Super Mario Galaxy is Fun as Hell

Ever since I can remember there's been concern that video games warp children. Speaking as a former video-gaming child, I can say that video games don't harm them in and of themselves, they just take up valuable time with which those kids could be learning more productive things, like building fulfilling lives and getting girlfriends.

By the time adolescence kicked in I just couldn't square playing games much longer. To this day when I play a video game, even a really good one where I find most of myself wrapped up in finding the mystic stones or what have you, deep in the pit of my stomach is a gnawing sensation which warns me that I'm wasting my life. It always keeps me from getting too into them.

All those responsible disclaimers aside though, I've spent large chunks of the last 24 hours playing the new Nintendo Wii game Super Mario Galaxy, and I just have to say- it is fun as HELL.



This video review gives an idea of the graphics, but you really have to try it to get what its about. You wave your little Wii wand around and he flips, spins and reverses gravity. The levels are jaw-droppingly cool. If any video game ever qualified as an artistic achievement, it would be this one.

I've played games that involved me more and took up more of my time, but I've never played a game that's been so much unadulterated, child-like fun. We were laughing and clapping with delight at all the game's tips and turns like 8 year old schoolgirls on nitrous oxide. It was just awesome. It makes the games we played as a kid look sick. The Wii has some "classic" games on it, and they look laughable in comparison.