Mario Galaxy 2
I played two of the green star mission then after that decided hell nah, that's going to be incredibly tedious. The green stars seem to be designed for kids in 2010 who had nothing else going on.
So it isn't just me that feels that way.
As someone that actually 100% Galaxy 2 back in the day, I'm going to have to push back. Yes a good amount of Green Stars are just find the star hidden somewhere in the stage, but a lot of them are also in plain sight and require either doing tricky platformer challenges or climbing up area's you wouldn't even think you could in the base game. It made replaying the game again as Luigi more interesting since his higher and longer jumps were put to good use in getting them.
For the month of April, I did get at least 4 games crossed of my backlog, but they were all on the Switch.
Astalon: Tears of the EarthNow this was an amazing Metroidvania game. Unlike a lot of the indie titles that just follow the IGA formula of copy and paste long hallways with some vertical rooms with platforms, this castle is filled with so many unique rooms and layouts. Definitely something more people should try.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the NightI beat the game on Normal mode last year and found it pretty meh. Decided to play it again on Hard mode to see if I might enjoy it more. Nope, it's actually worse since the sluggish controls and terrible hitbox detection, now combined with harder hitting enemy and bosses that all take more hits to kill, a truly miserable experience. I looked up Youtube video's to see how people actually played this **** and of course they just grind to max out their souls early on to curbstomp everything. Pretty much proves what I was thinking when I played it last year, this game was pretty much made for the IGA vania fans who love to grind to completely negate any challenge, while anyone that doesn't like to grind will be stuck with a mediocre to outright terrible action game.
No More Heroes 3Well that was pretty fun, probably my favorite game in the series. Story had me laughing most of the time and a lot of the boss fights were actually pretty good.
Another WorldPlayed Flashback back in 2021 and really loved it. Now I thought this game came after but it turns out this was the one that came before. So yeah it was a shorter game that lacks the gameplay variety of Flashback, but it was still pretty fun. For a game that I've seen many consider pretty hard, I did pretty good. I played for a few hours before finally hitting a part that I had to look up, and when I looked it up it turns out that was literally the last puzzle of the game. It's funny since I did the same with Flashback, where I managed to go through the game without having to look anything up, until I finally hit a puzzle that I just couldn't figure out and in both cases, the ending was literally about 5 minutes away.