firebush03 on 08 February 2026
One game that I never really liked until very recently was Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2. Mario to me had always been the 64/Sunshine/Odyssey sandbox approach— I always found the linear level design (and comparably restrictive movement) of the Galaxy games to always be very unappealing.
I tried to make myself like the Galaxy games by playing through them in 2017 and again in 2018, but they never stuck. Flash forward to 2022, I give the two games a second chance and they really start to grow on me.
Then, in the year of our Lord 2025, upon replaying these two games on NS1, I can comfortably say that these two games sit among my favorite games of all time.
Anybody else have a similar experience to this?
