Super Mario Galaxy Wiki Series Mario Game

Super Mario Galaxy Wiki Series Mario Game

This is the first main series Mario game to use this sound effect, and its normal pitch version would be used more often in the 3D installments.).

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North American cover art Developer(s) Nintendo EAD Tokyo Publisher(s) Nintendo Director(s) Yoshiaki Koizumi Producer(s).

As Mario or Luigi, the player embarks on a quest to rescue Princess Peach, save the universe from Bowser, and collect 121 Power Stars.

The levels in the game consist of galaxies filled with minor planets and worlds, with different variations of gravity, the central element of gameplay.

The player character is controlled using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, and completes missions, fights bosses, and reaches certain areas to collect Power Stars.

The concept for the use of spherical platforms originated from ideas used in Super Mario 128, a technology demonstration shown at Nintendo Space World in 2000.

Nintendo aimed to make the game appeal to players of all ages, and the team had more freedom in designing it compared to other Super Mario games because of the outer space setting.

The soundtrack was composed by Mahito Yokota and Koji Kondo, using a symphony orchestra for the first time in the series.

Super Mario Galaxy is the highest-rated game of all time on review-aggregating site GameRankings.

It received general acclaim from critics, who praised the games visuals, gravity mechanics, soundtrack, and setting.

It won several awards from gaming publications, including multiple Game of the Year titles, and became the first Nintendo title to win the British Academy Games Award for Best Game.

The game is the ninth bestselling Wii game worldwide with sales of 12.80 million.

A sequel, Super Mario Galaxy 2, was released for the Wii in 2010.

The games gravity mechanics allow Mario to fully circumnavigate round or irregular objects.

Although the main gameplay is in 3D, there are several areas in the game in which the players movements are restricted to a two-dimensional plane.

The player is awarded the ability to play as Luigi after collecting 120 Power Stars as Mario.

Once 120 Power Stars are collected with both characters, the player is rewarded one further challenge which, upon completion, awards the player with the final two stars, and two commemorative pictures of the characters that can be sent to the Wii Message Board.

It is a cursor that appears when the Wii Remote pointer is pointed at the screen.

The Star Pointer is used to pick up special konpeito -shaped objects called Star Bits, which can then be shot to stun enemies, manipulate obstacles, or feed Hungry Lumas (star-shaped sentient beings).

The pointer can also latch onto small blue objects called Pull Stars, which can pull Mario through space.

In certain levels that encase the player in a floating bubble, the Star Pointer is used to blow wind and maneuver the bubble.

Other Wii Remote functions are available for smaller quests, such as surfing aboard a manta ray or balancing atop a large ball and rolling it through an obstacle course.

For example, special mushrooms bestow the player with a Bee, Boo, or Spring Suit.

The Bee Suit allows Mario to hover through the air, climb special walls, and walk on clouds and flowers; the Boo Suit allows him to float through the air, become transparent, and move through certain obstacles; 20 and the Spring Suit allows him to jump to high areas that would be otherwise inaccessible.

The Fire Flower allows Mario to throw fireballs at enemies, and the Ice Flower allows Mario to create hexagonal ice tiles to cover any liquid surface he walks on.

The Rainbow Star grants Mario invincibility and lets him run faster.

The second player can prevent some enemies from moving by aiming the pointer star at them and holding the A button.

He removes Peachs castle from its foundations using a giant flying saucer and lifts it into outer space.

Kamek, one of Bowsers minions, launches Mario, who tried to rescue Princess Peach, into space and onto a small planet with his magic.

On the planet, he meets the enchantress Rosalina and her star-shaped companions, the Lumas.

Rosalina is a watcher of the stars who uses the Comet Observatory to travel across the universe.

Bestowed with the power to travel through space through one of the Lumas, Mario sets off on a journey across the universe to reclaim the Power Stars and restore power to Rosalinas observatory.

Along the way, he finds friends from the Mushroom Kingdom such as Luigi and the Toads.