Super Mario Galaxy 2

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Template:Infobox Super Mario Galaxy 2 is the upcoming sequel to Super Mario Galaxy announced for the Wii, which will be released on May 23, 2010 in North America, and June 11, 2010 in Europe. The sequel uses many elements from its predecessor, such as Launch Stars, the Bee Suit and the elements of gravity, but also includes new elements such as Yoshi. The music heard during the trailer is a remix of tunes found in the original.

Story

Some information has been revealed about the story of Super Mario Galaxy 2 in a Japanese gaming magazine. Princess Peach sends a letter to Mario, which translates to:

Dear Mario,

Do you fancy watching the shooting stars, whilst eating cake?

I'll be waiting at the castle.

Peach.

On his way over, Mario spots a mysterious light. He cautiously approaches it, and finds a small, lost baby star. The star known as 'Baby Luma'. Baby Luma follows Mario to the castle. Nothing else has been revealed, but screenshots show a gigantic Bowser holding Princess Peach in his hand, while facing Mario. Princess Peach has to be rescued by Mario on Starship Mario from Bowser and Bowser Jr. Airships, which were featured prominently in several levels of the first game as Bowser and his son's main mode of transportation around the galaxy, also appear, emerging from some sort of black hole warps. Bowser Jr., as of the second trailer, has personally appeared inside a giant robot's head, apparently piloting it.. Mario is also seen fighting a robotic enemy resembling Bowser Jr.'s Megaleg robot from the first game.

In an interview, Shigeru Miyamoto stated that he would like to go with as little story as possible for Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Characters

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Mario and Yoshi soaring in the sky.

• Mario
• Yoshi (color and abilities vary by type of fruit eaten)
• Princess Peach
• Bowser
• Toad
• Toad Brigade
• Bowser Jr.
• Piantas
• Bees
• Penguins
• Gearmos
• Rūba
• Luma Shop
• Hungry Luma
• Luma
• Luma (species)
• Giant Luma
• Bob-omb Buddies
• Star Bunnies
• Signposts
• Assist Luma - Player 2 during Multiplayer.
• Unnamed characters resembling Lakitu's Clouds.
• Unnamed wood characters
• Unnamed multi-colored birds

Gameplay Elements

Gameplay is similar to Super Mario Galaxy, with a focus on platforming based on and around 3-D planets of varying sizes and landscapes. Power-ups, such as the Bee Mushroom, Boo Mushroom, Spring Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Ice Flower will be making a return, along with new ones like the Rock Mushroom and Cloud Mario, as well as various enemies and Airships. Launch Stars will also reappear for interplanetary navigation, along with a Luma and Mario's spin action. Plus, there seems to be the returning "Dark Matter" that appears as the medium for Dark Marios and is seen as a portal through which Airships emerge from. 2-D stages featured in Super Mario Galaxy are also included in Super Mario Galaxy 2, introducing many new features. The game will have only 3 file slots to choose.

Videos and images have shown Mario sliding down a ramp, swimming underwater, picking up and utilizing a drill, hitting switches that freeze or solidify water, hitting switches that briefly decelerate time and discolor the screen, and rolling a giant snowball. In some Purple Coin stages, Mario appears alongside many Dark Marios. There is also a galaxy of which some planets appear the forms of percussion instruments.

One of the more notable additions in Super Mario Galaxy 2 is the inclusion of Yoshi. If Mario were to discover a Yoshi egg, he would merely crack it to release and use Yoshi. Yoshi will change colors when eating either a Dash Pepper, Blimp Berry or Glimmer Bulb Berry; an orange-colored Yoshi darts at rapid speeds, a cyan-colored Yoshi inflates and floats upwards, or a yellow-colored Yoshi that lights up and shows hidden paths for a certain amount of time, respectively. When utilizing Yoshi, the player's Wii Remote cursor turns into a red sphere that detects targets for Yoshi's tongue. Using the cursor allows Yoshi to swallow enemies and swing from special flowers.

Elements from older games are also included in the new game. These elements include a remix of Super Mario Bros.'s overworld theme (which is originally heard in Toy Time Galaxy from the predecessor, Super Mario Galaxy), a galaxy that is reminiscent to Giant Land from Super Mario Bros. 3, a remix of the second overworld theme from Super Mario World, and the checkpoint flag from New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Red and blue platforms from Super Mario Sunshine will also be available, though they change sides when Mario spins in mid-air.

It is noteworthy to mention that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will not feature a hub, like the original's Comet Observatory, for traveling between different galaxies, making it the first 3D Mario game to do so. Instead, Mario will travel through the universe on a planet shaped like his head, Starship Mario. Like a hub area, however, Starship Mario can still be explored, much like the Comet Observatory, although it seems to be somewhat smaller. It has also been noted that the game will have over 240 Power Stars to collect, but it is unknown whether this means that there will be 240 unique stars, or that Mario and Luigi will each collect 120 stars like in Super Mario Galaxy.

Multiplayer from the original Super Mario Galaxy reappears, but instead of being another star cursor, the second player is, what appears to be, the orange Luma from the game's logo.

Enemies

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Mario surrounded by the shadow Marios.

• Goombas
• Paragoombas (Normal and Giant)
• Electrogoombas
• Red Electrogoombas
• Astro Goombas
• Banzai Bill
• Bloopers
• Chomp Head
• Piranha Plants (Normal and Giant)
• Spinies
• Koopa Troopas
• Hammer Bros.
• Magikoopa
• Grand Goombas
• Big Boo
• Boos
• Firebars
• Boulders
• Thwomps
• Whomps
• Lakitu
• Burn Bits
• Scuttle Bugs
• Spiky Plants
• Bullet Bills
• Wigglers (Normal and Giant)
• Amps
• Fire Shooters
• Water Shooters
• Grinders
• Skeeters
• Mines
• Crabs
• Dry Bones
• Mandibugs
• Flying Mandibugs
• Swoopin' Poinks
• Unnamed drill-like creature resembling the Drill Moles from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
• Unnamed white bud-like creatures
• Unnamed shadow-like creatures that resemble Mario.
• Snow creature with a button similar to Tarantox attacking in a similar manner to Chomp Head which seems to be a big snow-covered Tap-Tap or perhaps an Ice Boulder.
• Unnamed large fire creature resembling Blargg.
• Unnamed enemy resembling Dry Bones's skull that eats through the level, using dark matter.
• Giant silver Chomp Head enemy with red pupils and yellow circles surrounding its eyes.
• Hermit crab-like enemies.
• Ghosts resembling Electrogoombas.
• Enemies shaped like bowling pins.
• Spinning platforms that may be a new species of Thwomp.

Items

• Coins
• Purple Coins
• Power Stars
• Grand Stars
• Silver Stars
• Bee Mushroom
• Boo Mushroom
• Spring Mushroom
• Rock Mushroom
• Fire Flower
• Rainbow Star
• Rainbow Notes
• Star Bits
• Drills
• Dash Pepper
• Blimp Berry
• Glimmer Bulb Berry
• Large Coins
• ? Coins
• Pull Stars
• 1-Up Mushroom
• Life Mushroom
• Item Box
• Item Crystals
• ? Block
• Flying ? Block
• Springboard
• Midway Point
• Brick Block
• Launch Star
• Sling Star
• Star Chip
• Ground Pound Switches
• Honey
• Honey Wall
• Snowballs
• Warp Pipes
• Star Ball
• Berries
• Unnamed floating block object
• Flower-shaped Surprise Balls
• Comet Metals^[sic]
• Unknown cloud-based power-up
• Switches that slow down time
• Sticky goop that slows Mario down when he walks on it

List of Confirmed Locations

• Starship Mario
• Galaxies
  • Sky Station Galaxy
  • Spin-Dig Galaxy
  • Hightail Falls Galaxy
  • Tall Trunk Galaxy
  • Upside Dizzy Galaxy
  • Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla
  • Supermassive Galaxy
  • Bowser Jr.'s Fearsome Fleet
  • Flip-Swap Galaxy
  • Boulder Bowl Galaxy
  • Puzzle Plank Galaxy
  • Cosmic Cove Galaxy
  • Honeybloom Galaxy
  • Haunty Hills Galaxy

Bosses

• Gobbleguts
• Mallettoid
• Digg-Legg
• Peewee Piranha
• Rollodillo

Development

The game was revealed in 2009's Electronic Entertainment Expo along with New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Although the game was worked very well along development, it was held back to 2010 due to the release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii in November 2009. Template:Fact

According to Shigeru Miyamoto, 90% of the features in this game are new, whereas the remaining 10% were already introduced or featured in the original Super Mario Galaxy. Shigeru Miyamoto noted that "Really what we ended up with is more than 90% of what you'll see in Galaxy 2 is brand new. I'd say closer to 95, maybe even 99%. One of the new things was the inclusion of Yoshi, and also the use of the drill to open up and drill through stages."

Gallery

Box Art

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  American box art

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  Japanese box art

Artwork

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  Mario, Yoshi and a Luma

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  Mario using a Rock Mushroom.

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  Cloud Mario

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  Mario using a Drill.

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  Mario on a Yoshi that has eaten a Blimp Berry.

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  Mario on a Yoshi that has eaten a Dash Pepper.

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  Mario on a Yoshi that has eaten a Glimmer Bulb Berry.

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  Starship Mario

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  Assist Luma

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  Rūba

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  Promotional group artwork used first in the box art

Screenshots

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  Yoshi and Mario on a planetoid shaped like Mario's head, which may be a beta version of Starship Mario.

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  Yoshi under the effects of a Blimp Fruit.

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  A snow statue of Bowser.

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  Mario battling Digg-Legg.

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  2 Grand Goombas walking towards Mario in the Supermassive Galaxy.

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  Mario on a small flower-filled planet.

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  Mario holding a drill on Spin-Dig Galaxy.

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  Yoshi under the effects of a Dash Pepper.

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  Mario talking to a wooden humanoid.

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  Luma's reappearance.

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  Mario on a water-covered planet.

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  An unknown galaxy that resembles the Buoy Base Galaxy. The switch used to decelerate time is shown as well.

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  Mario on a planet with what looks like an item box.

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  Mario standing near a Yoshi Egg.

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  Mario after freezing the lake by hitting a switch that freezes the water.

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  Mario and Yoshi on a tropical planet, with a crab and a Pianta, as well as a Pianta statue similar to the one in Delfino Plaza.

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  Mario using Pull Stars, avoiding the unknown creature that resembles a Blargg.

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  Mario, riding on a bird that appears to work similarly to the Helibird and Hoot in Sky Station Galaxy.

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  Mario battling the dragon, Gobbleguts in Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla.

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  Mario confronts Bowser Jr.'s robot, Mallettoid in Bowser Jr.'s Fearsome Fleet.

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  Another screenshot of Gobbleguts' battle.

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  The Starship Mario.

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  Whomps, which were not present in the first game, will make an appearance.

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  The map screen with World 2 selected.

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  Arriving in a planet with ruins.

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  Mario chased by four Boos and a Big Boo.

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  Mario with some giant Paragoombas and Piranha Plants in Supermassive Galaxy.

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  Mario in the Flip-Swap Galaxy.

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  Another screenshot of Flip-Swap Galaxy.

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  Mario with giant Wigglers in Supermassive Galaxy.

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  The unknown, Dry Bones' skull-like enemy.

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  Mario next to what appears to be a Comet Metal in Upside Dizzy Galaxy.

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  Mario and Yoshi using the Glimmer Bulb Berry in Haunty Hills Galaxy.

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  Mario under the effect of the Rock Mushroom in Boulder Bowl Galaxy.

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  The Starship Mario on the map.

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  Mario on the Starship Mario.

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  Mario on the Star Ball in Puzzle Plank Galaxy.

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  Another screenshot of Puzzle Plank Galaxy with a Mandibug.

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  Yoshi in Tall Trunk Galaxy.

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  Mario and Yoshi in Hightail Falls Galaxy.

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  Mario and Yoshi getting a star in Sky Station Galaxy.

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  An unknown galaxy.

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  Japanese instructions about how to control Yoshi's tongue.

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  Rainbow Mario on an unknown galaxy with a form of a big dome.

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  Boo Mario near a checkpoint flag.

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  Spinies' reappearance.

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  The weak point on the back of Mallettoid.

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  Yoshi eating a fruit that reveals a Launch Star after being eaten.

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  A Yoshi under the effects of a Dash Pepper running across the surface of a body of water.

Promotional

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  First logo.

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  Second game logo.

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  Third Game Logo.
  

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  Fourth Game Logo, featuring Assist Luma.
  

External Links

• Official American Website
• Official Japanese Website
• Official Australian Website
• Official European Website
• E3 2009 Trailer
• 2010 Media Summit Trailer 1
• 2010 Media Summit Trailer 2
• March 31 Trailer
• Japanese Super Mario Galaxy 2 Minisite