Alright well I get that Galaxy was unrealistic but that was not the point, for me the Mario universe was well established as a certain kind of mythological place. To be honest I never cared for any of the Spin offs, Mario Kart, party, the sports games, to me you go from having King Koopa as a serious threat to the mushroom kingdom, an evil monarch with abitions of power who uses black magic to get his way, to basically a big cry baby bully with a crush on the princess, no thanks that is where they lost me.
Mario is set in the Mushroom Kingdom, the protagonist is the King of the Koopas so ANY game that relies less on Koopas and more on paint balls and generic funky pokemon rejects is just not Mario to me. Also for me the game is about running and jumping, exploration, and collecting coins and power ups, some of the latter games especially the console games just stray too far from that. With Sunshine I felt that yes the game play was great and IF it had been some random character with an original story I might have liked it but that game never felt like a Mario game to me. I never played Galaxies the videos alone turned me off.
To be fair, who cares what I think, if you enjoy the games play them, I just wanted to say what I didn't like about them, which is kind of why I am so excited for New Super Mario Bros. U, because I loved the first one on the DS and if I had known a sequel was coming for the Wii I might not have sold it when I did.