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. :(
Good, keep going. The new stars go by quick so don't worry.
I'm on 93 stars. This special world is tough, not just the levels but the star requirments in between. It's almost like they want you to route out every star on every level before you are allowed to progress. I have one bronze star, the bowling alley one.
Great game, now that I completed it and went back, definetely as good as the first.
I completed it on 70 stars and now I'm on 93. How can there be 240? They started rehashing some SMG1 levels at the end. Are the rest rehashed too?
Its not what you think.
The one where it scrolls. When you are on the ceiling, pass the warp star and keep going.
Took a bit of a break from it, still at 141 stars. I'll probably get back to it later this week.I mean the one where you start with a birds eye view and you are running around a maze in the dark with boos chasing you.
Yeah that is the level.