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People doing nonsense on the Balloon thing

Long Journey's End.....

Christ. I'm almost there. I think.

So I've seen the credits.

I'm not sure how much I like it atm.

I don't understand the structure of the game at all. Past Marios have been very simply laid out.

In this I have no fucking idea how many moons there are? In total or each level. Isn't there a total count anywhere?

Why can you buy an infinite amount? Seems a bit stupid to me.

Cheers mate, makes sense.

Is there a way to find out how many moons there are in each Kingdom? A bit like the counter for each Kingdoms purple currency?

Much obliged.

I'm done for tonight but will go back to mop up the extras. It's only then you can truly judge a Mario game imo.

I've finally completed the Long Journey's End. I've got 505 moons and I really can't be bothered anymore (ive enjoyed it, it's an amazing game). Is there any reason to keep on playing?

New moons?

Three1ne's post about The Long Journey's End reminded me I haven't done it.  70 minutes later and nope, it's not a one session thing for me.  I can consistently get to the

Moot_Geeza wrote:

New moons? Three1ne's post about The Long Journey's End reminded me I haven't done it.  70 minutes later and nope, it's not a one session thing for me.  I can consistently get to the

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moving platform section (with the pulse beacons and enemies encroaching on your tiny space), with 5 or 6 hearts, but die on the bird beak bit if I make it through. No idea how far I am through the stage.

I spent 2 or 3 weeks on it. May be 6-10 hours on it.

I was stuck at the bird beak bit for ages.

Tips

Well it took a while but I finally went back to this today, as usual a quick half hour turned into a couple of hours.

Looking forward to the post credit greatness that awaits.

It seems a bit overwhelming and much more of a collectathon than past Mario's tbf.

I do love it but it's not the 64/Galaxy beater some think for me.

I've been chipping away at this since before Christmas. Its a great game but I do agree with Retro.

Galaxy 2 is still the absolute pinnacle for me.

Getting into Odyssey a lot more now.

Really not a fan of objectives from one Kingdom triggering Moons in another though, its making mopping up the remaining Moons a bit of a pain.

In the past Mario's I liked to completely finish a level before moving on, with this there's a lot of revisiting already revisited Kingdoms.

It feels a bit bloated and cheap tbh, there's so many Moons you just end up stumbling into enough to clear a level without much thought let alone challenge, and if you can't do that you can just buy them? Wft!

On the flip side some of the Moons are also much more cryptic than past Mario's, or at least it feels that way. I guess that's what happens when you shoe horn 50 Moons in a level instead of 6/7.

This is a shame as the best bits of this game are up there with the best 3D Mario has to offer, if it was a bit more condensed and focused it would be right up there for me but if only 1 Moon in 10 is memorable it can't help but feel diluted.

Don't want to sound too harsh though, I'm having a great time with it and can't put it down once I start.

Mario has been the undisputed king of 3D platformers for me and this hasn't changed that at all. Only the original Jak & Daxter came close for me, but that was in the GCN days of Nintendo dropping every ball thrown at them imo.

Its odd because its not doing anything overly different in many ways.

Take the quest to help Toad with his garden in the Mushroom Kingdom as an example.
Am I being too harsh? Nintendo have done so well to fill every inch of every Kingdom with something to do, the creativity here is impressive.

I'm from the school of less is more so maybe it's just me?

The castle moons are doled out in a way that can only be described as a complete farce.