Less than a handful of hours into Super Mario Galaxy on the Switch 2, all I can keep thinking is, 'why did it take me so darn long to play this?' I have no good reason for that. My sister had the original game on the Wii back in 2007, and as much as I liked the concept as a lifelong space nerd, I never did get around to trying it out myself. Even with the arrival of Super Mario 3D All-Stars in 2020, I still left Mario's planet-spanning adventure in my backlog, being far too preoccupied with Animal Crossing: New Horizons at the time to play anything else.
So, when Nintendo announced it was once again re-releasing Super Mario Galaxy, and adding Super Mario Galaxy 2 to the mix for good measure, it felt like fate finally had enough of my shenanigans, and was stepping in to tell me to get my act together and play it. After all, Super Mario Galaxy has long been considered one of the best Mario games of all-time, and while I'm still working my way through the starry platformer, I'm starting to understand why.
