Planet Luigi And Map Suggest Super Mario Galaxy 2 Secrets

8:00AM February 25, 2010 | Stephen Totilo

May 23rd’s Wii exclusive Super Mario Galaxy 2 has not just a release date and a trailer, but Planet Luigi, some screenshots and some bullet points worth sharing. Or is that Planet Mario? Hard to tell.

Nintendo’s fact-sheet for the game indicates that:

1) “Every level is new”, allaying concerns that Galaxy 2 would recycle a lot of the first Galaxy’s content.

2) Mario can ride Yoshi in “some stages”

3) Yoshi can eat a Dash Pepper to run up vertical walls and Blimp Fruit to float like a balloon.

4) Mario can drill into planets.

5) “Skilled players will want to collect new Comet Metals, which will unlock harder levels with even more challenges.”

6) The game supports 1-2 players, though no details yet as to whether that indicates anything more than one person playing as Mario and the other assisting with control of a helper cursor, a la the first Super Mario Galaxy.

Our man in San Francisco will have more details of the game once Nintendo’s late-night press embargo for hands-on impressions lifts.