Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 Switch 2 Review

Date: September 30, 2025

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Overview

This episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast is a special review and live play session focused on the new releases of Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the Nintendo Switch 2. Host Tim Gettys gives his in-depth critical impressions after playing both games on the new hardware, while the panel—Greg Miller and Andy Cortez—ask probing questions, read fan superchats, and mess around in a live gameplay segment. The discussion explores the enhancements of these definitive editions, the value proposition for 2025, the games’ legacy, and their place in Mario history.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Definitive Editions: Technical and Artistic Upgrades

• Native Resolution Improvements
  • Switch 1: 1080p on TV.
  • Switch 2: 4K on TV, 1080p in handheld.
  • “It’s freaking gorgeous. This game is gorgeous.” (Tim, 09:17)
• UI and Presentation
  • Fully new, high-res UI; no more “low-res as hell” interface like on 3D All Stars.
  • Unique icons and visual polish to suit a new generation.
• Soundtrack
  • Expanded and now fully orchestrated, with markedly improved instrument textures.
  • Tim demonstrates the difference between the MIDI versions in early trailers and the lush orchestrations in the release.
  • “That better might not have any one moment of Impact of like, holy crap, this is...whatever. It’s the chip damage throughout ...that I’m like, God damn. This game used to be the most special thing ever. And it remains the most special thing ever.” (Tim, 31:59)
• Art Design
  • Tim notes the “timeless” quality of the art style. Visual upgrades let the original vibe and ambition finally “sing.”

2. Controls, Motion, and Modernization

• Motion Controls Modernized
  • Galaxy’s pointer and spin controls mapped for both Joy-Cons and Pro Controllers; optional button mapping for spin.
  • “I love it. I think that the motion controls in Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are some of the best implemented we've ever had in video games.” (Tim, 10:07)
  • Some camera/motion control quirks persist but they’re less intrusive.
  • "You can just...it's mapped to a button so you don't have to do the motion controls...I like the spin." (Tim, 09:50)
• Yoshi and Pinpoint Precision
  • Yoshi’s tongue mapped to motion; more precise but still fun. Still, some platforming is challenging.

3. Content & Value Proposition

• Package and Pricing
  • Each game: $40 on eShop; both for $70 bundle (physical only as a bundle).
  • Tim’s take: “$40 for each of these games and it’s 70 for both of them. I think that if this, the package between the two of them was $60, this wouldn’t even be a conversation.” (Tim, 16:06)
  • Defends $40 per title: “These games’ legacy are so important...these versions...worth it.” (Tim, 24:30)
  • Compared to 3D All Stars: massive step up (UI, controls, visual polish).

4. Review Scores & Critical Thoughts

• Tim’s Verdict
  • “This is the definitive way to play both of those games... I’m giving it a 9.5.” (Tim, 12:27)
  • “As close to a masterpiece as you can get.” (Tim, 12:28)
  • Not a perfect 10 due to: some holdover “un-fun” gimmick levels (e.g., ball-balancing, motion-specific stages), camera quirks, and price hesitancy.
• Legacy & Comparisons
  • Illustrates how Galaxy is the “nexus point of what Mario games were and are currently” (Wonder, 3D World, Odyssey, even Astro Bot).
  • “There’s something timeless about these games, and I also feel that they are ahead of their time.” (Tim, 13:02)
  • Points out that not all levels are stellar, and Nintendo kept the same “just not fun” Wiimote gimmick stages.

5. Galaxy 1 vs. Galaxy 2

• Tim’s Preference: Galaxy 2
  • "I've always been a two over one guy and I remain that...two is harder...the greatest hits...all killer, no filler...Galaxy 1's ‘fat’ is part of the adventure..." (Tim, 22:25)
  • Galaxy 1: broader “epic scale” with hub world and more exploratory structure.
  • Galaxy 2: streamlined, level-based, “much more similar to Mario 3D World.”

6. Quality of Life

• Assists and Accessibility
  • New assist mode for easier gameplay (not demo’d in-depth).
  • In-Game Tutorials: “It does have really nice kind of little infographics pop up...They make sure that you get it into the right position.” (Tim, 14:28)
  • “The HD rumble adds so much. Just dumb little texture to the whole experience. It just adds the presentation value.” (Tim, 63:01)

7. Legacy, Influence, and the Future

• Galaxy Influence
  • "Seed" for Mario Wonder, 3D World, Odyssey, and even Astro Bot.
  • Discussion about possibility/desire for Galaxy 3.
• Movie Tie-In
  • Joking about hype for the Mario Galaxy movie and speculation on characters.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (With Timestamps)

• On Presentation and Craft:

  • “The right amount of love and care was put into them to make these games that can hang with any game coming out today, period.” (Tim, 17:05)
  • “Old games, old. And if you make old game look new, it’s new game.” (Tim, 25:30)

• On Pricing:

  • “If this was 60, it wouldn’t even be a conversation... There is something though. It being 70, I’m like, lot of money, man." (Tim, 16:06)

• On Controls:

  • “I think that the motion controls in Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are some of the best implemented we’ve ever had in video games.” (Tim, 10:07)

• On Art Direction:

  • “The limitations are what force the creativity and make the art style so incredibly timeless.” (Tim, 27:49)

• On “Un-fun” Levels:

  • “That was the Wiimote, you go like this and the bird flies differently. That shit’s not fun. You’re on a ball, you have to hold the remote like, it’s not fun.” (Tim, 13:02)

• On the Joy of Playing:

  • “That whole thing jumping off of a planetoid and getting that momentum to go, like, I put that up there with the swinging in Spider-Man and the, you know, Kratos getting the ax back. Like it’s just something about it that you feel it in your soul.” (Tim, 49:36)

• On Legacy and Remastering:

  • “This new version is the visual difference. This new version is...beautiful. It’s great. Like, but it could be better. And that better might not have any one moment of impact…but it’s the chip damage throughout…that I’m like, God damn. This game used to be the most special thing ever. And it remains the most special thing ever.” (Tim, 31:59)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• [05:16] Review Introduction & Context - What’s new, value proposition, why this port matters.
• [07:03] Tim’s Approach to Review & Pricing Overview.
• [08:54] Technical Upgrades, Switch 1 v. Switch 2 differences & visuals.
• [10:07] In-depth: motion controls and how the games were modernized for Switch 2.
• [12:27] Tim gives his review score: 9.5/10; justifies not calling it perfect.
• [15:05] Pricing and value debate, including comparisons to other recent remasters.
• [17:05] What’s new compared to 3D All Stars, small but meaningful polish and care.
• [22:25] Galaxy 1 vs. Galaxy 2: Tim defends preference for 2, describes key structural differences.
• [28:33] Special segment: Tim’s demonstration of the soundtrack orchestration difference.
• [36:19] Mario’s feel and movement—differences from other 3D Marios; nostalgia stories.
• [43:44] How these games rank in the wider Mario pantheon; music and memory discussion.
• [49:36] Discussion of iconic mechanical moments—gravity, momentum, and immersion.
• [61:19] Q: Are the controls "weird"—panelists advise new players. Accessibility features.
• [65:02] Varied locations and levels in Galaxy 2 and their impact.
• [77:13] Discussion of what the movie might borrow from these games.

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Fan Questions & Rapidfire

• Do saves from 3D All Stars transfer? – No, separate save data. (24:05)
• Do the games have new assist modes or accessibility updates? – Yes, there is a new assist mode not demoed in detail. (88:21)
• Thoughts on ranking Galaxy 2 among 3D Marios? – Tim finds it increasingly hard to rank but still replays 64 most; Galaxy 2 holds as the “greatest hits” version. (43:10)
• Does the motion/gyro control work as well as the Wii? – Some quirks, but Tim calls Switch 2’s motion and button mapping “the best way” to play now. (20:29)

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Panel Chemistry & Banter Highlights

• Plenty of trademark Kinda Funny banter, including running bits about Nick never listening to their shows, Greg joking about parenting, and Andy/Cortez doing offbeat voice-acting and New York accents during gameplay.
• Greg plays through the opening of Galaxy 2 for the very first time, reacting in real time to modernized controls and visuals.
• Andy’s live reactions and attempts at levels provide an accessible entry point for new and returning Mario fans.

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Final Thoughts & Takeaways

• Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 on Switch 2 are now the definitive versions: stellar visual and sound upgrades, modernized controls, and small but meaningful quality-of-life improvements make these games feel new for 2025, not just ports.
• Price is high but justified for the quality and legacy—especially given the love and polish evident in these releases.
• While a couple of minor 2000s design quirks linger, these are “as close to masterpieces as you can get” (Tim, 12:28), essential to both Mario fans and newcomers brought in by the forthcoming Galaxy movie.

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Notable Quotes Recap

• “I full 10 toes down stand on. These games are worth $40 each in 2025. These versions of these games are worth it.” – Tim Gettys (24:30)
• “There’s nothing more I could have asked for from one and two coming back.” – Tim Gettys (24:45)
• “When you play these games, you are playing in a lot of ways, the nexus point of what Mario games were and are currently.” – Tim Gettys (12:28)

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Score:
9.5/10 (Tim Gettys, 12:27)

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Transcript

[Andy Cortez]

Foreign.

[Greg Miller]

What'S up everybody? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, September 30, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside the Hispanic heartthrob Texas treat Latino heat. Clicking heads and ripping them to shreds. The globetrotten head shot and three point shooting root and tootin nitro rifle from Twitch tv, Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Good afternoon.

[Tim Gettys]

I like that it looked like you were about to run off.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I know.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's do a front flip.

[Greg Miller]

And of course he's four of 30 under 30, aka the second best baby blues in San Francisco. Aka the soon to be father at Tim Gettys.

[Tim Gettys]

Dude, so soon that today part of the reason we our schedule's so weird came out.

[Andy Cortez]

Get that thing back in there.

[Tim Gettys]

Not yet. Not yet. We're doing our final doctor visit, like checkup.

[Greg Miller]

Oh wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Crazy. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So was the final, the.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know, I mean 24 week. I think it is. Whatever.

[Greg Miller]

I was surprised he started going weekly.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. It's the final of something. Okay. Like they made it sound like this is like we're never gonna say no.

[Greg Miller]

I was see you when you get there.

[Tim Gettys]

I was like genuinely surprised because I was like, I feel like you get closer, you need more check ins. But they were like, that's definitely what happened with us.

[Greg Miller]

No, we definitely moved at some point to a. A weekly check in this during COVID Maybe they didn't know. You know, we didn't know a lot about COVID yet.

[Tim Gettys]

I have no idea. I.

[Greg Miller]

Will you just go where you're told.

[Tim Gettys]

I just go where I'm told.

[Greg Miller]

No, I respect.

[Tim Gettys]

I do pay attention. I do listen.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I know, I know, I know.

[Tim Gettys]

It's the final something.

[Greg Miller]

No one's taking that away.

[Tim Gettys]

But yeah, shit's crazy. Good to hear heartbeats and stuff. Good to see little imaging. Yeah, put the shit on G's belly. Yeah, cold it is.

[Andy Cortez]

Get a little 3D print.

[Tim Gettys]

You have to put a bunch of goo on her, Andy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Gel it looks like LA looks.

[Tim Gettys]

Gel it does look like really does really like shout out to LA looks, man.

[Greg Miller]

Of course, everybody. This is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest topics in video games. Whether they be reviews, previews, or just things we need to talk about. We cover it all here in post. Kevin will put in all the. All the words that I just went to when I did. Of course, if you like that, you should be watching live Twitch TV kindafunnygames. YouTube.com kindafunnygames Podcast services around the globe each and every weekday. Usually, usually in the mornings. Today a special afternoon when I saw the YouTube audience going what is going on? Of course it is Call of Duty next. Or I guess technically that just ended the one and only Snow Mike. Mike and Roger were in Las Vegas playing Call of Duty all morning long. 8:30 in the morning till 1pm Pacific time. So you are getting a late gamescast now and then even later games daily after that. Which is very very exciting. But of course we'll be reviewing Mario Galaxy 12 here. If you have no bucks to toss our way, remember like subscribe, share, tell your friends. But if you do have bucks to toss our way, why not be part of the show with your questions for Tim who's played Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 on Switch 2. You can super chat those on YouTube.com kinda funnygames and of course you can go that extra mile and pick up your Kinda Funny membership to get all of our shows ad free. Get get your daily dose of me Greg Miller in a series I call Greg Way. And of course get good karma for supporting a small independent business in a crazy media landscape. You can do it at all. Patreon.com kindafunny YouTube.com kindafunnygames Apple and Spotify housekeeping for you. We are an 11 person business all about live talk shows. Like I just told you. So far today Mike and Roger have been streaming from Vegas. I assume that'll eventually have some kind of Archive on YouTube. We don't do it usually live from the Twitch on the special occasions, that kind of thing. It's a Twitch thing and then usually something happens where it comes to.

[Tim Gettys]

I would say that is the assumption.

[Greg Miller]

I would assume that if there's a.

[Tim Gettys]

Problem it won't happen. There's.

[Greg Miller]

There's archives on Twitch. Go over there, give us your Amazon prime while you're there. And remember on top of that we did a Patreon exclusive happy hour. So if you do support us at the happy hour level and missed it, you have an exclusive hour and a half long podcast up on patreon.com kind of money.

[Tim Gettys]

It was a good one for your amusement.

[Greg Miller]

Of course it was. We talked about small wonders, a lot of laughs.

[Andy Cortez]

Just Nick is so useless man.

[Greg Miller]

After this, like I said, you will.

[Tim Gettys]

Be really kind of funny to just have a podcast on the side while the podcast is happening. Mainly just talking about Nick because you can't do it to his face because he gets all upset. You know what I mean but like God damn Greg way.

[Greg Miller]

Do Greg way. Tomorrow you two get together, just talk.

[Tim Gettys]

He won't ever watch it or listen to it. He'll just see somebody say they were talking and then he'll be even more mad. Yeah. Instead of he's like what'd you say? It's like just listen to it. He won't do it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, he won't do that.

[Tim Gettys]

Hate everything about him.

[Greg Miller]

If you're a kind of funny member Today's Greg Ways 15 minutes or more. I forget how long it was of when can Ben start playing teen rated video games? Thank you to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Kind of Funny Games Daily Episode 2000 and our new merch. We'll tell you about that later. For now let's begin the show with what is and forever will be topic of the show. A very special games cast. So Mario, thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

Somebody move the button.

[Greg Miller]

Mario Galaxy one plus two of course comes to switch to a very big deal. But also games we all know very well basically do they screw up the port is what people want to know and we will talk about that as we go through this. However Tim on top of that Nintendo.

[Tim Gettys]

Reached out and said that we are allowed to stream an hour of Mario Galaxy 2. Yeah. At review embargo which is up now, which is a rare thing for them. They're normally like no live stream allowed. And if it is, it's like you could play for 10 minutes. I'm like Nintendo, that's not useful at all.

[Greg Miller]

At all. We don't want that at all.

[Tim Gettys]

So yeah, this, oh this is kind of cool. And so I thought it'd be a fun opportunity especially because this like you were saying, I think a lighter topic of the show. So after the ads we're gonna play the first hour Mario Galaxy 2. You've never, never played it?

[Greg Miller]

I've never played it.

[Tim Gettys]

The plan is for Greg to play but maybe I'll switch off or something.

[Greg Miller]

I'll give you one half the control. You do the other half of control.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, we can't take that from Mike and Roger.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it'll be a lot of fun because we'll be able to, you guys will get context to some of the things I'm saying. You know, of course be able to kind of see it all in action. So I am very much looking forward to it.

[Greg Miller]

So then let's kick off what we are still calling a review. Review so far. Are you locking in your score. How are you feeling about all?

[Tim Gettys]

I feel very confident to give this a full kind of scale.

[Greg Miller]

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your review of Super Mario Galaxy plus Super Mario Galaxy 2. Of course, it's out this week, currently with a Metacritic of 88. But if we were to dial it back in time individually, these games each currently have a 97 on Metacritic. Of course. Mario Galaxy 1 came out November 12, 2007 here in the States. Mar Galaxy 2 came out May 23, 2010 in the States. Metacritic of 88. I have a bunch of different things, but I didn't want to get to them. I want to know about you, Tim. What are you scoring this package or I guess they're individual, but they're also packaged.

[Tim Gettys]

This is going to be. This is a weird review because of the what the product is, and there's going to be a lot of conversations we need to have about that. So what am I reviewing? Am I reviewing the. Just the two. Two of the best games ever made as the games period. Am I reviewing them as what this port is nowadays? Am I reviewing it for value for the dollars assigned? Like there is a lot there. But before we get into all that, I just want to to say what I've done with this game or games, because they are technically two different games.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Even being they are $40 each on the Eshop, you could buy the bundle for $70. So you save $10 if you buy both and you can also buy it.

[Andy Cortez]

Physically like you're making money.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly.

[Greg Miller]

Not to buy these games.

[Tim Gettys]

You can't buy them individually, physically.

[Andy Cortez]

Got you.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool.

[Greg Miller]

Got it.

[Tim Gettys]

So with that, I beat Super Mario Galaxy 2 for what I'm pretty sure is my first time since 2010 when it first came out. Okay, I played enough of Galaxy just to kind of test the differences compared to The Super Mario 3D All Stars version that came out just a couple years ago because I got Galaxy one fairly fresh on the brain because that must have been what, 20, 21 or 2?

[Andy Cortez]

It was during the Pandy.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. So, you know, I didn't feel the need to play through the entire thing for the point of this review, but I wanted to say all of that. So either way though, I think that there is enough similarities between what I have to say about Galaxy 2 compared to the upgrades and changes that Galaxy 1 made, both compared to the original version on the Wii and to the 3D All Stars version. Okay, I'll start here by saying I do think personally this is the definitive way to play both of those games. I think that Galaxy 1 stuff is a major step up for. From the 3D All Stars version, can.

[Greg Miller]

You quickly highlight Big Dog?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's. So again, I guess there's even more caveats to give because these are Switch games. Switch 1 games that if you're playing on Switch 2, you get the patch that gets you the Switch 2 versions, but there is no Switch 2 edition of these games. Right, cool.

[Andy Cortez]

So Switch 2 essentially just kind of unlocks the exact, you know, you're using it to its full abilities.

[Tim Gettys]

So switch one on tv 1080p switch two on tv 4k, switch two on handheld 1080p. It's freaking gorgeous. This game is gorgeous. All right, so that's. Those are some of the differences. And then on top of that, they had to figure out pointer controls and motion controls. Galaxy 1 and 2, both Wii games, they use the nunchuck intensively when it's moving around the analog and you have the Wiimote. Something very cool about this game is that, you know, cool to some people, annoying to others. I love it. I think that the motion controls Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are some of the best implemented we've ever had in video games. Specifically at the time back on the Wii. Like the concept of gathering the star bits with your right hand with the motion controls while you're running around in insane 3D spaces that are so mind breaking with the gravity stuff, you're just constantly engaged and it allows them to have just multiple interaction points with the game that other games don't have. And even the jumping in the air and flicking the Wiimote to make Mario spin, you get a little bit of extra air, that's all here. You can do that with the motion controls. With Joy Cons or even on handhelds, you can shake the thing or they did just add like they did with the 3D All Stars version of Galaxy. You can just. It's mapped to a button so you don't have to do the motion controls for the. I like the spin. Yeah. But then they also had to figure out different ways for how you're going to do the motion controls because they're a big part of both games and I'd say an even bigger part of Mario Galaxy 2 in the sense of pinpoint precision because of the addition of Yoshi, where you're running around with analog stick and Yoshi's tongue is being controlled with the motion controls. And there's a lot of times you need to like do some pretty quick, intense platforming. That's with Yoshi and you're going from like flower to flower to flower to flower. And it's. It kind of needs pinpoint accuracy.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, so Waglan as well, the spin.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, you could.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

And yeah, that's still there, but you could also just hit a button now to spin. So yeah, again, there's a lot of nuance to these games, these ports and how they can best play in 2025. Because we're. We're talking about something that we don't have Wiimote technology anymore. The Wiimote had the sensor, which means.

[Greg Miller]

It'S IR sensor, never forget.

[Tim Gettys]

And pros and cons, every which way. I will say personally that I understand a lot of people might have issues with this new version and how it controls. I think that this is the best way and I understand that the Wiimote might be more pinpoint accurate in some ways. It was such a pain and it also caused a lot of problems and would glitch out constantly. And I didn't have that problem with where we're at now with the tech of the. The Joy Cons or even handheld. Even with Pro controller, which ended up being my preferred way to play this. It's Pro Controller, but you're still doing a lot of gyro motion. And I thought it was really, really good. Again, all over the place. I want to get back to what the score of this game is. Thank you. I was thinking about it a lot because I think the easy answer for me is it's a 10 out of 10. We're talking about two 10 out of 10 games. But I do think that as a package of what this is in 2025, I'm giving it a 9.5. Okay. Like, I do think that it's important.

[Greg Miller]

Amazing.

[Tim Gettys]

Amazing. And again, as close to a masterpiece as you can get. This is that hard thing of when you play these games, you are playing in a lot of ways, the nexus point of what Mario games were and are currently. This is Mario at its most epic from what came before. But really this game is just the seed to get to both Mario Wonder and Mario 3D World and Mario Odyssey. Like, you really kind of see just this idea of limitless creativity and at every second, surprise and delight and every single level is giving you something new to do. And we see that and feel that in Mario games today. You feel that in Astro Bot today. Like, I don't think that there's any games more similar to Astrobot than Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. And I can't explain to you how Shocking it is for me to just play through Mario Galaxy 2 and be like, this is as good as Astro. And it came out in 2010. There's just something timeless about these games, and I also feel that they are ahead of their time. And I think that this version remaster. I don't know what you even want to call it, but this brings it into a time now where it feels like this game could have came out today. The exceptions to that are the weird insistence on motion controls. There's a couple levels that simply aren't fun. They weren't fun then, they aren't fun now. Nintendo didn't get rid of the levels. There's nothing they could have done to fix them. That was the Wiimote. You go like this and the bird flies differently. That shit's not fun. You're on a ball, you have to hold the remote like, it's not fun. And it's still not fun. But they didn't take it out. And it looks great now and it sounds great now. The difference.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, is that where you're rolling on the ball?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

I had a lot of trouble with that. I didn't realize that you had to hold the controller vertically to be straight. And this is like. And then tilts kind of backwards and forwards the game.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know if it did this back in the day, but it does have really nice kind of little infographics pop up to explain to you, and they. They make sure that you get it into the right position and then it goes ding. And it, like, checks you off.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like pop up video. Greg.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it actually kind of is. Again, I could talk forever about these games. So it's like, do you guys have any questions with my rambling?

[Greg Miller]

So is it just like you're saying it's not a 10 out of 10? It's a 9.5 in 2025. Is it just these levels that aren't fun, but they weren't fun before? Like, I. I just want to know for you, what in 2025, you call.

[Tim Gettys]

Out, what is holding this back from.

[Greg Miller]

Being a 10 out of 10?

[Andy Cortez]

Is that the value?

[Tim Gettys]

It's. That's the thing is, I do think that the pricing is a incredibly complex conversation, and I've been talking a lot about value of specifically remakes coming out and just Nintendo overall, I've been very upset with some of their things. I do not think that Mario Kart World, a new game, justifies an $80 price tag compared to other titles. Similar titles, but other Nintendo published Titles at the very least, when you look at the remaster remake side of things. Metal Gear Solid three, Delta, Stake Eater, whatever. Yeah, we know that one too. And then Resident Evil 4 remake last year, all these things. Ratchet and clank remake in 2016. Like there was a industry understanding standard of the value of these dollars, right? This one is so interesting because you see it, you hear the news and you're like, how the are these games $70? Like that's insane. I know that this is the Nintendo fanboy in me. I'm like, well, we're talking about two of the best games ever made. And I, I would make the argument that the love was put into these in the same way that it was put into Metroid Prime Remastered and $70 for a game for this game. Whatever. That's like, that sounds nuts, but it's $40 for each of these games and it's 70 for both of them. I think that if this, the package between the two of them was $60, this wouldn't even be a conversation. And if anybody was bringing it up, I'd think they'd be silly. Yeah. Yeah. There is something though. It being 70, I'm like, lot of money, man. And Metroid prime was 40, but so are these individually. And I think that's also like a.

[Andy Cortez]

Full ass remake though.

[Tim Gettys]

That's the thing. This feels that way, Andy. This feels that way. Like comparing this game, like the visuals and everything that they're, they're updating, it feels to me the exact same way that playing Metroid prime and Prime Remastered, like it just, it is the same game, but this, the difference between this package right now and 3D All Stars is I was incredibly let down by 3D All Stars because it was $60 title. They just threw the Mario 64 ROM on that thing. They just threw the sunshine ROM on that planet.

[Andy Cortez]

Played like shit.

[Tim Gettys]

And they had to do some things for Galaxy because of the controls, because of the motion controls, they had to change parts of that game. The UI was not updated. It was low res as hell. Like they didn't change anything. They didn't actually go in. This game has a fully new ui. It is gorgeous. There was the love put in, there's love put into this. And it's the new tutorial stuff that pops up, the storybook mode and all that stuff that they added it like it, it's silly. Doesn't really add overall, but it does create, I think, a more cohesive experience within Mario Galaxy 2 specifically. But I am shocked at how much more Similar to Metroid Prime. It is than what you would expect what we've seen so far from the game and a lot of that just comes down to just a little bit of love being put into. Hey, if we're re releasing this as a new product, not just as a port of a freaking rom, we got to put more love into it. And they put the love in. They really did. I see where the money is going. These are unique icons on the switch, you know what I mean? They're putting this game out as if it's a brand new game for an entire generation of kids that are about to watch the Mario Galaxy movie next year and play these games for the first time. And the right amount of love and care was put into them to make these games that can hang with any game coming out today, period. Having said that, the 9.5, not 10. I think that there are critical things about the game itself that don't hold up and aren't as fun. And I could say the same thing about Astro Bot. But there are more things you don't like about the Galaxy games level to level that I that I can say about Astrobot. Because Astrobot learned a whole bunch of different things and you know, had 15 years on Galaxy 2 even not even going back to Galaxy 1. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

And a lot more collectibles.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Cloud. Well, Cloud is there.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I think Galaxy might have more collectibles.

[Greg Miller]

To give you a chance to breathe. I want to run through a few select critical Reviews I pulled. GameSpot's Steve Watts had a piece up, not a review. Again, we're in this interesting spot of repackaging these games. How do you want to handle it? GameSpot just had an article up. I like this graph from it though. The Super Mario Galaxy games were widely hailed as some of the best Mario games of all time. As a pair, they complement each other. Super Mario Galaxy is the rapid fire new idea, every minute reinvention that brought us Mushroom Kingdom mainstays like Rosalina and the lumas. While Galaxy 2 is the all killer, no filler refinement that stretches its concepts as far as they can go. Taken together, they represent an important part of Mario history and they just hold up as some of the best the series has to offer. Over at Nintendo Life, Ollie Reynolds gave it a 9 out of 10. There's no question about it. Super Mario Galaxy and Galaxy 2 are two of the most sublime games ever created, with gameplay that subverts expectations in scenarios that wouldn't be possible if not for the creative freedom of the Cosmos. They represent the Mario series at its absolute best. They look better than ever, boast small yet welcome additions, and expand upon the narrative with new storybook pages. Gyro aiming simply isn't as effective as the Wii pointer, however, and you'll be re centering the on screen cursor a lot. Very minor issues with the camera are also a bit more noticeable now than they were 15 years ago, but the fact that Nintendo managed to pull off some utterly ridiculous sequences without the camera going haywire remains a remarkable feat. These games command a high price on Switch, to be sure, but you'll be playing them for the rest of your life.

[Tim Gettys]

I want to real quick, I want to talk about something there about talking about having to reset the curse, Joy Con, the curse and stuff. We had to do that on Wii as well. I do think that there's like a level of time away from back then, but playing the Wii version, you constantly would have to do a shake just to get the pointer to come back before you could start aiming at things. So it's just a different type of issue as opposed to like, oh man, it's. It's a lot worse now than it was before. I do think there's pros and cons to each side.

[Andy Cortez]

Did you find anything new in this experience that gave you that surprise or delight that maybe you don't recall from your first playthroughs, I mean, or play.

[Tim Gettys]

Through, you know, regarding Galaxy, it's new, probably not, but.

[Andy Cortez]

Or just stuff that you appreciated more now?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I mean a lot. And I think one thing is just like how expansive the Mario world is. Like the amount of creative boss fights in these games and like the characters themselves. We always talk about Astrobot having like the most forgettable cast of villains and Bless and I are the first to also bring up like, yeah, but Galaxy's not much better. Like none of these things are that much better. And that's true in the sense that if, if you named, you know, any of the. The bad guys, like I wouldn't be able to identify in my mind who that is. But if you gave me a little bit of hint of what the gameplay is, I'd be able to explain how they looked and what happens and the boss pattern. Like there's just so much memorable, exciting gameplay stuff. But I was surprised to just how fleshed out more of the world felt and, and just how these games really are the origin to so much of the fun that we find in the, the modern Mario games these days.

[Greg Miller]

I want to weigh this some Super Chat questions you I got here. Zanfair says which do you prefer, Galaxy 1 or 2? Galaxy is my all time favorite game with its presentation, story and scale compared to 2. I love 2 as well but its levels fit. Its levels felt a bit too linear compared to one. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I have always been a two over one guy and I remain that this playthrough has completely made me stand like oh yeah, that's where I'm at this. I love both games though of course again as games just themselves. They're both tens to me and that'll never change. Like I there. There's a lot of differences between the two of them mainly in that two is harder. Two is the greatest hits. Essentially it cuts out anything that was like considered fat from the first game is just not there. Yeah. And I think the fat is part of the adventure. Like I do think that having a all things considered, pretty boring hub world in Mario Galaxy still had a hub world and it still added this sense of epic scale which the Galaxy games are really known for. Starship Mario Mario Galaxy 2 functions like a 2D Mario game. It just happens to be a 3D Mario game. The levels are get to the end. Like it's much more similar to Mario 3D world and sure, sure, sure. I like that. I think that personally that this game, that Mario Galaxy functions better as a 3D world style game than it does as a Mario 64 or Odyssey style game. And Galaxy 1 is more in that vein. It's not all the way but it's more. Galaxy 2 is very much more. Move on, move on, move on, move on. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

How did those extra pages impact you and your lore?

[Tim Gettys]

You know, it sounds like I. I've always been interested in the storybook stuff but like not enough to like really care. So them adding more or not or whatever. Like like I was reading through the storybook stuff in Mario Galaxy 2 and apparently that stuff wasn't even into to begin with. Okay. I wouldn't know that. You know what I mean? So it didn't impact me Andy. Not at all.

[Greg Miller]

Kebabs writes in with a super chat and says Does a galaxy one save from 3D all stars transfer?

[Tim Gettys]

I. I don't know. I. I didn't. I doubt it. I mean it didn't as well. It didn't. It didn't without me doing anything. So like I started. I just had three blank ones. So. Yeah. Yeah. And I also, I doubt that it would. Yeah, it's again it's one of those things where I know I'M gonna get for this because I'm a Nintendo fan.

[Greg Miller]

And I'm like, well, you just expressed an opinion on the Internet, so.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, no, no, I get it, I get it. But it's like I. I really want to just reiterate like that. I full 10 toes down stand on. These games are worth $40 each in 20, 25. These versions of these games are worth it. There's. I didn't know that. It's like, oh, man. But on the Wii U, they released Mario Galaxy 210 years ago for $15. It's like, yeah, that was the Wii version. I. I think that this $40 is more than justified for the experience and package you're getting here. As a Mario fan, as a tech fan, as a all these things, there's nothing more I could have asked for from one and two coming back. And I mean, the fact that we have to. The fact they're presenting it this way, like, I think that these games legacy are so important. Yeah. In the same way, I think Mario or metal gear Solid 3's legacy should be a way to play these games forever, you know, and people can say whatever they want, but old games, old. And if you make old game look new, it's new game. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

I do.

[Tim Gettys]

That. That's not necessarily. That doesn't work for every single day. But that doesn't work when it's like, okay, cool. But does the game back it up? And it's like, I'm telling you right now, these games back it up. Now. I guarantee not a single person is going to buy these games and be like, that wasn't worth the price.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Like. And if you, if you do, I would like you to explain that to me because like this, these games rock. Oh, yeah. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Well, Andy, why didn't you ever go Mario Galaxy crazy?

[Andy Cortez]

I did. Yeah. I mean, when the two.

[Greg Miller]

I'm talking about, like, I'm sorry, just.

[Tim Gettys]

In general, like, no way to get it. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Like, I, you know, do illicit means, own it, but never decided to do a big deep dive on it because it's just like it wasn't readily available anywhere. I would have to bought shit off of like ebay and use consoles and.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Just like, wasn't really worth it for me at the time.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. So just miss you because.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So this is like the perfect opportunity. Absolutely. I'm super. Are you.

[Greg Miller]

Are you expecting to dive into this and like do streams and do your whole thing?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I'm super pumped about it especially because after not experiencing Galaxy One at all, because I just wasn't really the GameCube Wii gamer. After not experiencing Galaxy One and playing that and going like, holy shit, I see the hype and it's, I think my favorite 3D Mario. Well, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Well, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, there's some interesting things there too, is that I've been thinking a lot about because when Donkey Kong Bonanza came out a couple months ago, I gave it a 10 and I said that I would recommend to new players Donkey Kong Bonanza over any of the 3D Marios, including the Galaxy 1 and 2 and Odyssey. And I stand by that now. And personally I like Galaxy better than Donkey Kong Bonanza, but I feel like the, the Nintendo's learned so much and a lot of the, the stuff that I'm saying isn't that great. In the Galaxy games like Donkey Kong Bonanza got rid of. And I just think it's a much more accessible start to finish game. And these games are old and they're made for the Wii, which gives them a charm. Like, I think that there's pros and cons to the whole thing, but I think that it, in classic video game fashion, the limitations are what force the creativity and make the art style so incredibly timeless. That this game was beautiful back in the day. Because of the art style.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But it was fuzzy shit and there was a lot of like it, you know, for it being beautiful, it still could also be very ugly now. It's just beautiful. It just, it, it sings. This game is so, so gorgeous. And I want you guys to indulge me for a second. I'd love to indulge you for a minute.

[Andy Cortez]

Do you mean close up my ass?

[Tim Gettys]

That actually, that actually would be nice. That would be nice. Okay. Because Mario Galaxy 2 was announced at E3 2009, which was the last E3 I wasn't at. Which is crazy. Just. I'm an old man now. But I was so excited about this game and when they debuted it, they used a. Don't. Don't close your eyes yet. Oh, sorry. Keep going. I'll tell you when to close. I'm telling you.

[Greg Miller]

Coffee.

[Tim Gettys]

One of the things that was most amazing about Galaxy one was how fucking epic. And the scale of this game was insane. Right. It felt like the biggest adventure possible. And it was on the Wii. PS3 is out. Xbox 360s out. It's like this was Nintendo being like, how do we compete? And the way that they was with a. With half the soundtrack being like fully orchestrated and Adding this like John Williams esque level of. Holy crap. Prestige presentation. Right. And then When Mario Galaxy 2 was first announced, the initial trailer, they hadn't done the orchestration yet. So it was just like the MIDI version. Like it was a, like an electronic rendition of what the song would be, which, like, makes sense. And like that's how most video games are released is just with these like electronic versions of. And help me out here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With like the MIDI version.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a. It's a fake symphony. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And some of those sound fonts and stuff can sound great and can sound very convincing like that you wouldn't know the difference between the fake clarinet or a real clarinet. But back then there was a big difference. And so by the time Galaxy 2 was actually released, it was a way more. So fully orchestrated thing, way more orchestrated songs than the first one did. And it adds so much to the experience and production value. And I know this is me talking. Some of you guys are like, okay, this, this is the difference, I think, of what makes Mario Galaxy like bigger and more. So I want to show you guys the announcement trailer. There's a clip of it that I, I have time coded. I want you to listen for 30 seconds before you hit Playcap. Maybe you should close your, your eyes for this. Okay. 30 seconds of this and it's the exact same song that I'm just going to show you guys back to back.

[Andy Cortez]

Sure.

[Tim Gettys]

All right. And don't focus on the. The melody. The melody's awesome. We know that. I want you to listen to the quality of the trumpets, Greg. The quality of the violins and the strings. All right. And how like, oh my God. Ringtone. It all feels okay. And then I'm gonna play the orchestrated version. And it's subtle differences, but I'm making a point. So let's start it here. That trumpet. Yeah. Just joyous.

[Andy Cortez]

What a song.

[Greg Miller]

Just joyous. This song.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, you can stop it now. Amazing song. But now listen to the orchestrated version and listen to the texture of all of it.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm watching the movie version right now, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. It just hits different. And now that. Thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

And it's like, I know that some people might listen to that and be like, they're the same fucking thing. And. And if you are, then don't buy these games. My point is that sounds difference. This new version is the visual difference. This new version is. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's great. Like, but it could be better.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Tim Gettys]

And that better might not have any one moment of Impact of like, holy crap, this is. This looks so much better than that. Whatever. It's the chip damage throughout the entire time of playing the game that I'm like, God damn. This game used to be the most special thing ever. And it remains the most special thing ever. And it's just because they set out with an art design and vision and idea of how these things should be presented that we are finally technologically able to present them the way that they wanted to back then.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, we have the means to appreciate them more now.

[Tim Gettys]

It's the details, Andy. The amount of times playing through Galaxy 2 over the last week that I, like, stopped what I was doing, just to look at the. The background, like the sky boxes that they had in the first game, I never stopped. I was, oh, yeah, it's space. It looks good for space, but that's it. I never realized that every level had a completely different skybox that has different variations of colors going through it. And, like, it all adds to the vibe. And like, this game and the way it's presented now allows you to take all that stuff in just as you play. In a way that I'm like, yeah, that's the difference. Like, it's that level of love and that level of love that was put in many, many years ago. But it's paying off now and I am very, very happy with these games.

[Andy Cortez]

Get me all jacked up right now.

[Greg Miller]

All right, 9.5 from Tim. We are going to take our advertising break. Come back. I'm going to play it and he's going to play it. We're going to play Super Mario Galaxy 2 for your amusement, and this will continue as a gamescast. And if you're an audio listener, don't worry. Andy has a whole setup, you know, punchlines. He's ready to keep talking. Entertain you while we go. Right, Andy?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, sure do, man.

[Greg Miller]

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[Tim Gettys]

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[Greg Miller]

And we're back.

[Tim Gettys]

We're back.

[Greg Miller]

How you guys doing?

[Tim Gettys]

Good. How are you?

[Greg Miller]

A can of coffee. Nintendo sent a bunch of stuff, so I got stuff. You want some stuff? Now the light. Now the Super Mario stars, they got to come home to Ben's house. Yeah, Ben's got to get that.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, can I have one?

[Greg Miller]

Ben's gotta get one. I said, yeah, oh, one's got to come home to Ben. What? You can have one, sure.

[Andy Cortez]

But I mean, I thought you said, I heard those. Got to come home.

[Greg Miller]

I might have said those. I sat down quickly. There's a lot going on. I want my coffee. I don't have a controller to play.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. Greg, you're gonna be playing Mario Galaxy 2 for the first time. Have you played Galaxy 1 at all? Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I beat Galaxy 1. I remember. So, like, I forget, Tim, you could probably tell me better. I want to say Super Mario. It was a Super Mario Galaxy event I went to here in SF and it was the first time I was ever in the same room as Reggie and he gave me a head nod.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

With that track in 2007. I know tracks from work at IGN. Yeah, I think they did an event downtown where we went to and yeah, Mario Galaxy I enjoyed quite a bit. I didn't like the motion controls. I'm just not. I'm not a motion guy. And I also had a depth perception problem where I felt like I missed a lot of jumps jumping early, and I would just. I was like, what the fuck?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, Sorry. Just going back to the review portion of this.

[Greg Miller]

You're an unbiased reviewer.

[Tim Gettys]

One thing that I did notice a lot is, and I knew this from back in the day, but Mario controls incredibly differently in Galaxy 1 and 2 than he does in the other games because of the type of game it is, and because they're dealing with the gravity and, like, running around planets and, like, how the camera functions.

[Andy Cortez]

Suddenly left is right and up is down. You're like, ah, what happened here? So.

[Tim Gettys]

So it's a lot more, for lack of a better term, digital than analog. Even in controlling him, where the lefts and rights and stuff, it's more about the direction the camera's facing. It's almost like tank controls, but just with a much better camera and, like, idea of what is being followed by the tank.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

A much more nimble tank. And that gets in the way after you've played Mario 3D World or Odyssey or even Donkey Kong Bonanza, where if you spin the analog stick in 360, you know how Mario is going to move in this. It's not the way you'd expect. And that's because of the planetoids and all that stuff. And that definitely got in my way a handful of times playing through the game. The levels are designed around that, though. So it is funny because it's like if they were to update the controls or the. The camera controls at all, that it's changing what the game is. I think that would break the game, of course.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I get the.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But it is.

[Tim Gettys]

It is definitely a stark difference.

[Greg Miller]

So that had been my knock against Mario Galaxy 1. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't Mario 64 to me.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

So whatever. And so then when Mario Galaxy 2 came out. Yeah, I guess it was just that there was something else going on. Oh, goodness. You kidding me? With the updates, I'm just gonna start this off.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, go for it.

[Greg Miller]

None of this.

[Tim Gettys]

All right.

[Andy Cortez]

You got your mustache back.

[Greg Miller]

I did. I thought it was time, you know, it's nice. Now let me tell you a new story that also begins with stardust. Shimmering stardust falls on the Mushroom Kingdom once a century that had time come.

[Andy Cortez]

Got it.

[Greg Miller]

Peach, sing it. You go.

[Andy Cortez]

Would you like to share some cake while we watch the shooting stars? Meet me at the castle.

[Tim Gettys]

Kev, can we get the audio a little louder out here.

[Andy Cortez]

Waggle that thing. Waggle that thing. Greg Friday looks as he's waggling.

[Greg Miller]

I'm waggling that thing, y'.

[Tim Gettys]

All.

[Andy Cortez]

Is that better?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. This looks really pretty.

[Tim Gettys]

So yeah. Greg, just to give you a little help there something that I realized playing through because I. When I first started playing I was like, oh man, I don't know what control scheme I'm like. Because I realized I actually love the Wii remote system with the left hand analog and right hand being able to aim. So I did play on Joy Cons for about half my playthrough.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Just because it makes it just a little bit more pinpoint. But then I realized the pro controller pinpoint is actually really great. But when you're aiming, let only aim with your right hand. You get.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like the moment I got that done, I was like, oh, we're, we're pretty. But like moving both hands doesn't feel good.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, really? That's how I played it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I played with the like the Galaxy one was just with the pro controller and I was just like doing that. I guess it felt natural to me. But I wasn't used to the OG one, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Talking PlayStation. My kind of shine.

[Andy Cortez]

Look at Mario.

[Tim Gettys]

That is another funny thing. This is more like a tech side of than anything. But the Mario design in this game is unlike the other ones. They had to like change his proportions and like you'll notice his hands are huge. Yeah, right. And so because that some of his body proportions are different. And even the toads in some of the other shots, you'll see like they have like just longer arms and they had to change all the characters body proportions because Mario's like the whole thing being like his hands being the punch when you spin. So it's like they needed more clear visual identity, identifiable things for the attacks you're doing. Because like attacking in this game is way more a core part of the game than it was in any previous Mario.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

64 had punching, but you're not really ever punching enemies.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Gotta save, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it's that scary sound.

[Tim Gettys]

I also love this intro so much because it transitions from 2D into this 2.5D into the big 3D and it's like, hell yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I was like, damn, I had the wrong art style. I didn't know what it looked like.

[Andy Cortez]

No, please ruin that moment for him. Monster.

[Tim Gettys]

And also I played fair bit on handheld and I, you know, broken record. I wish it Was oled, it would look so much better. God damn. This game looks Good though. That 8 inch screen. Like it is a screen just big enough and I. I feel like playing Galaxy one handheld on switch. It never quite worked for me just because I feel like there's too much detail for what this game is. But the big ass switch 2 screen.

[Andy Cortez]

Looks so nice packing in all them pixels.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm huge.

[Andy Cortez]

Even scary up closer.

[Greg Miller]

Do you hear it as Jack Black now? Cuz I do.

[Andy Cortez]

Really I don't do. Maybe I'll peach bake me something for once. I should go for a galaxy sized cake. That's a cake right now. I'm way too easy. This puny planet, that new penguin. You know, I deserve an empire. You know, it's more me size. You know, I'll put it in the center of the universe. You know, have fun with your stupid mushrooms. It's just kind of a very insulting thing to say. Like yeah, that hobby you like. Like yeah, have fun with that. Like I'm on the bigger better things.

[Greg Miller]

I'm playing your Tonka trucks.

[Andy Cortez]

Because it makes you question like man, I'm really into these mushrooms anymore. Yeah, he took your princess to the center of the universe.

[Greg Miller]

Everyone's New Yorker.

[Andy Cortez]

That's how my sunshine playthrough was.

[Tim Gettys]

It's also crazy too because Galaxy One obviously was like such a major hit. But I feel like Galaxy 2, despite selling relatively well and being critically received in an unbelievable fashion, like yeah, imagine getting follow up tens after a 10. And it did, you know, like the Metacritic I think speaks for itself. But I do think that this game is critically underrated and under underplayed for sure. And that that is going to change now because it's definitely been a hardship to be able to play this game legally in any way.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

Tim from the super chats that are still coming, coming in, Mib says, where would you rank Galaxy 2 in your 3D Mario list? And did replaying it change that?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, God, dude, it's so hard. Like I'm at a point where I don't know that I can rank anymore. Like it sucks.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Like I know it's like it's broken y'.

[Andy Cortez]

All.

[Tim Gettys]

It's just because like it's weird where.

[Andy Cortez]

I made a career off of ranking.

[Tim Gettys]

I obviously could, but I feel like I will rank it differently every time I have the conversation. And because I'm. I'm so high on this right now. Coming off of it.

[Andy Cortez]

Like you could just do ties. I do. People get mad at me that I Have Elden Ring and Bloodborne Tie, but I don't care.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And I mean, if that's the case, it's like I. I do think that 64, because of who I am and where, it'll always be my number one. Like, despite it clearly not being the best in so many different ways, I will replay that game more than I replay any of the other ones. And I know that for a fact.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll say this, I don't think think we would care as much about 60. Like, I think you might care less about 64 if the soundtrack wasn't as much of a banger as it was 64. I think like the soundtrack, like the place and time you were at. Of course it meant a lot to you and it means so much to me because of the soundtrack.

[Tim Gettys]

That's so funny. I mean, obvious I love all game soundtracks, but to me, the soundtrack in this enhances this game game to degrees that are like, we haven't hit in here. Like it's. You hear this right now.

[Andy Cortez]

But I. I think a lot of it is the memorable. The like those memorable sort of just catchy tunes that remind me a lot of why I love Ocarina of Time so much. Even though I haven't played that game in 30 years. Like, I just. I could name off every song from that soundtrack. And a lot of it is just like when you were only playing one.

[Tim Gettys]

Game a lot and the game has had five songs.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

You remember so much of it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I mean, it's funny, without getting into exact spoilers, one of the things I appreciate most about Mario Galaxy 2 versus 1. Sorry, let me take this back. Let me start with one. Mario Galaxy 1 was so special at the time because we had 64, we had sunshine. Those were so radically different than the world and characters and stuff that we knew from the 2D platformer games. Mario Galaxy was the first time that you had the Firefox in 3D space. It was like there are question mark blocks that you're jumping up and hitting. It felt more like the 2D games actually translated to 3D. Whereas 64 might as well be a different franchise compared to Super Mario World, you know?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And then Galaxy 2 takes that so much further. And the amount of callbacks to the games across the Entire series, including 64 and Sunshine on Yoshi being playable in this one, which he. A fake ass. Yoshi was in Sunshine, but we don't talk about that. With his juice. Reverse juice.

[Andy Cortez]

One of. One of. One of them can't like some of the fruits you can't carry in your mouth. That's stupid.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's so stupid. Very, very. But look then these are the fruits from Super Mario World.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, but the amount of musical love this game gives to the older games, like the amount of Mario 64 songs that are back in this but they're fully orchestrated. It's a thing of beauty, man. Like it. The coop is rogue. Like, this looks beautiful. It's so good. And again, Andy, look at the skybox that I'm talking about. Right? Like it's so nice and it just. Every single level. Keep an eye on the background. It's different.

[Andy Cortez]

How long is it playthrough of? I guess when you're a kid, a game like Super Mario World is the biggest thing you've ever experiencing. Like it's just like what an adventure. It could be endless. But I still don't even know what like how long to beat Super Mario World is. And it's probably my favorite Mario.

[Tim Gettys]

I'd probably give it a six to seven.

[Greg Miller]

Hours.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember. I mean for me 15 minutes. But I would have said like 20.

[Andy Cortez]

This would look great on Nola. It sure would, Marquis.

[Tim Gettys]

And it does. I can tell you that.

[Andy Cortez]

Play that on my monitor.

[Tim Gettys]

Insane experience.

[Greg Miller]

Another super chat. Joey says with all the wnds we are lucky you aren't for forced to buy the bundle in order to get Super Mario Galaxy 2. Nintendo is greedy. But they got my $40.

[Andy Cortez]

Two dollar super drive from Kuan locket. Who says can Mario take off his shirt?

[Tim Gettys]

And no.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn. No. No Mario Nips.

[Tim Gettys]

No Mario Nips.

[Andy Cortez]

They weren't free yet.

[Tim Gettys]

What are your initial thoughts, Greg?

[Greg Miller]

It's gorgeous. I forgot how it plays. I was already over here. Joey Radstone in the chat was making fun of me for having a Dark Souls battle with that first Google where I was just like, wait, I can't. Same thing as always where I just don't have the depth perception right.

[Tim Gettys]

So there is a thing this game has that the other Mario games don't. Where you either jump on an enemy and you get a coin. Oh.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, nailed it. God, this guy's good. This guy's good.

[Greg Miller]

Don't worry about it.

[Andy Cortez]

All right?

[Tim Gettys]

You can jump on the enemies to get a coin or you can and spin at them, which dazes them. Then you, you punch them. Then they turn into Jesus or like the star. Like it wasn't in the other 3D Mario games.

[Andy Cortez]

Mario, get out of there. There's too many of them.

[Greg Miller]

They should get out of me.

[Tim Gettys]

Marko says just joining. Was there any difference between this version of Mario Galaxy 1 and the version in 3D All Stars? Yes. Incredible resolution bomb and fully new UI elements and everything that just look so much better than the other one.

[Andy Cortez]

I feel so justified. The amount of times I get feedback on Sunshine and how it plays in that collection. The amount of times people are like, man, Andy, you alright? We're in line. Something's wrong with this.

[Tim Gettys]

This. So are you planning a full stream of this?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh yeah. Thank God. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Can't wait to watch.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I love just always feels so good. The momentum, the. The whole planet shifting stuff was always freaky. Sometimes it would get me motion sick.

[Tim Gettys]

What Greg's doing right now, like that whole thing jumping off of a planetoid and getting that momentum to go. Like I put that up there with the swinging in Spider man and the, you know, Kratos getting the ax back. Like it's just something about it that you feel it in your soul when you jump like there the gravity is a physical ailments that you get.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh my goodness. Con man with a five dollar super chat. Thank you for your support. Says what if this is all a teaser? Because the next 3D Mario's Galaxy 3.

[Tim Gettys]

I unfortunately don't think that there's a world that that happens. But I. One of the notes I put in my review is I would literally give anything for the Galaxy 3 because I know based on the games that this team has made since then that they have learned to cut a lot of the things that don't work. And we're thankfully at a point in Nintendo video games that we are not stuck with gimmicks like they're. They don't. They're not required to use a tablet, they're not required to. To use motion controls. They're not required to do any of that stuff. Whatever they do is by choice. And going back to what I was saying earlier, sometimes the design limitations or forced inclusion of things are what create unique, memorable experiences. But we've had enough of those that I'm happy that I feel like if they made a Galaxy 3, it would be like the pros and cons. Sorry, just the pros of Galaxy 1 and 2.

[Andy Cortez]

Ah, this song.

[Greg Miller]

Takes me back. Justin Timar's membership. Devin said this would be so much better with Chris Pratt's voice. He is my.

[Andy Cortez]

My Mario. That's my Mario. Right?

[Tim Gettys]

I can't believe we're getting a Mario Galaxy movie. Which just means we're going to Hear this song in theaters.

[Andy Cortez]

Are you sure it's not going to.

[Tim Gettys]

Be take on me or.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

The Mario Galaxy 1 theme is in the credits of the Mario movie. It hits so hard.

[Greg Miller]

Raymond says, I was playing Silksong earlier in the Courier. Rasher is straight up. Rasher is straight up. Bigoran's sword quest in the Mist is straight up. Lost woods from Ocarina of Time.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh. Just shouldn't have tried to read and play influences. Eat this dude's ass. Auto Listers. He's beating this dude's ass.

[Greg Miller]

He should have never with me, you know. Stay out of my Galaxy.

[Andy Cortez]

Look at that thing. Three hits is all you need.

[Greg Miller]

Come here.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. The Bowser fights in this game are definitely standouts. Oh, Phase two.

[Andy Cortez]

Greg. You thought you were ready.

[Tim Gettys]

Jesus. Oh God. I got this. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

What a way to do justice to a video game like this. Just make it look as me. As amazing as it does. Cuz I remembered the. I remember the fussiness.

[Greg Miller]

Who could be Farmerman.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And again, I. I know I'm sounding annoying about this, but the difference that the UI being sharp makes and the overall experience is hard to put words to. Like for anybody that's just like, oh, I played this 10 years ago on a PC. It's like, no you didn't. Unless you got like a texture pack upgrade and you did developer work. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like.

[Greg Miller]

Just why I got distracted. I got this image for my kids school. Ben was playing in the front playground with his friend and Ben wanted a toy his friend had. Ben attempted to take the car, but the friend bit his arm. Although the bike did not break through the skin, the child bit pretty hard, leaving a mark.

[Andy Cortez]

Zombie kid.

[Tim Gettys]

I know.

[Greg Miller]

Here we go. Kids be biting patience here.

[Tim Gettys]

Wahoo. Another crazy thing for me is when I played Galaxy one did have widescreen support, but this was still like early in those days and I still had a four by three tv.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Tim Gettys]

My first time playing Galaxy one was fucking four.

[Andy Cortez]

Does it letterbox it or.

[Tim Gettys]

No, I don't think it did, no. Yeah, because this is still in those early, you know.

[Andy Cortez]

But it doesn't hide the ui, right?

[Tim Gettys]

No, no, it just.

[Andy Cortez]

It just reformatted it so it squeezes it down like it's.

[Tim Gettys]

I think. I don't even know.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, because it's like man, that would really suck if you're playing a very vertically squeezed version of it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, because I mean, remember the WWII wasn't even HD.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you're 40p. You're right.

[Greg Miller]

Remember the Wii. What a good Time.

[Tim Gettys]

God. I remember. I remember trying to replay Galaxy 2 and you couldn't play without plugging in the IR sensor.

[Greg Miller]

Sensor.

[Tim Gettys]

Do it.

[Andy Cortez]

Told the ship she's not. We ran into that monster too. He bless those immediates. And so.

[Tim Gettys]

This guy's story's crazy. Let me tell you what. Strap it everybody.

[Andy Cortez]

That monster kidnapped your princess. Eh, that's cold. Deep space cold if you ask me.

[Greg Miller]

Killing it, Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

You know what else is cool? That monster stealing every last one of our power stars. See, that's our fuel. Our spaceship runs on energy without that wish. Shanity. Oh, is that young Master Luma?

[Greg Miller]

They got a gabagool in here?

[Andy Cortez]

Whoa. Holy. Whoa. Well, if you have to trust the young Master Luma, I just might have a little thing for you. Hear me out. Especially someone got kidnapped, but now you got to save. Am I right? We need to fuel our ship for now. If you think you get some of our stars back for us. A little quid pro crow, you know. And now that's a fair exchange. Am I right, Mario?

[Greg Miller]

That's right. We're doing a that's right play here.

[Andy Cortez]

All right, it's a deal. Okay gang, let's get cracking. Yeah. I want every spaceship shape.

[Tim Gettys]

This version of the game also has the most full screen stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, were they cut to full IMAX ratio?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I mean like even here you see like little letter boxes, but like they're about to go away and there's a lot of times in the original games where they would like letterbox on the letter box. Guess what this thing's called, Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

What do you think? Nice spaceship. Yeah, more like a faceship spaceship. Holy. At least you never lose it in a parking lot. Am I right? What's next? Don't look at me. This ship has your face on it, not mine. Decision is yours. Feel free to explore. Starship Mario, take the helm if you're ready to ship out. It's your call, Captain.

[Tim Gettys]

We're here to.

[Andy Cortez]

We're here to play.

[Greg Miller]

You remember the first time you respected a Goomba? I do. As a Sega kid who didn't have any love for Nintendo, I once got him in a Happy Meal. And I was like, you know what doing.

[Andy Cortez]

You're all right.

[Greg Miller]

You're all right.

[Andy Cortez]

Goomba. I had you all wrong whole time. I've just grown up just not really liking you.

[Greg Miller]

Wasn't always the way though. You just get these Happy Meal toys. You're like, I don't even care about this. I. Pete, you're this cartoon, but now you're part of the playset.

[Tim Gettys]

You're here.

[Greg Miller]

You're playing with me.

[Andy Cortez]

You're in my. My household.

[Greg Miller]

Superman's got to fight something.

[Tim Gettys]

I guess it's you. God, Andy, the music, the theme of the spaceship is godlike. It's just euphoric.

[Andy Cortez]

Have I heard it in any.

[Tim Gettys]

I doubt it, no. Yeah, there's a remix of it in Mario Kart World, but you wouldn't know.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't like that the face ship is organic. I don't like that it has plants and ground on it. I was hoping like a. Just a mechanized looking version of him.

[Tim Gettys]

And then a little thing too. Great.

[Greg Miller]

Chia Pet version.

[Andy Cortez]

Huh?

[Greg Miller]

You don't like the Chia Pet version?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. This is weird to me.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm sorry. Now what you just did there, like, where you like, actually pointed at it to click on it. You could have just hit on the analog stick. Got it.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's just so intuitive.

[Andy Cortez]

Feels good.

[Tim Gettys]

I have to rub Mari.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like I would have never, ever assumed that my parents would be LG OLED Motion Control Remote users, But it's like, it's so. It works so well.

[Greg Miller]

Can I try the Joy cons?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Didn't expect it to work nicely.

[Andy Cortez]

Mask of eternity 10 months of support says. This brings me so back. Thank you for resubscribing for ten months of support. Sure. Too tight, Mario.

[Tim Gettys]

JG says, unless I'm mistaken, you have to waggle the whole system in handheld. You only need to do that if nobody's gonna be doing that. You can just hit a button to do the spin. If you're playing handheld, the. The weirdest thing is you touch the screen for where you want the pointer to go. You could waggle it, but you don't.

[Andy Cortez]

For where you want the pointer to go.

[Tim Gettys]

The pointer, you touch it.

[Andy Cortez]

So if you're playing, you're constantly doing that to get star bits.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Or you just don't get the star bits because the star bits specifically to mean a lot less. But the star bit thing was again, just kind of like an extra thing.

[Andy Cortez]

For you to do.

[Tim Gettys]

And it was for the 2 second player to like, okay. Think that they're playing.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Not the ideal way to play.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

But also, if you wanted, you could waggle it around and it would do the same thing. Yeah. So I did that a couple times when I was just trying to collect extra star bits to like, pay off some of my limits.

[Andy Cortez]

Can you use a pro controller for this game? Yes, you can.

[Greg Miller]

I just stopped doing it. So close.

[Tim Gettys]

But I can't do it.

[Andy Cortez]

Stuck in the mud.

[Tim Gettys]

It's your boy.

[Greg Miller]

People call him the Yosh. He can kick his legs and go further in the air.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, stunning, my friends. Come on, hop on my back.

[Tim Gettys]

Mario Galaxy 2 is also the first Mario game to feature final challenge level. Like, like a secret boss type level, but like the big challenge run one like remember we did for Mario 3D world. And it's kind of become a tradition since this game.

[Andy Cortez]

Ah, you can get up there, Greg. Come on, big dog.

[Greg Miller]

Can I jump off his back to do it?

[Tim Gettys]

No, you can't do that in this one.

[Andy Cortez]

Bell Mask Dinosaur.

[Tim Gettys]

You should be able to just go underneath it and just jump and. Hold up.

[Andy Cortez]

Hurry up. He doesn't have the height yet. I've never played a Galaxy game been issued in 2007. Any weird control issues? Doesn't seem. Doesn't seem like it from the Switch reviews. My switch to Fever is growing. Ask Mickey Walls with a ten dollar super chat. Thank you for your support.

[Tim Gettys]

I would say it's not weird control issues, it's weird control decisions. Like that's what this game is. It's a 3D platformer with weird control, you know.

[Andy Cortez]

But even then like Tim, what's going on?

[Greg Miller]

Why I'm circling but I can't.

[Tim Gettys]

What?

[Greg Miller]

How do I bite? How do I get tongue?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, R2.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. Even then I don't think it's like that weird. As somebody who never played these and then played for the first time on 3D collection with a pro controller, like worked fine. I didn't really have any issues with it. I would only get confused with. With the camera changing and then suddenly up is down and left is right. And you know, I'll never forget there was a moment you're running on like a. I think you're. You're running on a big ass bullet bill that it's stationary. It's not even moving but like you're running on it to get like a secret thing. And everything I was doing Mario was like not doing what I want.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And I just remember being like this clip of it from like my old shoes being like, oh man, come on, get this thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Another thing I noticed about this, I was tom earlier about how the feel of Mario in this game is so different from the open world 3D Mario where his move set is insane. Like this game has the backflip and the ground pound, but it doesn't have the. The side flip jump. You know, where it's like where you like run forward then hit back. And it does that.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, it doesn't have that.

[Tim Gettys]

No, it doesn't. Like the. The moveset in Galaxy is purposefully restrained because they add on the spin. And Yoshi. Yoshi with his own set of power ups and all that stuff. Like it's just a. It's a different moveset. And like, you know, if you spin the controller around.

[Andy Cortez]

That's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

When you spin in a circle and jump and he does the thing. He doesn't have that in this.

[Andy Cortez]

Like. Ah.

[Tim Gettys]

And just. Yeah. How heavy he feels is very different in this one. And one thing that was driving me crazy is the amount of knockback when a enemy hits you. Even just a goomba. Like it'll knock you off of Yoshi. And then Mario's dumbass. Like, he'll bounce and like you fall into a black hole. Especially in the later levels of this game because it is relatively challenging compared.

[Andy Cortez]

To the first one. He has no. Oh, Chat. What do they call it? An Elden ring? Like you. You get like a little stat. Like if you don't have enough of the stat, a tiny attack is going to make you get all staggered and stuff. What's. What's the stat I'm looking for? Chat. You know I'm talking about.

[Greg Miller]

Come on, you know what I'm talking about.

[Andy Cortez]

You know I'm talking about Po. There we go.

[Tim Gettys]

Poise Singer bro says. I do wonder how these hold up today. I'm telling you, they hold up incredibly well to the point that I compare them to our game of the year last year, Astrobot. If you liked Astrobot, you're going to love this. And other little things too. The HD rumble adds so much. Just dumb little texture to the whole experience. It just adds the. The presentation value.

[Andy Cortez]

Galaxies do have the Cy flip jump. They don't have the dive. I could have sworn I saw Greg do the side flip jump a little while ago. Man, you're crushing it right now.

[Greg Miller]

Greg on top of it right now.

[Andy Cortez]

Guys.

[Greg Miller]

It's the mustache.

[Andy Cortez]

It's so pretty.

[Tim Gettys]

That's something too, is Galaxy 2 has much more varied locations, which again, I think I would never be mad at somebody for saying that Galaxy 1's better than 2. Because I think the Galaxy 1 is a much more cohesive experience overall where they take the space theme incredibly seriously. Like the entire thing is space.

[Greg Miller]

You can't breathe. You can't breathe.

[Tim Gettys]

Galaxy 2, is it most of it space. But then it's also kind of like. Like space could mean anything.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, these are planets made of whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

If the moon was made of ribs.

[Tim Gettys]

Look at the texture of the. The grass.

[Andy Cortez]

So nice. And it looks fuzzy. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And the good fuzzy. It looks like a sharp fuzzy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I always just thought consensus was that two was much better and more enjoyable than one. Even though one is hanging out with.

[Tim Gettys]

A lot of us for a lot of years. And I feel like that is. I don't know anyone personally that chooses one over two.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. That's good to know. Yeah. How likely is it that this is the only 3D Mario to come out on Switch 2? Ask Chris Wright with a $5 super.

[Tim Gettys]

Chat.00% chance that we are getting a 3D Mario for sure on the Switch too. This game, just to be clear, is about to sell so well. Everyone prepare yourselves for Galaxy. He wanted to to upset a lot.

[Greg Miller]

Of that npd that C report Piscatella all over it. Are you watching Time, Tim? I have not been.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Okay, cool.

[Greg Miller]

Don't want to get in trouble with Mr. Nintendo.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll say this. This song not doing anything for me.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you like the little Yoshi version of it? The. The drums in the back? You get over that faster anytime Yoshi is. He's not at every level, but whenever you get on him, it does add Jesus. There's some like epic bowser like Castley type levels. And instead of this type of drums, it's like epic.

[Andy Cortez]

It's the first version of. It's the first version of. When Miles Morales or Peter Parker are swinging, they have more effort in.

[Tim Gettys]

It's also just so cool having Yoshi in 3D.

[Andy Cortez]

It is really impressive that the game can look this good without remaking a whole lot of anything. Like to. To improve the textures as much as they are with improved resolution and stuff. Like you always just expect a remaster of an old game to look like a sharper version of a not so pretty game. But when your art direction is goated, it makes it so much easier to improve that because again, looking at that, you know, it's a different generation, but the deus ex remaster is like a different story.

[Greg Miller]

Just keep on the audacity to show.

[Tim Gettys]

Itself looking like that.

[Greg Miller]

You know, it did know what it.

[Tim Gettys]

Knew what it did. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

The perspective.

[Tim Gettys]

Side quest indicate says Andy doesn't like the song because it sounds like it belongs in Sun.

[Andy Cortez]

I would just be so pissed hearing it for the seventh time because the physics are sucking me up to the ceiling for no reason.

[Tim Gettys]

Man.

[Andy Cortez]

I popped off in that Lily Pad level though. Everybody knows that. Let's do a pachinko machine. Oh, no. Plinko. Not pachinko. Holy.

[Tim Gettys]

I've been wrong my entire life.

[Andy Cortez]

Plinko, man.

[Greg Miller]

Get him. What are you doing? Yosh.

[Andy Cortez]

Give me a little side jump right here.

[Tim Gettys]

Wait. Great. Can I hold it for a second?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, no, no. I don't want your sweet.

[Andy Cortez]

Now you're here.

[Greg Miller]

You go for Andy. Do the mic.

[Andy Cortez]

You play. You play.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Everyone who's still watching, listening. Is this on the wall each and every weekday here for the biggest topics we need to talk about in video games.

[Andy Cortez]

Whoa.

[Tim Gettys]

What about all that?

[Andy Cortez]

What?

[Tim Gettys]

Hitting R1 will get the cursor back on the screen and then R2 is your top.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Oh. Oh, cool. Oh, why do I keep doing that?

[Tim Gettys]

It's so funny to think about a first person shooter with Yoshi.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know what I'm holding to make it do that though. Is it right click? No.

[Tim Gettys]

R1 is when you hold R1 and I think it does that.

[Greg Miller]

So, super Chat, what do you think? You obviously sat through Tim's review. Great job. You watched us play it here. Are you picking this up? Are you not? Why or why not? I want to know. YouTube super chats. Be part of the show as we go here.

[Andy Cortez]

There it is. There's that little side jump, but yeah, no dive. Right? Is what Chat was saying.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, no dive. Oh, I didn't see the side jump.

[Greg Miller]

Remember, if you're joining us late, we are doing kind of Funny Games Daily, your number one video game new show after this, Chris over here says I'm buying it.

[Andy Cortez]

This is cool. I like this. I'm so much better than Greg. Can you. Can you guys tell? Flying through that man.

[Tim Gettys]

Flying through. Accidentally got it into first person.

[Andy Cortez]

Zooming through it. Chat.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, it's gonna hurt.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah. Rip it off. Oh, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Chan 2D2 says what? Said I'm buying two, but now I may just double dip and get both. Obviously Ben play these. You know, Ben obviously being exposed to so many new games that are old games but new to him at 4 years old. He loves a good Mario, but he still has got so much more bananas on place.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I mean, I'm telling you from. From that perspective, there's nothing old about this game at all.

[Andy Cortez]

This is the side jump, right? Right, Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes, it is.

[Andy Cortez]

But there's no dive.

[Tim Gettys]

No dive. Yeah. Ben Connor. I know. Pre order 360 spin.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha.

[Greg Miller]

Keytor says no interest to replay these. I would have. October wasn't packed, says Nitro39.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Timing for this. Not ideal from a holistic Gamer perspective. But from a Nintendo only gamer perspective, it's like, I think this kind of fleshes out their catalog a little bit.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Andy Cortez]

No, just hang on there. We can't get over there yet. We need juice from the power stars.

[Tim Gettys]

I was not planning on playing through all of Galaxy 2, but I could and stop.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, really? Yeah, my bad. I didn't mean to redo this. Do I just vibe on the ship.

[Tim Gettys]

Go to the open space.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Tim Gettys]

And then, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

To Starship Mario.

[Greg Miller]

I had a whole conversation on the kind of funny podcast about the mask of being a functioning adult to the rest of the world. And I want, you know, I think it through sometimes. We're in the thing. To my child's teacher, I just wrote, give me the kid's name. I'm gonna bite him in return. And then I was like, delete it. That might be something. You actually get me in trouble. You know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

Like, so funny you have.

[Greg Miller]

If you. If you jokingly threaten to bite a child, they might have to tell.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Glad you thought twice.

[Greg Miller]

I don't need another fucking meeting.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, that is. That is, you know, maturing right there.

[Greg Miller]

16 bit Otaku says I would buy this, but this month's budget is for Final Fantasy tactics.

[Tim Gettys]

Can't go wrong, man.

[Andy Cortez]

The Evil Is Chronicles.

[Tim Gettys]

This might be the best year for remakes we've ever had.

[Greg Miller]

Kawan Lockett says I'm gonna buy, like, a month before the movie comes out, really immerse myself. Then he says that my name is Kwan, by the way. Lol. How did you know I was gonna mispronounce? Start. Start with how to pronounce your name if. You know, I'm gonna it up. God damn it.

[Andy Cortez]

What does this do? What does this do, Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

What?

[Andy Cortez]

Like this little.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, that's. That's how the ship propels through the. Oh, through space.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't like it.

[Tim Gettys]

This little. The Starship Mario. Like, as you progress through levels, like homies come, and it ends up pulling.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay. Characters like you have, like, Rosaline in the. In the. In the basement down there. And then Wario shows up. Oh, I didn't mean like that. Where was Yoshi? On my starship. I thought I saw him somewhere.

[Tim Gettys]

Pretty sure he's underneath, like, the chin area of the faceship.

[Andy Cortez]

Where is he? Yeah, I thought he was here.

[Tim Gettys]

I thought he was too.

[Andy Cortez]

No. Oh, well, maybe he's on the nose.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, he's on the nose. All right, so R1 to reset the camera, right? Oh, there we go. That feels awesome farting. What a cool mechanic. I don't know. This is what the game is gonna be like. I don't know. He'd be like, you know, zip lining. Yeah. It's cool as hell.

[Greg Miller]

When you put on gloves, do you feel evil?

[Tim Gettys]

It feels wrong.

[Greg Miller]

There's like, that.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't. I don't like what it's giving you. Right. Like you're.

[Tim Gettys]

You're feeling something.

[Greg Miller]

There's the noise of, like, this, the. The fabric squishing together.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, it doesn't feel okay.

[Greg Miller]

You get away with anything in these.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't like this.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Talking about the art design, like, because this came out on Wii, which was not even hd, the just level of, like, effects that they would add to, like, make it seem prettier than it was. Like, like the. The everything being a little fuzzy looking like. Like looking like you could, you know, how everything feels in a way.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And like, water looks great and just like the reflections of it, whatever. Some of the, like, lava levels you're in, there's just like this, like, hazy steam effect over everything. It looks unbelievable now. Like, it always looked good, but, like, seeing it now, it's like, God damn, man. It's like just such great decisions made to make sure that the game is stunning. Fifteen years after it was made, Chrono.

[Greg Miller]

Rig becomes a member for 16 months and uses their chance to super chat. Now with both so fresh in your mind, what do you think they'll use for the movie? And are you ready to hear the music in imax?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm not. I mean, like I was saying earlier, I got emotional hearing the Galaxy Song in the credits of the first movie, but what was the first part of the question?

[Greg Miller]

What do you think they'll use for the movie? Like, what? I think he means, like plot points or starters or.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know, man. They were jumping, like, it's awesome, but a little crazy how much they're skipping. Not like story beats or anything, but just, like, starting to introduce the world a bit. But, like, you know, Peach's Castle and all, everything that they had in the first movie, like, that's more 64 than anything.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And so it's not like we're just jumping like we don't need a sunshine, you know, like, that would be like a Paramount plus show. You know what I mean? Whatever. But, yeah, jumping into space is going to be interesting, I imagine. Obviously Rosalina is going to be involved, but do we get Wario?

[Andy Cortez]

You know?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I think you have to.

[Tim Gettys]

I Mean, he's not in these games. He's not in any games. Yeah, neither was Donkey Kong, you know?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, come on, now. Miyamoto's gonna surprise and delight me.

[Tim Gettys]

And Wario's the answer, huh?

[Greg Miller]

Danny DeVito is Wario.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's go.

[Andy Cortez]

I think getting Wario in there feels like what we were expecting the secret character to be during that direct. Not secret character, but like, they went through the whole cast as if they were gonna have oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Things to mention, and they were warranted. It's like, okay, well, feel like you're leading up to something.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, it should have been Rosalina. It's wild. They didn't announce Rosalina there.

[Greg Miller]

You would have known that.

[Andy Cortez]

Who is it? Who do you think?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, y' all say Ariana Grande. I am obsessed with that. I just. I don't. I think she's too big. I don't think so.

[Greg Miller]

On a gas tire, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Rachel.

[Tim Gettys]

Drats.

[Andy Cortez]

Just going with SNL stars Molly Shannon.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

ScarJo is Rosalina. AJS biophysicist.

[Andy Cortez]

I hate it.

[Tim Gettys]

Whoa. It works really well, though.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't think so. I get over there, over. I want to get to those. Those little islands.

[Tim Gettys]

It's probably like a warp thing to get up there and then over there.

[Andy Cortez]

Whoa. Oh, I didn't know I could do that.

[Greg Miller]

You think Tom Holland's gonna be in this one? I can see him doing something.

[Andy Cortez]

Like. Like lead gaff.

[Greg Miller]

Grip.

[Tim Gettys]

Animated.

[Andy Cortez]

I can see him doing Anna Armas.

[Greg Miller]

Says, Rosalina says Gam Bowling, man, six, one, seven.

[Tim Gettys]

That seems like that doesn't make sense, but to me, that works.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Cuz it's. It's like the way Chris Pratt Mario doesn't make sense.

[Andy Cortez]

I think the racist gamer would not.

[Tim Gettys]

Be happy with her accent. But yeah, Rosaline having an accent, though. I think it could work. Even though she doesn't have.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know? Yeah. Ari N Grande. I feel like unless she's the lead and has a song that she can sing as a vehicle for her career, I don't. I don't see her doing it.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know, man. This is. It's a big deal, though.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah. Billion dollar movie.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I just don't see her sitting with Jack Black. You know what I mean? Really selling out arenas.

[Andy Cortez]

But, like, it's fucking Jack Black, though, man.

[Tim Gettys]

Jack Black.

[Andy Cortez]

He's not like, just a rando. This is a big deal. Minecraft, the movie, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

Jumanji.

[Andy Cortez]

I keep on seeing ads for The Minecraft movie for. They're like old ads because I always watch just American dad reruns and they're.

[Tim Gettys]

American dad is so funny.

[Andy Cortez]

It's always just like the oldest commercials from like four months ago talking. So I'm always just watching commercials for like a movie that came out in theaters, you know, three months ago.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, cuz you're watching dvr.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Ooh.

[Greg Miller]

Ben's obsessed with the Hot Lava Chicken song, so it's like only a matter of time before we have to watch the movie. And I bet it's pretty fun. Cuz the song's pretty fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Wait, is that from Minecraft?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I really want to hit this, dude. Lack of too good. Can you like, aim up?

[Tim Gettys]

Use first person to try?

[Andy Cortez]

It's definitely not R1. It is not R1 to aim. Need you to quit lying to me too.

[Greg Miller]

Stop.

[Tim Gettys]

He's not. Go somewhere else and hold R1 and then hold R2. Oh, God.

[Greg Miller]

Too bad.

[Tim Gettys]

I give up.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know. I'm going. I've been on this level for 90 minutes. I thought I was better than Greg, and I'm not.

[Greg Miller]

That's always. That sucks. That's. That sucks for anybody to realize.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, you know, there's a side good side John.

[Tim Gettys]

It's crazy.

[Greg Miller]

Tim played this game for 30 hours and even know about side John.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I bet you I got to go in this little booster now that I know that I can suck these dudes up. I don't know what this.

[Tim Gettys]

There's a bonus room if you do it. The spin. I'm sorry. It's square.

[Andy Cortez]

It's square.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, cool. Oh. Oh, oh.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh. Oh, my God.

[Tim Gettys]

Jesus.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, Yoshi.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that's the timer speeding up. Oh, there's the star. That's what I got to suck up.

[Tim Gettys]

How do you get in there?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh. Oh. What? Where did it go? Tim? Did. Did the luma like, box me out? Like, deflect it? Here we go. I'm good at the video game again now. I. Oh.

[Greg Miller]

AJS says this game is harder than Elden ring for and.

[Andy Cortez]

An egg spot.

[Tim Gettys]

You're learning.

[Andy Cortez]

Once you learn the language, you know. Oh.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. Whoa.

[Andy Cortez]

Wait. Can I.

[Greg Miller]

Can I ride?

[Tim Gettys]

No, Andy. Oh, no, no.

[Andy Cortez]

You can't jump on the tuber. The roads. The ropes are not. I thought they were. Let me like.

[Greg Miller]

I would have thought so too.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, good checkpoint, though.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I'd say overall, great checkpoints in the whole game. Very few times I was like, God damn it.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm need you to mind your business, big dog. There we go. Bam. No. Why is the Luma deflecting me?

[Tim Gettys]

I think you're hitting the floor with it.

[Greg Miller]

Giovanni says, is the new show still on? It's accurate.

[Tim Gettys]

It's all.

[Greg Miller]

All the words are correct. It's just never anyone says it like that. Yeah, James D is next, everybody.

[Andy Cortez]

Don't worry. Y still doing news. Hey, Giovani, did they tell you about that news being back on?

[Greg Miller]

Is the news on yet or what?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, Luigi, they are.

[Tim Gettys]

Got about 10 minutes left.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, while you're there, I sit your slack.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my God. I didn't get those coins. That's okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy, look what Drake said. Oh, my God.

[Greg Miller]

If you're a happy hour person.

[Andy Cortez]

You may think we may know what we're talking about.

[Greg Miller]

Blanky Dragoon says turning on Shadow Channel 4. This is what you see. Is the news still coming?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, crap. Oh, God, I love the way we did Fur Tech back in the day.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that was the way. All right.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I'm not going to be able to aim up at the. This bull. Oh, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

What?

[Andy Cortez]

Why is he so good? Oh. Oh.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my gosh.

[Andy Cortez]

Got him. Got him.

[Tim Gettys]

Tim, you're getting dangerously close to that edge, though.

[Greg Miller]

Game.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, he's freaking R1. There we go, R1. R1.

[Greg Miller]

Gonna get these guys. Gonna suck them up and shoot them at the big guy. Oh, man, Andy, that's.

[Andy Cortez]

I hate you.

[Greg Miller]

Sucks to see that happen to you. You were a nice boy. Drago says Andy makes me anxious.

[Andy Cortez]

We're not Andy, this thought beat the fight. You better stay there. I knew it. You always do that move. I watch tape on you.

[Tim Gettys]

Kebab says, did Tim top with the easy difficulty in the review? I did not. But there is a new assist mode that makes the game even easier for people.

[Andy Cortez]

You won't see me using the that. All right. When. When's your dodge?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. Got you so bad right there. I did not expect him to go up.

[Andy Cortez]

He put me on his highlight tape. Dude, I'm.

[Tim Gettys]

That's so funny.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Get real. Get real.

[Tim Gettys]

That was so long. You saw it coming for like 10 minutes.

[Andy Cortez]

Get out of here with your glasses. Oh, Sabrina Carpenter for Rosalina.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that'd be fun.

[Tim Gettys]

Obsessed with that. Yes, please.

[Greg Miller]

Woohoo. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

That'S pretty easy.

[Greg Miller]

You got some star bits.

[Andy Cortez]

I got a lot of star bits.

[Greg Miller]

You got some coins.

[Tim Gettys]

This guy's name's more help than just Lubbock. Luba Lubbock. L U B B A. Oh, Lubbock.

[Andy Cortez]

Came from the sideline. You know you can select Cow mode from the menu. One of my co star Lumas can help out. They can help you take down enemies and get you some extra stop bits. So if you want a partner, don't be shy about asking a friend to jump in. Even the little console looks like a person. Like the just thing you're controlling. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Michael Daniello became a member for six months and used that to super chat and say news at 3. Andy with sports and Nick gives you the weather. Sports and Nick gives you the weather.

[Tim Gettys]

You got to do one of the most iconic things in Mario Galaxy.

[Andy Cortez]

Go to that guy, the one to the right.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Click in, call him out. One of the most horrifying, unnecessarily graphic things you'll ever see in a Nintendo game.

[Andy Cortez]

Looks like you found a hungry Luma. Hope, hope you got a stack of star bits. Cuz those guys can eat. Oh, you just feed it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. No, hold on. No, no, don't waste them. Don't waste. You got to talk to him. I've done that before.

[Andy Cortez]

Hey yeah. You got any tasty stop bits I can snack on?

[Tim Gettys]

Let me give everyone just a bit of that twang.

[Andy Cortez]

Give me stop bits. I need a Chow on 300, then I'll transform.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, great. I need your feelings on the sound and visuals here.

[Greg Miller]

The visuals are rough. He doesn't look happy and he's getting. It's gonna pop.

[Tim Gettys]

Listen to this.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, so far I think I'm about to.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm about to transform. Vile.

[Andy Cortez]

That's gross. We don't need that. This is a kids game. Oh, I love these worlds.

[Tim Gettys]

So you got, you got a couple more minutes. Wanna pop into that world real quick?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. This is bottom one. Yeah. Really good at these.

[Tim Gettys]

And the Galaxy games were the ones to introduce it.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh really?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, the music stuff and the flippy when you jump stuff. I'm so stupid.

[Andy Cortez]

But you know what I mean. Think before you shake. I feel like Greg is sending stuff.

[Greg Miller]

I just had to. No, it's in the chat. We have a lot of rules here about how we act as a community. And Koki in the chat decided to start saying Taylor Swift wasn't a great singer. So they got timed out.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

They have to understand there's rules in our chat. We just don't do that here. So they got timed out.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Makes sense.

[Greg Miller]

Especially this week. We're not gonna do that this week.

[Andy Cortez]

What about this week?

[Greg Miller]

New album.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

Matt Cooper says. I think he just doesn't Want people yucking. He's trying to explain. I think Greg just doesn't want people yucking someone's yum. That's not it, Matt. No, I don't care.

[Tim Gettys]

No, this is an abusive power.

[Greg Miller]

This is just. I will not take Taylor Swift slander.

[Andy Cortez]

In front of me. Yeah, when you. When you want to make fun of the doll. No, what you got to do is if you want to make fun of Taylor Swift, pay up.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You come into my stream, you want to make fun of the Dallas Cowboys, all you want, you got to subscribe. If not, you're getting time down. Oh, my God.

[Tim Gettys]

Whoa. Oh, God. Andy, you're stressing me out. I can't wait for you to stream this.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, the button audio in the Internet. It was the Internet.

[Tim Gettys]

It was definitely the Internet connection. Let's call it there a valiant effort.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, so then Kogi says, I'm not making fun of her. I'm saying she's not great. Maybe it's semantics again. No, I understood what you were saying. You're timed out again. All right? We never thought you were making fun of Taylor Swift. It's just you're in here spreading lies by saying she's not great. So you're timed out pretty easy. I don't understand what. You understand, everybody. This has been another episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast. A fun one, a different one as we do 30 minutes of a review and then a little bit of a let's play to show off the game. Tim, of course. Thank you for playing these two Super Mario Galaxies to come in for your review again, if you joined us late, a 9.5 out of 10 from Tim calling this game amazing. You can catch that. Remember, please, like subscribe, share wherever you get this episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast. Of course. Remember, you can watch us record our shows live each and every weekday. Twitch TV, kindafunnygames, YouTube.com kinda funnygames Apple and Spotify. No, I'm sorry. Podcast services around the globe. You can catch all the shows. If you wanna support us, go to Apple, Spotify, patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kindafunnygames where you can pick up a Kinda Funny membership and get all of our shows ad free. Your daily dose of me. And get good karma for supporting a small independent business like us. Remember, our day's been all whack a do because of course, Roger and Mike were down in Las Vegas playing Call of Duty. So up next is Kind of Funny Games Daily. But until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.

[Tim Gettys]

Keep touching me.