Super Mario Galaxy (2007)

I played the switch version since I missed galaxy and galaxy 2. It plays well and it's a classic Mario 3d platformer.

Controls on the switch are good, except for the motion controls, man the ball rolling levels are a headache and the surfing ones. I did get lost during camera movement (hate that it's locked), and it can get confusing controlling Mario when the controls either get inverted and reinvested constantly. But those issues didn't ruin my whole experience.

I did beat final Bowser before even completing the last galaxy since I guess I collected enough stars but I'm going to try and 100% this and get everything since I enjoyed this game. It's a great game with a few BS levels but most 3d Mario games have those lol.

Jugabilidad excelente. Mucha variedad. Graficos muy buenos. Historia interesante de rosalina. Excelente duracion y rejugabilidad.

Si tuviera que destacar algo malo serian los controles bajo el agua, la imposibilidad de manejar la camara a tu gusto (lo cual a veces genera problemas), y los niveles de recoger monedas moradas que no son por tiempo y se hacen tediosos e innecesarios.

Aun asi sus problemas son nimios ante las grandes virtudes del juego. Fácilmente uno de mis favoritos de todos los tiempos. Grande mario!!.

Waited waaay too long to finally play through this game! My aversion to motion controls kept me away from the Wii for many years (despite CAMPING OUT FOR IT outside of a Best Buy when it first launched), but I'm glad I forced myself to learn the proper control techniques. This was the most fun I've had with a Mario game since Mario 64, and although Odyssey was great fun, I missed having to work hard for Stars. That's the best way I can put it - working hard for Stars makes Mario feel a lot more rewarding. While Odyssey threw Stars at you at a rate of, at times, 1 per every thirty seconds, Galaxy sees you moving throughout levels, figuring out several puzzles, you name it.

The controls are definitely not perfect but the Wiimote wagging is actually kind of fun and satisfying when used to pick up Star Bits. The main issue I ran into was the "reverse" gravity when you ran underneath a planet. Controlling Mario upside down was an exercise in frustration. Eventually I pressed on and got through the several hurdles that were thrown at me.

I'm holding off on playing Galaxy 2 (which I hear fixed a ton of the issues and is one of, if not the, highest rated game on the Wii) as there are many rumors about Switch re-releases/remasters from the Mario franchise coming out this year, but I'm super happy I finally jumped into Galaxy. It was an out-of-this-world experience.

Alright, really unpopular opinion here (clearly from the 1200 five stars) but I hated this game. Straight up hated it. Don't @ me.

What made me hate this game so much is the controls. I get it, they worked on the controls for seven years, but when I'm flying through space for the 800th time because my jump wasn't just right, I get mad. I hated the gravity mechanic, I'm sick of the Mario 64 style of "exploration" and I was never excited to go back to a planet. Their idea of difficulty was by making the controls frustrating and that's not difficulty, that's bad game design. They were getting the difficulty right in situations like navigating through the blue stars through an asteroid field. That takes patience and a little bit of strategy! You know what doesn't take patience and strategy? flinging myself blindly through space only to have missed the goddamn rock by a centimeter. This game could have had so much more and it lacked in so many areas.

I was disappointed. This game was so hyped for me and I was hyped to play it. The only thing I liked about this game is the music, which gets really really old after hours of this game, and feeding the lumas. Thats. It.