“Super Mario Galaxy” is a widely acclaimed addition to the Mario franchise. One of the little things that was featured in the game was cutscenes where Rosalina is reading a storybook to the Lumas. Dark Horse decided to take that storybook and make it into an actual book called “Rosalina’s Storybook.”
One day, a little girl finds a Luma that is searching for its mother. The little girl decides to help the Luma find its mother and goes into space. There, they encounter a comet and decide to live on it. What follows is a story of wanting to be with family and discovering a new one.
It’s a touching story that has a good moral that you can teach any child. In the game, it’s meant to give some backstory to Rosalina and the Luma, which, once you analyze the story, it’s both touching and sad.
The illustrations look exactly like what you’d see in any commercially available storybook. On the surface, the art style looks cute. Once you dig deeper, the style looks more like it’s meant to be dreamlike, with everything looking out of focus and otherworldly. The colors are used in a way that makes the story look like it was drawn with crayon. It makes stylistic sense since this is supposed to be Rosalina telling the story when she was a child. Any child would use a crayon to tell a story since that is usually how children express themselves artistically.
The only major downside to this book is that there are no extras. Dark Horse decided to keep it simple and just give the readers the story, and that’s it.
“Rosalina’s Storybook” takes the story players saw in the game and makes it a reality. With a touching story, art that fits perfectly and nostalgia for the game, this storybook is worth collecting. The lack of extras may turn off some fans, but overall, it should please any Nintendo fan.
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