Were you satisfied with the level of difficulty in Super Mario Galaxy?

Honestly, I must admit that I was a bit disappointed with the level of difficulty in Super Mario Galaxy. The game itself was truly awesome, everything was great, except this one little thing: It was far, far too easy!!! I'm soon beginning to think that Nintendo is taking this "games for absolutely everyone" a bit too far!

Of all the 120 stars in this amazing game, of all those stars, only five or six were challenging. The star where you are supposed to get 100 purple coins in the Toy World was a freaking nightmare, I'll tell you that. But otherwise, it was almost annoying how easy they had made SMG! Although it was very entertaining and original the whole way. Anyone else feeling the same way?

i found the difficulty to be fine, just the right amount imo

also about the lives thing, yes its pointless but its mario, what would a mario game be withought green 1up shrooms? its iconic

It wasn't the hardest game but it wasn't the easiest either. It was perfectly ballanced in my opinion.lancea34

I agree with lancea34! I can say medium difficulty and overall one of the best Mario games I have ever played. (so great I never cared about difficulty)

I agree with Linkloco.

I think it was a fairly challenging game. But I agree with what chazasul said as well. There were way too many 1ups all over the place and far too many lives.

*Reads topic* Very much so, yes.

Try going for 120 stars. ;) Thats hard. X.X

The difficulty was perfect in my opinion. The only problem are the 1UPs. There are too many of them!

Too easy for me...toadster101

I think some of the stars were way to easy to find and collect. When you compare it to Mario 64 and especially Mario Sunshine I think the game is a lot easier. I think it needed the level of difficulty of Super Mario 64.

During a prolonged session I reached 57 lives. Far too easy. Especially since getting game over isn't that big of a deal...

Of all the stars, there were around 20 of high difficulty, the rest are between average and easy. Sunshine was harder to finish, not to mention 64. The Bros. series games are friggin' hard. World wasn't that easy either if you wanted to unlock everything.

Galaxy is by far the easiest of the series.

they kinda made lives insignificant on purpose with this game imo, and i like it that way. game over doesn't really mean anything unless you never save or you are far into one level. this game was all about the gameplay and not the falsely-created difficulty of a lives system

only 'hard' stars were the comet where you had to beat the boulder-boss with 1 health and the purple coin challenge where you had to ride on the carrier (forgot the level name)

I was underwhelmed by the difficulty, yes. It was fun, but the very few amount of challenging stars made it too simple. The Luigi's Purple Coins and Dare Devil Lava run stars were only moderately difficult - they just took patience and good jumping. :)ZumaJones07

Zuma, you owned me thousands of times with your sig.:x

well over all i would say i was happy with its difficulty. for me though it was inconsistence. some stars would be simple and easy while others were a real pain.Wild_Card

A game where you manage to beat the final boss without even having to focus and concentrate fully on the boss...a game like that is often very disappointing. When the name of the game is Super Mario Galaxy, the game is slightly disappointing...

I certainly agree with many others here - it shouldn't be that hard to give the player a chance to chose the level of difficulty. This game was certainly for everyone - but maybe not so much for the hard-core gamer?

I also think that getting to play as Luigi as the prize for collecting 120 stars...also a bit disappointing. I expected more. Boring to play the entire game one more time - with the only difference being that you are now Luigi not Mario. Oh well...in Super Mario 64, you met Yoshi and he gave you 120 lives...not the stunning ending you would've expected.

I'm begging you Nintendo - next Mario game, make some extra bonus-levels or something for us who collect all the stars. Please!

Still one of my favorite games though;)

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I'm still yet to play this game.

They simplified down some stuff and made the game more old school overall. It was by far the easiest of the three 3D Mario games, which is a blessing, seeing as how tough it was to make it to the ending of the other two. This time, it's easy enough for the more novice players (or the ones who haven't played Mario since NES/SNES days), and with only 3 HP to worry about, they made it generally easier to avoid getting hit, while making each hit more detrimental. For the hardcore players who think that the main game's first 60 stars are too easy, that's why they spent plenty of time creating an extra 60 stars with a very steep rise in challenge for quite a number of them. They balanced it out perfectly!

Now, you want to hear about a series I'm sad to see so dumbed down in 3d? Zelda. Don't you remember the days of having to get the Red Potion for 60-something rupees in order to just survive through a dungeon to get to the boss? And then the last dungeon was massive? And then after that, for the hardcore players, they added in a second quest in which the first two or three dungeons would make the last dungeons in the first quest look like cake? Even Zelda 3 on the Super was a lot tougher than any of the 3D Zeldas. After you get more than 5 or 6 hearts, you WON'T DIE. Most enemies only do a quater heart to a half heart's worth of damage, not that it's too easy to get hit by enemies anyways, since Link can kill most things in one to three hits! Then the bosses, as massive as they are, might not even damage you, while it only takes a minute or two for Link to cut them down to size! I mean, even the massive ones in Twilight Princess! And the big N is talking about making Zelda more accessable to casual gamers? That's a scary thought, seeing as how I've never died in Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask (but there was still a lot of challenge, Wind Waker (HA! Final battle, only hitting Link for maybe a half or a quarter heart of damage?), and Twilight Princess. I should start a topic about this, rather than trying to detract this one...