

You can only hurt her with the Koopa Shells she occasionally shoots at you, and if you miss your shot then you have to wait a while until she summons a new one. Kamella is rarely vulnerable, and usually teleports around her arena while shooting fireballs at you.Goddamned Boss: At least three examples: Kamella, Bouldergeist, and Kingfin.They're fast and a pain to catch, even when they take a break to catch their breath, and their spit rocks are at a perfect arc to hit you if you try jumping towards them. They're pink chubby Octoombas whose attack strategy is to run away while shooting at you. Thankfully, they only show up in one mission. They can only be harmed with the tricky-to-aim Fire Flower, and one touch will freeze you for a while. Bosses like Bowser and Kamella become complete jokes with it and you can freeze things such as the rotating and vanishing platforms of Luigi's Purple Coins in extremely quick succession. Player 2 in this game seems inefficient compared to the sequel until you realize the cursor not only allows you to freeze obstacles back and forth near instantaneously unlike the Luma but some projectiles such as fireballs are outright destroyed touching it.Mastering the game's very loose physics can make the game much easier, and especially-proficient players might be able to use this to engage in Sequence Breaking (such as skipping the entire second half of Bubble Breeze Galaxy by making it atop the rocks between the starting area and the star, or skipping most of Mecha-Bowser by wall-jumping between his left arm and side rather than climbing up his limbs one-by-one.).Evil Is Cool: After his goofy outing in Super Mario Sunshine, Bowser's coolness comes roaring back with a vengeance here, where he's a successful galactic conqueror whose boss fights are set to epic orchestrated music that wouldn't sound out of place in a Star Wars movie.Is that necessarily happy given that the countless adventures Mario has had before this game suffered at the hand of the Cosmic Reset Button? Thus, the cycle of life begins anew, and a new galaxy is formed in place of Mario's old galaxy. Esoteric Happy Ending: The universe is in shambles, a black hole is annihilating everything, and Master Luma makes a noble sacrifice to save everyone.From people who believe she's her lost sister or her future daughter, as well as Mario's. About the latter, her uncanny, albeit so far unexplained resemblance to Peach makes everyone assume they're both related one way or another. About the former, a very common theory is that she's the creator of the Mario universe, and its literal God(dess). Epileptic Trees: Rosalina has been an endless fountain of speculation over the years regarding her nature and her origins.Once they got the soundtrack's direction sorted out, though, Yokota soldiered on once again, and his extra efforts yielded what is generally considered one of the greatest video game soundtracks of all time. Development Heaven: Koji Kondo had to force Mahito Yokota to scrap all 28 musical pieces the latter had composed for the first game because Kondo didn't think they fit.But that's also exactly why he's such an appealing boss.

Kingfin is also fairly creepy, due to being a giant missle-shooting skeletal shark.His intro cutscene is one of the most impressive in the game. Bouldergeist is scary, but an insanely cool concept.Bouldergeist can be pretty difficult, but it is very satisfying to swing Bomb Boos around by their tongues and hit him multiple times in a row.
