How Many Spins Does It Take to Complete Super Mario Galaxy

Super Mario Galaxy's 15th anniversary is this month. This game is beloved by many for its diverse environments and gameplay, yet not a lot of challenge runs exist for it.
That changes today, because we will be completing this game in the least amount of Spins possible.

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All gameplay footage was recorded and edited by me.

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Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, and Super Mario 3D All Stars are all owned by Nintendo, not me.

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00:00 ~ Intro
03:37 ~ Gateway Galaxy
04:47 ~ Good Egg Galaxy
08:17 ~ Honeyhive Galaxy
10:41 ~ Mini Galaxies
11:34 ~ Bowser Jr's Robot Reactor
11:55 ~ Space Junk Galaxy
13:50 ~ Cosmic Comets
14:11 ~ Battlerock Galaxy
16:56 ~ Hurry Scurry Galaxy
17:08 ~ Bowser's Star Reactor
17:42 ~ Beach Bowl Galaxy
19:37 ~ Ghostly Galaxy
22:04 ~ Bubble Breeze Galaxy
22:26 ~ Buoy Base Galaxy
23:10 ~ Drip Drop Galaxy
23:31 ~ Bowser Jr's Airship Armada
23:54 ~ Luigi
24:15 ~ Gusty Garden Galaxy
26:55 ~ Freezeflame Galaxy
29:42 ~ Dusty Dune Galaxy
33:00 ~ Trial Galaxies
33:26 ~ Honeyclimb Galaxy
33:36 ~ Bigmouth Galaxy
34:17 ~ Bowser's Dark Matter Plant
34:55 ~ Gold Leaf Galaxy
36:07 ~ Sea Slide Galaxy
37:10 ~ Toy Time Galaxy
39:08 ~ Sand Spiral Galaxy
39:25 ~ Bowser Jr's Lava Reactor
40:04 ~ Gateway Galaxy Again
40:25 ~ Boo's Boneyard Galaxy
40:51 ~ Deep Dark Galaxy
43:39 ~ Dreadnought Galaxy
45:40 ~ Melty Molten Galaxy
47:37 ~ Snow Cap Galaxy
48:01 ~ Bowser's Galaxy Reactor
49:17 ~ Purple Comets
52:19 ~ Conclusion
53:06 ~ Outro

[Forgado]

Not even 4 days after this video was released and already 1K views! Thank you guys so much! ❤❤I'm currently at work on the Super Mario Galaxy 2 Minimum Spin Challenge, so if any of you have any ideas on how to skip some Spins, comment down below or reply to this comment. It might be quite a while until it's finished, so please be patient. I try to read every comment, your guys' kind words keep me motivated to do this challenge. Again, thank you all for getting this video to 1K views, and I hope y'all have a wonderful day!

[neoxx]

this is the type of video that you find from extremely popular channels, so i’m extremely impressed!!! this is amazingly put together!

[nathanh]

i love how he takes it personally when levels require lots of spins

[SmoothTurtle]

25:45 it’s always the little things that make me appreciate somebody’s editing the most

[sakura]

this video's name not only doesn't say "beating the game without" but does actually state that this game is one of the ones that you literally can't beat without spinning in the first few minutes. i like it

[VocalMabiMaple]

God this was one of my favorite challenge videos ive ever seen. The jokes were quick and on point, despite the length very little time was wasted, the editing was snappy, all relevant information was explained, the tone was genuine, the challenge is unique.

Im probably gonna end up watching it again at some point just for how well made it is.

[Kuzushii]

The fact that the minimum number of spins required to beat the game is over 400 shows how well designed that game mechanic is, this game truly is a masterpiece

[underrated]

Here's a breakdown of all the gameplay spins spent in this video.

Directly attacking bosses: 65 (Bowser himself accounts for 29 of those 65)

Breaking crystals: 37
Other stationary destructible objects: 4

Coconut launching: 19 (4 coconuts on the ground, 15 in the air)

Throwing shells: 22 (9 on chests, 3 on non-boss enemies, 10 on bosses)

Fire Flower fireballs: 10
Boo Mushroom intangibility: 3
Red Star flight: 1

Screws: 7
Levers: 2
Valves: 2
Gravity switches: 4

Candle extinguishing: 5

Bomb Boo use: 9
Bob-omb use: 10 (1 to stun, the other 9 to throw)
Tornado use: 15
Dandelion use: 19 (7 to deploy dandelions, 12 to do the mid-air boost)

Damaging non-boss moles: 3
Stunning Goombeetles: 2

Swag skips: 3

**Miscounted: 1**

That's right, if I'm seeing this correctly, Forgado saved one spin without even knowing it! (Dusty Dune Galaxy – Bullet Bill on Your Back. It seems to me he mistakenly recounted the spin used to destroy the thorn bush, even though the Hungry Luma is on the planet with the thorn bush and can be reached and fed without doing anything to the thorn bush.)

[Aftershock-mfkz]

This video is very well made, I was surprised to see that this wasn’t made by an extremely popular creator. You’ve earned yourself another sub!

[randommathnerd]

28:10 The dashless/spinless golden strawberry reference after climbing a mountain was amazing 😂

[Jax_Two]

That clip of picking up the 6 health mushroom and immediately getting hit got me.

[raaaaaaayden]

The highlight of this vid for me was “this cute little skrunkle called the bomb boo” 20:24

great vid!

[tinymelon]

I’ve gotta give a HUGE amount of props for those normal Star to comet transitions. I almost didn’t even notice the cut for the Dino Piranha cutscene it was that good.

[kalidoesart]

incredible editing and organization! Really hope you catch the algorithm cause you definitely deserve it, the immense amount of effort put into this shows!! Also not sure if this was intentional or not but the transition at 30:48 is so damn seemless!

[jordananderson]

And with that, the Spinimum% category was born.

Well done! This was super neat to watch, and reminds me why Galaxy is such a wonderful game.

[FidgetTBD]

I’m gonna be honest I didn’t realize this wasn’t from a big creator. I don’t typically watch these videos from smaller creators because they’re usually not well-made but you did this really well.

[ElariaFlori]

Your voice and comedy is like Simpleflips in a time machine and holy shit I love it

[summatheoverseer]

25:46 The life mushroom song followed by the hit sound from the brambles was such comedic timing

[rafaelpereiragomes]

0:01 I didn't because i don't have the money to buy a Wii and a copy of the game to play it or a strong phone/pc to run Dolphin.

[princeofrain]

Don't even worry about not making any huge projects like this, I love all the little gaming glitches you post too <3