Super Mario Galaxy 2
Year: 2010
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Put Super Mario Galaxy,Super Mario 64,and Super Mario World mix them in a bowl and add a dash of "girlfriend mode" and maybe a hint of challenge,put it on a disc and into the Wii and VOILA! You get Super Mario Galaxy 2!! On a more serious note Nintendo has really done something amazing. First they've kept all the power-ups of Super Mario Galaxy [sorry Ice Flower] and added some new ones,which by the way are just as responsive as the returning ones. Ya' know what scratch that,the controls of the whole game are unfathomably responsive like for example trying to work the drill,I totally expected some resistance and/or lag but nope not a bit at all. The soundtrack is like any Mario game outstanding.
Now more into the meat of the game,basically Princess Peach has been kidnapped once again and you as Mario must save the day,except this time you're on a spaceship [shaped just like Mario in Super Mario 64] traveling across the universe on a huge linear map as opposed to going from dome to dome to get to worlds. Returning to the crew is Yoshi who helps on an innumerable amount of missions from swallowing fruit to glowing in the dark [no matter what he's incredibly easy to work with].The levels are all very imaginative [like Galaxy/World/64] and huge [like Sunshine/64] and in no way poorly designed,some in grandiose 3D and some in linear 2D which balance each other out quite well.The game is easy to learn,hard to master,not over too quickly.The camera is greatly improved and the "girlfriend mode" helps to make the game less overwhelming at times.
Unfortunately the game still has too many levels and not enough time to spend taking them in,and while there aren't as many cutscenes,there is too much gratitous dialogue. Also why aren't there 8 hits and 8 red coins? Otherwise it easily could've been an A+ game. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a treasure well worth putting in over and over and over.
-N64Dude
P.S. Sorry if I made this one too long,but I really have much more to say and that was the minimum I could dare make this one