Jane and I have been playing Super Mario Galaxy lately. It's a lot of fun! The imagery is very vivid, and a lot of the puzzles are clever, intuitive and challenging. The game is basically Mario 64 with a different skin and smoothed out gameplay. You collect stars in various levels which are accessible through a hub-world. This time the hub-world is a space station instead of a castle.
The 'world in a box' theme - that Miyamoto talked about a lot when M64 came out- is very strong here. There's a level that is basically a diorama of a beach placed in a giant fish bowl floating in space. Then there are other levels which take place on multiple tiny planets, almost like a children's Mobile or an Orrery. Of course, these space worlds are deeply works of fantasy, and don't correspond in any way to true laws of gravity, and are also called galaxies, which is akin to calling file cabinet a skyscraper. But that is minutae, the point is: the game is fun!
I think I'll pick up Galaxy 2 shortly after finishing this one. That game actually comes higher rated than the original Mario Galaxy! I highly recommend giving this game a whirl, if you own a console that will play it. It's everything you might expect from a Nintendo flagship title.
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