[QUOTE="navstar29"]wait first was Super Mario Galaxy ... and not Metal Gear Solid 4? WHATtreelog82
Easily understandable. And before I post this please realise Im a huge MGS fan to the point of it being ridiculous. I've easily invested about 2,500 hours into playing the series, both single player and online.
The thing about MGS games is that they do so many different things to such extremes that they have plenty of room for faults. In MGS games you have all sorts of action gameplay, stealth gameplay and so many options to how you go about them that arent always so obvious. They also form such an outlandish story that even the majority of fellow MGS fans I see dont even really grasp whats going on. Then you have the controls and camera styles that have spanned the series and even while MGS4 makes an attempt at appealing to the masses it still comes as awkward for some. Also to some people the enemy AI in MGS games is retarded. Most MGS fans know how great the AI actually is because all the different pattern branches and reactions allow for manipulation and experimental value. A common discredit to the series is people claiming the game too short when they simply dont realize how much replay value there is. The long cutscenes that so many fans love, others despise. The MGS series is love it, or hate without too much inbetween.
Mario Galaxy, much like the Zelda series and other top notch Nintendo games, knows how to concentrate on a small number of aspects, but pull them off so well that its nearly perfection. Mario Galaxy is much closer to being a perfect game than MGS4. They took flawless platforming mechanics, mixed them into a world of genius level design and pulled out so many ideas from such a simple concept its really amazing. While it doesnt share the depth of a game like MGS4, it delivers on quality and fun in such a simplistic manner that its really tough to find its faults.
Wow, well said.
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