Demuwan Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=81578 Eurogamer Preview It's drop-dead gorgeous, for starters. This is not just the best-looking Wii title by miles, it's one of the best-looking games in the world full stop, HD or no HD. It's as smooth and shiny as silk, the colours are unbelievably vibrant, it's smothered in lustrous effects, and you feel like you can reach out and touch its chunky, cute and tactile designs. Super Mario Galaxy makes most hi-def games look about as solid and convincing as photographs pasted onto empty cereal packets. The sound is superb too: a riot of bright tinkles, radiophonic zings and zaps, and electro-funk remixes of vintage Mario tunes. Good Stuff: peace:
Kav Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 A quote from Eurogamers preview... It's drop-dead gorgeous, for starters. This is not just the best-looking Wii title by miles, it's one of the best-looking games in the world full stop, HD or no HD. EDIT - Awwww, Demuwan, your edit totally gets rid of the need for my post... well, there was no need for it, but I wanted to share it! hehe!
Hellfire Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 TP is my favourite game of all time and I always prever Zeldas, but whenever I look at this game I get the feeling that this will top it. Maybe The Force is telling me something.
Raichu Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 I imagine we will get a date at Leipzig. When is this years Leipzig?
D-Day Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Wait... Nintendo just aren't doing a press conference right, but they'll still be there presenting games at booths right? If so, then I guess a release date will be announced. I really think I should stop looking at this game... its starting to make my mouth water
Dante Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Eurogamer First Impressions "In one sense, this is the first worthy successor to Mario 64," bellowed a typically belligerent Reggie Fils-Aime at E3. We all knew what he meant. "We know you thought Mario Sunshine was a bit crap. We hope this one sells better," he might as well have said. Fine: we hope he's right. But in one sense, Reggie's remark does Super Mario Galaxy a disservice. Advertisement Many people have taken it to mean that Galaxy is a footstep-following sequel to the N64 classic. It's not. After a lengthy hands-on with the E3 demo (plus a couple of extra levels), it becomes clear that Super Mario Galaxy is its own game: a blend of some of the best bits from both 3D and 2D Mario tradition, with a number of very distinctive twists. It's far more New than New Super Mario Bros ever was. It's no coincidence that Galaxy is the first major Mario title ever to be made outside of Nintendo's Kyoto HQ. It's being developed by the team in Tokyo that made the brilliant, bongo-controlled Donkey Kong's Jungle Beat. Letting go was a brave move on Miyamoto's part, but it looks like it's paying off, because the six stages of Galaxy we played were pure bliss. It's drop-dead gorgeous, for starters. This is not just the best-looking Wii title by miles, it's one of the best-looking games in the world full stop, HD or no HD. It's as smooth and shiny as silk, the colours are unbelievably vibrant, it's smothered in lustrous effects, and you feel like you can reach out and touch its chunky, cute and tactile designs. Super Mario Galaxy makes most hi-def games look about as solid and convincing as photographs pasted onto empty cereal packets. The sound is superb too: a riot of bright tinkles, radiophonic zings and zaps, and electro-funk remixes of vintage Mario tunes. The controls are based very closely on Mario 64's. The double and triple jumps, long jump, wall kick, backflip, ground pound and side somersault are all present and correct, and executed with the same combinations of stick moves, A and Z. They're as fluid and versatile as ever, and a little easier to use - in particular, you can pull back on long jumps in mid-air if it looks like you're going to overshoot. The dive is gone, but in its place is a hugely useful Super Mario World-style spin attack, pulled off by shaking the remote. This upends and stuns enemies, who can then marvelously be booted into space, Mario Bros style. Bizarrely, you can also stun enemies by shooting them with the remote. Coloured blobs are collected by Mario, or just by passing the remote cursor over them, and then aimed and shot, or saved for a 1up. We didn't find a use for this beyond giving Goombas concussion, and it feels rather tacked-on, although it is a novel and way to interact with Mario's world. A second player with a second remote can help with all this, as well as with certain obstacles (for example, holding a rolling boulder out of the way). The remote cursor is also used to lock onto sequences of 'beam stars', which haul Mario across gaps in space with a kind of elasticated tractor-beam. Which brings us to the bit we've been putting off writing: how Mario Galaxy's levels actually work, and fit together. This is as difficult to explain as it is intoxicating, head-spinning and funny. Most of the levels in the demo were A-to-B platforming challenges, somewhat similar to Mario 64's boss stages, or the bonus stages of Sunshine. But they've been broken into pieces, twisted up and tied in knots, turned inside out, back to front and upside down, and then shot into space. There are miniature versions of Mario 64's open levels, wrapped around tiny asteroids like a skin, and dropped in the middle of cosmos-spanning platforming sequences. Everything has its own gravity, and you never know which way is up, but somehow - we're really not sure how - you always know when you'll stick, and when you'll fall off into space. The camera is mostly automatic (sometimes allowing basic d-pad control), and flawless. In true Mario style, it's all impossible and surreal, but it also makes a weird, instinctive kind of sense. You're only confused when the game wants you to be, which is often: when pipes pop Mario round the other side of a micro-world in a flash, or when you're misled by his reflection, apparently running around the inside of a glass sphere. You'll find yourself involuntarily laughing out loud at the mischievous tricks Mario Galaxy constantly plays with your perceptions. Star rings, activated by shaking the remote, shoot Mario across vast tracts of space; they're the game's exhilarating and spectacular signature moment, but they don't actually offer any freedom of exploration, they just take you where you're going next. You start out exploring the game carefully like the earlier 3D Marios, but eventually (especially playing a level for the second time) you realise it's more linear than that, and get caught up in its unstoppable forward momentum, running and jumping faster and faster, high on the rush, chaining it like a drug. This is when it reminds you most of 2D Mario gaming. What's not yet clear is how all this fits together structurally. There will be 40 levels, 120 stars to collect and six themed areas; we did one star in each of six galaxies. The first two (Gateway and Egg Planet), featured strings of tiny wrap-around planetoids in quick succession. The third, Honeybee, was more like a Mario 64 level, only broken in half, and featuring the hover-enabling bee suit (which in all honesty is not that exciting a power-up, but it's so adorable you don't care). Star Dust Galaxy was a brain-melting assemblage of beam stars, glass planets and platforms that zap into place out of nowhere. It starred the hapless Astrotoads, and was our favourite level in the demo. Of the two new levels, Beach Bowl had Mario dodging huge cubic Whomps that worked their way around the outside of shattered cylinders, and felt an old Mario Bros castle leaping out of the pages of a pop-up book. Cookie Factory required you to time jumps across fast-moving platforms with geometric cutouts, and it was fiendishly hard in a very old-fashioned way. It was the exception: for the most part, Mario Galaxy seems effortless and easy, centered much more on the sheer sensory pleasure of play than on setting taxing tests of skill. When Shigeru Miyamoto suggested this week that games should be fun, it was easy to snigger and accuse him of stating the obvious. But Super Mario Galaxy proves his point to perfection: it's amazingly, dizzyingly, idiotically fun, in a way few games are these days. We're not going to call it a classic Mario yet - we simply haven't seen enough of the game to make that call, and it will certainly be difficult to keep it both accessible and rewarding all the way through. But we are going to predict that it will plaster millions of big smiles on millions of faces come November, and that, if nothing else, makes it a worthy successor and a half.
Slaggis Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 It's drop-dead gorgeous, for starters. This is not just the best-looking Wii title by miles, it's one of the best-looking games in the world full stop, HD or no HD. It's as smooth and shiny as silk, the colours are unbelievably vibrant, it's smothered in lustrous effects, and you feel like you can reach out and touch its chunky, cute and tactile designs. Super Mario Galaxy makes most hi-def games look about as solid and convincing as photographs pasted onto empty cereal packets. Wow! This game is going to rock. Thanks Dante! edit: oh its been posted earlier? Ohwell, it deserves to be posted again!
DCK Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Hmmm, I wonder whether this game'll by any good... I'm kidding of course
RedShell Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 electro-funk remixes of vintage Mario tunes. Sweet!! I really hope we get a release date for this sometime next week.
Zechs Merquise Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Amazing visuals, stunning, are they from the XBOX360 version lol
Gizmo Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Story:Every hundred years a comet passes over the Mushroom Kingdom and rains down magical stars and stardust, and as Princess Peach and the citizens of the kingdom are celebrating the centennial event, Bowser and his legions attack. As Mario attempts to put a stop to Bowser’s shenanigans, but things go awry: the next thing he knows, he finds himself on a mysterious moon high above the Mushroom Kingdom.” Details: Super Mario Galaxy - 120 stars, 40 galaxies, 6 major regions. - Gateway Galaxy - travel from planet to planet to catch space rabbits (who are really stars), collect star chips, fight a giant Goomba for a key - Star Dust Galaxy - use Beam Stars to move around space “garbage”, explore a rocket, rescue toads, and more. - Egg Planet Galaxy - Cookie Factory Galaxy - Power-ups - Super Mushroom (it increases your health to max), Invincibility Star, Fire Flower, Bee Mario, Boo Mario Fire Flower 3D! Thats the bloody stuff
Retro_Link Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Fire Flower 3D! Thats the bloody stuff Awesome!!Wonder if it will be throw fireballs (which might be difficult to aim in 3D) or more like a flamethrower (like it's update in Melee)?
Gizmo Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 I'd expect it to be a suit rather than just a hold item, and firing it simply sends a fireball straight ahead of the direction Mario is facing.
Hellfire Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Fire Flower Fire Flower Fire Flower Fire Flower Fire Flower OK, NOW we'll be playing with power.
D-Day Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 ^ Lol Hellfire. Well I reckon it will be a suit too, as the camera control is supposed to be great in this game and Mario seems easily maneuverable from the videos so shooting Fireballs doesn't seem to hard... although a flamethrower like power would be awesome.
Gaijin von Snikbah Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Fireflower. Or it could shoot in the direction the Wii remote is pointing. Aiming by using Marios direction sounds too complicated if you ask me.
The-chosen-one Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 men look at the pics just beautifull man i definetly buy it the fur on the enemy looks so real and i like the ability that mario can transform into Boo , bee mario and dont know what he can change into , maybe into Super mario with his cape to fly freely or something :P
DCK Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Wooh! Return of the Fire Flower. And I thought this game couldn't get any better...
Jack_Thompson's_Wig Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 WTF? Neogaf? Next time get a reliable source. Although I'd love Fire Flower in 3D, doesn't having the star pieces make it redundant?
Hellfire Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Spin+Flirefowe= orgasm Also, NeoGaf is very reliable.
Social Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 euro release date: Super Mario Galaxy - 16.11.2007 - price: 49.99 Euro
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