Super Mario Galaxy 2 Surprise Update Adds More Story

Nintendo has dropped a astonishment update for Super Mario Galaxy 2 that adds a caller storybook chapter.

The update, disposable to download present connected Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, adds a caller epilogue to the communicative that dilatory unfolded successful the archetypal crippled — which archetypal launched connected Wii backmost successful 2010. You tin find it present aft unlocking each erstwhile chapters, and collecting different Power Star.

But portion fans mightiness expect this caller section to necktie into The Super Mario Galaxy Movie — and its large caller lore related to Rosalina, successful peculiar — the caller communicative alternatively makes nary nonstop notation to immoderate of this.

Instead, the pages supply a heartwarming decision for Galaxy 2's alternatively mysterious communicative of 2 Lumas, and amusement Rosalina gathering a mysterious miss — who fans look definite is simply a younger mentation of herself, alternatively than immoderate different princess.

"The strongest unit successful the postulation is simply a bosom that ne'er gives up," Rosalina tells the girl, earlier she disappears. Fans person taken this to correspond Rosalina reassuring herself, and showing however acold she has travel since she travelled the cosmos alone.

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None of this contradicts the communicative told successful The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, but it isn't our archetypal in-game confirmation of Peach and Rosalina's origins arsenic shown connected the large screen. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has suggested that aboriginal games volition bespeak the caller film's communicative revelations — but that isn't being retconned successful here.

Regardless, fans person reacted positively to the unexpected accomplishment of much communicative — accompanied by a caller euphony track, which has besides contiguous been added to the Nintendo Music app.

"If the Galaxy 2 storybook is thing to spell by, mainline Mario tin inactive person a bully and heartwarming story," wrote Mario instrumentality ToadlyToad. "It's not indispensable but it's much than possible."

"This... honestly makes maine yet travel to presumption with Rosalina's property displacement since 3D World," wrote Nerdofthewind. "With however some versions of Rosalina look successful this epilogue, it's similar she's yet coming to presumption with her past to determination connected to a better, brighter future."

Today's afloat Super Mario Galaxy 2 spot notes prevarication below:

Super Mario Galaxy 2: Ver. 1.4.0 (Released April 29, 2026)

General

• Several issues person been fixed and adjustments made to guarantee a smoother gaming acquisition connected some Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.
• A caller communicative has been added to the storybook. Once Final Chapter is disposable successful the storybook, you tin work the caller communicative by clearing immoderate postulation and earning a Power Star.

Note: The bundle indispensable beryllium updated to Ver. 1.2.0 oregon aboriginal to play connected Nintendo Switch 2.

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