Staff Blog: It's A Mario Time!

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It's A Mario Time!

On 01/06/2021 at 06:17 PM by Matt Snee

This was one of my Christmas presents, but just got to it recently. Needless to say, when I powered it up I went straight to Mario Galaxy, one of my favorite games. I hope to get to the others eventually.

First of all, this game can be really disorienting at first with the weird perspectives, gravity, and tilting surfaces. I hadn't gamed for a long time, so that probably added to it. But I'm getting used to it.

I am also getting used to the motion controls. I HATE motion controls. But they're integrated okay into this version, and I'm not minding them too much. But I wish they were completely absent.

Mario Galaxy is an amazing game. And while Nintendo could have upgraded the graphics more, it looks ok, and the colors are vibrant. It's a damn shame Galaxy 2 isn't included here, but maybe Nintendo has a trick up its sleeve. I hope.

Comments

KnightDriver

01/06/2021 at 07:15 PM

I really liked the Mario Galaxy games but I got stuck somewhere in each of them that made me stop. It's always some timed jumping thing that I fail several times that gets my goat.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

01/07/2021 at 10:31 PM

yeah, parts of them are tough. Overall though, they are really great. You should give it another shot if you get a Switch.

KnightDriver

01/08/2021 at 09:07 PM

I will

Cary Woodham

01/06/2021 at 07:47 PM

You're already read my blog about Mario 3-D All Stars, so you know that after I played Mario Galaxy on it, I forgot just how GOOD it really is! My favorite 3-D Mario game is still Mario 64 on pure nostalgia and impact, but Galaxy 1 & 2 are probably my second favorite 3-D Mario games. I like them even more than Odyssey!

Matt Snee Staff Writer

01/07/2021 at 10:30 PM

Mario 64 is my favorite, but I haven't played it for probably two decades now, and I'm not sure how it holds up. But I enjoyed it so much at the time, and have such strong memories of how much fun I had, so it's hard for other games to compete.

I love most of the 3D Mario games, even Super Mario 3D World from the Wii U. I usually play them all a couple times, and I've only played Odyssey once so far, but I'm gonna go back into that sometime this year.