The ones that leap out of water to get you on world 3 were already quite stressful.
That fish didn't terrify me near as much as the angry sun though. Back then I often did "almost complete" runs where I'd just kept a lakitu cloud to skip the sun level from world 8.
On the part about Cappy tricks, not sure why the author forgot all 3D Mario games have always included more or less complex move tricks/combos.
Mario 64 already had triple jump, wall kicks, diving/sliding, long jumps, side jumps...
Super Mario Sunshine added a lot of complex moves with FLUDD, and even a limited way to make your own platforms. Odyssey just does it a lot better IMO. I kinda hated Sunshine Yoshi.
And it's not like the more complex combos are required to finish the game. Occasionally you need one for 100% completion, but most of the time they're just cool tricks to pull off to reach a place faster, or just grab a few coins.
"We're only asking about those outrageous monetization schemes so we know how much you hate them! We definitely didn't consider them!"
Yeah, testing the waters.
Trivia : The Magi who presented gifts to Jesus were in fact aliens who followed the Star of Bethlehem throughout the universe as it appeared before important events
Oh yeah that's good stuff. Disney, adapt that shit.
Indeed Professor X is Marvel, Aquaman is DC, and Jesus is New Testament Comics. There are arguments over ownership of some NT characters though, it's complicated.
Don't scream, you old fool, you're gonna hurt your undetermined quantity of ears!
"Refuse to use tiktok", seriously listen to yourself.
Tiktok is not some kind of new paradigm. It's yet another social network, one with an annoying gimmick (that it didn't even invent). A gimmick that makes it harder to do meaningful content and easier to have complete assholes as its superstars.
It's just a shitty company offering a shitty product.
Flash memories don't last forever, and some of the 3DS cartridge batches in particular were rather shit and age quite poorly, a lot faster than DS cartridges for example.
Optical discs are subject to "disc rot", damage from UVs apparently. Some are more vulnerable to it than others. For some reason Wii U discs are quite bad and often have that problem. Sounds very much like Nintendo cheaped out a lot on their media around that time.
The Switch proves Sony should have allocated more resources to the vita.
With the 3DS struggling on its first years, they had a serious shot at the handheld market. Not complaining since in the end, 3DS took off and got fantastic games, but Sony clearly missed an opportunity.
Fuck the vortex machine level.
Look, I was born in the 80s, I played Morrowind about the time it was released (closer to GOTY edition, but whatever), but even I have to kinda agree with your niece at this point.
Though its gameplay and world-building certainly aged better than Oblivion's.