At E for All, Ray and I each got 10 minutes to play around with Super Mario Galaxy before the booth babes ruined our fun. And it was fun, but it made me realize that a video game expo was not the ideal environment to enjoy a Mario title. Ten minutes felt like 2 minutes and wasn’t nearly enough time to do anything. Basically, you start out in the ‘hub’ where Rosette stands and waits for you do do all her dirty work. From the hub, Mario can access the galaxies which reside in different rooms in the hub. In the demo, one galaxy was unlocked along with all its areas. Each area is a different level with three stars to get (not sure if there will be more than three stars in the final version) and can consist of a planet or some other celestial region (some areas require Mario to fly from meteor to meteor, etc.). I played a boss battle against a giant robot that Bowser Jr. sent to destroy me and the bee stage we’ve all seen on the internet.
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