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BetrayedTangy posted...

Been awhile since I posted in here, but I am still working on Red Dead! I just got really distracted with Tony Hawk and Paper Mario, both have been infinitely more fun so far!

Sounds like you're having something of a similar experience with Red Dead to mine. On your top 10, though Dark Souls is a pretty hard game I would say the difficulty tends to get overstated at times. I personally don't consider it an unfair game outside of a few poorly designed sections. I'm looking forward to Doom too - I like how it focuses on a single style of gameplay and tries to make that as tight as possible. I think that's a nice contrast with a lot of other AAA games. I would like to try hosting a Minecraft server for this project, now that you mention it. I'll have to look into how that's done.

ctesjbuvf posted...

I do agree with the things you said about the hub and Rosalina, but I don't recall any of the Galaxy games being more open. Both were a lot less open than 64 and Sunshine. Odyssey too.

Yeah, I phrased that poorly. What I was trying to say is that you have a little more freedom as to the order in which you tackle levels in the first Galaxy. If you cleared out enough earlier levels in that one, you could pretty much skip entire worlds because the only requirement was how many stars you had. In this one it seems like you have to have enough stars to access a level as well as having found at least one star in all the galaxies that are behind it on the map. That being said, the best way to approach both games is probably to play the levels "in order," since that results in the most well-designed difficulty curve.

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Day 3
32 Stars

I completed the entirety of world 2 and made a little progress on 3. One level that I particularly liked was the twin falls one where you start out swimming, then freeze the ocean so you can wall-jump up a pair of waterfalls to reach the star. Then in the second level for that galaxy everything is still frozen but you go into an underground tunnel where there's still flowing water. I just thought that progression was kind of cool. I got 15 comet medals which finally spawned a prankster comet, and then got caught up knocking down comet levels one after another. I stopped on the purple coin level on that galaxy where you flip which platforms you can stand on every time you spin, after dying a few times trying to get through it. Out of the normal levels, I think the one that's given me the most trouble so far is the one with the Mario 64 style slide.

One thing I have noticed is that my wrist gets really tired from playing this game, so it's another one that's made me feel kind of old.

The music is unsurprisingly great. I'm glad that you get a little background percussion when you're riding Yoshi, like you did in Super Mario World. So far my favorite track is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaf2gUhy74o

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I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 7/129
Currently Playing: Super Mario Galaxy 2