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*Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog In the intro to Super Mario Galaxy, a Toad trapped in a crystal changes expressions from happy when Mario is near to sad when he isn't, creating the expression that he is still conscious inside the crystal and is rejoicing at Mario's presence and despairing at his absence. Mario is near the Toad Mario is further from the Toad The Toad is happy, as though relieved to see Mario The Toad is sad, as though concerned that he can't see Mario anymore The technical explanation for this is that the crystal and Toad within it change between a high-polygon and low-polygon version based on how close the camera, and thus Mario, is to them. It appears that the expression assigned to the high-polygon Toad is different than the low-polygon one, creating this effect. Whether this is an oversight or done deliberately to create that effect is unknown. Source: Supper Mario Broth, screenshot taken in a Wii emulator, game: Super Mario Galaxy (NA, WIT)

*Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog In the Super Mario Galaxy games, Red Shells seem to have some inexplicable ire towards every Toad except Banktoad. While they are supposed to home in on enemies when thrown, they will also home in on all Toads except for him. In the Super Mario Galaxy games, Red Shells home in on enemies, like in the Mario Kart series. However, they unexpectedly also home in on Toads. Mario throws the shell at an angle to Hint Toad. The shell curves its path to target him. Hint Toad is hit. Even more unexpectedly, Red Shells will target all Toads that aren't Banktoad. Toads targeted by the Red Shell: Toads not targeted by the Red Shell: Captain Toad Hint Toad Yellow "Sleepy" Mailtoad ...and all Banktoad Toad generic Toads urce: sunakazekun.github.io/galaxydatabase/

EX Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog Super Mario Galaxy 2 contained a "dialogue test zone" during development. The area has been removed, but its dialogue still survives. It would have contained bizarre interactions such as a Toad saying "crab crab mochi crab crab crab" and another Toad saying simply "3". Crab crab mochi crab crab crab I hate lumberjacks The Score Attack Association supports Mario Galaxy!!! Original text 蟹蟹餅蟹蟹蟹 Original text キコリキライ I'm a penguin. I'm a coach. I'm a penguin coach! I'm Luma. My favorite food is ham. Original text ペンギンです。コーチです。ペンギンコーチです! qurce: tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Galaxy_2/Unused_Message Data Note that this ties in with another piece of unused dialogue where Lubba says his favorite foods are beans and ham. _Original text チコです。好きな食べ物はハムです。 Original text スコアアタック協会はマリオギャラクシーを応援します!!! 3 Original text: 3

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Super Mario Galaxy is a series in the Super Mario series. It is mainly a 3-D adventure game starring Mario (and Luigi at a certain point in the game), who as usual must rescue Peach from the clutches of Bowser. There is only two games from the Super Mario Galaxy series: Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. It is also the first appearance for the character Rosalina, would go on to be a staple of multi-player Nintendo party games.

History

Super Mario Galaxy is the first game in the Super Mario series for the Nintendo Wii. ^[1] It was directed by Yoshiaki Koizumi and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and Shakao Shimizu. The game notably makes use of spherical platforming, with Mario running around orbs such as planets and meteors. The technology to make this possible took three months to develop. The game was announced at E3 2006 (trailer shown below).

Reception

The game was released in various global markets in November of 2007. The game was a massive critical success, gaining a rating of 97/100 on Metacritic.^[2] It received Game of the Year awards from several publications, including Kotaku, Nintendo Power, Yahoo Games, and more. The game also sold extremely well, moving over 350,000 units in its first two weeks in Japan, and has sold over 2.5 million units worldwide since 2007.

Online Presence

Online, the game has generated a strong fandom, most notably on Facebook, where it has over 445,000 likes.^[3]

Let's Play

The game has been featured in several Let's Play videos. Notably, Game Grumps played the game on their channel, with the first episode gaining over 3.5 million views (shown below, left). YouTuber JoshJepson also played the game on his channel, with his first episode gaining over 440,000 views (shown below, right).

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So… Chunks, Huh

So… Chunks, Huh? refers to a line from Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy in which a penguin approaches Mario and says "So… chunks, huh?", referring to the in-game collectibles known as star bits. In the summer of 2017, it became a minor meme on Tumblr.

The above GIF was posted to Tumblr on January 15th, 2016 by sonysportswalkman and gained over 23,000 notes. According to Meme Documentation, the genesis for the phrase becoming a Tumblr meme was a text post from August 4th by sweetbabyraysgourmetsauces that reads "plap plap plap plap So… chunks, huh? plap plap plap plap." The post has over 20,000 notes.

i dont kill bugs plap plap plap plap So... chunks, huh? plap plap plap plap Posted 1 month ago 20,230 notes

U R MR GAY

U R MR GAY refers to a coincidental quirk in the lettering that appears in the title of Super Mario Galaxy. Certain letters in the title are adorned with sparkles. In order, these letters are U, R, M, R, G, A, and Y. Considering "U" and "R" to be abbreviations for "you" and "are" and splitting the letters into words appropriately, there appears to be a hidden message of sorts telling the viewer, "you are Mr. Gay".

YA I M R U?

While the lettering in Super Mario Galaxy 2's title was styled identically to the first game, as Kotaku reported, there appeared to be no way to find another accidental message. However, as covered by Destructoid and The Escapist, some people noticed that looking at the letters in reverse yielded another message that could be seen as a response to the statement "you are Mr. gay".

In some versions of the title lettering for the second game, the letters with sparkles are, in reverse order, Y, A, I, M, R, and U. The supposed message here is even more abbreviated than the first; "YA I M R U?" could be read as "Yeah, I am, are you?"

Puzzle Plank Galaxy MADs

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Puzzle Plank Galaxy (Japanese: かくざいもくざいギャラクシー, Kakuzai Mokuzai Galaxy) refers to a series of MAD videos utilizing an audiotrack "Square Timber" in Super Mario Galaxy 2[, the 4th original 3D action game in the Super Mario series released by Nintendo. This song has been one of the well-used musical resources for MAD videos on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) since 2012.

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External References

^[1] Wikipedia – Super Mario Galaxy

^[2] Metacritic – Super Mario Galaxy

^[3] Facebook – Super Mario Galaxy

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