Super Mario Galaxy

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Super Mario Galaxy is the newest sequel to the series of Mario's 3-D platformers, after Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. It uses parts of the cancelled Mario game for the GameCube, Super Mario 128. With 700,000 copies preordered in Japan, and 400,000 in the U.S., it is the most preordered Wii game to date.

Super Mario Galaxy, unlike other Mario games, takes place in outer space. The game's levels consist of many planets, some big and some small, some flat and some round. The game has 121 stars to collect.

Story

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Toad Town
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The Castle lifted into space.

From the Nintendo Power Magazine: "Every hundred years a comet passes over the Mushroom Kingdom and rains down magical stars and stardust, Princess Peach and the citizens of the kingdom are celebrating the centennial event. Peach invites Mario to this event. When Mario is approaching the castle things go wrong when Bowser attacks the Toads and freezing them.". He then "invites" Peach to his new galaxy. But that isn't Bowser big plan, no, he's taking Princess Peach's Castle up into space. When Mario tries to save her, Kamek shoots Mario into outer space. He later wakes up on a small grassy planet and meets Tyke, who escaped the castle at the last minute. He transforms into a Space Rabbit and Mario chases him and two other rabbits, who tells him he is in space. They take him to meet Princess Rosalina. Rosalina tells Mario that the Universe is in great danger, because Bowser attacked Rosalina's ship and stole the Power Stars and the seven Grand Stars. Without these the Comet Observatory is lost. Rosalina asks him to rescue the Grand Stars in order to defeat Bowser, who took Peach to the Center of the Universe. Mario then starts his journey across the Galaxies, freeing Grand Stars. After finally defeating Bowser in his central galaxy and grabbing a falling Peach, Mario sees Bowser's sun break apart. The sun of Bowser's near-complete galaxy explodes and creates a giant black hole that begins to suck in everything in the universe. Tyke is sucked in, Mario extremely saddened. The black hole becomes a huge tornado which soon explodes and absorbs everything in existence. Mario appears in front of Rosalina who speaks to him of what has happened. Mario floats away from Rosalina. He then awakens in the Mushroom Kingdom near Peach's castle. He sees everyone he's met throughout his adventure holding hands in peace and celebrating. Bowser and Peach sit next to him. The world is at peace and back to normal once more. "Welcome to the new galaxy!" Mario exclaims, and the game ends. After the credits, Rosalina and a group of Luma fly off from the planet Mario started out on in the game, Rosetta saying "I'll be watching you from the stars". It is also revealed that Tyke is still alive, now living on the small planet.

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Various characters celebrating after all of the galaxies have combined.
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Tyke turning out to be alive.

Unique Features

Super Mario Galaxy has many brand-new features that no Mario game has ever had, one of which is the Star Cursor. The player can shake the Wii Remote and make Mario perform a Star Spin. The Star Cursor is also used to perform a variety of tasks, from climbing vines, to manipulating Wobble Launchers, to collecting Star Shards.

Unlike the last two titles, a Co-Op Mode is available, in which the second player controls a second Star Cursor. The extra Star Cursor, unlike the main one, can be used to freeze enemies in their tracks with a press of the B Button, so that Mario can defeat them easily.

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Super Mario Galaxy unravels new gameplay features and extraordinary bosses.

The game features new items like the Star Ring, which allows Mario to launch off of a planet and go flying to the next. There is no warning that a boss might be located on the next planet, no indication that Mario may be facing something terrible or something peaceful on where he's headed next, and no loading screens or mission select screens for levels.

It has also been announced that Manta Rays will take the place of Bloopers from Super Mario Sunshine, in that Mario will ride them during a mini race stage.

New enemies have come into the game like the Cosmic Bloopers, and the Cosmic Bullet Bills. However, Mario meets new friends too, like Cosmic Toads and Space Rabbits. Stars make a comeback, leaving Shine Sprites in the dust with their new orange-golden shine. The game will have the traditional "collect the 120 stars" goal that was first introduced in Super Mario 64 though this time it's 121 stars.

Additionally, Mario will retain his ability to gain different abilities, via special mushrooms. Similar to Super Mario 64, in which he could obtain the Wing Cap and Metal Cap, Mario will be able to collect suits, such as the Bee Suit and the Boo Suit, which allow him to transform into Bee Mario and Boo Mario, respectively, with more suits as well. Also, the Fire Flower and the Super Mushroom have been confirmed as items. The Super Mushroom will replenish any lost health and add a second health meter. A strange Ice Flower has recently been revealed, along with a spring power up that wraps a bouncy sping around Mario, strongly increasing his jumps but limiting his control and other moves. Also, the Cannon from Super Mario 64 will return.

The game also has a level intro for every star, as with Super Mario Sunshine. Similar to Princess Peach's castle in Super Mario 64, the Comet Observatory acts as the game's central area.

The game will also have side-scrolling levels with classic enemies such as Thwomps, Piranha Plants, and others. They will have classic items like the Fire Flower in these levels.

Like in Super Mario Sunshine, Mario can jump on NPCs to gain extra height or annoy them.

It will also feature items and enemies that went absent in Super Mario Sunshine. Some include Goombas, Swoopers, the long jump, Koopa shells, and others.

Once the Player beats the game and has 120 stars as Mario, they can go back to Rosetta and tell her that they want to fight Bowser again. Then, once they beat Bowser, the Player can play as Luigi in game. He is faster and jumps higher than Mario, but he has trouble stopping, making the game slightly harder. Once the Player beats the game and has 120 stars as Luigi, he is able to retrieve the last star, the 121st star.

Also, red, green, and shooting stars appear in the game. The green stars appears to be secret stars and the red stars appear when Mario uses a Red Star. Template:Endspoiler

Bosses

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Proof of Bowser Jr.'s appearance in Super Mario Galaxy.

Fourteen bosses are in the game.

Items

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Mario obtaining a Star.

In Mario's new adventure, he uses many new items that give him moves he's never had before.

Characters

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Mario looking at Princess Rosalina.

Many characters Mario and Luigi encounter in the galaxy.

Confirmed Enemies

New Enemies

Returning Enemies

Galaxies

Some galaxies can be accesed from domes, like the Terrace which leads to certain galaxies. These domes are found in the Comet Observatory, where new areas become accessable as Mario gains Grand Stars.

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The Space Junk Galaxy.

The Gateway

The Terrace

The Fountain

The Kitchen

The Bedroom

The Engine Room

The Garden

Bowser's Reactor

Hidden Galaxies

The Grand Finale

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Mario blasting away from the Lava Planet's volcano.

Prankster Comets

There are five types of comets that randomly appear and cause special occurences in the galaxies. These special missions yeild many additional power stars.

  • Speedy Comet: Mario must complete the level within a certain time limit.
  • Daredevil Comet: Mario must complete the level with only one health.
  • Cosmic Comet: Mario must race Cosmic Mario to a star.
  • Fast Foe Comet: All enemies in the level are sped up.
  • Purple Comet: Only available after the game is beaten, Mario must collect 100 purple coins to get a star.

Mini-Games

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Manta Ray Surfing

Reception

Famitsu Magazine has given Super Mario Galaxy a score of 38/40. (This means two reviewers gave it a nine, and two gave it a perfect ten.) To put that in perspective, Super Mario Sunshine was given 37/40 and Super Mario 64 39/40. The Official Nintendo Magazine UK gave the game 97%, making it the highest scoring game in the magazine's history, along with The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess and Resident Evil 4. It was called the best game of the decade and praised for having excellent graphics, sound and gameplay as well as a mixture of new features and classic features.

Artwork

Trivia

  • Bowser uprooted Peach's castle once before, in Paper Mario, but only lifted it into the sky, and it's unknown if it was Outer Space in that game, it was dark.
  • This is one of the only two Mario games where Bowser displays the power to create electricity. The other is Hotel Mario. However, the Bowser suit in Luigi's Mansion also had the ability to create electricity.

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  • Bowser's plan, to collapse the universe and then recreate it with himself as its all-powerful ruler, was possibly inspired by a Marvel Comics storyline known as Cosmos In Collision, which ran in Quasar #19-25. In that story, the supervillain Maelstrom had the exact same plan before being defeated by Quasar.

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References to other Mario-games

This games contains various references to older games.

External Links

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