Customer Reviews

Nintendo Selects: Super Mario Galaxy

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Mario Bros, Marios Bros!!!! Oh yes, quel jeu l'un des meilleurs au monde vraiment le fun au bout et au max!

get it because if you got the .2 and hasn't got the .1 get it it is so fun rated 6 stars from me so awesome and mario story line changed to defeat Bowser to save the universe

Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii is a blast, right up there for all time bests Mario "quest" style games. Only Mario 64 probably got more fanfare. Great control, beautiful graphics, engagaing storyline, this game has it all. Enyoy!

i do like playing mario but only can go so far have not made it to would three it is all ok

I was relieved this showed up on Christmas Eve - I had ordered it for a Christmas gift but there was a chance it would not arrive until the 27th, per estimated delivery date. My daughter was very happy to receive this as a gift and enjoys playing with it - not as much as some of her other games, but it was definitely a good pick.

Super Mario Galaxy is the first Wii version of the Super Mario series. It is a great colourful game, suited for both adults and children. Highly recommanded for everyone.

It's no wonder why several gaming websites call this one of the the best video games of all time. If you're looking for information on this game, try Wikipedia. Some of Wikipedia's comments are that it is the best reviewed Wii game and second best reviewed game of all time. I know my kids really enjoyed playing it as did I. My 12 yr old son liked it so much that he got Super Mario Galaxy 2. It's great entertainment value as it takes many hours to complete the story line; I think it took my son about a month for the main story line, and then many more hours to go back and fill in some of the other quests. It does require some co-ordination to play, so it's not for very young players. If you've got kids and a Wii game, this is a "must have" game. Actually, even if you don't have kids, it's a "must have" game - I liked it too.

This is one of Mario's older games, my son lost his copy and I purchased this for Christmas for him. It is an oldie but a goodie and he thoroughly enjoys it.

If you notice, there is quite a price difference between "New Super Mario Brothers" and "Super Mario Galaxy". It's not because the people at Nintendo or their distributors are kind enough to lower the price so people of a lower income bracket can afford to buy a fun game for their kids. I've never played "New Super Mario Brothers", priced at around $60 but I did pick up a copy of "Super Mario Galaxy" for $20. Once my son and I tried playing it I realized what kind of game this was and why it was so cheaply priced.
To say it was fun would be like comparing fun to pounding your head against a wall until it bleeds. All the levels were passable except for the one which motivated me to write this review. Was the amount of frustration and repetitive action needed to play the game worthy of defining it as fun? Absolutely not. Unless sitting in front of screen playing the same parts of certain levels over and over again, ad nauseam, is your idea of a good time then don't bother wasting your hard-earned $20 on this tripe. Don't even waste $10. This amount of money is way more than the half-wits who designed this game should have been paid. The graphics might be dazzling enough to distract you from the lack of concept contained in this game but this by no means justifies its many shortcomings enough for it to be worth playing. Unfortunately this cheap tactic of using flashy visuals to conceal the empty-headed half-baked ideas they are based upon is quite typical of the video game world these days since their design and programming has been taken over by people who have derivative technical abilities but not a single original or creative idea in their pre-programmed brains. When a generation of Microsoft-babied geeks whose fondest memories are living in their mother's basement and dreaming about how they would continue on the legacy of the Atari games they worshiped with sweaty cramped palms and slack-jawed wide-eyed expressions of complacent idiocy "Super Mario Galaxy" is the kind of game you get. If your into this then you may not notice. If originality and creativity is not your thing and instead pandering to the mental shortcomings of some computer nerd who does not know the difference between "fun" and "so stupid your mother should have dropped you on your head and sold the milk" then go ahead and play this game. All I can say is for the rest of you, who would rather sincerely enjoy themselves, that this game was built to laugh at you for spending money on it, so don't.
Trying to hide behind a dazzling and constantly moving visual design the losers at Nintendo have taken the much-beloved Super Marios and finally destroyed the concept with their continuing ineptitude. The graphics aren't good enough to warrant the kind of maneuvers necessary to play the game successfully and the story and concept are too simplistic to keep a five-year old's attention span from wandering from the television screen to wonder how long it took the paint to dry on the wall beside it. So you have a Super Mario game with a dumb story, bad game play controls, and levels that are somehow so boringly derivative of better Super Marios that there is no sense of accomplishment when they are finally passed.
Then you come to the level that motivated me to write this. It is a level where you are supposed to collect silver stars from different areas of a planet. At a certain point in the level you have to jump from one tree branch to another. You stand on the big bushel of leaves at the end of the tree branch and have to jump to the next higher bushel of leaves in order to advance using a super power which allows you to fly. For some reason the game would not let me do this. I looked up the part on You Tube to witness somebody else doing the exact same thing in a video demonstration that I was doing and doing it successfully. I did the exact same thing using the demonstration as a direct guide and for some reason the video game would not allow me to complete this part. Is this some sort of built-in joke? Now imagine if you're a kid and you see other people doing this without problem and you try the same thing and for some reason cannot do it. A real confidence booster! Thanks Nintendo for injecting your games with their necessary amount of sadism to make a kid feel like crap.
Needless to say, this game sucks! Do not be fooled by the $20 price tag. It is another horrible game made even more horrible by the fact that the smiling cartoonish characters and graphics promise endless fun and games and deliver nothing but hours of mind-numbing sickening frustration and tears. You don't believe me? Ask my son.
To the people who made "Super Mario Galaxy". Do everyone a favor that is the next best thing to ridding the shelves of this moronic product passing itself off as recreational fun. Don't have children. You're all part of a useless gene pool the planet and species would be better off having wiped out of existence forever like a nasty stain from somebody's second hand underwear.