I can say straight away that Mario Galaxy 2 is fun, I can also say that the game is a constant repeat of the same thing: the princess Peach is kidnapped by Bowser and the Italian plumber Mario goes to save her. The game controls is kinda difficult for me, all for the sake of the Wii controls of trying to actually move the character while standing trying to aim the damn thing.
Mario goes on an adventure through three galaxies in search for the princess. I don’t know if you had noticed, but every main character that’s a female in Nintendo is blond. Zelda, Samus, and Peach, as if brown and brunette were the things of the past.
Mario was once known as Jump Man and that Peach was the damsel in distress in the hands of Donkey Kong, who flung barrels at Jump Man to stop him. Mario went up against DK once, and so Nintendo changed his nemesis from a giant ape to a giant lizard.
Bowser was once known as King Koopa, but Koopa has been known nowadays as Koopa the Quick and a mushroom Koopa. And Bowser has a kid. When the hell did that happen? He was introduced in Yoshi’s Story, the game where every color of the fucking rainbow is in the game, which was a platform game.
The thing which gets me is that Mario could do awesome acrobatic moves in Mario 64 but that was limited in Mario Galaxy 2. He’s a cartoon character, his fists are going to expand and he’s most likely going to flatten when dropping from a high area. Another thing which has been removed is the shell surfing. It used be real fun: take down a turtle and surf on its shell. You’re practically invincible to Koopas and you can watch them explode into little puffs of smoke.
Well, hell, I thought that would be a lot cooler.
There are several things you may do in the game which do not make sense; like shooting a bunch of star gems into little stars to make planets or worlds. Also, you get other people to help you out (like they really do) and you’re towing a Mushroom Man ship. They all say, “We’ll help you, Mario!” and they never fucking do.
You also get trophies in your ship which is a flying head of Mario. I’ve always wondered if the designers were getting high while making the previous games, or were trying to encourage children by telling them to take mushrooms to get bigger. You use different effects to get through certain levels, like a drill bit and the rock mode, which you can keep for a long, other than the hats in Mario 64, which after a awhile you couldn’t keep.
If you obviously want to spend the rest of your days in a basement just playing this game, you’re no different than the losers who play WoW in their parents’ basement. I highly recommend this game if you want to be alone for more than 24 hours.
Something to think about: Peach, Samus, and Zelda are all blonds. No wonder they get attacked like that by bad guys.
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