uh...i guess you did call it! you've got seven or eight planets left i think.
as for mr. gay, it gets off to kind of a clumsy start. a prologue that needlessly ties the spacey setting to the musty old mushroom kingdom. an initially jarring camera. the shock of going back a generation visually. even the music is cloying at first. but having played through that first egg galaxy, i like what i'm seeing. it's funny how quickly you adapt to the initially mindbending spherical playfields -- they're like portal's portals in that respect. each little planetoid presents you with some fresh little obstacle to work through. it's too early to say how good it is, but it's clearly going in the right direction -- away from collection, away from repetition, away from what passes for 'exploration' in videogames -- towards the linearity and stage-by-stage inventiveness of the great 2d mario games. let's see how it develops as its level design ramps up.
i'm having a control issue, though. it's not the pointing or the waggle, which are perfectly unobtrusive. it's the analog stick on the nunchuck. which is inexplicably convex and tiny. i'm tempted to look for a third-party replacement, but i'm already fed up with wii-related expenses
