A sequel, Super Mario Galaxy 2, was released for the Wii in 2010.Capturing princesses isn't easy, especially when you got an angry italian chasing you around and being really bad at being bad. The game was released as a Nintendo Selects title in 2011, as a download via the Wii U's eShop in 2015, on the Nvidia Shield in China in 2018, and as part of the Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection for the Nintendo Switch in 2020.

The game is the ninth best-selling Wii game worldwide with sales of 12.80 million. It won several awards from top gaming publications, including multiple 'Game of the Year' titles, and became the first Nintendo title to win the BAFTA Award for Best Game. It received outstanding critical acclaim, with the game's graphics, gravity mechanics, level design, soundtrack, setting, and story all receiving high praise. At the time of its closure in 2019, Super Mario Galaxy was the highest-rated game of all time on review-aggregating site GameRankings. Super Mario Galaxy was a critical and commercial success, hailed as one of the best games in the series and one of the greatest video games of all time.

The game was directed by Yoshiaki Koizumi and soundtrack was composed by Mahito Yokota and Koji Kondo, using a symphony orchestra for the first time in the series. Nintendo aimed to make the game appeal to players of all ages, and the team had more freedom in designing it compared to other Super Mario games because of the outer space setting. The concept of spherical platforms originated from Super Mario 128, a GameCube tech demo shown at Nintendo Space World in 2000. Nintendo EAD Tokyo began developing Super Mario Galaxy after the release of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat in late 2004, when Shigeru Miyamoto suggested that Nintendo commission a large-scale Mario game.

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