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Super Mario Galaxy 2 |OT| with >NEW< hat!
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Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Well now I've confirmed it. The infinite 1up trick won't work using the goomba.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
It'll hurt you yeah. Never tried jumping on him before. :lolAniHawk said:
MvmntInGrn
Member
I picked up the same star on accident once too. I was going for the higher one but I accidentally ground-pounded in the air which sent me flying downward, figured I would die but I hit the lower star somehow.Spruchy said:
Scythesurge
Member
Both? Just play whichever one you are feeling more!pakkit said:
MvmntInGrn
Member
During a flutter (you're holding down A) quickly press and release the Z button, then release and re-press the A button to go into the second flutter(quickly so you don't loose the height you already have).Sagitario said:
Make sure you hold out the flutter or you won't gain much height each time you do it.
EDIT: Technically, you can press the A button while you are releasing the Z button to do it a little faster, and probably keep from loosing height.
Actually, starting a new run through of SMG, I really wish there had been more focus. I appreciate the massive variety, but I also like focus around concepts and using them to their fullest, which SMG does in its main galaxies. One reason is that the Chimp and box games take up stars when outside of the stomp and coin challenges, they probably should have been part of their own galaxies like Fluzzard was. But its also because they seemed to be throwing everything at the chalkboard. Luckily, it all works cause its EAD Tokyo. Also, while
are great they point out how small these levels are. You see pretty much everything the first time through and none bothered to mix it up like with the small sandbox levels of SMG like Honeyhive, Beach Bowl and Sea Slide. And last of all, the drill has too much unutilized potential.
green stars
I wish SMG had green stars, too.
HK-47 said:
Yeah. When I heard about Mario Galaxy 2, I thought it would have been a perfect time to use all the cool stuff they introduced in Galaxy 1 for more levels and situations.
But instead, they just made even more new stuff.
Yeah, I know we are complaining about good things, but still.
Fimbulvetr
Member
Just got the 120 and
7 Green Stars.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
At 105 stars and going through
UGH.
S World now. The fluzzard battle race is driving me nuts.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Guys please remember to spoiler anything that might ruin any surprises for others.
Playing Sandtraps on Half Life 2 makes me just want to go back to Galaxy 2. :lolScythesurge said:
I don't understand why Valve insists on putting platforming in their FPS's when the movement mechanics are so obviously not built for it.
But I digress, onwarch march in SMG2! I'm at 109 stars right now. Hopefully I can actually get beyond 120 this time, the TrashBot kept me from that goal last time. Luckily, the fire flower version this time was much easier (but still had no place in a Mario game...).
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
I'm atPapercuts said:
222 and have yet to need Luigi for any of the green stars.
Speaking of Luigi: What does unlocking his ghost do? Does it just guide you to the comet coin in that level?
Speaking of Luigi: What does unlocking his ghost do? Does it just guide you to the comet coin in that level?
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Are they? That's what I thought at first butSagitario said:
every time I follow Luigi he goes to a comet coin and falls asleep.
The Hermit
Member
Sagitario said:
Actually more like "tricks" because it does crazy stuff and won't go till the end of the stage.
Btw, just want to say that the post endgame reward of SMG2 just beated Dawn of Sorrow of best bonus mode ever!
That original post of yours nailed it exactly - I should have just copy-and-pasted that instead of writing my own! And, yeah, that single change would not have made it less challenging, just less annoying and less of a time-sink. Thanks for the good wishes, I definitely at least need a couple of days break before I tackle it again, though :lolFuu said:
The Hermit
Member
AniHawk said:
I found a cool way to solve that. Basically you just select star 3 and try to collect all of them instead of choosing each one.
I used to say that NSMBW had the best MP experience of all Mario games and SMG was the best Mario 3D SP.
While I still think the first part of the sentence it's still true, SMG2 is not only the best 3D mario game, it's the best Mario game ever.
Also where are the prankster comet stars in
or whatever it's called
and the
I'm at 107 stars, I can't wait until I unlock
Fleet Feat Galaxy
(the one with Fluzzard in space)
Boss Blitz Galaxy?
I'm at 107 stars, I can't wait until I unlock
the green stars. They seem more interesting than random/nigh impossible challenges like the prankster stars.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah, it took me a few tries to get the timing down. I longjump the gap between the paths, and found a good walking pace so that I got to the first depression thing just about the same time as the gold chomp.Forkball said:
Oh gosh, I got the 120 stars at last!
Overall, awesome experience! The game started harder than SMG but as I went on I felt the difficulty didn't increase too much as opposed to the first game. The few stars I had problems with were the Rock Mario segment in Melty Monster Galaxy. I died like 15 times :lol oh and during
but that was because I kept doing dumb mistakes, also
... and Clockwork Ruins and its
.
As for the minigames, Fluzzard>>>>>>>>That awful stingray from the first game. In the first challenge I got the star in my second try and in Fleet Glide I got both stars during the first race. I had to replay the stage because I didn't know I had to go through the gates to get the comet medal, I thought I had to direct a bullet from the enemies to the glass cage :lol And Roller Coaster Galaxy, too, was way easier than its counterpart in SMG. I'm kind of disappointed that there isn't more ball segments in the game because I had a blast playing those.
I'm so glad there's a lot to play still and I'm looking forward to completing the game in its entirety
Overall, awesome experience! The game started harder than SMG but as I went on I felt the difficulty didn't increase too much as opposed to the first game. The few stars I had problems with were the Rock Mario segment in Melty Monster Galaxy. I died like 15 times :lol oh and during
Stone Cycle Galaxy
Flip Out Galaxy.... those awful clones of doom
purple coins of hell
As for the minigames, Fluzzard>>>>>>>>That awful stingray from the first game. In the first challenge I got the star in my second try and in Fleet Glide I got both stars during the first race. I had to replay the stage because I didn't know I had to go through the gates to get the comet medal, I thought I had to direct a bullet from the enemies to the glass cage :lol And Roller Coaster Galaxy, too, was way easier than its counterpart in SMG. I'm kind of disappointed that there isn't more ball segments in the game because I had a blast playing those.
I'm so glad there's a lot to play still and I'm looking forward to completing the game in its entirety
I feel quite spoiled right now. The release of Mario Galaxy 2 prompted me to go back to Mario Galaxy 1, which I've owned for around a year but had barely played, for whatever reason. When I went back to it a few days ago, I only had 7 stars.
Since then, I've been enjoying the hell out of it, racking up a number of stars when I get the chance to play it.
I've also had Mario Galaxy 2 sitting there in its Gamefly case for a few days, but I wanted to wait to play a good amount of SMG1 first. There are around 240 golden stars in between the two games, I think, so I still have over 200 to get in total. 200 glorious stars. And each stage in a galaxy is almost like its own game (I hear this is to an even greater extent in the sequel).
Since then, I've been enjoying the hell out of it, racking up a number of stars when I get the chance to play it.
I've also had Mario Galaxy 2 sitting there in its Gamefly case for a few days, but I wanted to wait to play a good amount of SMG1 first. There are around 240 golden stars in between the two games, I think, so I still have over 200 to get in total. 200 glorious stars. And each stage in a galaxy is almost like its own game (I hear this is to an even greater extent in the sequel).
AniHawk said:
I finally just did this myself a minute ago. How do you figure out how much time you spent playing though?
On a side note (flashbacks to the NSMB Wii thread) I have a silver crown (with a red jewel in it) next to my play file. I had Rosalina appear twice during my entire game, and once I did talk to her just to see what she would say (I was aware that she was the Super Guide for this game, I was just curious). I'm thinking I probably would have gotten a gold crown next to my file had I not spoken to her, and possibly a sparkly gold crown if she had never appeared at all, like NSMB Wii.
Anybody else with 242 get a gold crown instead?
Also, I remember in one of the early videos seeing a level with tons of prankster clones walking around, Mario was tiptoeing slowly around, and they were all doing the same. Was that in this game? I can't remember seeing that, unless maybe I just did the level too quickly.
AniHawk said:
You just have to die a certain number of times in a row within the same level. It happened for me with Melty Monster's second star (the long Rock Mario course) and also at the Stone Cyclone galaxy for the second
green star, it finally hit me to triple jump to grab it after a ton of tries
Oh my effing god.
I just spent 2 days trying to beat rainbow road purple coins using over 100 lives and I just found out the reason I was having so much trouble was because my remote is bad.
During my current run my first remote ran out of battery, so I got my second one. Bam, my movements was so much more responsive. I'm amazed I beat the other 3 rolling ball level with my first crappy remote. Took like 2 lives to get used to the new controls and finished with 104 coins my 3rd try with the good remote.
That was star 120 and while I type this the ending is happening so green stars is next.
Other than my remote problems this game was easier than the first. No super hard levels.
Luigi purple coins was really easy in this you barely needed to jump at all. The weird twisting and fast moving ones could easily be finished with super jumps or yoshi float thing. The cloud power up was way to over powered. Only level I had a problem with with a proper remote was beat block double time. Other than that Galaxy 1's luigi coins, cosmic luigi, green stars wer all harder.
Fantastic game though. World 1-6 had the best level design of any game I've ever played. World S was kinda lacking compared with the others but it was just as good as galaxy 1's. Flip Out is amazing though. Maybe my favorite Galaxy in the game.
Well off to collect green stars.
I just spent 2 days trying to beat rainbow road purple coins using over 100 lives and I just found out the reason I was having so much trouble was because my remote is bad.
During my current run my first remote ran out of battery, so I got my second one. Bam, my movements was so much more responsive. I'm amazed I beat the other 3 rolling ball level with my first crappy remote. Took like 2 lives to get used to the new controls and finished with 104 coins my 3rd try with the good remote.
That was star 120 and while I type this the ending is happening so green stars is next.
Other than my remote problems this game was easier than the first. No super hard levels.
Luigi purple coins was really easy in this you barely needed to jump at all. The weird twisting and fast moving ones could easily be finished with super jumps or yoshi float thing. The cloud power up was way to over powered. Only level I had a problem with with a proper remote was beat block double time. Other than that Galaxy 1's luigi coins, cosmic luigi, green stars wer all harder.
Fantastic game though. World 1-6 had the best level design of any game I've ever played. World S was kinda lacking compared with the others but it was just as good as galaxy 1's. Flip Out is amazing though. Maybe my favorite Galaxy in the game.
Really wished they had purple coins instead of cosmic clone as the comet
Well off to collect green stars.
AniHawk said:
Huh. Maybe I'm missing something there, that's all I could figure though. I wonder if I died a certain number of times within a certain timespan.
You're right though, because now that I think about it I died countless times on the final galaxy and she never appeared there either.
Oh, and I checked my playtime and it was 42 hours. :lol I'm sure 4 of those were on the final level. I did do some replaying of levels here and there for kicks, but I still didn't think I had played that long.
UpperCaseN
Member
96 or 98 stars in, can't remember. plan on grabbing the last few possible before facing Bowser.
As an Australian gamer who imported this from America to play on my even more awesome American Wii I must say I am 100% satisfied in my purchase, which I have been deeply regretting for the past 2 years. Sure, the game doesn't have a stellar narrative or HD graphics but when you pick up a Mario game you do so for level design and charm, and boy does this game have that in overload.
Checking in with 242 stars. I thought I'd be at that last one for at least a week, but I continue to impress myself with my Mario-playing abilities. I geared up tonight with 99 lives determined to get that star, but it turns out I only needed 10!
Ultimately, I absolutely loved this game. It wasn't as fresh as an experience as SMG1, so therefore SMG2 can't be as good, but I still definitely adored it.
I admit I was disappointed by the "reward" of being visited by Rosalina.
"C'mon, I saw you earlier back when I got 120 stars! Why should I care to see you again? Unless you show me your Rosa-gina, it ain't enough."
"C'mon, I saw you earlier back when I got 120 stars! Why should I care to see you again? Unless you show me your Rosa-gina, it ain't enough."
Ultimately, I absolutely loved this game. It wasn't as fresh as an experience as SMG1, so therefore SMG2 can't be as good, but I still definitely adored it.