Mario games have usually featured some kind of 2-player mode. Thing is, it normally stinks. Not so with Mario Galaxy! Shigeru Miyamoto believes that finally, after over 20 years of trying, Nintendo have cracked the secret of implementing a decent Mario multiplayer experience with the game's Co-Star mode (where a second player takes control of a little star and...rings bells and stuff). Or so he tells Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata, anyways:
Iwata: "So, with the creation of the Co-Star mode do you feel that you've finally successfully solved this challenge that has spanned about 25 years since the birth of Mario Bros?"
Miyamoto: "Absolutely."
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.
Cultured Vultures: Put on your freshest dungarees and chow down on the ripest mushroom as we reel off the best Mario games ever made.
The Nintendo Entertainment Podcast is here, and it's the host's birthday! But don't worry, they'll talk news and Super Mario Galaxy too!
Yup. One player can actually play both parts of the game by themselves, except if that one player is too dumb to use the pointer and play at the same time, they can have their friend point while player one focuses on moving Mario and breathing at the same time. Yeah, you've perfected two-player all right, Miyamoto.
Next up: Gears of War 2 to feature exciting new 2-player mode! Player 2 can now throw the character's grenades if player one doesn't want to, freeing player one to stand around and wait for the grenade to go off.
When I think of co-op, I think of Mario and Luigi in the same level controlled by 2 individuals. I see tag team fireballs and extra distance jumps (with assistance). I see true cooperative play. I don't think Miyamoto is there yet.
That would be multiplayer perfection