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It's MAR10 today. So what Mario game are you playing or replaying?
VGCartography:
Bowser's Fury is definitely awesome. Kind of an Odyssey area (or larger) but with different mechanics.
I captured some Galaxy planet pics for a collage recently: https://www.deviantart.com/vgcartography/art/Super-Mario-Galaxy-Planetoid-Catalog-908412054
I know they're probably all hands on for BotW2 and such, but I do hope we get an Odyssey 2 or another Mario platformer before the next console. Never getting a Mario 64-2 is an all-time screwup in my book still.
TerraEsperZ:
That Galaxy collage is amazing!
God I loved the Super Mario Galaxy games... Even though Odyssey was also amazing, I would rather have a Super Mario Galaxy 3 before a Super Mario Odyssey 2.
JonLeung:
It's MAR10 Day again!
As of this morning, I got 4,000 hours of watch time (in the past year) on my "JonLeung1" YouTube channel, the vast majority of it due to my compilation of all The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailers and other ads, which got even more of a boost yesterday with the reveal of the Final Trailer (even though I made a new compilation including that here, sometimes it takes a couple days to pick up steam)... So I guess I owe my success to Mario, LOL.
The significance of the 4,000 hours is that's one of the requirements for monetization for a YouTube channel. The other being 1000 subscribers, which I got 23 days ago (and I actually got to 1100 yesterday, so it's definitely accelerating). I should probably get out more original content again (instead of rehashing Animaniacs and Super Mario Movie stuff), while I wait for a month or so for the third step, which is simply YouTube's approval, which doesn't outline their specific criteria. Better lay off the potentially copyright-infringing stuff, so that I don't get any strikes while they're considering it.
Aside from this YouTube milestone which isn't really that Mario-related other than the success of that one video, I probably should actually play something. It's been over eight years and I still haven't started Mario & Luigi: Dream Team so I wonder if I should just start already. Though I don't like multiple RPGs on the go, and I've been busy with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 when I do have time to play games these days, and in that I've been enjoying grinding and am quite overpowered for where I am in the story (barely into the story at all, and already at Level 55 with all nine Classes (that I could get at this point) for all six characters, maxed (for now) at Level 10), but I can certainly take a break to find something with Mario today. If not Dream Team, maybe I should play more of those extra e-Reader stages for Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 which I bought last year but barely played... or now it's on the GBA app for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, so I could play it there too if I don't mind starting over...
I normally play games in the morning when I am on the WalkingPad (1.25 hours, guilt-free) and haven't missed a day of walking on it since March 2020 (aside from the two weeks when it was getting repaired). But I haven't walked this morning because of a specifically-timed errand, so I guess I'll walk after work today - and hopefully will have decided what to play when I get on it.
For someone who remembers this day every year, it's pretty bad that what I could play feels like an afterthought in the past few years...
I'm also planning a Japan trip - won't say specific dates - but I look forward to seeing Super Nintendo World in Osaka. I wanted to go in past years, as a "flex" that I am such a Nintendo fan that I would see it in Japanese instead of waiting for it to come out in the United States in English, but alas, due to world events that wasn't possible, and I couldn't get my passport renewed in time to be there opening day for the California one. Ah well, that's a silly thing to flex anyway. But I'll be seeing more than just gaming-related stuff, should be a good trip.
What are you guys playing (or doing) that is Mario-specific?
EDIT: Near the end of the day, I remembered that I hadn't played the latest wave of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the one that reintroduces Birdo and includes the all-new Yoshi's Island track, so I played that Fruit Cup and Boomerang Cup and I guess that'll count for this year.
Let's see if I fail to start Mario & Luigi: Dream Team yet again when MAR10 rolls around next year...
JonLeung:
I guess I'm the only one that posts here about MAR10 Day, huh?
I know I'm still behind on my Mario RPGs, so, no more excuses, yesterday I moved the Wii U down to the basement (almost all of my gaming time is while I'm walking on the WalkingPad™, after all, no one can criticize my gaming if I'm exercising at the same time) and this morning I finally started Paper Mario: Color Splash (Wii U). Good timing, as apart from getting all the Alcremie (still working on that), I think I've exhausted what I can do in Pokémon Scarlet, so it's perfect timing to start something new anyway. I heard Color Splash is not one of the better Paper Mario games, but I semi-recently got through Paper Mario: Sticker Star (3DS) which is considered the worst, and I still enjoyed that. I'm pretty sure I played Super Paper Mario (Wii) when it first came out in 2007, so it's pretty crazy that it's been 17 years in between playing two console Paper Mario games that are only one generation apart. Liking Color Splash so far, but as it's been my first day, I'm only an hour and a half into it, and am in the third area (with the waterwheels). Concerned about the battle system, but again, Sticker Star's is way worse and I still got through that, so I'll manage. I'm glad the stand I got for tablets actually fits perfectly into the tablet slot of the handlebar of the WalkingPad™ and that the Wii U GamePad fits snugly on that, so it's possible to walk at 4.5 mph and not worry about dropping the GamePad. Might keep the Wii U down there for a bit, there are other games I haven't gotten to that are on there. I recently learned that if a 3DS and Wii U both have custom firmware, it's possible to stream 3DS games onto the Wii U, so maybe I could have started Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (3DS), as it's the one game I keep pushing off... whoops. Not that I couldn't just play it on the 3DS, but again, if I want to put it in my morning exercise time, it's probably safer to play it on the Wii U now that I know the GamePad can be safely used. But at the same time, maybe I could put the New 3DS XL on there the same way... something to look into. Who would've thought ergonomics and physical logistics are things to consider in my gaming these days?
Related to Mario, I tried out the Princess Peach: Showtime! demo (Switch) yesterday. The cookie-making part of the Patissiere Peach section was actually a little challenging; I had to do it four times to get it perfect. I like the variety of gameplay. I know I'm probably not the intended target demographic for it, but as a game, it seems well-made enough, it's inoffensive, why not? Well, it's a little lower priority compared to other things I could play, but that's about it. It's the kind of game that, if renting games was still a thing, I expect I could probably finish in a few days and be done with it. Not sure if I'll pick it up - I'm behind on my games - Mario games, even. Aside from the Mario RPGs, my brother and I STILL haven't finished Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Switch) because we're playing it together and therefore it's only possible when we're both able and willing to spend the time. As I'm always busy trying to catch up on YouTube videos I intend to make, and he's always training Pokémon for competitions and such, it's really when we both think we deserve a Mario break at the same time. I think we still have to do Worlds 5 and 6 to get through, but at least we've 100%ed every stage we've come across so far...
Last year on this day, I mentioned getting a ridiculous amount of hits on my YouTube channel because I reposted The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailers, which got TONS of views around March 10. Turns out YouTube doesn't like reposted content when it comes to counting watch hours. The prerequisite for monetization is 4000 watch hours in the past twelve months. I've been denied monetization twice already because despite having 11,000 hours, as many of those watch hours were for copyrighted material (either the Mario or the Animaniacs stuff), and each time I'm denied I have to wait some time to reapply - now it's three months. I tried and failed the second time in December, so the means to reapply opened up again last week, but I'm going to wait a few more days for last year's MAR10 spike to go away (so it doesn't show up in my last twelve months) to see what a "normal" amount of watch time is and so the copyrighted stuff - certainly the Mario stuff - doesn't work AGAINST me in terms of monetization.
So that's what's been up with me and Mario, how about you?
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