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. :(
I got all 120 stars on the 1st play-through, and 58 (so far) on the 2nd. I'll get all 121 stars before SMG 2 comes out, though.
All of them for Mario, but I havne't played through as that other character yet!
I'll finish it, but I'm looking forward to #60.
I got to 25 within 2 days, and since then it has been a s-l-o-w grind.
I think it gets much better as it goes along so you might just be going through a less interesting area.
What world are you on at the moment?
I'm going through the freezeflame galaxy, about to beat bower for the second time.
It's been a while now, but as I recall, that was the worst section
I got all 120 stars as Mario. And all 120 stars as Luigi.