um yeah excuse me an augmented reality mario kart??? incredible
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Sunshine took a chance on a new ability set with FLUDD which is commendable but then they take it away for various challenge levels which are quite mean and spiky in their difficulty. I wouldn’t say it’s completely worthless but the Galaxies definitely have a smoother progression towards harder challenges whilst still retaining the fundamental abilities throughout.
I’d be really interested to hear people’s opinions upon revisiting them. Odyssey kinda convinced me I don’t really enjoy (non-Gameboy) Mario games very much and that they might not be for me.
I don’t think 3d all stars requires the joy-cons, the text says “To make use of Joy-Con features on Nintendo Switch Lite, a Joy-Con pair is required and the Nintendo Switch adjustable charging stand is recommended.”
so I’m thinking that it’s pretty specifically for the mario galaxy 2 player stuff, but the rest of it is fine
very much not into the disneyfication of the purchase window though like @ronk said
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The Disney Vault-like purchase window is pretty loathsome for a digital release. Perhaps even very loathsome. I’ve seen folks speculating wildly that after March, Nintendo will depackage them and sell them at higher individual title prices (maybe with Galaxy 2 as an extra title to get another transaction from the people who picked up the collection), which is possible but also baseless speculation. I’d imagine it’s very much in Nintendo’s calculated interest to make like this is super limited but then offer the content repackaged elsewhere before too long.
That said, people complaining about rereleases is getting pretty tiresome to me. Sunshine and Galaxy haven’t been released in any form since their original disc releases 13 to 18 years ago. I’m all for keeping games in current circulation. Emulation is also great, but it’s good to have things that aren’t just whatever bullshit’s released in the last 6 months in the conversation and if you don’t want it you don’t have to buy it, but I want it. Amazing to see the brave crusaders online scolding people out there for wanting to buy the All-Stars 3D collection because it’s only going to encourage Nintendo’s bad behavior, as if they’re trying to rain a puppy who humps everyone’s leg.
Re: the scarcity question again. I kinda want that Game & Watch thing. Like, I love that kinda shit. $50’s a bit more than I want to spend on it, and I don’t really need it. But if I ever want it, I need to order it now, because by Christmas it’ll be selling secondhand for $300, probably.
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Yeah Galaxy 1 feels mostly more like an asset tour than having super tightly designed levels, but it’s an extremely charming blue skies-y (starry space-y) asset tour with a suitably epic (but not overly bombastic to me at least) soundtrack. Very enjoyable. I’m a mario nut though.
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Anyway, genuinely hoping for a similar 35th anniversary blowout for Zelda next spring, too.
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The limited release window for 3D All-Stars I can abide. The fact that Super Mario 35 will only be playable until the end of March, however, is utter nonsense.
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Yeah, what the hell is up with that?
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Galaxy had these (bad) parts where you had to point the wiimote at blue stars to slowly float into space.
I’m guessing the detached joycons are necessary for these (implementing touchscreen controls would have been too much I guess)
Galaxy 2 had the « shake the wiimote to flip » platforms that made me endlessly mad because shaking only worked 90% of the time or so in my experience.
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i’m wondering if it’s effectively early access or something
probably not lol
The first thing I noticed in that video is they had fludd for the bonus levels.
Oh dang, you’re right 
AFAI remember you unlock FLUDD in one by beating it once, though they may have changed that.
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ok is that true, i’ve never heard of this
the best part of all this will at least be that all of my friends who love Sunshine will finally have the chance to be completely disappointed upon revisiting.
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thinking back on this a couple hours later my main thought is whether or not this direct gives any credence to the dumb 2D metroid rumors that have also been going around.
The scarcity thing with the 3D collection is wack, but I honestly don’t know why the chorus of online Nintendo fans/haters/hate-fans/fan-haters can’t just say “Seems overpriced” instead of crowing about “unethical behavior” or whatever
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Sunshine is still pretty great, you just have to reconcile that like Odyssey and unlike 64/ Galaxies / 3D Land, getting to 100% stars is torture and not the point of the game
The hangoutitude, ridiculous rocket FLUDD and truly disgusting Yoshi vomit are unmatched
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to be fair, Sunshine being not that great still puts it miles and yards above pretty much every single other platformer in its generation. it’s easily the weakest one of the 3D Marios imo but that vacation shirt is cool
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Mario Sunshine is better than Mario 64
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