My in-house playtesters (8 y.o. Thing 1 and 6 y.o. Thing 2) shall render my (for now) final verdict on Super Mario Galaxy (as I am too immersed in Assassin’s Creed to do it myself): Meh. Though stoked about its arrival from Gamefly, they were urging me to send back for something else after only a week.Not sure what this says about the game (perhaps nothing), but it clearly failed to engage them. Truth is, they’re far more obsessed right now with the non-digital Munchkin than anything the video game lair has to offer.
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Clone Army? That’s a good one. Heh heh.
As much as it kills me to say this — I’d have to agree with your army. Nintendo’s sitting on its laurels, and I can’t just sit around loyally anymore. It’s a visually beautiful game, but what happened to a sense of challenge? Old timers still sit around and reminisce about being on level 8-2 on their last life and sweating it out. Those were good times.