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No surprise. Very nice, and I think that orange luma is new? Looks good.

A hub world makes the whole adventure feel more immersive, as though you're part of a storyline and a real world. A linear map screen? zzzzzzzzzz

What a giant backwards step. There goes having a bit of fun exploring and looking around. They couldn't think of a way of improving the hub world from Galaxy 1 so do away with it altogether for a dull, flat map. Appealing to 'casual gamers' and all that...

You could find 15 seconds of action clips from the first half of the season (although not much more), so this trailer doesn't fill me with confidence that it'll be anymore interesting or less boring, bleak and forgetful. Especially if the characters continue to be mostly a bunch of unlikeable argumentative idiots.

Am pleased Star Trek won an award. Even if it was just for makeup. It deserved a Best Picture nomination though.

Well said

The original was either accidental or wasn't meant to be a big deal. Now that Nintendo are aware and realised others were aware, they chose to take advantage of the hidden message. Hence 'ally' which makes a tad more sense than 'ay' don't you think. At the end of the day who gives a &%$^

The sparkle is practically between the A and L, hence U R MI ALY, which makes sense considering Yoshi is Mario's ally

It's U R MI ALY

Definitely agree with that

I'm just going to walk into a store on the day of release and buy it

Galaxy is probably in my top 3 games of all time... but that 'reward' for getting 240 stars was pathetic. They better have something far bigger and more interesting for Galaxy 2.

I'm not trying to wind anyone up, and at the end of the day it really doesn't matter. It's a lovely piece of art. But a bit of common sense will tell you that in all probability, unless Nintendo change their minds and do a re-design, it is the cover artwork...

or else you will DIE, no those all look like fan art. Exactly. Why? Because it looks identical in style to Galaxy 1's boxart? That makes perfect sense.....

Then you are clueless. Totally and utterly. It couldn't any more obvious that it's the official box art. The style is identical to the first, and the quality is flawless. It's in high resolution and was on the IGN site at the same time as the other images were released. Of course it's the official cover.

Are you joking? Of course it's not a fan-made mock-up, look at it, the quality is unbelievable, it's obviously official and the fact that it resembles Galaxy 1's style, means it's without a doubt the official box art for Galaxy 2. It's the real deal, that guy just added a Wii and Nintendo logo to it.

I agree all the light blue gives it a very Sunshine vibe compared to the first one, and I prefer the darker shades of the original as well. But this looks quite fresh I think. I also think we may be seeing more galaxies that are at atmosphere/cloud level than we did in Galaxy 1, maybe that's the reason for the design of this cover. U R MI ALY = You are my ally; in reference to Yoshi

Wow, that box art is stunning. Completely similar in style to Galaxy 1's, as you would expect, but this one seems to represent (what seems to be) a greater number of atmosphere based galaxies, rather than space ones.

More of one of the finest games every created? Yes please.

I'm really hoping they haven't filled the game with Yoshi levels. Ok it's a nice change of pace, but hopefully most of it will be Mario only. Thank **** for that. Exactly. Galaxy had one of if not THE best soundtrack to a game in my opinion, to do away with orchestration for the sequel would be a bit silly.

Ok so Mario has his own ship, the giant mario head (a tad lame looking compared to the awesome hub world in Galaxy 1 but oh well)... So you travel to each individual world (observatory) with the space ship and inside each world, you choose which galaxy to go to. The galaxies seem to be represented by those black dots surrounding each world. Also the Mario head planet seems to have lots of Luma's scattered around, another indication this is the hub world. Still seems a little silly though

I really like the look of this galaxy: I'd be surprised if they didn't implement a hub world. As long as you can go to any galaxy you want in whatever world you want then I'll be happy. The line drawings from the world 2 pic don't fill me confidence though.

Wow, talk about out of the blue! Wasn't expecting anything about this game until E3! Just watched the second trailer, looks amazing. I don't particularly care about Yoshi personally, as I think he works in 2D Marios a lot more than 3D ones, but everything else looks fantastic. I really loved the music that's been in both trailers. What's the likelihood that it will be the game's main theme, and used as one of the galaxy's music? It's the only orchestrated music we've heard so far anyway. I'm not liking the "World 2" graphic though. Doesn't look very promising if it's linear like that. How many worlds are there? Is a world the same as a galaxy? Or is a world similar to an observatory from Galaxy 1? What about the storytelling? The look and feel of the hub world, and how you discovered new galaxies was fantastic in the first game, hopefully it'll be just as good in the sequel. Love the new title graphic, very nice. Can't believe it's coming out so soon though. Looks like we may yet see Zelda Wii around xmas time! EDIT: Just seen a pic, looks like the Lumas are back, great news.

Stop eyeing up that copper's baton Hope it goes well for you

The iPad video on the Apple site is funny. Steve Ive always looks drugged up when he's being interviewed for these types of clips and the young guy in the video could quite easily have been wanking as he made every sentence sound as annoying as possible.