yeah odissey was just way to much, srs some stages had so manny moons it got very boring, i never played tooie but i loved kazooie, tbh my all time favorite 3d platformer is mario 64 hands down, i think he hit the perfect balance with level size,collectibles and exploration.
srs finding 8 stars on mario 64 is just way more satisfying than finding 100 moon per level on mario odissey. there were so much they lost all meaning.
I forgot to mention Odyssey but I completely agree with you there. I got about half the moons (actually, that was largely thanks to the huge amount you're able to buy in the shops) and unlocked Darker Side, and I intend to beat those last 2 levels, but I don't think I'm going to bother getting every moon. It just doesn't feel like an accomplishment when there are so many of them and they're given away for every minor thing you do. The achievement based ones are cool though.
At the end of the day the game was a cheap imitation on the verge of copyright infringement, I knew from the start that the primary selling point was nostalgia, not quality. As for the collect-a-thon elements of Mario, they're the insufferable elements of the series, but that's a matter of taste. I always felt that such mechanics were just artificially inflating otherwise shallow and short games. At the very least Banjo had the advantage of good humour, most imitations don't.
I played Galaxy for approximately 5 minutes. Not for me, I'm more of an NSMB kind of guy, and even then I'll pick something like Shantae over *yet another* Mario game.
I agree on the first part. I do hope for the next one they will focus more on quality while still appealing to nostalgia, that was what A Hat in Time did, and it did so very well.
But the rest as you say is a matter of taste. NSMB is fine, but I feel it's gotten samey, it doesn't have the variety that the original SMB games on NES (and subsequently SMW and Yoshi's Island) did. I did buy NSMBU and had fun with it, but I don't think I'll buy the next one unless they make some changes to keep it fresh.
Shantae is great, and underrated. Not exactly my kind of game (but I did play Pirate's Curse a fair bit on 3DS), but I can still look at it objectively and recognize that it does what it set out to do very well.
Ah, look, it's the fake banjo-kazooie successor (adds it to this *reason to buy a switch list*)
Really kind of pleased to see how good the switch support is..
Maybe Nintendo should start a "give us two of your 3DS and we give you a discount on your switch purchase"- program, i'd bite
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If you want a physical version, you'll have to preorder as it won't be sold in stores. But the digital version will always be available.
GameStop does trade-in deals like that sometimes. I'm not aware of one for Switch (the Switch launch itself was hyped up and preorders were extremely limited, so they wouldn't have had any incentive to do a trade in deal since preorders were so limited), but it could still happen in the future once the 3DS is mostly dead.
