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| colspan="12" style="background:#347BDD; color:white;"| [[File:SMG2 Asset Texture World Banner (World 5).png|x25px|link=World 5 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)]] '''World 5: <small>Trial of the Galaxies</small>''' | | colspan="12" style="background:#347BDD; color:white;"| [[File:SMG2 Asset Texture World Banner (World 5).png|x25px|link=World 5 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)]] '''World 5: <small>Trial of the Galaxies</small>''' | ||
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!colspan="4" style="background:# | !colspan="4" style="background:#DC3834"| 29. [[Space Storm Galaxy]]<br>[[File:SMG Asset Sprite UI Power Star.png|15px|Total number of obtainable Power Stars.]]×6 [[File:SMG2 Asset Model World 1 (Earth Analog).png|15px|Total number of reachable areas.]]×5 | ||
!colspan="2" style="background:# | !colspan="2" style="background:#DC3834"| Missions | ||
!colspan="4" style="background:# | !colspan="4" style="background:#E09E12"| 30. [[Slipsand Galaxy]]<br>[[File:SMG Asset Sprite UI Power Star.png|15px|Total number of obtainable Power Stars.]]×6 [[File:SMG2 Asset Model World 1 (Earth Analog).png|15px|Total number of reachable areas.]]×5 [[File:SMG2 Asset Sprite UI Bowser.png|15px|Total number of boss battles.]]×2 | ||
!colspan="2" style="background:# | !colspan="2" style="background:#E09E12"| Missions | ||
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| colspan="4" rowspan="3" align=center style="background:#FFFFFF"| [[File:SMG2 Screenshot Space Storm Galaxy (Follow Me, Bob-omb).png|x90px]] | | colspan="4" rowspan="3" align=center style="background:#FFFFFF"| [[File:SMG2 Screenshot Space Storm Galaxy (Follow Me, Bob-omb).png|x90px]] | ||
| colspan="2" align=left style="background:# | | colspan="2" align=left style="background:#F1AFAD"| [[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|14px|link=Power Star]] [[Follow Me, Bob-omb]] | ||
| colspan="4" rowspan="3" align=center style="background:#FFFFFF"| [[File:SMG2 Screenshot Slipsand Galaxy (Sailing the Sandy Seas).png|x90px]] | | colspan="4" rowspan="3" align=center style="background:#FFFFFF"| [[File:SMG2 Screenshot Slipsand Galaxy (Sailing the Sandy Seas).png|x90px]] | ||
| colspan="2" align=left style="background:# | | colspan="2" align=left style="background:#F8DDA2"| [[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|14px|link=Power Star]] [[Squizzard's Sandy Sinkhole]] | ||
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| colspan="2" align=left style="background:# | | colspan="2" align=left style="background:#E9827F"| [[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|14px|link=Power Star]] [[To the Top of Topman's Tower]] | ||
| colspan="2" align=left style="background:# | | colspan="2" align=left style="background:#F4CC74"| [[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|14px|link=Power Star]] [[Sailing the Sandy Seas]] | ||
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| colspan="2" align=left style="background:# | | colspan="2" align=left style="background:#F1AFAD"| [[File:Smg2 icon prankstercomet.png|14px|link=Prankster Comet]] [[C'mere, Topman]] | ||
| colspan="2" align=left style="background:# | | colspan="2" align=left style="background:#F8DDA2"| [[File:Smg2 icon prankstercomet.png|14px|link=Prankster Comet]] [[Squizzard's Daredevil Run]] | ||
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|colspan="6" align=center style="background:# | |colspan="6" align=center style="background:#E9827F"| nihil<br>'''Unlock criterion''': complete "Breaking into Bowser's Castle" | ||
|colspan="6" align=center style="background:# | |colspan="6" align=center style="background:#F4CC74"| nihil<br>'''Unlock criterion''': complete a mission in Space Storm | ||
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!colspan="4" style="background:#C788D2"| 31. [[Shiverburn Galaxy]]<br>[[File:SMG Asset Sprite UI Power Star.png|15px|Total number of obtainable Power Stars.]]×6 [[File:SMG2 Asset Model World 1 (Earth Analog).png|15px|Total number of reachable areas.]]×4 [[File:SMG2 Asset Sprite UI Bowser.png|15px|Total number of boss battles.]]×1 | !colspan="4" style="background:#C788D2"| 31. [[Shiverburn Galaxy]]<br>[[File:SMG Asset Sprite UI Power Star.png|15px|Total number of obtainable Power Stars.]]×6 [[File:SMG2 Asset Model World 1 (Earth Analog).png|15px|Total number of reachable areas.]]×4 [[File:SMG2 Asset Sprite UI Bowser.png|15px|Total number of boss battles.]]×1 |
Revision as of 01:17, April 6, 2021
Casual Nintendo historian. Otherwise an artist and a professional zoologist. Bio degree. I've had an account here since 2012.
I wrote the character sections for Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Super Mario Odyssey. I contributed much of the article for Super Mario Sunshine and am currently working on Super Mario Galaxy.
I have been a fan of Nintendo since a very young age. My first Mario games (and three of the first video games I ever owned) were Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Super Mario 64 DS, and Mario Kart DS. These games were good company for a young kid who moved around a lot and had difficulty keeping long-lasting friends.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I sequentially played some of my favorite games in the Super Mario series to 100% completion. This includes, in order, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. I will complete this marathon with Super Mario Odyssey. It's been really fun so far! These are great games, and I always wanted to marathon a series like this before but never had the time. It has been interesting to see where the series began and where it has ended up. The design philosophies, the characters, the art directions, world building, level design, narrative, etc. All good stuff. It might be fun to write something about it some day.
My favorite video game character is Yoshi.
Sandbox for current project
Setting
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is set in outer space. Unlike its predecessor, no levels – referred to as "galaxies" in this game – take place on Mario's home planet. A galaxy is a cluster of small planetary bodies and other celestial objects that can be traveled between. As in the first Super Mario Galaxy, most planets have their own gravitational pull that prevents Mario from falling down pits and makes it less likely for the player to become lost. Not all planets have their own centers of gravity: some have layouts more comparable to the courses of Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. There is a great emphasis on two-dimensional gameplay in Super Mario Galaxy 2, with entire galaxies exclusively or mostly taking place on a 2D plane. The presence of these types of levels derive from an intentional design choice to make the game simpler and more accessible to players daunted by three-dimensional platformers. Many galaxies focus on the integration of switches to change the mechanics of a galaxy as it is played, a concept loosely influenced by design choices made to differentiate The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask from its predecessor, Ocarina of Time. There are galaxies built around using switches to shift the gravitational plane from the floor to the ceiling; ones that slow down time; and ones that grant access to new areas.
Because Super Mario Galaxy 2 was built in the same engine as Super Mario Galaxy and inherited most of its assets, the games visually look very similar to each other. Super Mario Galaxy 2 has inherited many of the same visual cues to communicate that the game takes place in space in addition to establishing its own. Starship Mario, the spacefaring hub, flies by stars, asteroid belts, and black holes as Mario progresses. The outer space theme, though still present and explored in some different ways, is overall a little more muted in this game with the deemphasis on traversing 3D planets and integration of blue skyboxes over dark, starry ones. The game's core is whimsical.
Galaxies
Departure from proceeding 3D games - the hub is not a sprawling area with individual level access points - it is more like a home. On the Grand World Map, its a stand-in for Mario himself, similar to sprite icons in past games, moving from galaxy to galaxy
Simplified "world" layout comparable to those of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Yoshi's Island (rather unilateral: not as complex as Super Mario World or Super Mario Land 2)
Organization of levels becomes a little more complex with each world, but it always begins with a normal galaxy and ends with a boss castle galaxy; no worlds can be skipped over to reach the credits
Bonus "World S", similar in concept to Star Road or World 9 from NSMBW
Normal galaxies have two normal missions, a prankster comet, and two "needle in hay stack" styled Green Stars unlocked once all normal Power Stars have been collected
Galaxies | |||||||||||
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World 1: The Great Space Journey Begins | |||||||||||
01. Sky Station Galaxy ×6 ×9 ×2 |
Missions | 02. Yoshi Star Galaxy ×6 ×8 ×2 ×1 |
Missions | ||||||||
Peewee Piranha's Temper Tantrum ( ∙ ) | Saddle Up with Yoshi ( ∙ ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Storming the Sky Fleet () | Spiny Control | ||||||||||
Peewee Piranha's Speed Run | Spiny Rainbow Romp | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete the prologue |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete "Peewee Piranha's Temper Tantrum" | ||||||||||
03. Spin-Dig Galaxy ×6 ×7 ×2 |
Missions | 04. Fluffy Bluff Galaxy ×6 ×4 |
Missions | ||||||||
Digga-Leg's Planet ( ∙ ) | Search for the Toad Brigade Captain ( ∙ ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Silver Stars Down Deep () | Every Planet Has Its Price | ||||||||||
Digga-Leg's Daredevil Run | The Chimp's Stomp Challenge | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criteria: collect 3 Power Stars and complete "Saddle Up with Yoshi" |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete "Digga-Leg's Planet" | ||||||||||
05. Flip-Swap Galaxy () ×4 ×1 |
Missions | 06. Rightside Down Galaxy ×4 ×2 |
Missions | ||||||||
Think Before You Shake ( ∙ ) | Breaking the Laws of Gravity ( ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Purple Coin Flip 'n' Sprint | The Great Crate Incinerator | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criteria: collect 3 Power Stars, complete "Saddle Up with Yoshi", and feed the Luma 300 Star Bits |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete "Digga-Leg's Planet" | ||||||||||
07. Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla ×4 ×2 ×2 |
Missions | ||||||||||
Gobblegut's Aching Belly ( ∙ ) | |||||||||||
Fiery Flotilla Speed Run | |||||||||||
nihil Unlock criteria: collect 7 Power Stars and complete a mission in Fluffy Bluff | |||||||||||
World 2: Shooting Through the Stars | |||||||||||
08. Puzzle Plank Galaxy ×6 ×6 ×2 |
Missions | 09. Hightail Falls Galaxy ×6 ×7 ×3 |
Missions | ||||||||
The Puzzling Picture Block ( ∙ ∙ ) | Hot-Stepping Dash Pepper ( ∙ ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Purple Coin Shadow Vault | Hightail Falls Speed Run | ||||||||||
Bugaboom's Back | Silver Stars in Hightail Falls | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete "Gobblegut's Aching Belly" |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Puzzle Plank | ||||||||||
10. Boulder Bowl Galaxy ×6 ×6 ×1 |
Missions | 11. Cosmic Cove Galaxy ×6 ×4 |
Missions | ||||||||
Rock and Rollodillo ( ∙ ∙ ) | Twin Falls Hideaway () | ||||||||||
Rolling Crabber Romp | Exploring the Cosmic Cavern ( ∙ ) | ||||||||||
C'mere, Goomba | Catch That Star Bunny | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Puzzle Plank |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Hightail Falls or Boulder Bowl | ||||||||||
12. Wild Glide Galaxy ×4 ×1 |
Missions | 13. Honeybloom Galaxy () ×4 ×2 |
Missions | ||||||||
Fluzzard's First Flight ( ∙ ) | Bumble Beginnings ( ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Jungle Fluzzard Race | The Secret Wall Jump | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Hightail Falls or Boulder Bowl |
nihil Unlock criteria: complete a mission in Hightail Falls or Boulder Bowl and feed the Luma 700 Star Bits | ||||||||||
14. Bowser's Lava Lair ×4 ×7 ×1 |
Missions | ||||||||||
Bowser's Big Lava Power Party ( ∙ ) | |||||||||||
Lava Lair Speed Run | |||||||||||
nihil Unlock criteria: collect 14 Power Stars and complete a mission in Cosmic Cove, Wild Glide, or Honeybloom | |||||||||||
World 3: The Far Reaches of the Universe | |||||||||||
15. Tall Trunk Galaxy ×6 ×5 ×1 |
Missions | 16. Cloudy Court Galaxy ×6 ×5 |
Missions | ||||||||
The Flotacious Blimp Fruit ( ∙ ) | Head in the Clouds ( ∙ ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Tall Trunk's Big Slide () | The Shadow Lining | ||||||||||
Tall Trunk's Purple Coin Slide | Silver Stars in the Purple Pond | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete "Bowser's Big Lava Power Party" |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete "Bowser's Big Lava Power Party" | ||||||||||
17. Haunty Halls Galaxy ×6 ×4 ×1 |
Missions | 18. Freezy Flake Galaxy ×6 ×6 ×1 |
Missions | ||||||||
A Glimmer of Bulb Berry ( ∙ ) | Bowser on Ice ( ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Sneaking Down the Creepy Corridor () | Sorbetti's Chilly Reception () | ||||||||||
Spooky Cosmic Clone Chase | The Chimp's Skating Challenge | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criteria: complete a mission in Tall Trunk or Freezy Flake |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Cloudy Court or Haunty Halls | ||||||||||
19. Rolling Masterpiece Galaxy ×4 ×9 |
Missions | 20. Beat Block Galaxy () ×4 ×3 ×1 |
Missions | ||||||||
Silver Chomp Grudge Match ( ∙ ) | Step to the Beep ( ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Masterpiece Speed Run | Silver Stars in Double Time | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Freezy Flake |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete "A Glimmer of Bulb Berry" and feed the Luma 1000 Star Bits | ||||||||||
21. Bowser Jr.'s Fearsome Fleet ×4 ×5 ×2 ×2 |
Missions | ||||||||||
Bowser Jr.'s Mighty Megahammer ( ∙ ) | |||||||||||
Megahammer's Daredevil Bash | |||||||||||
nihil Unlock criteria: collect 28 Power Stars and complete "Bowser's Big Lava Power Party" | |||||||||||
World 4: The Many Mysteries of the Cosmos | |||||||||||
22. Supermassive Galaxy ×6 ×5 |
Missions | 23. Flipsville Galaxy ×6 ×8 ×1 |
Missions | ||||||||
Huge Trouble with Big Wigglers ( ∙ ∙ ) | Flip-Flopping in Flipsville ( ∙ ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Big Wigglers Speed Run | Flipsville's New Digs | ||||||||||
In Full Bloom | Purple Coin Spin Speed Run | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete "Bowser Jr.'s Mighty Megahammer" |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Supermassive or Sweet Mystery | ||||||||||
24. Starshine Beach Galaxy ×6 ×2 ×2 |
Missions | 25. Chompworks Galaxy ×6 ×5 |
Missions | ||||||||
Surf, Sand, and Silver Stars ( ∙ ) | Where the Chomps Are Made of Gold ( ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Climbing the Cloudy Tower () | Spring into the Chompworks () | ||||||||||
Purple Coin Beach Dash | Cosmic Clones in the Chompworks | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Flipsville or Honeyhop |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Flipsville or Honeyhop | ||||||||||
26. Sweet Mystery Galaxy () ×4 ×2 ×2 |
Missions | 27. Honeyhop Galaxy ×4 ×2 |
Missions | ||||||||
Bulb Berry's Mysterious Glow ( ∙ ) | The Sweetest Silver Stars ( ∙ ) | ||||||||||
Bulb Berry's Purple Coin Glow | The Chimp's Score Challenge | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criteria: complete "Bowser Jr.'s Mighty Megahammer" and feed the Luma 1200 Star Bits |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Supermassive | ||||||||||
28. Bowser's Gravity Gauntlet ×4 ×4 ×1 |
Missions | ||||||||||
Breaking into Bowser's Castle ( ∙ ) | |||||||||||
Gravity Star Speed Run | |||||||||||
nihil Unlock criteria: collect 40 Power Stars and complete a mission in Starshine Beach or Chompworks | |||||||||||
World 5: Trial of the Galaxies | |||||||||||
29. Space Storm Galaxy ×6 ×5 |
Missions | 30. Slipsand Galaxy ×6 ×5 ×2 |
Missions | ||||||||
Follow Me, Bob-omb | Squizzard's Sandy Sinkhole | ||||||||||
To the Top of Topman's Tower | Sailing the Sandy Seas | ||||||||||
C'mere, Topman | Squizzard's Daredevil Run | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete "Breaking into Bowser's Castle" |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Space Storm | ||||||||||
31. Shiverburn Galaxy ×6 ×4 ×1 |
Missions | 32. Boo Moon Galaxy ×6 ×5 |
Missions | ||||||||
Prince Pikante's Peppery Mood | Silver Stars Pop-Up | ||||||||||
Octo-Army Icy Rainbow Romp | Haunting the Howling Tower | ||||||||||
The Chimp's Ultimate Skating Challenge | The Star in the Sinking Swamp | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Space Storm |
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Space Storm | ||||||||||
33. Upside Dizzy Galaxy ×4 ×2 |
Missions | 34. Fleet Glide Galaxy () ×4 ×1 |
Missions | ||||||||
A Walk on the Weird Side | Fluzzard's Wild Battlefield Glide | ||||||||||
Burning Upside Dizzy | Fastest Feathers in the Galaxy | ||||||||||
nihil Unlock criterion: complete a mission in Space Storm |
nihil Unlock criteria: complete a mission in Space Storm and feed the Luma 1500 Star Bits | ||||||||||
35. Bowser Jr.'s Boom Bunker ×4 ×6 ×2 |
Missions | ||||||||||
Breaking into Bowser's Castle | |||||||||||
Gravity Star Speed Run | |||||||||||
nihil Unlock criteria: collect 55 Power Stars and complete a mission in Space Storm |
Prankster Comets
No galaxy has more than one non-green Prankster Comet
Starship Mario
Hub terraformed to look like Mario's head by Lubba
Rouge group of Lumas live on it, inc. Lubba and Baby Luma
As Mario progresses, power-ups are added to the engine room. Cloud Flower and Yoshi Egg become usable. Visual mark of progress.
Stowaways
Another mark of progress - NPCs permently board the ship once specific criteria are met (what are they? Just finishing certain missions or are they tied to Power Stars?)
The NPCs share tricks on level progression and actions: some allude to late-game secrets, or are marks of progress for the player
As the Starship becomes more lively, the music becomes more flourished and complex
(include mini list for NPCs, unlock criteria, and their quotes - no pictures. The pictures for characters are in the following section)
No Piantas :<