Zero Punctuation: Super Mario Galaxy 2

[Flamezdudes]

Brilliant review, really hilarious. Hey, does anyone want some... cake? I'm really sick of Nintendo milking all of their franchises dry now.

 

[DTWolfwood]

hah the face slapping definitely takes the cake.

>.>

<.<

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

Upon playing the game from a local Best Buy I noticed you can get letters and bank your star bits. The first letter I read was one that got sent by Peach saying she got kidnapped and leaving a 1-Up shroom for me or something in the letter. I was like how the hell could Peach send a letter to Mario on his Faceship?! The mail toad said something about her being so thoughtful and I was in full facepalm mode by then before putting the controller down.

 

[Legion]

The first one I have found funny in quite a while, very nicely done.

I am also somewhat surprised that you are also one of those people who need to collect everything in an area in order to have it looking tidy.

 

[gophergun]

Funny as always. But on what you said about Nintendo seeing players as retards - It's a casual game, made for ''the family'' so it has to be accessible to everyone. And it's a Mario game. You shouldn't expect much of a story.

I think the idea is that just because they've made a habit of it doesn't make it okay. Not surprising, yes, but not okay. Their retreading probably shouldn't be defended just because they do a lot of it.

 

[BlueHighwind]

I always eat my cake under a Mario blanket.

 

[geldonyetich]

Looks like Yahtzee needs better source material than, "this is the same game I played before, plus one." Not that he wasn't up to the challenge of producing a whole lot of content over nothing, but the quality suffered nonetheless.

Nintendo whores its IPs. The innuendo behind [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=247] Princess Peach's, "cake." We've heard these ones before, you know?

Time for another retro review of something different. I nominate Odin's Sphere. It's got just enough right and wrong with it to be fertile ground.

 

[Terramax]

Great episode BUT....
What is it with all this dumping on the Simpsons lately? Not just Yahtzee but I've seen elsewhere on the internet as well; Simpsons is stagnating. It hasn't been good since the fifth season? they had barely established the character voices by then!

Because that's what people enjoy - learning characters and concepts. As soon as you have done, everything else becomes predictable.

OT I'll be sticking to Mario Sunshine. That is one of my favourite games ever, but like Yahtzee, I don't feel the need to play expansion packs set in boring space.

 

[thegamingbrit]

You can say this about most mario games but super mario galaxy 2 is so fun I don't think it matters that it brings nothing new to the table. Though that DVD is effin stupid.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Funny review as always. Instead of just giving a muffled giggle I actually laughed out loud while watching this one. Not a big Mario person, though. I guess the classics are good because they're classics, but like he said: I don't want to play a new installment of the same game every year.

 

[DarksBlade]

for me the GOLD was Yahtzee oh a Space Hopper (which was hopefully a Monkey Dust Referance)

 

[C_sector]

After watching this review the following came to mind......

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=245

 

[Cyrax023]

for me, the cake is a lie.


im sure a billion people thought of that already.

 

[MrDarkling]

I have a feeling the "Cake" thing will be used fairly often in Escapist conversations now...

Great review, really enjoyed this one.

 

[hawkeye52]

good review one of the best i have seen in a while and why were the first 3 post suspended/ put on probation

 

[Saarai-fan]

Great review Yahtzee. When I got out tonight, I'll be sure to invite a girl out for some "cake," if possible. LOL

 

[Marsell]

I would definitely love some "cake" for graduating High School.

Side Note,I wonder why he never reviewed the Katamari games while he was trying new genres of games

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Excellent review, as always.

 

[DaMan1500]

Why do I torture myself by watching ZP reviews of games I actually like, especially Wii games? Watching his review of Brawl was like sticking a lit cigarette in my eye. I really hope he skips Other M when it comes out and goes back to wailing on games I'm indifferent to.

 

[Aklyon]

I would definitely love some "cake" for graduating High School.

I would too. but I'll probably only get the normal kind of cake, not "cake".