Yeah. Mario Galaxy will be so great, that it will be the best game of all time: past, present and future. It will be so amazing that every other game will bow down to it as if it was God.
....... But seriously, I agree that it will be the best game on the Wii. In fact, if any Wii game has a chance to get GOTY, it would be this game. Metroid Prime looks really good. They are probably bringing a lot to it this time to make it original (I even heard that they are having parts where you fly Samus' ship).It also seems like it will show 3rd party companies how FPSs should be done (and considering the fact that it's a First Person Adventure game, that's really saying something...). I have a feeling that it will be the Wii's first non-mini-game AAA game. However, I have a feeling that they will also try to keep it as similar as possible to the other Metroid Prime games.
SSBB will also be great. The online alone (assuming that there will be online) will guarentee a lot of replayability. Who knows what kinds of modes Nintendo will add? They will also probably improve older modes, such as adventure mode, and maybe even have over 100 events. With twice as much disk-space, I hope that it will use that space to add a LOT, similar with what they did with Brawl after going from cartridges to the mini-disks. The items seem to be even deeper now. You can run with that cannon gun thing, you can have a game of hot potato with the stickey bomb, and the boxes now have wheels so they can roll into people and hurt them if they have enough momentum. However, with all of this, even if they do it correctly, it will still be the same (albeit great) gameplay as before, with some added features. I'm not saying it won't be great, and in fact it's my second most anticipated Wii game, but it doesn't seem as great and innovative as Mario Galaxy does.
Mario Galaxy seems to do two things. First of all, it takes the concept of the great Mario platforming (which is the best of the genre IMO). Unlike Sunshine, this seems to be sticking to the simplistic gameplay (runing, jumping and puzzle solving, possibly having items to give you special powers). Like all the great Mario games, the challenge is not in the controls. It doesn't have a steep learning curve (from what I've seen) except for getting used to being upside-down. What it does have is the great level design, which rely on platforming and puzzle solving. Just taking a few examples out of the trailer, you have a platforming planet with the Thwomps (with moving platforms in the background similar to most Mario games), a gravity maze where you have to find your way to the top, boss battles, and more. Some of these planets seem to have great interactivity (such as the rolling pin with the Wigglers, where Mario does a butt-stomp and the Wigglers go upside down so that Mario can kill them). There are lots of planets of varying sizes too. Some are really small (most of the ones that we've seen already), and some of them are big (such as the lava planet). Those are just the ones we've seen. I bet we haven't even seen the biggest planets yet. The second thing the game does is that it uses the Wiimote in interesting ways to evolve the gameplay, such as when you bring Mario towards one of those blue stars. In the latest trailer, they showed that this will be used in interesting ways, like when you have to guide Mario past giant stars so that he won't burn up. There's also some places here you have Mario stick to something and flick him to another part of the game. This was even used in that one spider boss.
This game will still be a Mario platformer. It will have the usual "jump on the goombas to kill them" and stuff like that. It will have the things that fans of the games have loved about the games. But from the looks of it, it will be taking those elements and making a very unique experience. This is why I think it will be the best game of the year for the Wii, and possibly GOTY. It represents the console so well. We knew that we'd have some old games which we could play in a new way (such as FPSs with the Wiimote). We knew that we'd also see games that we couldn't see before. So far we haven't seen much of that at all. The only thing I can think of in that category is Trauma Center, although that was already on the DS. But one thing that I want to see is stuff like this: a returning Nintendo series using the basic gameplay that fans love, but having both a veryunique idea that fits the series, as well as using the Wiimote in order to add to that interesting idea. I hope that Nintendo continues this in the future with other series like Zelda, Kirby, Metroid (after they're done with the Metroid Prime series), Donkey Kong, and possible returning series like Kid Icarus. Nintendo called the Wii the "Revolution" before revealing the actual name. This was for many reasons, and this just shows one of them. I really hope that Mario leads the way to a new Revolution for Nintendo series.
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