. . . "At the end of the first Mario Galaxy, Rosalina and her Lumas managed to save the universe, basically by creating a Big Crunch and rebuilding the entire thing from scratch. Mario and most of the characters he encountered in his quest are \"reanimated\" in a freshly-created Mushroom Kingdom, itself part of a grand, unified Galaxy. However, Super Mario Galaxy 2 can't be a direct sequel to this, since the Star Festival happens once in a hundred years, and Mario is still kicking around, not a day older. So, the game is set in an alternate universe concurrent with the events of the first game, to be \"merged\" into a single timeline following the events of the second game. In other words, yes, Super Mario freakin' Bros now has a split timeline theory. \n* Maybe the \"reanimation\" reset the Mushroom Kingdom to a point in time before the Star Festival would normally occur... or the Star Festival is a multi-day event and Super Mario Galaxy 2 is set during the day after the first game. \n* That means Bowser really managed to get his act together this time... two attempted galactic empires in one day? Dude doesn't mess around."@en . "At the end of the first Mario Galaxy, Rosalina and her Lumas managed to save the universe, basically by creating a Big Crunch and rebuilding the entire thing from scratch. Mario and most of the characters he encountered in his quest are \"reanimated\" in a freshly-created Mushroom Kingdom, itself part of a grand, unified Galaxy. However, Super Mario Galaxy 2 can't be a direct sequel to this, since the Star Festival happens once in a hundred years, and Mario is still kicking around, not a day older. So, the game is set in an alternate universe concurrent with the events of the first game, to be \"merged\" into a single timeline following the events of the second game. In other words, yes, Super Mario freakin' Bros now has a split timeline theory."@en . . "Super Mario Galaxy 2/WMG"@en . . . . . . . . .