Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Super Mario Galaxy + Galaxy 2?

10/10 Best Mario games ever!

A very easy 10, these are arguably the 2 best 3D platformers ever made

I have some struggle with the left stick and when the angle is changing

Peak 3d Mario games. Two of the finest games ever released. Easy 10 for both

Not my favorites of the 3D Mario's but I enjoyed them well enough. I'll give 'em an 8.

Simply just two of the best video games ever made, finally available on more modern hardware. It's 10 out of 10 from me.

Coming back to Super Mario Galaxy, man it's just not that fun of a game to replay for me. The control is just bad enough to be irritating. And for the Switch version(s) specifically, I have to reset the gyro way too often even with Switch 2 Joy-Cons. (I thought they were supposed to be better than Switch 1 Joy-Cons in this regard!) I give this a 7. The games are good, but they just don't hold up the way the 2D games and later 3D games have.

Who in there right mind would say its abysmal. Obviously you don't appreciate real videogaming. Both Galaxys are masterpieces.

@Blaa agreed 👍

10 based on the original wii versions. 😊

10 out of 10 out of 10 out of 10 out of 10 all day long!!

I dont know, I played them a decade ago so my thoughts are fuzzy. Modern rehashed consumer slop is not for me.

Lackluster repackaging of these games but whatever, what really kills me is how bad the the gyro is. The loss of a Wii remote style point just makes they games not feel great.

9/10. They can almost make it out from the Wii control scheme flawlessly and exist in the modern camera control expectations, but not quite. Still the best 3D Mario games and if anyone disagrees then their opinion is different than mine and I respect that.

Great games, abysmal pricing and low effort ports.

I find the Switch's gyro aiming slightly less responsive than the Wii's motion controls, and the need to constantly press the R button to recenter the pointer is a little annoying.

They're still impeccable games though, so 9/10.

These are the greatest 3D platformers ever made imo. I'd have liked to see a specific Switch 2 version that leveraged the increased horsepower for some ray tracing goodness, and the gyro controls will never be as accurate or responsive as the Wiimote, so I voted 9 instead of 10, but they're still basically masterpieces.

Judging from the votes, most seem to realize this, but in case anyone is so salty that they forget, price doesn't factor into review scores, just the game itself. If I were factoring in the price, I'd drop my 9 to a 7.

I’d give it a “perfection”, magneto meme out of 10.

10. I think these are the best 3D Mario's because they hit the perfect balance of difficulty without it being as frustrating as Sunshine or too easy like Odyssey.

I also think the level variety and music are amazing.

Two of the best Mario games.. so 20/10.

Great games but factoring in the price and controls I would give it a 8/10.

10, outstanding. . Whatever people may think of the price point, it can't take away from the sheer quality of the two games. 3D Mario at its most inventive peak. Sure, he isn't quite as nimble as 64, Sunshine, Odyssey, but it is a very different type of game and given the areas you are platforming in, it may have been awkward to have him perform like that. Again, a 10/10 or is that 20/10?

I was worried they wouldn't hold up compared to my childhood playthrough, but I was pleasantly surprised to find they are just as good as ever - better, actually, because now I have them both on-the-go, at a higher resolution, with new features! It's perfect!!

These are obviously amazing games but they really should have added a button that when held would automatically draw in the star bits. And also Yoshi's controls could have been mapped in some way.

10/10

The Galaxy games are still some of the best games ever made.

@koekiemonster Low effort opinion

They are fun games 8.5/10. They arent worth $70 though. But who am i kidding i paid $0 on OG switch!

Haven’t picked up Galaxy 2 yet. Time is far kinder to these games and I feel it shows the iterative leaps in games are getting smaller.

There is something I have not seen mentioned too much but they found something incredible to let you use the pointer in portable mode. You just press R to turn the pointer on so to speak, and then you move the console around to move it on the screen. It's such a simple idea and it works incredibly well. I don't remember it being in 3d all stars (which I've played mainly on a tv screen, that was before THE BABY happened) was it there already?

Fantastic games but they were designed with wii pointer functionality and that's still weird to to fill in. I'm EXTREMELY bummed the mouse controls only work for 2P. Would've been a cool excuse for a separate switch 2 release (also the price Would've made more sense as such)

@ElkinFencer10 You can’t ignore price for review scores. If a game is $200 you obviously have to take it into account, right? You can obviously consider the price to be fair, but it will play a part for how many judge their experience.

I'm different.
I think both of them are 5 from 10.
Why?
Because I don't like the gimmick in the game that reversing back all of your accumulated multiple Mario lives to 4 everytime you Load the game. It just made the game felt harder to play with limited Mario lives and not to mention some of the Galaxy stages are not even fun to replay as they are really damn hard to clear and caused lost of multiple Mario lives for doing tiny mistakes.
I still sour with both of games, even from Wii version I already have.

No HDR, no 10-bit to eliminate banding, no new models, the textures are just upscaled or swapped with less artistic versions, light banding issues on almost every planet in MG2, no mouse mode for 1p or right stick to replace the awkward Pro Controller motion for those who would prefer it, honestly how low is your bar if you consider this a lot of effort? Upscaling to 4K doesn't require any work at all, the lazy texture swaps and a few new pages in the dumb book are all you are really spending $70 on if you already own these elsewhere.

@ShadLink that's some Steiner maths, right there! But I like it.

@SpaceboyScreams Spot on.

People get what they deserve in modern gaming: Slop. Sure the original games were great but that doesn’t make every re-re-release/“remaster” a masterpiece automatically. Not for this price.

10/10. The price is a touch high but the games are spectacular and a great time on the go.

@OmnitronVariant A review evaluates a game, not market conditions. Games's scores don't jump on Metacritic when they're on sale. Selling Ride to Hell Retribution for $0.50 won't make it a good game.

It’s a 10. Has been. It is and will be forever

10/10.
Playing with the pro controller. The best way to play these game in my opinion. No more waggle. Although I didn’t mind it much for the Galaxy games on Wii but after playing with the pro controller there’s no going back.
Perfect for the switch.

I love sleep mode on switch.

@Anti-Matter you can get over 20 lives just by playing the first level.
Yes I said the first level.

Great games, but must everything from Nintendo be overpriced?

@kmtrain83 I understand it as anti games or anti fun

@Anti-Matter is the truth for the 5/10 because it doesn't have Bluey in the starring role?

A 9, and the only reason I'm not giving it a 10 is because they didn't add much extra, and the price is still a little hard to swallow.

But these are still amazing games that I would encourage anyone to try, regardless.

I rate only new games.

@DennyCrane
My personal score of both Mario Galaxy games 5 from 10 because of the gimmick in the game that preventing gamer to keep the accumulated multiple Mario lives by making them back to 4 everytime the games get Loaded.
I don't like this gimmick and I still on the fence to continue my Mario Galaxy 2 Wii version due to that gimmick.

@kmtrain83
Actually, my user name Anti-Matter was based on Dance Dance Revolution X2 Boss song since I love DDR games.

The games are a 9/10 for me. The collection I would give a 7 because the gyro aiming feels a bit off to me and for the asking price, I don't think they did enough with these remasters.

10 for Wii. 9 for Switch 2. Now give us Galaxy 3 in the February direct pretty please.

The games themselves - outstanding. Graphically the overhaul is not flawless, a bit to my surprise. The color banding is distracting, and I’m not sure why many of the new textures are more simplistic / uniform than the ones they replace.

Easily a 9. Excellent price and presentation for two of the greatest games in history. I only deduct a mark because perhaps Nintendo could have added a touch more to the upgrade and supposedly gyro controls (I don't bother with them) could be better.

I remain bemused by the complaints about the price. Donkey Kong Country Returns HD was $60 and here there's two superior games for $70. We are also well aware of Nintendo's history that old games aren't sold at bargain bin prices, so they are pricing games in accordance with market expectations. What would be a fair price anyway - $60? Is the epic whinging really over $10? Even without adjusting for inflation, the price is significantly cheaper compared to the original $50 each on the Wii.

Even besides my disdain for these two games (camera bad, waggle bad, yes I know everyone disagrees), they don't function correctly in handheld.

@Qbecknight That’s just part of the Mario Galaxy experience, my friend.

Easy 10/10 for me. Two of the best platformers ever made (if not two of the best games in general) with improved visuals. Gaming doesn’t get much better, in my opinion.

Not counting the price, I'd give it an 8/10. Great games that don't play quite as good as the Wii versions due to gyro not working as well as pointer controls. Some nice updated textures, some not so nice.

Add the price into the mix though, and I'd give it a 5/10. Very low effort HD remasters for a super premium price. I expect remake levels of effort for that price.

I speculate that this is a low effort, high price port because they plan on releasing galaxy 3 closer to the movie release. They must want Galaxy 3 to look more next-gen in comparison. Easier to make the old ones look old than making a new one look new.

I take pricing and accessibility into consideration for scores.

@WaveBoy You summed up exactly why I've played Galaxy far less than any other 3D Mario.

Mario 64 is one of my favourite games ever and I even like Sunshine a lot more than most people.

Galaxy I wanted to love, naturally, but man the core gamefeel doesn't do it for me. It's exactly what you said - slow, clunk, floaty. I'm used to Mario feeling very energetic and agile, it's part of what makes the games so fun. When I see videos of Galaxy it looks amazing, geat level design and ideas etc, but when I play it, it simply doesn't feel good.

One of the reasons I love Odyssey so much and rank it as the joint best alongside Mario 64, is Mario feels incredible. His agility and moveset is unmatched. The agility and acrobatics is fun in itself, simply running and capping and jumping around the levels is a joy.

@Axelay71 Just wanted to counter the madness as much as I could. Remasters at this price are automatically 0/10 for me. There's no way I'm ever even going to pay for this so it gets the score of an unplayable game.

@PinderSchloss A zero out of 10 for anything that is a coherent entertainment product is madness; there’s a complete lack of sense there. Pricing doesn’t affect quality; it’s a completely separate consideration.

@arabiansanchez It's a principle thing because this should be discouraged at every opportunity

@PinderSchloss then by all means vote with your lack of investment. Giving its chart position plenty of people thought it worthwhile. I don’t think they’re buying a zero out of ten game.

Not arguing that it’s not pricey btw, but the premise is also ‘buy upscaled versions of 2 of the peak games in the history of the genre’.

I have a hard time justifying $99 for games with mild upgrades. Don't get me wrong, these are up there with my favorite Mario games. Just wish there had been more for 100$. Especially when I have Galaxy 1 in the 3D all stars collection.
Id say this is a solid 9 for the games alone if you've never played them and don't already have either one

@Anti-Matter yeah, I read that above, I was just being light hearted for you to balance out the negative comment you got

1/10 for me because there’s no way to justify the price with what’s delivered. A game that prices itself out of being a consideration deserves no better. This holds true for most remasters and remakes for me, by the way.

9/10 for me. While these games are undeniable excellent, the motion controls don't quite work as well as they did on the original hardware. Also; some camera issues.

Galaxy 1 - 9/10
Galaxy 2 - 7/10

A 9 for both games in this collection. It's awesome that now all mainline 3D Mario titles (non handheld) are available on one console. New generations are also able to play these classiscs, that's a win-win situation. And nobody forces you to buy the games if you feel like they are overpriced. It's all good.

Lol. Who would say it's abysmal? Based solely off pricing? Absolutely. But if we're looking at this collection in a vacuum, I don't get it at all.

@OmnitronVariant But a 1? Really?

@PinderSchloss So, any game you don't play is a 0 in your book? That's some strange logic. I think the normal thing to do would be to just not score it (ie NA).

You don't think the price of the game will ever fall? At which point you'd play it?

@PinderSchloss

It's madness to give something a score you don't even own just because you demand nobody should buy this game at this price. The game is obviously not for you and that's just fine. Be a man about it and just don't rank it.

based on the games themselves? 9/10
Based on how they are being priced and distributed? 2/10

@OmnitronVariant No, I don't have to take that into account. I don't rate games on Game Pass higher than their PS5 counterparts just because I don't have to pay anything on top of my subscription to play them. Why would I apply that standard to Nintendo if I don't apply it to other studios' games?

I obviously didn't vote since I didn't get them, but I heard many people are having issues with controls.
Also, while the original games were outstanding, I still don't get how some people can judge this a great remaster, since the only improvement seems to be about upscaling while the whole bundle comes for no less than 70 bucks, as if pricing were a secondary aspect.
Fortunately, the almost complete lack of criticism here isn't seen elsewhere.

@Olliemar28

Do you happen to have the file sizes for each of the new games?

Also, how do they compare in size to the originals?

Thanks in advance!