User blog comment:Rubble Troubler/Ultimate xmas blog post!/@comment-4652747-20121229125418/@comment-1455034-20121229144904

Takeshi64, Super Mario Galaxy 2 is such an epic game that you should put aside an entire month and play it non stop. That's what I did. I absolutely adored the game. Everything was good about the game - music, graphics, and challenges.

Many of the regular missions you use to progress through the game are easy. However, there are certain tasks which are excruciatingly hard. One of the early ones is the level where you have to get a rainbow star and run through all the spinies within a set time limit. I actually completed this course three times, but ran out of time to collect the star at the end...twice!

One of the other harder ones is the Purple Coins on Mario. If you have someone else play the co-star luma, they make the game considerably easier. This "Purple Coins on Mario" is hard because you have to run across a gigantic 8-bit mario with clones chasing you, and have to collect every coin, within a set time limit. A second player helps as they can grab coins.

Another hard level is the stone cyclone galaxy, the second green star. I was absolutely confounded on what I was to do to get this, as the super mario wiki listed incorrect ways on how to get the star. I finally got it by wildly jumping around. Many of the green stars are easy to find, some not so easy.

The final level (unlocked after 240 stars are obtained) is the hardest level of the game - the co-star luma works best here. Its torturous how you have to play the entire final level without hitting anything - when they have hammer bros throwing hammers at you and having to go through a mine-filled course.

Anyway, Super Mario Galaxy 2 is an exceptional game that works well with two players. Super Smash Bros. Brawl I didn't really like at first, as I was using Wii controls, as I first played the previous game (Super Smash Bros. Melee) with a gamecube controller. Finally, I noticed how two could play with two gamecube controllers... so I left the Wii controls and never used them again (to play brawl).

I found that the Subspace Emissery was just long and boring and wasn't much fun. Still, I trudged through it just to unlock all characters. Me any my sister can fight you, if you want. I prefer to play Ganondorf, as I find him the best character aside from Meta Kinght (I cannot even control Meta Knight properly, so I stick with Ganondorf). Ganondorf has highly powerful move, I tend to also KO people with side smash attack.