{"id":5227,"date":"2025-10-11T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:12:29","slug":"and-so-it-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/5227","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and so it ends (Super Mario Galaxy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601511107371237751694049981850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601511107371237751694049981850-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601511107371237751694049981850-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601511107371237751694049981850-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601511107371237751694049981850-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601511107371237751694049981850-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601511107371237751694049981850.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>8 days, 15 hours  \/\/  120 stars<\/p>\n<p><b>Super Mario Galaxy<\/b> Complete!!!<\/p>\n<p>Quick notes: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am <b>NOT<\/b> doing this all as Luigi to get a true 100%.\n<ul>\n<li>(maybe one day, starting anew with this save file)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Comet system &#038; world hub was annoying to keep up with\n<ul>\n<li>Too much running around just to enter a stage\n<li>Clunky to discover what else you needed to do\n<li>Addressed in earnest in its sequel\n<\/ul>\n<li>Flying was great in designated areas\n<li>Good challenge &#8211; not absurdly difficult\n<li>Switch 2 translation was fantastic!\n<ul>\n<li>Ran great and fantastic resolution\n<\/ul>\n<li>Bee power-up was fun, spring was iffy\n<li>Exploration wasn&#8217;t really worth it&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>Mostly yielded 1-Ups, thus diminishing desire to look further\n<li>Which is, to me, the heart of the Mario series.\n<\/ul>\n<li>Level diversity staled as time went on.\n<ul>\n<li>Also addressed in <b>Galaxy 2<\/b>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Late-game challenge was appropriate.  Frustrating, but never out of reach.\n<li>Very satisfying 100%*  (again, not doing all 120 stars again!)\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517313293564662281070548677.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517313293564662281070548677-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517313293564662281070548677-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517313293564662281070548677-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517313293564662281070548677-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517313293564662281070548677-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517313293564662281070548677.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517445144801858968664759561.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517445144801858968664759561-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517445144801858968664759561-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517445144801858968664759561-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517445144801858968664759561-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517445144801858968664759561-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-17601517445144801858968664759561.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-1760151758884387197281376271902.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-1760151758884387197281376271902-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-1760151758884387197281376271902-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-1760151758884387197281376271902-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-1760151758884387197281376271902-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-1760151758884387197281376271902-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wp-1760151758884387197281376271902.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loved it.  Breaking this game out of its Wii shackles (I realize it was on the Switch already) is great and its upscaled assets, 4K resolution and comfort playing on a Pro controller make this the ideal version.  I&#8217;m so happy I played this behemoth of a game.  It boggles my mind that it was released in 2007 &#8211; that short window between moving to Maine and my latter two children.  I can&#8217;t say it brought me back, despite remembering some of those stars vividly.  It&#8217;s been 18 years since I played this game and 18 years prior, I was in 7th grade.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m diving straight into <b>Galaxy 2<\/b> &#8211; I wonder if it&#8217;s as good as I remember!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 days, 15 hours \/\/ 120 stars Super Mario Galaxy Complete!!! Quick notes: I am NOT doing this all as Luigi to get a true 100%. (maybe one day, starting anew with this save file) Comet system &#038; world hub was annoying to keep up with Too much running around just to enter a stage [&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-5227","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\/5227","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=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}