Rodney McKay
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As someone who has played a shit ton of Mario 64 and almost no Mario Galaxy (waiting to get a powerful enough PC) I find myself liking Mario 3D Land, but not loving it.
The majority of levels are really easy and just kind of boring. My favorite level is the semi-wide open desert one, probably because it feels the most like a Mario 64 level.
Gameplay-wise it just feels slow. I think this is a change they made from 64/Sunshine to Galaxy, but Mario just seems to need a lot longer to accelerate. It's fine and I'm mostly used to it by now, but it still just feels slow to me. The thing I HATE it how you jump higher the faster you are moving. It just doesn't make any sense to me and feels pretty bad on levels with tiny platforms and almost no room to accelerate. In some cases I guess the charged backflip can help with this problem, but a 64-esque double jump would have been nice.
The majority of levels are really easy and just kind of boring. My favorite level is the semi-wide open desert one, probably because it feels the most like a Mario 64 level.
Gameplay-wise it just feels slow. I think this is a change they made from 64/Sunshine to Galaxy, but Mario just seems to need a lot longer to accelerate. It's fine and I'm mostly used to it by now, but it still just feels slow to me. The thing I HATE it how you jump higher the faster you are moving. It just doesn't make any sense to me and feels pretty bad on levels with tiny platforms and almost no room to accelerate. In some cases I guess the charged backflip can help with this problem, but a 64-esque double jump would have been nice.