^yes...

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if you beat it with all 120 stars, the game is playable as Luigi.
If you beat it with all 120 stars as Luigi, the grand finale galaxy is unlocked and you can get the 121st star.

11/15/2007 5:51:45 PM

oh holy fuck ice mario

11/15/2007 6:11:45 PM

^^might wanna alert that a little better

11/15/2007 6:19:47 PM

Woot, managed to pick this up from TRU after work. They seemed to have plenty of copies.

11/15/2007 7:40:03 PM

The Ice level is getting on my nerves a bit. But that sweets mini galaxy was one of the most frustrating levels I have played in a long time. Thank god you kept on getting free lives, because I must of died at least 9 times.

11/16/2007 11:06:00 AM

Question based off of previous SPOILER:
















Playing as Luigi, do you actually control differently? Does he have higher jumps or anything?

11/16/2007 11:31:21 AM

supposedly, yes.

11/16/2007 11:33:15 AM

OK, for line spacing in a spoiler to work there has to be lines before AND after the spoiler. If there's a post at the bottom of the page after yours my eyes will still be very tempted to read the spoiler and keywords like, say, Luigi (spoiler), will jump out at me.

Not upset about it (kind of predictable honestly), but still.

[Edited on November 16, 2007 at 12:24 PM. Reason : ,]

11/16/2007 12:21:29 PM

If you think the sweet galaxy is bad, wait until the sling pod galaxy.

11/16/2007 1:21:26 PM

Oh god the sling pod galaxy pissed me off. I'm glad Nintendo sent me those soft controller jackets because after I died around 15th time I threw it.

11/16/2007 1:30:28 PM

meh. Sling pod was a cakewalk for me.

The only real challenge I've had so far was the first Cosmic Comet race (Good Egg Galaxy maybe?) I'm ~50 stars in.

I love this game, but I wish they would've made it a little more challenging.

11/16/2007 1:30:29 PM

I haven't really had a problem with any of the levels except the damn Ray Racing. For whatever reason that mini-game kicks my ass every time, I can't even finish a lap!

11/16/2007 1:36:36 PM

trying to be that rock monster in daredevil mode is a bitch

11/16/2007 1:42:47 PM

I've died a good bit in several levels, but I wouldn't call the game terribly hard. The later levels do ratchet things up a good deal. Sling Pod and Sweet Sweet were tough, but thanks to the easy 1ups in both (collecting Star Bits ftw), it wasn't that bad.

11/16/2007 1:57:52 PM

this game sucks. Horrible story line and the graphics are not as good as the 360 or the PS3....fail.

11/16/2007 3:15:34 PM

^lol

11/16/2007 3:18:19 PM

this game is just evidence of how bad the Wii is for third person action games, a problem first made clear in last year’s “Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

11/16/2007 3:21:58 PM

^Taken from the Variety review

11/16/2007 3:57:31 PM

yeah...what a piece of shit review

11/16/2007 4:11:09 PM

Quote :

"When a video game makes you feel insecure you should probably start re-evaluating where it is you derive your self worth."

11/16/2007 5:46:41 PM

you do know that I'm just kidding right, I fucking love this game (except for sweet sweet galaxy)...go read the variety review

11/16/2007 5:50:10 PM

the bedroom Bowser is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch

11/16/2007 6:32:12 PM

i've liked it a lot so far. the characters in this game are hilarious. i haven't played much yet though...only have like 8 stars.

and that dang ray racing gave me some trouble too. the dang waves kept blastin me off the dang track.

11/16/2007 7:29:13 PM

man, these purple coin stars are intense. the coins in the honeybee galaxy are all on these edges and shit. i kept thinking mario was going to fall off or something. and yeah, beating that rock guy on daredevil sucked.

11/16/2007 7:44:02 PM

Just got through the first Bowser fight. I'm really glad they kept the music and genral "obstacle course" like structure from SM64, those were my favourite levels.

11/17/2007 12:06:37 AM

those who are pissed at the sling pod and sweet galaxies, i just opened up the green galaxies. and they are far far worse than anything before. one level is like "rollgoal" from zelda.....

11/17/2007 2:01:53 AM

Up to about 19 stars right now and I've enjoyed the game as much as any other Mario game up to this point. I remember Mario Sunshine being just as fun towards the beginning until the novelty of the waterpack wore off. Sweet Sweet Galaxy kicks ass. I love watching people play it for the first time.

11/17/2007 12:02:13 PM

Mario Sunshine just became too much work and not enough fun.

And it got irritating to get all the way through a semi-difficult level just to get to a sub-level and fall the fuck off of a cliff.

11/17/2007 3:07:54 PM

NEED MORE STARS

[Edited on November 17, 2007 at 4:01 PM. Reason : <>]

11/17/2007 4:00:54 PM

I wish the secret for 120 stars was the ability to turn into any of the power ups at any time....that'd be awesome

11/17/2007 4:01:58 PM

http://www.hardcoregamer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=7

This has videos showing how to get every single star. Pretty much beats any kind of other guide.

The purple coin star in Toy Time is a bitch. I tried it maybe four times and gave up.

http://www.hardcoregamer.com/theatre/videos/MarioGalaxy/PurpleLuigi.mp4

BTW Super Mario Galaxy is now the highest rated game on gamerankings.com

[Edited on November 17, 2007 at 6:37 PM. Reason : .]

11/17/2007 6:13:46 PM

Galaxy is beyond great. 10 stars, 2nd dome opened, and I question why i'm on the internet and not playing the game right now.



Sweet sweet cost me quite a few lives.

Oh and i guess they always start you back at 4 lives when you start the game over from a save to not make it super ridiculous to keep lives like Super Mario Land?

11/17/2007 8:22:31 PM

Hahaha my Wii was just glowing blue so I turned it on to find a message from Toad saying that Luigi was missing.

11/17/2007 8:23:12 PM

^^
I've been describing it as beyond awesome.

11/17/2007 8:54:56 PM

Just beat the game with minimal stars. Played it for 10 hours straight today cause I couldn't put it down. Can't wait to get the rest of the stars.

Quote :

"Oh and i guess they always start you back at 4 lives when you start the game over from a save to not make it super ridiculous to keep lives like Super Mario Land?"

yeah. i had 70 some lives and now only 4 after a restart.

[Edited on November 17, 2007 at 9:57 PM. Reason : quote]

11/17/2007 9:56:08 PM

Mario meets Mario in the Toy Galaxy...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

11/17/2007 10:49:35 PM

Just got it this afternoon and am already at 30 stars. Awesome game.

11/17/2007 11:21:19 PM

Quote :

"^^ I've been describing it as beyond awesome."

I approve.

Beyond awesome it is.

11/18/2007 5:59:06 PM

I just got 120 stars. If anybody is curious at to what happens, here you go:


**SPOILERS**














Yes, you unlock Luigi, and he does control differently. He can jump MUCH higher than mario (like twice as high, his normal jump is almost as high as mario's triple jump, meaning galaxies where you need to clear land quickly like Sweet Sweet galaxy become a breeze with the long jump), and he runs faster. On the flip side, he also has a pretty bad skidding problem. He's pretty hard to use when you are walking on narrow platforms. In addition, the game's difficulty ramps up. There are more enemies, and the puzzles leading to the stars are a little bit different. It's pretty awesome.




























** END SPOILER TK421 **

11/19/2007 7:11:05 AM

The hardest star in the game is by far the purple coin star in the Dreadnought galaxy. It's basically a side scrolling platforming puzzle with changes in gravity. And there are no repeats, meaning you have to get every coin on the first shot or else you fail. The platforms move pretty fast, and the coins can be in hard to reach places. The gravity isn't so bad when it's normal (meaning gravity is pulling mario down), but when it changes and you walk on the ceiling or the sides, its hard to know how to do your jumps and oftentimes youll fall of the side of the platform. It's really frustrating.

11/19/2007 7:16:25 AM

I just played through to the first star. Thought the control scheme was pretty meh. I'll have to try it later after class.

11/19/2007 1:11:57 PM

control scheme is just as intuitive as Mario 64

11/19/2007 1:16:03 PM

The control scheme is perfect, as far as I am concerned. The only thing that gets me sometimes is when I am running around on a really small planet, I tend to lose perspective on direction, but I think that is more user error than anything

11/19/2007 1:37:33 PM

bought this game on friday and havent been able to sit down and play it yet dammit

maybe tomorrow will be a Super Mario Galaxy day

11/19/2007 1:46:08 PM

One thing that kind of annoys me is if I am running towards a goomba or something and I spin to stun him but I'm like half a millimeter away and the second I'm done spinning the bastard runs into me.

11/19/2007 2:09:31 PM

homing spin for the mother fucking win.....run, jump, spin, quickly hit z for butt smash and it'll hit the closet enemy

11/19/2007 2:11:47 PM

i wish i could swing the camera around more like in 64

11/19/2007 2:49:45 PM

^ and ^^, yeah, that has definitely annoyed me many a time. its usually poor camera angles that make me think i'm closer to the goomba than i really am and then they get me as soon as the spin stops.

11/19/2007 3:27:21 PM

i concur. the only thing i really don't like about the game is the inability to control the camera most of the time.

11/19/2007 3:29:39 PM

I dunno, I rarely touch the camera let alone use c

11/19/2007 4:56:03 PM