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. :(
That's what I'm thinking.
Iga needs to direct this game.
I still cant get over how this is a 2010 game thanks to NSMB.
When you watch the trailer you can put it on a loop and you get that same grin you had whilst playing the first.
So one thing I wanted to talk about were some peoples fears about this game.
Is it a quick sequel? Two mainline mario games in one generation? I've heard mutterings, not on this site that its a mis-step for nintendo. That they are known for reinventing their games once every few years and that a sequel that is too similar kills the magic.
I've seen another article saying that nintendo are playing for keeps by making this game. What are your thoughts?
I've heard Vader on the podcast saying that as soon as he completed Galaxy, he would have bought a sequel immediately. That is exactly how I felt (and with Endless Ocean).
My perspective is that Galaxy is almost the perfect rendition of the mario gameplay. What makes a Galaxy sequel acceptable to me is that every level, every part of every level had such variety and was completely different with the planetoid concept. And it was so perfectly balanced that even with a sequel, you are going to get such variation between sections. So it doesn't bother me that much.
If you just watch the trailer on a loop you also get that same giddy feeling. I guess the only bad bits are the repetition bits, for instance in the first game you had a wooden Yoshi head and now there is a wooden mario head. But that is like 0.01% of the game.
I hope its not an excuse to re-cycle assets though.
thank you nintendo for making this game
^^The only reason it won't get GoTY is because Metroid and Zelda are going to be released the same year.
It's too soon to jump to conclusion. We have hardly seen anything yet. What will the power-up structure be? What will be the level selection structure?
Just changing the power-up structure and the level selection structure to resemble Mario World, would totally change the game for the better!