Anticipated game of the day: Super Mario Galaxy

Whenever I feel like making a preview on an upcoming video game, I'll call the post: Anticipated game of the day: BLA BLA BLA. I'll start off this new feature with Super Mario Galaxy!

Why?
Good question, me, I'll answer it for me. Galaxy is doing what Sunshine failed to do - Innovate the Mario series. You can give me all that "FLUDD was innovative" crap, though in all reality - there were other platformers at the time that were not only as good as Sunshine, though were also surpassing it in terms of gameplay and innovation. Nintendo obviously had to do something to bring the Mario series back - and Galaxy was it.

By just looking at Galaxy you can obviously see the innovation that is included. Mario is able to traverse every side of almost every planet - meaning you can walk on both the top of the planet and the bottom. You'll find many secrets on each side, and it's required to do so on many occasions. The planets thay you'll land on greatly vary in size - sometimes you'll land on generally small astroids, though at times you'll land on large planets such as the Bee planet shown at this year's E3.

And while on the subject of bees, that reminds me of something else that got people talking - costumes. The first costume announced for Galaxy was the Bee costume, which like the raccoon costume from Super Mario Bros. 3 will allow you to fly. Though that's not all! This costume will also make our plucky plumber a little lighter and will also allow him to climb on honey combs.

The next costume announced was the Boo suit. For those who don't know, Boos are the ghost enemies in the Mario series. It's great to finally be a Boo in a Mario game, and I'm not including those subpar Mario Party games. Since the Boo costume was only shown for a few seconds, not much is known about it, such as what it allows Mario to do. It should also be noted that there will be more costumes, though those are the only two Nintendo announced as of yet.

Now back on the subject of planets - To travel from planet to planet, Mario will be have to spin around (via flicking the Wii remote) a star shooter, which in turn will shoot him to another planet. Once to the other planet, you'll have to find another star shooter, often times only accessible once you've solved a puzzle.