Overview
- Number of Players
- 2
- Genre
- Release Date
Wii
- 23rd May 2010
- 11th Jun 2010
Wii U eShop
- 14th Jan 2015, $19.99
- 14th Jan 2015, £17.99
- Series
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Reviews
Review Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
Absolutely spectacular!
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 Guides
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 News
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Ground theme
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Speedrunner Jhay beats his own record
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Star Get!
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Another dimension, new galaxy
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Previews
First Impressions Super Mario Galaxy 2
Truly spacial
Super Mario Galaxy 2 had by far the biggest queues of the day, with a cordoned area showcasing the plumber's latest adventure. Our crafty writers, however, took advantage of everyone else's hunger by striking when most other journalists were stopping for lunch, managing to get a good half an hour of hands-on time. With such high hopes...
About The Game
This upcoming adventure for the Wii console marks the first time a second 3-D Mario game has arrived in the same console generation.
In the game, Mario rides his trusty dinosaur companion, Yoshi, to new stars and the fantastic worlds found there. This 3-D platforming adventure provides longtime video game fans with a fresh round of out-of-this-world challenges in the style introduced in the critically acclaimed original. The game is planned for 2010.
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I want this game!!!
Edit: I got it now.
Edit 2019: it was a good game. I can definitely reccomend it, even 9 years later.
It has Yoshi in it...a must buy!
Must... get... SMG2... drools
Damn 2010! Come sooner!
Awesome! Can't wait for this to come out.
Nintendo totally P'wn3D @ E3 - Pure Awesomeness - BTW, I absolutely loved playing as yoshi in Super Mario Sunshine - Yoshi was the one thing I missed in Galaxy
I can't wait for this game to be released in Europe. It looks so damn beautiful and colorful. And, the most important, it has Yoshi.
One word: YAY! I would rather have this than New mario bros; it can wait!
Super Mario Galaxy?! With YOSHI!? Instant buy for me.
I bet Nintendo will release Yoshi's Island on the VC as a promotion for this.
Honestly...I haven't finished beating the first one...
omg galaxy 2 MINE!!!!!
DAY ONE.
horray another mario galaxy! next to 64, this was the best 3D mario. I WANT!!!!!!
kay well its a must buy im just hoping its not all revolved around yoshi like in every level but anyway must buy still
pretty awesome:D ,and with new power ups and yoshi, new bosses and yoshi, and new stages and yoshi this must be the best games of 2010 (hence that i said AND YOSHI three times )
It's probably gonna be a good game, but I wont waste my money for another Galaxy game when I already got the first one. Why not just play through the 1st Galaxy one more time in a couple of years when u cant remember anything? And instead spending the money for a new nice title. It's a cheap way from nintendo to try to earn more money on an already developed gaming idea, they could have instead developed something totally new in the mario series instead of just making a sequel with pretty much just new stages to go through.
I think there's going to be more to it than just new stages... at least that's what I'm hoping
Can't wait for 2010! Going to be really good! Same with the first Galaxy game!
I'm also hoping there will be more features as well.
What issues they should address:
Make the game Longer and Harder
Less Linear
Even if they don't fix these troubles it is still a must buy
I hope it comes right in January
It should be February.
why the heck do u think it should be in february?
Alot of people say that it's coming Febuary 28th but other's say it's August.
Still no cover and new trailer yet. But hopefully it will be out in Spring.
I don't want to listen to those stupid people on YouTube who dislikes this game. This game will be as good as the first. Yoshi will be helpful. Replay value must be highest. Make the game longer and harder. Features as well.
And also make the gameplay much better.
I'm a really big Super Mario Galaxy fan. The first game was just pure fun. Collecting the Star Bits and the yellow Coins never felt so bad. I was going through the first and ALL of the 121 Power Stars collected for both Mario and Luigi.
Mario never gets boring. I still play his games. I do like Sonic, but his games are not as good as Mario's games in my opinion. Personally, the Sonic games in 3D always gets very glitchy and camera gets in the way. Well, the only good 3D Sonic games were Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. And Unleashed, that's not a bad game.
The Dreamcast versions of Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 are superior in every single way. The GameCube ports were kinda good, but not as good as the Dreamcast ones, in my opinion. I have both Dreamcast and GameCube versions of Sonic Adventure 1 and 2.
This game is the coolest thing ever! ( I hope )
Super Mario Galaxy is definitely the number 1 Wii game. So hopefully this one will be as good as the original. Yoshi will be no exception.
It simply will be the best sequel to the first. The ending in the first Galaxy game was absolutely brilliant.
at the one of screenshots Mario seems to be very tired... maybe he is done with all that running and jumping for 19 years already. Such thoughts come to my mind while looking at this game where Mario actually looks like he is a living person.
From the other side 19 is just fine for such activities. Viva il Mario!
March 23rd, yay! I love you, Nintendo!
Super Mario Galaxy 2, Hoo-Ray!
Geeze, I'm giddier than a school-girl right now
I wonder what kind of epic climatic finish they'll give this one, or whats the Bowser Battles will look like...
Hopefully it will have more levels and multiplayer.
you know what would be cool? if they could give Mario more of those awesome upgrades like in #1. that would be SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET!
Day 1
There is one small reason why I want this game...is because I want to see those Hammer Bros. in 3D!
I still prefer Mario games over Sonic games most of the time. Mario games are perfect all the way, while Sonic games aren't that perfect. Mario games are by far the best in the series, with no flaws and perfect 2D platformers.
That is why Nintendo OWNS!!!
No matter what any person or any reviewer says about this game, I will buy it and I will LOVE IT.
SMSunshine or SMGalaxy? I had more fun with sunshine. maybe cause it was one of the first games i played through til i got EVERYTHING
edit: also like the openness of the game play
Sunshine's much better.
Oh. I notice how it says one player instead of two. I kind of liked the assistant player thing.
Nintendo should really add a level editor and/or online play. That would give us alot of replayability. Come on Miyamoto, add those two to this game!
@40
I feel that Sunshine lacked something. Like the Blue Coin collecting. But I might need to redo Sunshine.
They should have a better name.
Number of players updated to reflect the co-operative mode
Hooray! Playing with somebody is way more fun than playing alone, even if it is as simple as picking up stars with the wiimote. It sounds as though their will be even more 2-player involvement though. Yay!
I still haven't seen the Hammer Brothers yet...
2 words - "must" and "have".
@41
OMG Yesss!
So wait, is there absolutely no main world? It's just a menu like NSMB to choose the level... that sucks!
On the sunshine or galaxy thing, all I know is that I love both games. Sunshine was one of the first games I played, so I didn't know what had come out besides that. Galaxy, however, was amazing and brought nintendo even more alive with me because of the other things that had been coming out lately. So that's why galaxy rocked my world.
On the sunshine or galaxy thing, all I know is that I love both games. Sunshine was one of the first games I played, so I didn't know what had come out besides that. Galaxy, however, was amazing and brought nintendo even more alive with me because of the other things that had been coming out lately. So that's why galaxy rocked my world.
It is so close, yet so far away!
Oh yeah, Sunshine separates the men from the boys.
Only 5 1/2 more days to go!!!
So Gamespot just gave this game a 10. Just thought I'd relay that...
My friend pre-ordered this game and he said I come over and play it with him, saying that I'm better at those types of games than him.
Lol, tomorrow.
Must...get this game...NOW!!!!!
Do want! I am a big fan of the awesome Mario games, and this one is an absolute must have for me. I really must get it!!!
I wish this could come to Europe sooner...
The only mario game better than the first galaxy was SMB3.
i cant wait to play this game. i have to wait because, i dont heve i wii
I'ved played MG2 and it's good!!! I got my copy today.
Great game. If you like Mario games, then you will love this!
Fantastic game. Better than the original. 10/10.
Great... Fantastic....Extremely.....
SATISFYING!!!!!!!!!
This game can get downright brutal.
hottttt game very niice graphics
Well better than the over rated 1st one.
Metascore of 98. That's the way it should be.
When I got this game for some reason i think it has less effort than smg 1.
The story is terrible bowser gets huge. Mario saves the day. No Rosalina at all. Final Boss was too easy.
Super Mario Galaxy 2, a real masterpiece of the Wii !! I like that game !!
i got it so easy game i am on world 2
i past dash yoshi level thanks for Rosalina`s help
When you past a level out of bowlder bowl galaxy or hightall falls galaxy you can feed a hungry luma with 300 star bits if you did he TRANSFORMS into honeybloom galaxy which has BEE MARIO!!!
I play this game every now and again, and it reminds me I am not very good at video games.
Great Game! Much better than Galaxy 1. 9.5/10
should i get this or kid icarus uprising?
@James haha lol!
@sohail am i the only one that finds that CREEPY?
SMG1 and 2 are my favorite games OF ALL TIME. There my childhood. :')
Six years later, and this is still my favorite Mario game of all-time (probably tied with Yoshi's Island, but I count that more as a Yoshi game than a Mario series game).
@Mama_Luigi I played the first SMG when it came out and loved it, but walked away from gaming shortly after... Still need to play this game and it’s crazy I haven’t yet lol. (Though I’m play Odyssey and a few others, plus like 30 other games queued up, so... idk when I’ll get to it.)
To be honest, Super Mario Galaxy is probably my most favorite set of Mario Games. Super Mario Galaxy 2 already improves and expands upon the features in the previous titles thus making it all the more better. With new power ups, new stages, new characters, heck you get to play as Luigi and ride on the back of Yoshi.
The only small gripe/nit-pick I have so far is that those secret stars you may find in other stages don't matter all that much until the ending point of the game, in which you have to go back and find them.
Other than that, a great Mario Game to have, and can play with a friend to help on the journey.
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