I’ve always liked Galaxy 1 more than 2, but damn this game is so good.

I absolutely LOVE Oblivion that being said all these criticisms are wholly valid. Great Video!

extremely good vid man! i burned out hard after beating the main game a few years ago but now i feel like going back and completing my save i also didnt use the hint system because i didnt really know what it was but i will now

Welcome to the "I've criticized KingK in a video" Club. We are the only 2 members I know of.

The indignation in “who even stands still in this game on purpose” is the best moment of the entire video

I was prepared to watch the whole thing but then you start out with it being the “most polarizing” Mario game? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a complaint for it beyond, “It was pretty easy to beat,” and “Other Mario games are harder to 100%.” It’s a beloved game, not a divisive one like Sunshine.

Good video, but I really don't think Odyssey is the most polarizing Mario game. That'd definitely be Sunshine.

Rayman 3 is a pretty good gem

I owned this game back in the late 90’s and remember that it was brutally difficult. I never finished the game

It's really good, 8/10 game. But, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 and knuckles, Sonic adventure 1 Sonic adventure 2 Shadow the hedgehog 2005, Sonic Riders, Sonic Riders Zero Gravity, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic Colors, Sonic Generations and Sonic Mania are better games. I like heroes little bit more then frontiers if that sounds good. I finished the entire game, I can get A ranks and I just simply don't suck at it. But, heroes still isn't and never will be my favorite child :(

Before watching this video: I liked Odyssey, but there is no denying that the game is suffering from what I call "open world syndrom". Most open world games - including highly praised ones like BotW - are just quantity over actual quality. Now, with SMO and BotW, it's not that there is an actual lack of quality - these are highly polished games after all - it's more that, instead of having to collect 999 moons with at least half of the moons being rewards for even the most generic shit imaginable, I prefer the approach of SMG, where every single star feels special. It's the same with BotW and the stupid seeds, but to a lesser extend. These games want to impress you with high numbers (999 moons, or over 100 shrines) but those numbers are ultimately pointless. What good are 1000 shrines, when they all look the same, have the same music and all follow one of maybe five patterns? What good are 10.000 moons to collect, when you get 1000 moons from talking to some stupid NPC over and over again? Obviously I'm exaggerating, but quantity over quality seems to be the overall theme with open world games. That and boring, uninspired sidequest. (None of the sidequests in BotW could hold a candle to the complexity and emotional reward of the wedding quest from MM.)

I really feel like so many reviewers and critics of the game like to think that everyone is going to want to 100% the game. While yeah, a decent amount of people do (particularly with Mario games), the majority of people just want to play the game. The best example of this is how negatively people seem to feel about the shop moons. There is no need for people who arent trying to 100% the game to buy all the moons. And if someone isn't trying to 100%, it allows them to skip some of the more frustrating moons and just buy them.

I’ve been feeling like the nerfed long jump, side flip and wall jump make for much less dynamic movement than the previous sandbox Mario’s. The hat bounce combo is too good, I have to really force myself to look for opportunities to use his other moves. The roll naturally gets used a lot as well ofc

Thank you for this! I love the thumbnail btw.

thanks for the upload :D

Just a heads up, it's pronounced a-jill-ity, not a-gill-ity. Soft G.

Oh trust me. Coming from someone with depth perception issues, the Daredevil comets can be perfectly challenging and fit the game like a glove. But that is niche, so

Loved this game, had no idea it was FromSoft. Wish they did a remake, such a fun play style. Loved the art style too

I love Rayman M, one of the best games of my childhood!

I just finished a playthrough of this game (well, I'm still working on the Perfect Run in Grandmaster Galaxy, but that's the only thing left) and I'm not entirely sure what to think. If you just beat the game, it's much better than Galaxy 1 in my opinion and is one of the best Mario games ever made. But getting 100% is an absolute nightmare. I actually agree with you about the hub world. I think the comet observatory looks cool, but from a functional standpoint it's incredibly annoying to switch between levels. When I was going for 100% in Galaxy 1, I got very annoyed toward the end when I was getting all of the prankster comets and had to constantly switch the area I was in. Galaxy 2's faceship is MUCH easier to navigate. Plus, not many people mention it, but I honestly love the different world themes. Like how World 1 is a generic sky, but World 2 is orange and filled with clouds, and later on, World 6 has a literal black hole. It's really cool to just look at the backgrounds as you stand on the faceship. Also definitely agree that the level design was better in Galaxy 2. Open areas don't work with Galaxy's controls, Galaxy 2 toned them down a ton. I think the developers were also more willing to deviate from just using a ton of small platforms and planets. Fluffybuff Galaxy, for instance, feels completely different than anything in Galaxy 1 because of how large most of it is (while still remaining linear and flat). There were definitely a few galaxies that I didn't enjoy (like the one where you just have to fight a ton of enemies over and over again), but the vast majority of main levels were fantastic. Although one thing I didn't like were the bosses. You praised them for the most part, but I definitely thought Galaxy 1 had better bosses overall. They felt much faster, like if you were skilled enough you could take them out very quickly, whereas a lot of Galaxy 2's bosses felt slow and tedious. So yeah, I think if you just get 70 stars and beat Bowser, Galaxy 2 is way better than Galaxy 1, but I honestly really hated getting 100%. It's not just the green stars for me. I already didn't like the Prankster comets in Galaxy 1, but in Galaxy 2 they may be worse. The purple coin levels are MUCH better, and speedrun levels are too, but I really despised the daredevil comets this time around, and I didn't really mind them that much in Galaxy 1. At least in that game, it was mostly just fighting against one boss, but in Galaxy 2 they often have you replaying entire levels which felt a lot more annoying. Plus, even when you have to fight a boss in Galaxy 2, I found it annoying because of Galaxy 2's slower bosses. The secret stars were much worse as well. I agree that it was cool that they made coins more valuable by having hungry lumas want coins instead of starbits, but I think the problem is that star bits are very fun and easy to collect compared to coins. To get starbits, all you have to do is point around the screen, so you can get a lot without even moving around. Coins, on the other hand, are much harder to come by and more tedious to collect. That alone made many of the secret stars feel annoying in Galaxy 2. But even then, the green stars are definitely the worst part of getting 100%. I think most of the Green Stars were well placed. They were either well hidden, or they required you to use Mario's movement in an interesting way. But having at least 2 in every single level was just WAY too far. It should have been one per level, then it would have been a cool bonus. I hated getting booted out of the level and going back over and over again. And it forced me to revisit every Galaxy, even ones that I didn't like. When I look back at Galaxy 2 now, it feels like the first 70 stars were so fun and filled with variety and creativity, but the green stars all kind of blend together. It was needless padding in a game that already had more content than it needed. Another thing I hated about them that you didn't mention is how annoying it can be to find them when the camera is so shit. I swear, half the time when you try to adjust the camera it just won't let you for no apparent reason. There were a few levels where I had to look up green star locations when I totally would have found them if I could have just looked around in first person mode. I think it's fine for Galaxy 2 to have a bad camera that isn't easily adjustable, since most of the time the angles they give you already work perfectly. But it didn't mesh well with the green stars, which require you to look around the level to find them. Although I have a lot of problems with Galaxy 2 though, it's still one of my favorite Mario games now, and I know I'll view it more positively in the future since I am definitely NOT going for 100% next time. What I've noticed from playing all of the 3D Marios is that it feels like the biggest problem with all of them is excessive and needless padding. Maybe that doesn't apply to 3D Land or 3D World, but it applies very strongly to 64, Sunshine, Galaxy, and ESPECIALLY Galaxy 2 and Odyssey. A final thing that I really appreciate about it is how it has tributes to previous 3D Mario games (like Throwback Galaxy or the one that was like a level in Sunshine) without feeling like it's just trying to pander to nostalgia. That also gives it a nice sense of finality. Like, if Galaxy 2 was the last 3D Mario game, I'd be okay with that. I love 3D Land and 3D World, but I can't say the same about those 2 games, they just don't have the same epicness as Galaxy 2. And I'm just not that big a fan of Odyssey. Anyway, great video, it's good to see someone recognizing all of the things this game did differently from Galaxy 1, I really don't agree with the criticism that it should have been DLC or was just a level pack or whatever.

I'm playing through galaxy 1 and 2 aswell as 3d Mario World. The latter is superior BUT galaxy 2 is better than one

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Rosalina’s Observatory has a special place in my heart, and I like it more for purely sentimental reasons. Starship Mario however was a lot prettier to look at and sparked a lot more of my curiosity as a kid due to all of the small secrets

I can't wait to see Skyrim BUTCHERED!

I don’t like how Amy is written in the game. I wish they lean more into the fact Amy was helping big and cream. Find their pets rather than making. It seem like she’s helping just as an excuse to find Sonic. The whole time there’s no way out of marrying me” thing has nothing to do with helping Froggy and Chocola and makes it seem like they misunderstood the point of when Amy said a similar thing in SA2. Yes Amy SAID she would only let sonic out of jail if he promised to marry her, but she was clearly just being a little flirtatious and didn’t actually mean it. Contrast with how she acts in this game, she literally tries to beat up Sonic for saying no. I feel like sonic heroes was the beginning of Amy’s mischaracterization that was still a very prevalent piece of her writing all the way up until sonic free writers and arguably sonic generations.

Thse tjinge hapem in skyrim too

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14:29 *I have to walk my flowers and water my Dawg*

Oblivion was mostly a tech demo. For what it was it was good but it was nowhere near planned out as good as morrowind

Me quietly listening to something while at work. “AND IIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYSSSSSS LOVEEEE YOUUUUUU” (ice flower) 🥴🤣

Skyrim did make everything casual even more so than Oblivion, but I think what Skyrim did better than Oblivion was introducing you to the world much better. The main quest at the very least, takes you all across the locations, and there are various things that can happen or places that you can go during that time. Oblivion on the other hand, it just doesn't feel well designed in terms of the cities, you only visit a couple cities here and there as you go through the game. You visit Kvatch, Anvil, the Imperial City, and like I don't even think you go to any other cities. Whereas Skyrim introduces you to many of them. Even though Skyrim has the marker and relies on it, you can still just naturally find things as you move throughout the city and such.

Hey! Thanks for watching! I tried something new with this one by adding a one minute preview section with notable clips from the video. What did you think? Did it work? Was it too long? I'm legitimately curious, so voice your opinions here!

I think the NPC's having routines could still have worked with the Morrowind navigation system. It would just mean you get more descriptions for where they are or could be. Although, that does mean more reading/listening to characters prattle on.

It's interesting how Morrowind is technically smaller than most other elder scrolls games but it feels so much larger. I remember as a kid I got lost in vivec for probably 10 hours the first time I got there

Coming from someone who has played this game since the late 90’s/very early 2000’s, I’ll say that it is completely acceptable to use cheats to get through this game lol. It’s not even that fun without them.

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I owned Rayman 2 great escape on ps1. I know a lot dislike that version, but thats the one I had.

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Great video. Although you clearly really love this game, I think it's good that you still talked about the few problems you had with it. Galaxy is often hailed as a "perfect game" by Mario fans, but I never felt it deserved that title, and everything about the game is fresh in my mind since I just 100% completed it for the second time. I do genuinely enjoy the game and I still think it's a great game, but I think it has a lot of issues that Galaxy 2 fixed. You said that 64 and Sunshine had a lot of padding, which is definitely true, but I think Galaxy is just as bad as those games, if not maybe even worse. The most obvious example is the prankster comets, which are almost all extremely lazy, especially the speed run ones where they just slapped a timer on it and called it a day. The only ones I thought were good were the cosmic races and SOME of the purple coin missions. Usually the timed purple coin missions were fun, but basically anything else was pure trash. Seriously, I was very surprised to see you only said you disliked one of them. The freezeflame one was literally making you reach both peaks of the mountain, basically making you play 2 shitty, tedious versions of previous stars. I also hated the desert one and the ship one. Galaxy's controls were just not made with exploration in mind because of how slow they are, and putting ONLY 100 coins made it so much more tedious than it could have been. And it's not just the prankster comets that were obvious padding, many of the secret stars were as well. I remember one of them where all you had to do was kill 20 goombas on a giant yoshi planet. And it was annoying in Battlerock where they basically make you play the entire first star again just to save Luigi. Overall, the game is filled with original stuff, but it was clearly a rushed game. Maybe not as rushed as 64 or Sunshine, but they clearly padded the shit out of the game to get it to 120 stars when it would have been better to just have 90 or so. Another thing I dislike are the controls. You said 64 felt sluggish but I don't really get how that was the case. And Sunshine is really fast, yeah, but if you want to go slow you can just not tilt all the way on the analog stick, so I don't have a problem with it. I guess it's true that making Mario go where you want him to go is pretty easy in Galaxy, but I don't think that's the only important thing when it comes to controls. In 64 and Sunshine, the controls were really fast, and the long jump and dive were both ways to build up momentum and speed through the games (although Sunshine doesn't have a long jump, it has stuff like the spin jump and watersliding which makes up for it). Galaxy is SO much slower because you lose all your speed after landing from a long jump. And removing the dive also made the game a lot slower. I think if you look at 64 and Sunshine speedrunning, then compare it to Galaxy speedrunning, it becomes clear how much worse it got. And my final big problem with Galaxy is the level design, and I think this is something that got MUCH better with Galaxy 2. The main problem with Galaxy's level design is that using small planets was an inherently bad idea. Using a planet instead of a flat surface means that you aren't gonna be able to see the entire area at once, only a small part of it. That meant they couldn't make the planets too big or it would be tedious to find things and you'd get lost, so they made basically every planet tiny. But having tiny planets means there's almost no room to have actual platforming, and the weird camera angles also make platforming awkward. And because of that, a lot of the times the planets are just used to make you kill a few enemies or collect launch star fragments or whatever. The awkward controls and worse vision made inevitable by using planets really killed a lot of the game's level design and made it extremely repetitive and uninteresting imo. Basically all of my favorite levels use flat surfaces much more than they use planets. But I just started a playthrough of Galaxy 2 recently, and god, it's SO MUCH better. I am shocked that the general consensus seems to be that Galaxy 1 was better. It's not close for me. The main improvement that Galaxy 2 makes is that it's much more likely to use large, expansive surfaces rather than tiny planets, and that allowed the designers to make actual engaging and interesting platforming challenges. It almost feels like they felt obligated to use the planets a lot in Galaxy 1 since that was the gimmick of the game, whereas with Galaxy 2 they gave themselves more freedom to do what worked rather than what looked cool on the surface. I'm only at world 3, but I already genuinely think that the average Galaxy 2 level is better than even the best Galaxy 1 levels.

Such a great video man, it brought back a lot of great childhood memories!

Surprise surprise, the Morrowind glazer doesn't like Oblivion

Neverar deleting cliff racers with console commands is actually lore accurate

I’m only a few minutes in and, as someone who’s favorite game of all time is Galaxy 2 DAMN you have some hot takes. I think the two hub worlds both have strengths, I think the point of the observatory is to be kind of sad, and I think it works well. By the end of the game it is much happier, with the music being much happier and the whole thing being beautifully lit. I also strongly disagree about the movement I think the movement is so smooth and is so fun to use, although that one might just be me. That’s doesn’t mean I didnt love the video tho, great work!

That discussion about reusing game design is most definitely a problem, gameplay is cool but galaxy 2 lost the essence, music, and the feel of the adventure. All galaxy 2 is is a quick cash grab just throwing in yoshi and a couple levels and completely disregarding a story so much to the point it’s literally the first game with less of everything but yoshi and more levels and that hub world of Mario after being at the observatory is probably the most disappointing thing out of it all, like your content tho

I mean, collecting mushrooms isn’t so bad. I assume you’re talking about the Mages Guild quest. All four mushrooms are found in Seyda Neen. In-fact, I habitually collect the four mushroom types when I start a new player in anticipation of completing the quest once I get to Balmora.