{"id":5220,"date":"2025-10-04T00:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:12:38","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/5220","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and so it begins (Super Mario Galaxy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17595359903295843698773561854265.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17595359903295843698773561854265-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17595359903295843698773561854265-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17595359903295843698773561854265-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17595359903295843698773561854265-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17595359903295843698773561854265-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17595359903295843698773561854265.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I started this blog in early 2012 and by then, both <b>Galaxy<\/b> games had come and gone.  A decade ago, I wrote about my <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1785\">Mario Completion stats<\/a> and there I reminisced about how <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/best\/sequels\/#mario\">Galaxy 2 was the third-best Mario game ever<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve wanted to revisit, but <i>I<\/I> am the reason these remasters exist.  I could play all of this on the original hardware, via emulation&#8230;hell, I could do it on my phone, I&#8217;m sure.  But convenience is king and with a Switch 2 in hand (and its 4K resolution), I was decidedly a day-one buyer, even in spite of it&#8217;s silly price tag.  (Grazie, zio).<\/p>\n<p>I endeavor to chronicle my progress.  Do I have the patience to 100% the first game before eagerly jumping to the second?  Do I even need to reach that goal?  So far, so good, I must say.  <b>Galaxy<\/b> is Nintendo at their most creative and I&#8217;m really quite enjoying myself.  Let&#8217;s see how this adventure goes!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog in early 2012 and by then, both Galaxy games had come and gone. A decade ago, I wrote about my Mario Completion stats and there I reminisced about how Galaxy 2 was the third-best Mario game ever. I&#8217;ve wanted to revisit, but I am the reason these remasters exist. I could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,4],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-games","tag-mario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5240,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}