Super Mario Galaxy 2 is quite an unusual game for Nintendo. While they have made a lot of Super Mario games over the years, this is the first that could be considered a sequel – the same console, the same hardware and control mechanism, the same graphics engine and the same central idea, just new levels. A cynical gamer might, without playing it, write it off as a glorified expansion pack. They’d be wrong on so many levels. Despite its seeming similarity to Super Mario Galaxy, once you start playing the game you realize that there are more new ideas in a single level than most games have in total. In that way nothing has changed from the first game. Despite having played the previous game to completion and replayed it with Luigi, nothing feels rehashed. If anything, this one is more magical than before.

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