Today’s game is Super Mario Galaxy. This is the attempt. I’m going to beat it this time… probably. I said the same things every other time. But I have the thing I’m playing it on all to myself in the evenings, so literally, I have no excuse.
Speaking of the evenings, I was sat on the couch alone playing it. And it was a nostalgic experience. I usually play in my bedroom where my desktop is. So just… popping the cartridge in and sitting my happy ass down on the couch to play late into the evening felt nostalgic. Amazing even. It was like when I was younger and staying up late. Except now I’m an adult… in college… honeyhive galaxy at 10 PM feels so good though.
I don’t know if the lower resolution of the Wii covered it, but there is some mild banding on lights and pictures I’ve noticed. Not that it’s too big of a problem, just it can be distracting sometimes.
I rediscovered the game had a first person mode too and zoomed in a little bit to dork around with it. Tried looking at the game from angles I never have before and it was interesting. It’s interesting to think this sight was always here but i didn’t see it ever because I didn’t look at this angle.
I ended up stopping at Honeyhive after skinning and wearing a bee and playing Dr. for a giant ass bee with a dandruff problem. Honestly not a bad place to stop. I need to start making more progress though.
I replayed Galaxy sometime around 2020 and had a lot of fun doing so. I remember liking this one quite a lot. It was also fun to let my kid who was around 5 at the time hold a remote to help collect stars.
I’m… reasonably sure I played Galaxy 2 as well but my memory of that iteration is almost completely blank.
Galaxy 2 always blinks in my memory because i’ll always blend it and 1 together. It’s very much Galaxy 1’s sequel
I prefer the first one to be honest.
2 botches things that worked very well before. Especially the camera that did a good job of always being in the right place in 1, but in 2 you suddenly have crazy angles and blind spots that play against you. This can’t even be explained by more complex level design, so who knows what happened.
Also they got rid of the hub for a small, disturbing looking ship and a very generic map, and they killed any trace of story. Those were two things that really set Galaxy 1 apart IMO.
On the new side of things, there were Yoshi, with different powers, and more challenges (but they kind of feel repetitive, because you end up needing to do the same things with just an additional timer or enemy etc…). And the last stars were quite a bit harder than anything in Galaxy.
That sounds about right. I feel like it played more like an expansion than an outright new game. I do remember banging my head against some of those tougher levels now.