Super Mario Galaxy

Super Mario 64 aged a little poorly in a handful of aspects, Super Mario Sunshine is open world which is cool, but those controls are quite a bit bad. Super Mario Galaxy? Next to no flaws at ALL. Leaping from planet to planet through orange stars, stomping goombas, flipping around the main hub area; EVERYTHING about this game is almost completely superior to the previous 3D Mario titles (in my opinion of course). The stunning graphics and music is also masterful. It's your typical Mario story, princess is captured, get her back but at least Mario Galaxy makes it more cinematic and intense. The castle is drilled from the ground and brought up to space! Now that is much more intense than any other Mario game up to that point.

Never played it? Try it. It has a chance (which is quite big) to become one of your all time favourite games. It is amazing.

What more can I say. None. There are very few games to achieve perfect status, Tetris, Knack 2, maybe BOTW, but this is up there

Super Mario Galaxy is probably the pinnacle of 3D-Mario games to this day. Its gameplay is crazy, gorgeous to look at, and the camera work is a quantum leap from that of Super Mario 64's infamous camera system. The biggest difference between this game and the previous Mario games is that this one is set in space. Space & Mario = a match made in heaven.

Super Mario Galaxy uses sparing motion-control, just for Mario's spin-attack function, and the game has great level design. Everything in this just works so well. Even though the story is typically shallow, it doesn't matter because your experience immersing yourself in gravity-changing situations and the satisfaction of getting a star make up for the usual lack of plot in a Mario game.

Nintendo outdid themselves here, big time!

Super Mario Galaxy has to be one of the best games of all time. My second favorite, close behind super Mario Galaxy 2, this game is legitimately awesome. It is a true sequel to Super Mario 64, except this time, Mario blasts off into space! Encountering terrain with low gravity, cool new power ups and amazing graphics, Mario is at his best in this game. The boss fights are the best in any game I've ever played besides the game's sequel. All in all, easily one of the best games I've ever played, getting a ten out of ten from me.

Being a dye-in-the-wool Nintendo fan, I have always enjoyed the new Mario titles that seem to be the stalwart of the franchise. I spent way too many hours of my life playing the original Super Mario Bros. (plus sequels), as well as Super Mario World for the SNES. Then, as with most people, Super Mario '64 absolutely blew me away with its 3-D graphic interface. However, I was disappointed in the Gamecube effort Super Mario Sunshine, which just didn't seem to have the right "Mario feel" to it. Super Mario Galaxy, however, brought me back into the Mario "universe" (excuse the pun) big time!

The controls and premise of this game hearkens back to the revolutionary Mario '64, in which players must collect stars (or, in this case, star creatures) in a variety of different ways. The graphics are pristine, the cut scenes are fun, and the controls are easy to pick up and play.

Though panned as being a "kids game", Mario Galaxy offers something for both the beginning and advanced gamers. By collecting 70 of the 120 total stars (a task that is by no means impossible), Bowser can be defeated and effectively "end" the game. However, more advanced games can shoot for the full 120 stars and see the "true" ending.

Overall, this game is another success in the long line of the Mario franchise. After mixed reviews for Mario Sunshine, Nintendo went back to the basics in this game and created a masterpiece. I'm looking forward to the next installment (rumored to be a sequel to this game?!)