Mario Solar System

 

Congress Assembles Day
Drinking Straw Day
Memento Mori
Birthday - J.R.R. Tolkien (author)
Admission Day (Alaska)

 

I am the world’s most methodical gamer.  Last night I beat Super Mario Galaxy with all 105 possible stars I could get the first time through, after a few days of seriously intensive gaming. It’s an absolutely rockin game, and I came away with exactly two complaints:

 

• That Nintendo could not be buggered to use the correct name for a system of planetoids—namely, “system.” They’re called “galaxies,” which sounds cooler but is inaccurate—and given that you get a pretty accurate Carl Sagan-y lecture in there about how the dust from supernovae forms new stars and people, and they have some good comet stuff in there too, I’m sure that was a deliberate misnomer, which is obnoxious.
• That they did not name the Rollerball Gizmo Galaxy the Fucking Impossible Galaxy, because that shit is fucking impossible.

 

Other than that, damn I love this game. Since I seem to be in the mood for bullet-points lately, I will now present my comments in the same fashion.

( Mario ... In ... SPACE!!! )