Torture
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is done. It’s printed and ready to ship. And Nintendo will not give it to me. That’s just mean. Apparently they’re holding it back so it won’t compete with New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which has a terrible title but looks like a lot of fun.
So while we’re waiting, let’s reflect on Shigeru Miyamoto saying that Mario Galaxy 2 won’t have as deep a story as the first Mario Galaxy.
Perhaps I’m the only one, but I think "story-driven" would be the very last phrase I’d use to describe Super Mario Galaxy. I mean, it had a story? Beyond "Bowser kidnapped the princess and is trying to take over the galaxy?" I guess that dude from Wired thought it did. I thought it had those lame storybook cutscenes with the most banal children’s book of all time, but those were barely related to the game at all.
Frankly, I agree with Miyamoto. Mario doesn’t need some stupid heavy-ass plotline with a bunch of lame cutscenes. And I think this is my favourite thing anyone’s ever said:
"They always want to have these dramatic scenes where Princess Peach gets kidnapped, but I always tell them, no, it’s fine — Princess Peach likes cake, so you can just have them use cake as bait to kidnap Princess Peach, and that’s enough."
