Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 Review: Gaming Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This

I don’t know if the perfect video game can ever truly be made. But if such a thing exists, it’s Super Mario Galaxy.

Mechanically excellent and bursting with heart, the Nintendo Wii platformer was - and still is - a slice of video game heaven: an explosion of colour at a time when other publishers were increasingly obsessed with muddy brown realism. And then in 2010, just to flex on the entire video game industry, Nintendo did it all over again with Super Mario Galaxy 2.

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There’s a recurring debate here at GAMINGbible as to which of the Galaxy games is truly better. The original boasts a more engaging narrative, a delightful hub world to explore in the form of the comet observatory, and has that indefinable magical quality afforded to it by coming f