Super Mario games, unlike Zelda games, are rarely anything like the previous ones in the series, well at least since the N64 and the classic that is Super Mario 64. While in Zelda games you always have to navigate Hyrule doing tasks that you’ve done before and beating bosses similar to, or even the same as, those in previous games, Mario always seems to be doing something new. In Mario 64 this involved going around a castle and jumping through paintings to get to different levels; (this also was Mario’s first ever 3D outing), in Mario Sunshine you went around with a large water cannon and now with Super Mario Galaxy, Nintendo have ventured into the final frontier, space.

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