I want to throw my controller on the floor. Its about levels that feel complex, that feel they were made for someone that has played Mario all their life. So far to me, even though there is a ton of imagination and crazy awesome levels, it still feels like Nintendo is bound by chains to keep it simple. I would love for just once those chains to be broken and have them go all out, but that is not who they are. Still the most important thing is am I having fun, oh hell yeah I am. Is it better than Galaxy 1, yes. So far did I expect more, sadly yeah, but I have more than half of the game to go.

 
Tue, 25 May 2010 18:11:42
Oh and I replayed Galaxy 1, ok the graphical difference isn't that big but SMG2 does look better.
 
Tue, 25 May 2010 20:51:17


I'm glad the game doesn't overdo it on difficulty then. Happy

NSMB got on my nerves a lot till I practiced, a lot.

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