JP Super Mario Galaxy HP opens

[Smoke]

SMG Homepage: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rmgj/index.html

Videos: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rmgj/action/index.html

New Video of Awesomeness: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rmgj/prolo...dex03.html

I have chills.

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[Dark Jaguar]

The airship is back? Bowser's once again an evil wizard? An action oriented Mario game has long cutscenes every few seconds? Awesome!

Now then, the only thing left is my single most burning question. Have the koopa kids returned? Maybe they all left and took over their own planet! Maybe Bowser Jr has a rivalry with them? Maybe a game can actually be TOO good.

[etoven]

Ghost Mario looks awesome!

[big guy]

bee suit mario looks ridiculous and hilarious. also, ice mario looks cool.

[N-Man]

Airships, hell yes

[Dark Jaguar]

I wonder, are the koopa kids piloting those?

Sorry Miyamoto but the Koopa Kids totally beat Koopa Jr.

[A Black Falcon]

The game is definitely shaping up into something that looks really awesome, isn't it...

[EdenMaster]

The game is definitely shaping up into something that looks really awesome, isn't it...

Was...was that a <i>positive</i> comment from...ABF?

:P

[A Black Falcon]

You're just annoyed I'm complaining about Nintendo online, I say good things about plenty of games... :)

I meant, though, that for some reason the game looks better now than the first videos of it from e3 did (with that spider boss or whatever). It looked good before, but even better now...

[Great Rumbler]

I say good things about plenty of games...

Just not online games by Nintendo.

Or Beyond Good & Evil, or Fallout 3, or ect. ect.

[Dark Jaguar]

I haven't heard him complain about SSBB beyond the online play.

Hey when a company falls short, you call them on it.

[A Black Falcon]

Just not online games by Nintendo.

Or Beyond Good & Evil, or Fallout 3, or ect. ect.

I'll praise the games I like and criticize the ones I dislike... isn't that what everyone does?

I haven't heard him complain about SSBB beyond the online play.

Hey when a company falls short, you call them on it.

Exactly.

[hephaestus]

And spend countless hours debating it until its the glue and dogfood mush that once was a dead horse.

Nintendo online isn't great, it isn't bad and it's entirely free.

accept it

[Great Rumbler]

Nintendo online isn't great, it isn't bad and it's entirely free.

accept it

Dear God, man! How can you suggest such a horrible thing?!

[A Black Falcon]

It is bad, and its being free doesn't get it any points; online networks SHOULD be free, as they are on the PC. They also should have good feature sets, as they do on PC.

The one good thing about it is Virtual Console, and they're hurting even that at the moment with the lack of support for any larger storage mediums while also releasing many more large games.

[Great Rumbler]

Okay, I played Super Mario Galaxy today.

...

First, it's like WOAH!! ...and then, you're like "DID THAT JUST HAPPEN?!" ...and then it's like WOAH again, but more reverential than shocked.

[A Black Falcon]

So is it the best Mario game since Mario 64?

[Great Rumbler]

Are you kidding me? It might just be the best Mario game EVER.

[Dark Jaguar]

How'd you manage to play it?

GR: Use google! Just type in "GR" and "Super Mario Galaxy".

DJ: ... that didn't work... How about you just tell me?

[Great Rumbler]

I went to this place called "Gamestop', which is a place where they sell videogames, and, you know, they have this thing called a "demo", which I played.

[Dark Jaguar]

There's already a demo? Neat.

[A Black Falcon]

Actually it's the full game, just in demo stations, and through that the game's leaked out into the internet, time limit removed... I think.

[Dark Jaguar]

I just read some rumor to that effect. Unconfirmed though.

It would be extremely boneheaded of Nintendo to just take the entire game and "time limit" a demo. They should know what hackers are capable of.

[A Black Falcon]

It seems like it's what they did, though. Supposedly it's not the first time that they've just done a time-limited full game as a store "demo"... though I haven't been able to find proof that the thing is actually out there.

[DMiller]

Anyone remember the old arcade machines during the early Super Nintendo days that had Mario World, Super Tennis, and F-Zero? If I remember correctly those were time-limited full games. I know for sure that Mario World was, and I'm pretty sure the other two were as well.

[Dark Jaguar]

I've heard of them, but I never once actually saw one, nor do I know anyone personally who has ever seen one. I don't think any arcades around here ever bothered getting those.

I also never played any of the old arcade versions of Punch Out or Super Mario Bros vs.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, I saw one of those machines once. It had a pretty huge screen... :)

Kind of annoying though, I seem to remember getting a really short amount of time for my money (Super Mario World, I think? F-Zero was also there for sure.)... I mean, arcade games don't last long, but at least there you feel like you get somewhere because the games are designed to be short. F-Zero and Mario World aren't... it was an interesting idea, but having played it once I understand why it didn't catch on.

[DMiller]

THe only place I ever saw it was the Dairy Queen where we went after baseball games sometimes. The other ice cream place in my town was better, though. They had Spy Hunter, Double Dragon, Root Beer Tapper, and Centipede along with a pinball machine. I was so mad when that place closed down because I was at college and couldn't get to the auction where they sold off those games. It was like my childhood was being auctioned off.

[A Black Falcon]

The one I remember playing was, I think, on Cape Cod, where we always went for vacation each summer when I was younger...

The Maine Mall (South Portland, ME, the nearest major mall to where I live)'s arcade closed a few months ago. While I hadn't actually gone in all that often (not exactly helping it survive I guess), I liked that there was one... though I'd been wondering how long it was going to last, given that there are so few arcades these days, but even so it was pretty sad to see the machines with sale stickers on them and then the place closed... :(