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Looking back at Super Mario Galaxy, the Nintendo game that landed from another star
Our republished retrospective of a Wii classic from Nintendo's Tokyo EAD, in Super Mario Galaxy.
The hub world ties its disparate planets together, the soaring, beautiful soundtrack stirs the soul as does the storybook - a gently melancholic tale of how the enchantress Rosalina made her way to the stars - which slowly unfurls throughout the adventure. Koizumi made his name at Nintendo when he was drafted in to write the manual for Link's Awakening, and upon finding there wasn't much there to work with let his imagination fill in the bountiful space he'd been left; the dream world, the concept and the island were all his doing. Super Mario Galaxy, somewhat surprisingly only Tokyo EAD's second project after the deliciously unorthodox Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, was also infused with that same wistful magic.
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