It looks like Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be taking a page from the Chronotron handbook. According to the MTV Multiplayer blog, the game will occasionally feature dopplegangers that follow your inputs after a brief delay. Now, these are the evil kind of twins, so you’ll have to calibrate your plans on the fly to avoid stepping on your own toes.

This kind of control-undermining mechanic should feel right at home alongside the gravity puzzles from the first Mario Galaxy game, though it’s hardly new. In addition to Chronotron, the recorded input idea has seen considerable action from past games like Braid and The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. That said, I imagine that the mixture of gravity puzzles with recording puzzles will be suitably mind-bending.

According to the Multiplayer blog, the game casts your duplicates as Shadow Mario, Bowser Jr.’s disguise from his premier in Super Mario Sunshine. However, similar duplicates worked as time trial ghosts in the first game, so the handling shift seems odd. So until Nintendo says otherwise, it’s probably more prudent to assume that the shadow duplicates will be similar to the ones spawned by prankster comets.

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