Mario should go mini and travel through the blood stream.

Easy to incorporate time travel into it (bear in mind i haven't played partners in time and don't know if i'm taking anything out of the story)

"Earthbounder said:

"Dark_Link142 said:

"If they made it less linear.
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I loved the fact that Galaxy was linear because it added to the whole old-school feeling of the game. But making it less linear would be awesome!"

Less linear as in Super Mario 64 like, as in you can find any of the stars at once?"

Yeah, in 64 you could get more than one star if you chose a different star, in galaxy you can only get the star that you chose, unless you picked the star that has the secret on it, which is kind of linear, plus in the observatory, there was no challenge to find the secret galaxies other than the trials, the ones like sling pod galaxy and drip drop galaxy, they weren't about finding them hidden within the castle with the peach painting, or around delfino when you cleaned the bells, this time it's just about getting enough star bits, not too hard, though i suppose they do get a slight bit more harder to get the secret stars by the time you get to the engine room.

"Nintendo did no wrongs with Super Mario Galaxy, and I think in order to top it they'll have to introduce a new gameplay mechanic that changes the way gamers play Mario.
In Galaxy that was Gravity, and the addition of new and radically different worlds that challenged the gamers to think in a new way.
Sure, time travel is possible, but how would  that fit into the world?
That being said Mario is a franchise that can do practically anything, except adult content, and I suppose Miyamoto could always find a way to add it in.
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"It will be incredibly difficult. Super Mario Galaxy was a masterpiece."