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. :(
So only a 9.8 this time.
Oh well, it had a good run
*cancels Galaxy preorder and goes back playing Disaster
How the hell did you know what score I was going to give it. Holy shit you are scary.
BTW you will love it so much, it may surpass Fedor.
Only 11 days, until.....
So you're this cool red and blue plumber guy who jumps on lots of stuff and collects stars.
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Yay!
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Better?
It was a blog and no one was commenting anyway so I deleted it. I haven't spoiled myself, I love the music and it pumps me up to play the game.
I found an alternative link Raven.
Here are my thoughts on the post 120 green stars. In case you dont know the game adds 120 green stars once you finish the game. There is one green star per main star, basically for the larger three star levels there are three stars hidden around the level. These stars aren't really hard to find as they make a loud noise when you are near them, also looking around will usually show you them (you will find a bunch as the opening level cinematic sweeps through the stage). Its not the finding that is hard, it's the how do you get them. They make you do all sorts of super crazy advanced jumping to get to some of these stars. Some are hidden in areas of the level I didn't know existed until I went searching, some of this stuff is as cool as finding something on top of a level like SMB3.
It's been a blast going back through the levels gathering up these stars, so much better than replaying the game again as Luigi. I got a few complaints though, for one not all stars are equal, a bunch of them are located right at the start of a level, you can get them in like 10 seconds. Some are located in genius locations and some are just out in the open lazy stars. I wish they allowed you to collect all the stars in the stage then exist but nope, every time you grab a star you exit the level and you have to enter all over again just to look for the next one. It is not like one star at a time appears, even if you choose to look for the first green star if you miss it you may find the second one, they are all out (unless it is one of the alternate versions of the level but not many worlds have this). So you find the first one usually really quickly, you do the whole exit thing that takes forever, reenter the level, look for the second, repeat, enter again and go for the third. Why not let me get them all in one go.I understand many require a leap of death to get, to fix this have it so you warp to the nearest checkpoint after you grab a star. Also why not add more, how hard could it have been to add stars to these levels, nothing in the level itself changed. They should have put like 5 hidden stars per stage and allow you to gather them all up in one run and then you need to complete the level, that's more Mario like.
Again my complaint here is that I want more which isn't really a complaint, its sort of a compliment. I can't wait to find out what opens up after I get all green stars.