Rated E for everyone, but might not be the same fun for everyone.
I played the game, and beat it. To start off I had mixed feelings about it, some parts were fun, and some parts weren't. I felt that the game was aimed toward a younger age then I am. I'm late teens, but everyone would enjoy the game at least to some extent (its based for all ages, the younger you are the more you will get out of it), and that was the case for me. Here is my review of this game. (Please respect my views and opinions of this game even if you disagree, this review might help you out if you're a older teen looking to buy this game)
Using the rating system of game spot 7- good 8-great and so on
Story- 6 fair. The story, well, its a Mario game you go in and the princess gets kidnapped by Bowser and you have to save her. I had no problem doing this. The story of the game though with the Lumas really didn't do anything for me, almost took stuff out of the game play even though the specialty ones were pretty neat. At some points in the game I thought to myself, what am I playing this game for to help these stars out and this other princess, or save peach? Two stories in one that really aren't good, makes it a fair story at most might even be worse then fair. The galaxy theme is good in some points and kind of repetitive in others but it really dosent takes anything out of the story by having the planets, I almost wish there was no story about the Lumas. Overall it's a 6 I might be generous with that.
Graphics- 10 easily the best, basically perfect. There really is nothing that would make me think otherwise or anything major that would make me to give it less. The planet design was nice and sharp. I liked the larger levels better then the ones more spread out. But that dident have to do with the way it looked
Gameplay 7.5- Good game play, but not great there could be better things. The thing that really made it not be great would be the camera angle; sometimes I got so frustrated at the camera angle that it ruined the level for me. Why couldn't they make it that so you can shift to the left or go behind Mario, is that so hard? Also sometimes the suits were hard to use like the flying one I tried using it and quit because the bad control. Sometimes under water control was hard but once you got going under water it was fine, getting in the water and going down sometimes was a hassle but really this would be no problem if the camera angle was better. Could a camera really ruin the game though? No it's still a good game. The level design is great for the vast themed word ones, but there's somewhere they almost are all the same theme (space theme) thrown in space. The galaxies in the 1st observatory such as space junk and battle rock I didn't like, but those and one at the bedroom or the kitchen, I forget where, but it involved a grass theme and flowers I didn't like. I felt it was way to childish at some points in the game, these few levels and some parts of others where like this. I enjoyed all the other levels mostly so that's just 3 levels that I personally did not like completely. Collecting stuff sometimes got tedious to get a launch star but that's the way the game is.
Sound- 8 great sound in the game but some felt a little too childish for me. In some of the levels some of them are a bit bad, again a little to childish. I liked most of the sounds but a few just stood out as I didn't really like, but overall its great.
Other 8 (see conclusion )
In conclusion the game was great, but as my age, I somewhat found parts of the game to be too childish for me. The Wii is aimed toward the family and really that's what the games are going toward and I really didn't expect the game to be a crazy game that a younger kid could not play, its rated E for everyone, its supposed to be made for everyone, Nintendo included parts in the game for all age groups, but the older you get the more that sticks out that you don't like in my opinion. You ever go back and play one of the games from when you were younger and go wow, this was great back then but its somewhat childish for me now, I felt that way sometimes in the game. I would probably of loved the game if I was younger, and like everything about it. It was somewhat aimed for a younger audience, got to take this in to account when playing a Mario game. I sometimes regret buying a Wii because of the quality of the games that have been coming out, but this game is top notch for Nintendo and is probably the best game on the Wii for all around everyone to play, but it was just a somewhat great/good game for me, nothing wrong with that title for a game. Would recommend it for a younger audience, or a family with younger members they probably would get more out of it then a older teen.