Is there a further benefit to gathering coins in Super Mario Galaxy 2 beyond getting an extra life for every 100 coins you gather? I know that in at least one level, you need coins to convince a Luma to transform, but that only takes the coins you gather in that level into account, not your total coin count throughout the game.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Is There a Point to Collecting Coins?
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Best Answer
There is but one good reason to collect coins. Whenever you turn the game off, you lose all your extra Marios and are reduced to the default 4 lives. One of the Lumas down the pipe on Starship Mario will let you roll five Chance Cubes (for a possible total of 25 lives) for 100 coins.
This comes in especially handy at the very very end of the game when you get to the Grandmaster Galaxy. First-time players may well go through thirty or forty lives (or more) before they can claim the very last star of the game.