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Super Mario Galaxy is a platform game released on Wii on November 12, 2007 in North America, developed and published by Nintendo. It is a worthy successor to the great Mario 3D series after Super Mario Sunshine. As the lastest Mario, and the first episode of the new console of Nintendo, the game was eagerly anticipated by fans of the famous plumber. The game meet a great success and 6,5 million copies has been sold worldwide.

The history of the game begins when a great festival takes place in the Mushroom kingdom, celebrating the passage of a comet, once every hundred years. This comet poured on its path fragments of a star that toads, the loyal subjects of Princess Peach, gather to form beautiful stars. Invited by Princess Peach to attend the Star festival, Mario went to the castle. While the festival is at its height, Bowser made an unexpected entrance with a fleet of flying bombers and besieged the Mushroom castle. He pulls with grapples the castle out of its foundations and takes it to space with a kind of UFO. Mario, expelled from the castle, fell on a strange planet. This is only the beginning of a great adventure during which Mario will travel from planet to planet to deliver Princess Peach, and help the mysterious Princess Harmony and her Lumas.

In its mechanisms Super Mario Galaxy is very close to the previous adventures of the plumber: we have to guide Mario in various environments by completing missions and find stars. These can then unlock other worlds, and so forth. This Mario is a surprise considering its universe playing on the gravity and its several small additional elements linked to the gameplay features of the Wii (we play the game with the Wiimote and the Nunchuk). In addition to collecting coins, Mario can collect small star fragments and use them as a weapon against monsters or to activate mechanisms. Indeed, the player can launch the fragments of star by pointing the wiimote at the screen. A second player can also participate in the adventure by aiming and shooting these star fragments.

With such a richness of gameplay there is still much to say about this Wii edition Mario. These small enchanting planets, the various transformations of Mario (bee, ghost, spring, etc.), the management of the gravity, all this makes Super Mario Galaxy a must-have platform game, like the previous opuses.


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