Me when Barry says Galaxy is a bad Mario game: 😡

Me after listening for about 10 minutes: 🤔

He never told me to get out of his house. It's been 6 months.

I'm still here.

This is a good example of how to respectfully criticize a popular game. While this doesn't stop me from enjoying the game, you make some valid points, and it always bothered me how they treated their powerups. The Fire Flower became a temporary powerup and was rarely used as an actual weapon (most notable example I can think of where they actually let you use it to fight instead of clear obstacles was the Squizzard battle in the second game, which I loved) and the Boo Mushroom barely existed at all. The Red Star is probably the worst offender for me, because it only appears in the place you first see it, and then the hub world. You never get to test out this cool powerup in a high-stakes environment.

Dude! Star bits could have been fuel for Mario's flight so they'd become more rewarding to find

I like how respectful most people who disagree with Barry are being in these comments. Good job humanity!

I think that issue 3 is actually the main reason why people have such fond memories of Galaxy. When you're playing it casually and not paying attention to the game design, it comes of more as the game having lots of new and interesting ideas every few minutes without staying on one long enough to get boring.

I was really hoping for a whole series of these.

I love videos like this just bc so many game critics automatically say "THIS IS A BAD GAME AND ITS POPULAR WHEN IT SHOULDN'T BE", but this is my idea of good criticism. Admitting that, for its time was good, but now that we've established ideas and nintendo games, you realize it has more potential and deserved more.

Galaxy is one of my favorite games of all time, but looking back at it now, I wish it was something that was introduced today solely because the ideas were wayyyyyy too good for a 2007 wii game. ALSO PLEASE GIVE ROSALINA A NEW ROLE BC I MISS HER AND SPINOFFS ARE NOT ENOUGH NINTENDO

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Ponyta, Vaporeon, Poliwrath, Butterfree!

"That isn't how reflections work!"
"THAT ISN'T HOW REFLECTIONS WORK!"
"ThAt IsN'T hOw rEflEcTiOns wOrK!"

I think the best part of this video is how he actually takes time and effort to show examples of how the game's problems could be solved. Very well-illustrated examples as well! When he mentioned somethingsomething 30 MINUTES, i was shocked because this vid feels like half that time

yay barry

Agree? Disagree? I'll be streaming Mario Galaxy on my Twitch ( https://www.twitch.tv/barryisstreaming ) today May 4th starting at 2pm PDT and tomorrow May 5th starting at 1pm PDT. Come on by and let me know what you think of the video! Thanks for watchingggg
EDIT: Here's the first stream! ➜ https://youtu.be/zGsQ4InAapI

I'm glad that this analysis was mostly like calm, caring criticism to genuinely get the ideas through and then saved the rant-y anger for the tail end.  While the rage may be fine sprinkled throughout something like a Let's Play because that's just emotional reaction in the moment, here it's more structured and doesn't turn me off from looking at this criticism with an open-mind (this is the first time I've heard anyone call Mario Galaxy bad). And then the rage at the end works on a comedic level of juxtaposing the majority of the video by breaking the flow and subvert the expectations of the audience.

The value of the coin is so low now.  Inflation is real even in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Wowie wow its like sequelitus never left us, thanks Daddy

Galaxy 1 to me is a mesh between the sandbox style and the course clear ones. It’s not as explorative but that’s just a side-effect of the planetoids. Unlike you, I do find it immersive, think it has great level design, and think it belongs in the 64 line. I had the same response to Galaxy 2 that you did to Galaxy 1. I enjoyed every moment of it but it wasn’t very immersive or memorable to me. It’s so much more linear and feels like a level pack to me.

Good video Barry, loved it! 😘

We miss you, Barry. It's a cold, dark world out there. I... I never got to tell you I love you.