crackerwax

I’m not certain that this game is going to be as big as Nintendo might hope. Don’t get me wrong it’s great fun and it’s has the potential to be one of the best games ever but I’m not sure the average Wii owner will be able to get into it.

You see the problem is that the Wii is popular with everyone not just gamers and Super Mario Galaxy is very much a gamers game. Your average Wii owner has one game, Wii Sports and they’re not all that interested in mastering anything that involves much more than waggling the Wiimote.

The first few levels do little to bring in the Wiimote-wagglers, it’s so different from anything that has gone before as to actually be confusing. It’s a step beyond Super Mario 64 in that it’s not just a 3D representation of the landscapes that were in the original Mario games it’s a fully realised up, down, in, out, sideways, right way up, upside down, round about, twisty turny, mind fuck of a landscape.

We’ll see how it fares, Gamestation’s second hand section should prove a useful indicator.