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. :(
Get off the computer, go play Galaxy.
You didn't get the 121st star?
I guess so, if it was in the game I did it.
That's normal the further you get the more difficult it is to get stars. But if you are stuck at one star, do another one star. I left the most difficult one for the end. If you are bored of the dome, just do the boss battles and open another dome. Just do it like that and you should not get bored.
Same here, though there were two nice sections towards the end.
We're in the middle of finalizing the game with the ideas that we've created. Almost entirely new courses...we've added some new abilities for Mario, and the goal is to take the system and the gameplay of the original Super Mario Galaxy and turn it into something that's a little more expanded, and offers a great deal of challenge for people that enjoyed the first game. - Shigeru Miyamoto
I thought most of SMG was too easy.
Then don't buy Galaxy 2. Of course it going to be more challenging, it is a direct sequel. Galaxy has already trained you, Galaxy 2 will pick up where Galaxy left.
That because you are not playing it like a man, hamster.
I got 120 stars. That's manly enough.