Topic: Super Mario 3D All-Stars

@BlueOcean 8 but he is a passionate gamer. Let me know how you find the controls.

@1UP_MARIO I'll let you know. I'll start with Super Mario 64. How does your child deal with that one?

@BlueOcean he went straight to galaxy. He calls Mario 64 minecraft Mario 😉

@BlueOcean I've thought about it before. The price difference would probably be negligible between getting an N64 and all those games vs. an xbox one and Rare Replay. What're they going for these days? I think the only thing keeping me from taking the plunge is I have a PS4 and there aren't many exclusives on the xbox one I'd want.

What.

@1UP_MARIO Minecraft Mario LOL. Don't you want him to try it? I'd love to know if he gets a few stars and starts liking it.

@Losermagnet I got an Xbox One just for Rare Replay thinking that I wouldn't like anything else and now my library is huge. You can get an Xbox Series S which is next-gen but cheap ($299, 10th November 2020) because it has GPU power for 1440p upscaled to 4K if you want (Series X has GPU power for native 4K but it's more expensive at $499). It will give you access to all the available backwards compatible games (original Xbox and Xbox 360) and all the Xbox One games plus next-gen games, all at 1440p. I think Series S would be a nice (and cheap considering that it's a next-gen console with the same CPU power as Series X) addition to your Switch because you get all Rare's games, all third-party games and whatever first-party games you might discover and enjoy, old and new, good for us that didn't have an Xbox until now like myself, @Eel and some others around here.

@BlueOcean got him to try several times. I guess he’s at the age where new games are always more fun.
I guess if you didn’t grow up with the games and how they controlled, it’s hard to enjoy them.

@1UP_MARIO I would "force" him into playing it in order to satisfy my curiosity, how does my little son deal with a game that was new at my sweetest time? I don't know how you can resist that 😂.

Good news, I finally received my day-1 preorder

@BlueOcean I did try then I remember all those lego games on the Wii u he made me play when he got stuck 😀

@BlueOcean I was never sure about the backwords compatibility, but there would definately be some original xbox and 360 games I'd get. My biggest complaint with the PS4 is lack of that feature. Sounds like a great idea - thanks for the recommendation!

@Eel Wait, so you haven't been playing it this whole time?!

@Apportal Nope.

The few things I mentioned were from memory.

Anyway, Isle Delfino here we go.

@Eel oof, well I'm glad you got your copy.

@1UP_MARIO Ha ha you're such a good father. I don't have kids... yet.

@Losermagnet Good to hear, I'm sure that you won't regret it 😁.

In 64 tonight I started up Hazy Maze Cave and got a few Stars (the one with the dinosaur in the water, the red coin one, and one you get after traversing a poison maze & hanging from a grate), but the next mission seemed to require the Metal Cap (which I don't have yet), so I decided to move on and tackle Shifting Sand Land...

...I wasted so many lives trying to get the Star from the bird. Granted, actually getting the Star from it was easy once you're on top of the pillar it's flying around, but the problem was that it kept spawning above a pillar that's in the middle of quicksand, and even if I managed to scale it and touch the Star (which flew to the other side of the pyramid after the bird let it go), a shy guy kept circling me overhead chucking fireballs, causing me to fall into the quicksand. Luckily the last time I tried it the bird had spawned near a different pillar, one which wasn't near quicksand (and was right next to where the Star lands when you touch the bird), so it was super easy.

I decided to call it quits for the night after that, however I noticed the rabbit was back so I got another Star from him (up to 51 now, I may yet beat Bowser).

@RR529 I usually find the bird gravitates around the oasis, so I hang around there and get it.

@RR529 That rabbit is so funny.

110 stars. I've 100%ed all but one of the levels before the last Bowser stage, I believe.

The one-hundred coin missions are very satisfying insofar as it feels like they require you to draw on the knowledge and experience you gained from collecting the other stars. They're 'master runs' of a level, basically.

Well, my OCD wouldn't let me leave Sunshine like that, so I went back and toyed around with it for a bit. I finally beat the cursed "Red Coins on the water" mission and collected 5 stars worth of blue coins. The only Shadow Mario course I need now is Pianta Village, which I know is deadly easy, but you know what isn't easy? The chuckster level. That freaking chuckster level...