I finally dug up the scratch to pick up Super Mario Galaxy, and all I could think as I fired it up was in my best mental Mario voice, "Yahoo! Haha!"

All I've had time to do (technically I could have lost my job and kept playing) is clear the first galaxy, and so I have simply the following remarks to make.

This game is beautiful. I could easily be speaking generally, but I am looking chiefly at graphics in this particular bullet point. The art style is gorgeous, and this game is precisely the answer I was looking for about a year ago when people were complaining about the Wii not being a graphics powerhouse. This game proves conclusively, at least in my mind, that all the consoles at present have reached the point where you can make a good looking game without needing a shining golden graphics processor. I could sit there all day and watch the title screen twinkling, telling me that I R MR GAY.

The controls work perfectly. So perfectly, in fact, that I am beginning to suspect that Miyamoto thought up Galaxy first, and then dreamed up a console to put it on.

This is so much fun. From the moment I first jumped into a Launch Star, I was loving every second of this game. It's not hard, it's not especially challenging, and the storyline isn't the most novel thing in, well, the galaxy. But this is almost definitely going to be my favorite game of this entire year. It's good to see Nintendo still knows how to press pure glee onto a game disk.

In short, if this doesn't win pretty much every award 2007 can throw at it, I am going to be fairly cross at judges' panels everywhere.