

Between this faceship and some map tweaks, getting around is much easier in Galaxy 2. The creator of the ship, a luma named Lubba, jokingly calls it a “faceship.” The Stars are back you’ll collect them to give your faceship the ability to navigate space. Once again, Luma and the lumas are helping out in your quest to retrieve Peach, but this time you’ll cruise space and galaxies in your new ship, which happens to look like Mario’s face. Because of this, they don’t waste any energy on telling you that the Princess is missing. The story? You know the story by now, and the developers know that you know.
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For me, I think it’s an even better game than my previous series favorite, Super Mario World. This focus on new power-ups, level design, and imaginative control, combined with some fun throwbacks for Mario series fans, makes for one hell of a ride and an even better game than Super Mario Galaxy. And now with the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2, with the struggle to perfect 3D platforming controls finally behind them, it feels like they were able to focus on being creative. The combination of Super Mario Galaxy‘s polished controls and innovative power-ups managed to bring back some of the excitement I hadn’t felt for the franchise since the Super Mario World games from the 1990s. It wasn’t until the release of Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii that I felt like Nintendo had come close to successfully fitting Mario into a 3D platforming formula. Mario’s outing on the GameCube didn’t do much to win me over, either. But, because of the camera and other control issues that had yet to be polished, I wasn’t very excited for the future of 3D platforming from Nintendo. For me, when Nintendo released Super Mario 64, it showed me that 3D platforming was the future.
