@Neram

100% Agree.

I think some people are being totally stupid here.

Mario Galaxy was a very specific take on 3D Mario that required you liking the whole gravity thing in the first place, as well as the whole spinning 3D camera etc, to really enjoy it.

This however is still a full-on 3D Mario game with more traditional and imo vastly superior 2D Mario platformer style gameplay (as in it's more true to the gameplay of the original Super Mario Bros/World games in the first place).

How could that not be what the vast majority of people would want, even if they're somehow completely clueless of that at the moment for some crazy reason?

Surely, and this is very obvious in the sales of this series compared to all the other Mario series of platformers by the way, the whole Galaxy formula is actually a kind of niche concept that's really only going to be preferred by a certain minority of people who maybe can't see how a true 3D representation of the classic Mario games we all know and love should in fact be realized.

I really don't understand what people think this game is missing what was in Galaxy other than the gravity mechanic but SURELY most people really don't just want ANOTHER game with that same mechanic again?

To me, this looks like it is going to be the best designed (no finicky and clumsy spinning 3D camera for example), best playing and most fun 3D Mario game yet, by far, and I really think a lot of people are going to have egg on their face, especially a lot of people in the gaming press (even some of the guys on this very site), come final review time.

From what I can see this is the proper 3D Mario platform game we've all been waiting for.

Although, for me personally, I'm still actually waiting for the ultimate and imo proper 2.5D Mario platform game because that's actually the true ultimate realization of the classic and best Mario games we all grew up on, that we absolutely loved, and that still stand the test of time in terms of pure gameplay and precise platforming bliss better than most of the 3D Mario games even to this day as far as I'm concerned.

Basically, make something like Super Mario World in proper full 2.5D (like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is doing for the old 2D Donkey Kong Country games) and then you'd have the best Mario platform game ever that has the precise platforming perfection of the best 2D Mario games and that's also keeping up with the times in terms of cutting edge 3D graphics etc (regardless of the gameplay being on a 2D plane for the most part).

Anyhoo...