Super Mario Galaxy 2: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

We purchased this book on Amazon. We discovered that this book is pretty great for anyone who wants to get through the whole game. Here are the pros and cons...

Facts:
1. This Book has 272 pages. The New Super Mario Bros for Wii had 192 Game Pages, but the Super Mario Galaxy Book had 336 Game Pages. It depends on whether you want a long game guide or a short game guide.
2. They had maps of each galaxy, but their maps weren't the best maps in the world. They were OK.
3. I didn't buy the Super Mario Galaxy Game Guide, but I heard that they had a GIGANTIC poster inside it. This book has a "Mini" poster. The poster is smaller than the book itself. If you are buying this game for the poster, don't buy it because you'll be disapointed by a "mini" poster. I didn't really care about their "poster" but I hung it up anyways. ;)
4. You may ask, what's the difference between a premier version of the guide and a collector's version? A premier version is...Read more

There is no question about the success of Super Mario Galaxy and with the strong hype surrounding around Super Mario Galaxy 2, there is a strong need for a strong strategy guide to help you go thorugh the immense and exciting challenges of the game. Unfortunately, for Prima, they've held the books on delivering strategy guides since Nintendo decided to stop making them a few years ago. With Prima's guide for Super Mario Galaxy 2, they have a good display of the graphics on each of the levels of the game, but with all of the challenges of getting comet medals, and challenging stars including the 120 Green Star challenge, there could've been a bit more display to master through the challenging game. While it does have some bright spots like helping you through easily with the boss matches from Bowser's ultimate showdown in a giant-sized form, nice displays of each level in beautiful maps, but overall there just could've been more than should've been added. Still, I do honestly wish that...Read more

My boyfriend got this guide because he wanted to completely beat this game, getting every single star and unlocking every level. I helped him along the way, so I got a hands-on experience with this game, but more importantly with the guide from cover to cover, and I will warn you right now that this is not a good guidebook. It did have some good to it, but that did not outweigh how many mistakes there were.

Starting out with the good, I can say that the walkthroughs for each level were decent, and there was always a description of every boss and how to beat them. If that's all you want this guide for, then go ahead and buy it and you'll get what you want out of it.

Now, to the bad. There were just way too many mistakes in this for it to be acceptable. Many times when we were trying to get green stars, the locations they told us to look in were completely wrong, not only in the descriptions, but also on the map and the pictures they showed. This didn't happen...Read more