Zero Punctuation: Super Mario Galaxy 2

[instantbenz]

The Simpsons hasn't been good since season 3. Funny how, while mario is best known for platforming, I will forever place super mario rpg at the highest of mario-related-game pedestals. All in all, this review is the purest of hot summertime cake.

 

[Atmos Duality]

"Why use map screens? It's from the past, and therefore outdated. Diatribe against older Mario games."

Why not? If all the levels are designed to be compartmentalized and self contained, then a map screen is efficient.

 

[Kaleid]

I very much didn't expect to enjoy this game but it is much better than thought and makes me wish I owned o console myself. But Nintendo needs to bring out a HD console pretty soon because all the jaggies in the graphics makes it look very dated...and for my sake start adding a bit shadows here and there, some of the graphics is too sunshine bright and happy...

 

[captain underpants]

Why do I torture myself by watching ZP reviews of games I actually like, especially Wii games? Watching his review of Brawl was like sticking a lit cigarette in my eye. I really hope he skips Other M when it comes out and goes back to wailing on games I'm indifferent to.

Is your confidence in your own opinion really that fragile? Personally, I've seen him review plenty of games that I've thoroughly enjoyed, and I even agree with his problems with them, by and large, but it hasn't stifled my enjoyment of them one bit. If I had fun with it, someone else's opinion doesn't really matter.

And I certainly don't make buying decisions based on the ZP reviews. That way madness lies. I'm just here for the dick jokes.

 

[Calderon0311]

There was a Yoshi Island Themed Rave in AZ the week after SMG2 was released, is that good enough?

 

[Phoenixlight]

"Do something you've never done before...go out and meet a nice member of the opposite sex and invite them out for some...cake" lol xD

 

[captain underpants]

I think the slapping himself in the face bit was a prophetic response to the peanut gallery here wheeling out the tired old Portal reference.

 

[ChupathingyX]

DO you know what I think "game critics" (the crappy ones who give anything with "Halo" in its name a high score) should do when they give games scores, instead of giving it something like 10/10 for it supossadly being perfect, even though its not, they should have seperate reviews for different kinds of gamers like;

-Little kids- 10/10
-Casual gamers - 3/10
-Hardcore gamers - 0/10
-Story buffs - 0/10

Something like that. Although thats my second opinion my first would be to burn them all! Especially after IGN gave Strategy game of the year award to Halo Wars instead of Dawn of war II or Empire: Total War.

 

[SpecklePattern]

Well I just must agree with the maria brand. And I loved the text adventure part on this one D Is it just me or was he feeling more artistic than usual.

 

[JWRosser]

I found it hilarious.
As much abuse as I will get from this, but I am bored of Mario games. They are all the same, and I just find them a bit boring and tedious. I've played Galaxy 2, and I have no idea how it got so many sperm-covered 10/10s everywhere...

 

[damocles23]

So Yahtzee is Starman? Can't say i'm surprised.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I beg your pardon sir, the WI was born here in Canada, in my hometown [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Institute#History]. I've been to the founders' house, and seen where they first shared their 'cake'.

Ah, I stand corrected, and therefore apologise. I'd just always assumed is was a British organisation since I'd never met anyone from outside the U.K who new what the W.I was. I still find the thought of these late middle aged women with their 'cake'-offs disturbing though. I suppose it's only natural, however. Bored housewives are bored housewives, whether in 2010 or 1910!

 

[Minbad]

Finally, words of truth and wisdom are spoken about Mario Galaxy 2!
Which makes me worry aven more about IGN's state of mind (Yea, Peace Walker comes to mind too)

 

[tadaaaaa]

Yahtzee hates unoriginal platformers, yet has never reviewed Ratchet & Clank, any of the Jak series, or Katamari Demacy or anything of that sort. Possibly these games are ones he plays in his spare time, because there's not enough to hate.

I would love a Mario game where at the end, you find Bowser's room, and Peach flies in from above, crying, "We have you now, little plumber!"
Seriously, a villain Peach twist would seem like a flying leap of ingenuity coming from Nintendo.

 

[pliusmannn]

why didn't he mention that Nintendo is making fun of people, for example first galaxy starred letters reads U R MR GAY

 

[jdnoth]

Yahtzee you bastard. I used to love my mum's cakes.

 

[tobyornottoby]

What? Remember when Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare tried to include a story? It was one of the best games ever made. That is the biggest copout of an excuse if I've ever seen one. What does absurdity of story level design have to do with story? It's still a game set in a mythical world about a plumber, they can easily add a ton of story.

Sure you could add a story to Mario but then it wouldn't be Mario anymore:

But maybe what makes Galaxy great is the abandon with which Nintendo has embraced abstraction. Mario has mostly taken place in the Mushroom Kingdom -- but even that vague concept is jettisoned for a string of constructs that only vaguely approximate real environments, at their absolute most concrete.

This game is wholeheartedly a game, and doesn't shy away from it -- more, it embraces it. In the first level of Future, Ratchet may traverse an amazing futuristic city. Mario traverses challenges -- nothing more, nothing less.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16729

 

[Nazulu]

I found it hilarious.
As much abuse as I will get from this, but I am bored of Mario games. They are all the same, and I just find them a bit boring and tedious. I've played Galaxy 2, and I have no idea how it got so many sperm-covered 10/10s everywhere...

Guess they're just rating it in general like, game play, graphics, sounds, etc. Fair enough don't you think? I doubt most of the new generation has played the older Mario games, so they won't see it as the same thing over and over.

However, I agree, 10/10 is over doing it, can this game truly be perfect? I would only give something a 10/10 if it has very little to no flaws and it had something unique, or it was powerful like with story or atmosphere, I doubt MG2 has that.

Also, it's only the New Super Mario Brothers (pfft, stupid name) and Mario Galaxy 2 that can be called 'the same'.

 

[qeinar]

Great episode BUT....
What is it with all this dumping on the Simpsons lately? Not just Yahtzee but I've seen elsewhere on the internet as well; Simpsons is stagnating. It hasn't been good since the fifth season? they had barely established the character voices by then! It is hard for me to actually watch the old seasons because the animation is so crap and the sound quality is so terrible compared to what it is now. It's miles ahead of the competition: Family Guy, American Dad, Cleveland Show. If you want to talk about degrading in quality, how about the last season of "That 70's Show"

well.. south park owns the simpsons by far. ^^ but the simpsons may have improved the quality of animation adn sound, but it seems like the writers for it have used all their ideas.. anyways we now have futurama back so i don't really care about how well the simpsons preform anymore.. : D