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. :(
U R MR GAY
Yeah it wont review close to the original because of the similarity fatigue that all sequel games suffer from, but its the same team and the game will be out, like you say, at least 2 and a half years, maybe 3 after the release of the first.
One thing that bothers me is Yoshi who hasn't made the 3-D transition as well as mario. In the 2-d games it made sense, he gave you some bonuses but the important thing was that when you were hit you could re-aquire him easily because he would run in a line, bump off something and come back. And because it was in 2-D it was accurate and easy to jump back on. I dont know how others feel but in Mario Sunshine, Yoshi was not fun to use, at all for me.
He has to have clear advantages in MG2 as a viable and useful powerup.
Wrong!
I M MR GAY
Hey, this is a family-friendly thread! No wang talk allowed!
I'll join you on that one.
I'm pretty confident Yoshi will have his uses, just based on the E3 trailer. He has his own set of power ups which so far look like a speed boost and flight (or variation of flight). I'm sure there will be some offensive ones as well.
No, I'm Mr Gay!Wasn't that flying bit just when you're on yoshi and hit the star to go to the next planetoid?
I think he means this:
That is what I am referring to. There was also another clip of a red Yoshi running at an accellerated speed. I'm pretty sure they're going to go the Super Mario World route with the color coded powered up Yoshis in this game.