Thoughts so far on Mario 3D All Stars:

[Slownenberg]

TruckOSaurus said:

Slownenberg said:
I'm 56 stars into Mario 64 now. Lovin' getting back into this game. Also makes me realize how short the game is. I've only played for maybe 6 hours and I'm almost half way to 100% it. Quite the difference between more modern Mario like Odyssey that takes several dozen hours to get close to 100%'ing. But it was the first real open 3D game so makes sense.

Well you have to factor in the fact that you know exactly what to do and where every star/power up is. On a first playthrough, you wouldn't be anywhere near 56 stars after 6 hours (but yes Odyssey does have more content for sure).

Well to be fair I haven't played the game in 20 years so I don't remember the vast majority of where stuff is. I just remember most of the levels in general but only remember where a handful of stars are, and like I had no idea when or where in the game I'd get to enable the three cap powerups. The level I'm playing through right now I don't even remember it existing at all. But yeah since I've played it before it is going a little faster than the first time when i was probably just jumping around exploring all over worlds just for fun, where as now I'm just straight up going after stars so its a bit faster. It just reminded me I've seen a few people complain that Odyssey is short and I'm like what the hell Odyssey is a super long game for a platformer and a long game just in general. Made me think those people who think Odyssey should be the length of a long RPG need to play through Mario 64 to get some perspective!

Anyway, up to 76 stars now! Looks like I'll be starting Sunshine later this week!