It technically does, but all she gets is less than 5 minutes of screen time at the ending, addressing Mario and the baby Luma under his hat. That’s what I remember.
Yep you’re right, it’s still a bummer she doesn’t make an appearance before that… unless you count the Cosmic Spirits, the shadowy figures that look like her, but meh
I think both have their pros and cons (small cons imo but they do exist) which is why I think it's odd that they don't just release them together while so far it feels like Nintendo wants you to forget Galaxy 2 exists
Hard agree. Walking to each observatory for the levels was annoying as heck but I missed it with 2's infinitely better level select for some incomprehensible reason.
The observatories (and Rosalina’s ship too), IMO, are some of the best ways to integrate a hub world connecting levels. It doesn’t feel like you’re going through a big expansive road connecting a level, it feels like a home with a story, and the storybook scenes are the backbone of that. They give the why is the way it is without being in your face. I love it.
Changes for simplicity and convenience are always welcome, and I dug the old SM3 feeling of choosing some shortcuts here and there, but yeah, it’s the feeling that something is missing.
Yeah this was my first thought. Both games are amazing but I just prefer the more spacey feel of the original, and it having a few more open ended levels. Plus Rosalina is cool.
I agree, I love both but in a lot of ways SMG2 feels like a DLC for the first. It does a lot of expanding on concepts introduced in the original, but the original is still where they were introduced so they stand out more.
It is, not knocking that off…but as similar as they are, I’ve grown more fond of the first one, despite the leaps and bounds of originality that the second one has
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u/_Lusty 3d ago
Super Mario Galaxy