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    Like Slider, I also got me them 3D Mario All Stars. Contrary to him, I think, this is very much my first real rodeo with them.
    I've reached 31 Stars in Super Mario 64, which is probably 26 more than I ever did before as I only remembered the first three levels and even then, I was completely lost on most stars.
    I've been enjoying it, it's really such a massive and impressive world for 1996, and I'm amazed at the amount of jumps one can do.
    But the game can be a pain in the ass multiple times. Mario is TOO slippery and it's very easy to make a small mistake that ends up kicking you out of the entire level, making you have to re-do it all again. I can't even begin to count the amount of times I had to try to catch all the red coins in the ice level just to slip somewhere and fall to oblivion. Camera also doesn't help at all a lot of the time.
    Also, the fucking Boo Mansion has two of the most assholish stars I've met so far. Like, how am I suppose to know that there's a fucking balcony there? And the jump is insanely hard to pull off, just for you to fall when facing the big Boo... And then, if you do manage to beat it they throw the star to a place where I had no idea how to get to. Turns out you have to make another slippery sloop jump to the ceiling and pray you don't fall like I did about 5 times, making me have to climb all over again, I spent some good hour just on that star, and then, the next star is to reach the balcony... WITH A FUCKING TIMER.
    I pondered skipping straight to Sunshine after this...But I pulled through. Managed to find all the cap switches somehow and now I'm curious of what's to come.
    Also, boss room in the basement is not a boss at all and that confuses me, and there's a weird bunny there as well that looks impossible to get.

    It's weird to think that I'm probably the only guy who bought this and is experiencing most of Super Mario 64 for the first time in 2021.
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      Editing … Also, I got a Switch. That's pretty recent as well.
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      Editing … I liked playing that Boo's Mansion level back in the day, but all those camera angles are still horrible. I'm not surprised that they switched to more linear stages in the later games.
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      Editing … I would assume that there are plenty others who enjoyed SM64 in 2021. --- Reading your experience, my best advice is to revisit some early level where you can't easily fall to your death and spend some quality time with the lovable plumber: get to to know all the running, jumping, sliding, hopping controls. Hookjump, walljump, longjump, triple jump. Get a feeling for how much fun controlling Mario is. This game is best played by daringly launching him off in random directions and not looking back, rather than careful placement and tiptoeing. --- Also, the camera -- as janky as it admittedly is -- actually has more control than you probably think. It was only last year that I learned how useful the tripod mode sometimes is (togglable in Start menu inside a level).
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      Editing … I would just play tons of Shifting Sand Land. Seriously, all the best enemies and the hilarious quicksand deaths are there. And the vulture steals my hat. Lol.
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