Gameplayer has just played the first two hours of Super Mario Galaxy and were rather blown away by the experience. They believe that it could have the same revolutionary effect on the industry as Super Mario 64, and have detailed their reasoning in this article.
"Imagine 2D Mario is standing at the start of 1-4 in the his side-scrolling days. Now turn the world sideways and into 3D, much like you do in Super Paper Mario. Now knock down the walls and send that platform in an upwards arc, spiraling into a barrel roll before slowly swirling inwards bringing you with each convoluted orbit closer to the planet at the centre of the world, where your enemy resides."
Super Mario 64 DS was offered as a launch title for the Nintendo DS, a remake of the classic platform game with a few original tricks.
Needs more appreciation. I never had an N64 so this was what I played. Sure the Yoshi hat mechanic at first is a slog but you unlock Mario and the others for real and then it takes off. Personally I never had an issue with the controls. Can't forget the mini games and the 4 player rumble over download play.
Indeed, as stated in the article there were tonnes of control options and very much a 'take whatever you like, leave the rest' attitude to most of the game's extras.
Cultured Vultures: Put on your freshest dungarees and chow down on the ripest mushroom as we reel off the best Mario games ever made to celebrate Mar10 Day.
My top 3 are Mario 3, Mario World and Mario 64. Mario Odyssey is also excellent, and I enjoyed Sunshine but didn't care for the Galaxy series.
Releasing the Nintendo Switch 2 with a Super Mario 64 remake would be the perfect way to unleash the console to the world.
If they ever did I hope they would add onto it, there's so much you could do with Princess Peach's castle alone
Or just make the Mario 128... the cancelled sequel that sounded amazing (or was it just an amazing tale).
Funny that after all these years, we still use 64 bit CPUs, so it wouldn't make sense to call it that.
Each level is pretty small today in the original game, I don't like huge levels but I think they could be at least 2x bigger, or close to it and more of them, with more things to do.
They could do a mix of having open levels and more linear ones like in 3D World or Land, I doubt they will do that but it would make a change.
I mean Odyssey's levels weren't massive, but requiring you to do different things in each world is what made the levels feel bigger than they were.
I'd prefer a Oydessey 2 or Galaxy 3. Besides the DS
game was a Mario 64 remake complete with more playable characters, stages, bosses and muti player content.
I did not like Odyssey i found the idea of ot lame.. i find it boring to just look for moons instead of exploring and enjoying the levels. Let’s not talk about the extremely repetitive and ridiculously easy bosses. Level design is so meh most of the time. Galaxy 2 is a far better game so Galaxy 3 anytime!!!
Agreed. I enjoyed Odyssey for a while, but it quickly became very formulaic where each level felt like a checklist of things to do with WAY too many moons to find. The Galaxy series were the best, as they took some of what made 64 great and juiced it up perfectly.
Yes! Let's release an almost 30 year old game to kick off the next generation for Nintendo...
I'm over re-releases...FEED ME NEW MARIO!
I make a quick shuffle over to my Wii console and kiss it. This is WHY I became a gamer! To be taken across exotic locales in an epic adventure. Nothing can beat Mario (except Zelda).
Its all thanks to Nintendo's genius. No matter what path they take... I'll be with them. Just don't stray too far, Miyamoto!
Let me start off by saying I am a huge Mario and Zelda fan. This game kind of makes me sad. I like to be immersed (sp) in a level and to feel that when I am in a level it is a totally different environment then the last. Although Im sure that each 'planet' is different then the last... for one... it seems like the levels are too short to get intimately involved with (unlike mario 64 where there were a lot of objectives per level) and... the background plays too big a part that instead of feeling like you are in a unique level... it feels like just another planet cuz the background is so prevalent and all encompassing. I hope I am wrong cuz I can't wait to get this game. Just a thought.
After looking at some more screenshots I do see that the second half of my comment doesn't exactly hold up. Some levels do appear to fully immerse the gamer. I just hope that the levels are not short like one review pointed out.
I still play Mario 64 because it's like a giant playground full of near enough infinite things to do.If Galaxy can redefine what's already laid down by SM64, then this is going to be one very great game.
Yeah... I play Mario 64 all the time still too. It is my favorite DS game and even my favorite Wii game.
I think Nintendo know they can't afford to screw this one up.Mario Sunshine was neat enough but quite disapointing in that it didn't do much apart from add what was essentially a gimmick for most.I also had some control issues when trying to cartwheel jump into air (wasn't always 100% and i know i'm pretty acurate with my directions), and this was something that never happened in SM64 for me.
Nintendo themselves went on record as saying that Sunshine didn't measure up to the standards people were expecting, so i think they wont let us down.
Sunshine was still rather good in my books but i eventually got rid of it, knowing i would always play SM64 anyway.