or was there? The robo-boss soon gave away its weak point: by waiting for its glass-domed, star-containing head to rotate around, I could then line up and drill all the way through the planetoid, popping out the other side and cracking the glass with my drill bit.

It launched drill robots at me, which I stomped, but there was no getting past its legs. Tricky, but very satisfying.Īt the end of this stage, I went up against a two-legged robot straddling a wheel-shaped circular world. Once there, a few steps to the right and another use of the drill took me back through the world and up to my destination. To get to it, I had to drill in just the right spot, which sent me spiraling up through a tower of sand on the flip-side of the world. (Hear that? It was me ducking.) Using this device, Mario can drill straight through the game's spherical worlds (and even some flat ones), a mechanic best demonstrated when I used it to reach a Launch Star perched atop an otherwise unreachable summit. I specifically played two worlds during my demo, with the intent to focus on two of the new game mechanics in SMG2: the first being the drill bit power-up, which quickly wowed me with the nifty new level designs it has inspired and the second being Mario's lizard pal Yoshi, who really is a space-faring plumber's best friend.įirst, I was off to the aptly-named Spin-Dig galaxy to take the drill for a. But sometimes that's a good thing - especially when you're talking about the video game equivalent of comfort food. Truth be told, after playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 at the Nintendo Media Summit, I can say that it isn't that different. So we took it as welcome news when the sequel was revealed at E3 last year even if it didn't look all that different from the first game. Which, of course, meant we liked it - a lot, in fact. The original Super Mario Galaxywas selected as one of Joystiq's top games of 2007.

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