Editor's note: With the news that Nintendo is bringing back Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 for the Nintendo Switch 2 next month - and releasing a Super Mario Galaxy movie next year - we thought we'd resurface a lovely piece of retrospective writing on the original, from former Eurogamer Editor-in-Chief and Birdo superfan, Martin Robinson. The original context for a look-back here was Super Mario Odyssey's impending release - gosh, how time flies. In Super Mario Galaxy, the chasms you may well have avoided in other platform games beg to be leaped into, just so you might see where they take you next. Super Mario Galaxy, somewhat surprisingly only Tokyo EAD's second project after the deliciously unorthodox Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, was also infused with that same wistful magic. The results are spectacular, and as surprising - in their own way - as Super Mario 64 before it.