![]() ![]() It’s lush, with every inch of the screen covered in bright, gleaming textures. The game, which finally abandoned the series’ obsession with gravity and sent Mario soaring into space, is the sort of marvel of engineering that you hope for in every video game that you play. Super Mario Galaxy premiered a year after the Wii filled up-and promptly emptied out-shelves in 2006. Like Sunshine, I was confused about who I was and what I was supposed to be, and because they made us shower after gym class every damn day, I was always a little damp, too. The fact that there hadn’t been a great Mario game in about ten years certainly didn’t help to mitigate my looming identity crisis about being a “gamer.” Mario 64 had reset the clock on all things Nintendo in 1996, but then Super Mario Sunshine, which debuted right before I got to middle school, delivered a disconnected-albeit ambitiously weird-water-soaked detour.
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