[Wii] Official Super Mario Galaxy Thread of Awesomeness

I picked this up yesterday and could not put it down. Played for 7 and a half hours straight on my initial run collecting 42 stars in the process. All of the "bonus" stages are so ridiculously fun. The game looks gorgeous. Only stars I've had a hard time with and have had to skip for the time being are the boo pull star race (so had this on one attempt but those mines at the end screwed me) and ray surfing. Ray surfing really hurts my wrist :/

I only have a few minor complaints about the game. About the controls, they are not much different from SM64, but there are some improvements, such as wall sliding to prepare a wall jump (as opposed to just bouncing off if you misstime it), and you now have a lot of control over your backflip and what distance it puts you at. However, while getting Mario to stop, slide, and side flip was the easiest thing in the world, not to mention very useful, in SM64, in Galaxy, you now slide for a split second if not doing a straight out very tight u-turn. I want my side flips back you bastards.

The underwater camera and controls could have been better. It takes more work than it should to maneuver to where you want to get to. A closer, fixed behind the back perspective would have been just fine.

There seems to be no reason to collect coins other that to restore health. No achievement marks or goals set towards to high scores, or if there are, I haven't found them yet. Sure, fifty of them get you a 1-up but with as hard as these things are to gather, why not make it 5 extra lives? I earn an average of two on obviously placed green mushrooms and star bits alone. Hell, I've died my share of times and I still have over 50 lives banked.

Last thing is that one of the sound effects of Mario jumping (or him exclaiming as he does) does not go together with the rest of the audio of the game at all. Because the rest of the audio is amazingly crisp and clean and this sound effect sounds like it was recorded with a tape recorded held close to the mono speaker of a tv SM64 was being played on. It may seem like a stupid complaint but you hear the damn thing a lot, practically every other time you jump.

Like I said though, all that's minor, the game is still incredible and fun as hell.

Originally Posted by Acer

The other time limit stages I hate are the ones where you have to blow up a shit ton of trash heaps with ba-bombs. They only give you 30 seconds and throwing isn't exactly easy in this game. You have to position them just right or you won't make the time limit. I swear it must have taken me like 30 tries or something.

I've done the first one on battlerock and it was really frustrating. Every try you have to go through the text instead of just getting to click on try again immediately. At least you don't lose lives failing like you do in cosmic comet races or the boo pull star race (which makes no sense!).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ha, funny, I never thought of those as markers, probably because I collected the coins out of them on sight.

How ya doing, buddy?

Currently sitting at 71 stars. Just did the Dusty Dune Purple Coin Star. Near the end of it I had a LOT of close calls. Had to hit the switch and run back for the last one twice. When I finally netted the damn thing I let go of the controller and my poor nerve wracked hands were drenched.

I've tried the Luigi Purple Coin Star a few times (edit: yay! just completed it ). It's going to be hard but with practice, definitely possible. It's not the crazy, false floor, time limit ones that get me, it's those slowly accumulate, easy to fall off the edge and die at 99 ones that I dread.

Additional btw: Oh, yeah, that pull star race once I came back to it after awhile, I got it on the first attempt. Then ol' purple comet flew over Ghostly. I cursed an awful lot. Every time I'd collect the hundredth with a single second left and, of course, no time to get to the star. Then one time I got it with five seconds left, but my excitement got the better of me and I grabbed the pull star across to grab it too soon and arced around it as time expired. Many attempts later and I finally grabbed it. Got it to show up with 11 seconds remaining, plenty of time to get to it. A really frustrating course, but in hindsight, fun in how completely I was trained to treat particular areas like a kid going across the monkey bars and tip toe through the corners and narrows.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Sounds like fun, I haven't even got access to the last cluster of five galaxies yet. Almost forgot they were there. Hey, if beating final Bowser gets you a grand star, why doesn't that power up the last area? No, no, they need the specific star from Jr.'s Lava Core level.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

Yes, cosmic Luigi is much tougher than cosmic Mario due to the fact that he likes to long jump, use flips, and take shortcuts. I've had some close races and I actually lost twice. I never was beat by cosmic Mario.

Fuck, seriously? I lost at least once to every last cosmic Mario race, at least to get to know the course. The Gold Leaf and Sea Slide actually gave me trouble. I don't want to imagine what Luigi's going to do to me if he's more difficult.

Haven't been playing much lately, I'm at 108 stars, will have them all soon, I'm sure.

How ya doing, buddy?