It’s the detail that still makes us giggle at Galaxy at a point where we’d normally be bored of a game. See the way those bugs in the Honeyhive Galaxy frantically try to flee from Mario and end up on their backs? See the pitiful way a Cataquack drowns if you lead it to water? See the horrible glimpse at Mario’s skeleton if you die on an electric fence? See the way the Toads' little helmet headlamps can extinguish a Boo? This is how to create a world you want to revisit forever.
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