Super Mario Galaxy 2

[SephYuyX]

How did you get 2nd green star in bowser's castle? I had to use that glitch to reach it.

Yoshi can hover multipule times during fall. IE: Jump > Hover > Fall a bit > Hover again > fall a bit > hover.

Unlike the glitch where you can actually hover up, yoshi was only meant to hover down over time.

[berticus]

Does anyone have a good estimate of average playtime for 240 stars? I'm racing some guy and NEED to win so I'm trying to set up reasonable pacing.

[Parshias]

Whoever thought "The Perfect Run" was a good idea should die in a fire. Just threw 20 lives at that thing and never even made it to the Hammer Bros. Would have spent more time, but I was about to put my fist through my TV after so many deaths on places I never even got touched on during the normal run of that level.

[Scythiroth]

Whoever thought "The Perfect Run" was a good idea should die in a fire. Just threw 20 lives at that thing and never even made it to the Hammer Bros. Would have spent more time, but I was about to put my fist through my TV after so many deaths on places I never even got touched on during the normal run of that level.

I really think seeing the 1 health in the top right makes me more nervous than I should be on that level. It is just staring at me and making me die. =( I haven't tried it again in a few days though, but I will get back to it eventually.

[Parshias]

Got it done. Found a great strategy to cheese out one of the sections:

When you get to the second to last part with the pull stars, grab hold of one, then shake your remote to break your bubble. You'll fall down, and before you die, grab the same pull star again. Let go of A before you get to the pull star again (you should have done this a couple of time for two different Green Stars) and you will be propelled up. Then just drag yourself to a pull star that's farther ahead, going straight over all of the obstacles.

Checked my time and I finished in just over 29 hours. Have 366 deaths recorded on my save file, but it should be 380-something, as I didn't save my first bunch of attempts at the last star. A pretty big jump as I vaguely remember my death count for 100% on SMG1 was something well over 1,000.

[SephYuyX]

479 deaths for me, I have no patience for games anymore and just ended up bum rushing through most everything until I figured out what worked.

[Kaylia]

Where can you see the amount of death?

[Parshias]

Its on you save file when you select it on the main menu. Right under the name, I think?

[Scythiroth]

Finally decided to finish this game and got the 242nd star. 4th part of the last level killed me more than anything else, stupid pulsing laser things.

[Ratatapa]

God I have trouble with 1 star, and it's the Comet star in the Giant Land, Racing to the end in 2min30 is hard, I usually get to the caterpillar part with like 30sec left, so it's kinda hard to win it :O

[Seraph]

God I have trouble with 1 star, and it's the Comet star in the Giant Land, Racing to the end in 2min30 is hard, I usually get to the caterpillar part with like 30sec left, so it's kinda hard to win it :O

You can long jump from ring to ring (barely) in the caterpillar portion, the only hard part is timing the jumps so you do not get hit. You should be able to clear that part with 30 seconds left.

I am having a far harder time getting the comet stars in the final world. Fricken purple coin runs...

[quannum]

how hard is the tree top slide purple coin run? i saw it and ran away crying w/o even trying it.

[SephYuyX]

Took me about 7 tries or so. It's just all luck since there are more than 100 coins. I think the monkeyball level is harder purple coin wise since there are only like 5 coins youre allowed to miss.

[Kaylia]

how hard is the tree top slide purple coin run? i saw it and ran away crying w/o even trying it.

There is 140 coins and you only need 100. I got it on my first try with 101. I don't think it would be too bad, especially since the coin show you the right way to slide most of the time.

Took me about 7 tries or so. It's just all luck since there are more than 100 coins. I think the monkeyball level is harder purple coin wise since there are only like 5 coins youre allowed to miss.

Monkey ball's 2nd green star. That is the worst one in game.

[SephYuyX]

Haha yeah, that one sucked too.

[Scythiroth]

Monkey ball's 2nd green star. That is the worst one in game.

Was this the one after a weird turn that if you just rolled into it, you wouldn't get it? Had to do some jump at some random point and hope you got it. That one was awful.