E3: Super Mario Galaxy 2 announced

By Dan Pearson Published 2 June, 2009

Out 2010. Has Yoshi.

Nintendo has announced Super Mario Galaxy 2 - the second Mario game of its E3 conference after New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

Due on Wii next year, it looks to be chock-a-block with all of the traditional and much-loved Mario elements, in a style very familiar to players of the wonderful original.

Much of the action shown took place on the mini-planetoids and cylinders of SMG's universe, and we caught some of the star-launching malarkey which was the first title's hallmark.

Snow, ghost, flower and puzzle worlds were all present and correct, as well as the trademark giant goombas and bosses. Switches in perspective and colour scheme spiced up the action a little, as well as sections drilling through asteroids to navigate internal passages and strike at the underside of a boss.

Drawing the biggest squeal of delight from an excited Tom, however, was the arrival of Yoshi in the closing seconds, suggesting that the reptilian mount will return in his capacity as chummy locomotion.

Our day just got a bit sunnier.

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  • stevetuck #1 3 years ago

    Sod Milo...Mario is the only friend i need

  • TheSaint #2 3 years ago

    This would probably just have been DLC on 360 or PS3.

  • owl #3 3 years ago

    i thought universe was next : (

  • lavalant #4 3 years ago

    Love mario galaxy, just a shame its on the Wii.

  • Ignatius_Cheese #5 3 years ago

    @ TheSaint - Most sequels on the aforesaid consoles would tell you otherwise...

  • Artemus #6 3 years ago

    YOSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

  • stampax #7 3 years ago

    george9807 - what?

    Look forward to this - will def buy. Release date?

  • Cannibal #8 3 years ago

    STOP LEANING ON THE PLUMBER!!!

  • SmorgMan #9 3 years ago

    OMG I FUCKING LOVE THIS GAME!!
    I SHALL GET SUPER MARIO GALAXY 2 THE DAY IT COMES OUT!!!!!

  • Lucien21 #10 3 years ago

    Loved the first game, but like someone already said. Can't help but feel slightly disappointed it's just more of the same.

    Was hoping for the next great mario innovation. Kinda feels like this was rushed into production to answer the criticisms of last year. You don't need a new engine just reuse some of the previous game.

  • varsas #11 3 years ago

    Yoshi! \o/

  • Malek86 #12 3 years ago

    Cool, but...

    I mean, it's the first time we see a "2" in a principal Mario title since SMB2, and that was 20 years ago. Could they really not think of a new setting? I hope this won't feel like an expansion pack.

  • chris_ace #13 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 11:55:13 13-12-2011

  • Daryoon #14 3 years ago

    Did people moan this much when SMB3 was announced?

    "Oh, it's just more of the same," "Oh look, Mario's head butting ? blocks again" "FFS, not another Mario game," "This should be an expansion pack!"

    REALLY?

  • mattrix33 #15 3 years ago

    Smacks of desperation...
    Another Mario platform game in one console lifetime,i can`t remember Nintendo doing that since the days of the NES.
    It screams.."please come back hardcore players...the casual market does not buy anything"
    Well they can jog on.
    The whole Conference speech was Regi Grasping at straws.
    As a huge Nintendo fan since the 80`s it pains me to see this once great company throw away its loyal fanbase.
    Microsoft and Sony have nothing to worry about from Nintendo this year...or any year for a long time.

  • DanoFNG #16 3 years ago

    YES! New 3D Mario and 2D Mario with multiplayer goodness. Even though I thought the rest of the conference was pretty terrible (I don't really like Metroid, though I'll admit it does look a lot different from the other ones) these two announcements alone make Nintendo's E3 a megaton for me. On a darker note, it has also confirmed that my Wii is nothing more than a 'nintendo game' box. Hopefully Sony's conference will impress.

  • cheekyjay #17 3 years ago

    I loved Galaxy, but personally felt that the overworld felt inconsistent and a little cluttered, so hope they work on that. If the Tokyo development team (who I assume are handling the game again this time around) can maintain the same level of invention and quality that the first game had, I think this could be a great title. Certainly not a groundbreaking leap forward, but more of the same when the same was so good, is no bad thing. It's still not Zelda unfortunately, but I am happy to let that game (which Miyamoto two years ago confirmed was in development) take as long as is necessary in order for it to be the best it can be (although a teaser or at least a mention at the conference would have been nice).

  • varsas #18 3 years ago

    Can someone remind me what was so good and unique about the MS conference?

  • squarepusher #19 3 years ago

    http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=nnHksDFHTQI

  • owl #20 3 years ago

    squarepusher i love you

  • Cannibal #21 3 years ago

    @ varsas

    Project Natal which is set to make the Wii obsolete if it delivers half of what it promises.

    Digital distribution of full current gen games

    A list a triple A exclusives that haven't been beaten into the ground like Mario, Mario... orrrr Mario.

  • man.the.king #22 3 years ago

    Great news! I loved SMG and hope SMG2 is as stellar as the first one.

  • Canyarion #23 3 years ago

    Excellent. And I can't believe the people who are complaining about a 2nd Mario game on the same platformer.

  • Ninja_Tino #24 3 years ago

    YES!

  • varsas #25 3 years ago

    @Cannibal: Isn't Natal just a peripheral? What were the innovative exclusive AAA titles on 360?
    Edited by 1 at 02/06/09 @ 19:42

  • wadgem #26 3 years ago

    Great news. I won't mind if it's more of the same, I could play new levels in the same vein for years. I only request that they make it harder. MUCH HARDER.

  • secombe #27 3 years ago

    God bless the internet.

    "Whatever you do in life, somebody on the interweb will have so little to worry about in their own lives that they WILL shoot you down for it"

    Said a wise man once. Nintendo are damned if they do, damned if they don't.

  • The-Bodybuilder #28 3 years ago

    I have to say, I'm a bit miffed.
    MS announce a new halo game, and they are accused of franchise milking. But when ninty announce a new mario game......

  • Ninja_Tino #29 3 years ago

    Hahaha! George is such an idiot. Funny guy though!

  • Canyarion #30 3 years ago

    "MS announce a new halo game, and they are accused of franchise milking. But when ninty announce a new mario game...... "

    The thing is, I can't see the difference between the 4 Halo shooters. Just like I can't tell the difference between the games in the Metroid Prime Trilogy.

    Mario Galaxy is just on its first sequel. And there has just been 1 2D Mario platformer in... 10 years?

  • smelly #31 3 years ago

    "Oh, it's just more of the same," "Oh look, Mario's head butting ? blocks again" "FFS, not another Mario game," "This should be an expansion pack!"



    Its funny.. i thought those EXACT same thing when i played halo 2 (and 3 for that matter)

  • smelly #32 3 years ago

    @Canyarion

    +1

  • smelly #33 3 years ago

    >Can someone remind me what was so good and unique about the MS conference?

    BAM THERE IT IS!
    [link url=http://www.vimeo.com/495 2629
    ]http://www.vimeo.com/495 2629
    [/link]


    (oh, and lots of carbon copy fps games.. which forum nerds like)

  • The-Bodybuilder #34 3 years ago

    >"The thing is, I can't see the difference between the 4 Halo shooters."

    4 shooters? You mean to tell me you cant tell the difference between 3 shooters and an RTS?
    And then, we could discuss the difference between mario 64, sunshine, and galaxy (other than the latter 2 not being as good as the first, kinda like halo).
    Then we can discuss the difference between the mario kart series, and the numerous upon numerous 2d platformers (hey look, super smash bros wii is coming too).

    Not that I'm even against such things, I just find it odd that a franchise milked for over 20 years (the mojrity of the creations being crap, apart from the major mario ones) is being glossed over, whereas a franshise with just 4 iterations over 8 years gets slaughtered.

  • The-Bodybuilder #35 3 years ago

    I agree. Ninty and MS have been the most impressive so far.

  • S.J.Rogers #36 3 years ago

    MarioLOL

  • Canyarion #37 3 years ago

    @The Bodybuilder

    Halo Wars isn't a shooter, is it? I'm talking about Halo 1, 2, 3 and ODST. They're all direct sequels, and there aren't huge differences.
    It doesn't matter much, because it's a winning formula.

    I have better things to do than slaughtering Halo. I only mentioned it because people are saying Nintendo is milking the Mario franchise.

    If they said that about let's say, Mario Volleyball or Mario Decoration, then I would have agreed. But this is a sequel to one of the best games ever made. Galaxy and Sunshine were based on M64, but they were each very different. And 4 3D Mario platformers in 14 years isn't milking in my book.