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Comment on Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

I replayed Galaxy sometime around 2020 and had a lot of fun doing so. I remember liking this one quite a lot. It was also fun to let my kid who was around 5 at the time hold a remote to help collect stars.

I’m… reasonably sure I played Galaxy 2 as well but my memory of that iteration is completely blank.

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MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Galaxy 2 always blinks in my memory because i’ll always blend it and 1 together. It’s very much Galaxy 1’s sequel

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brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I prefer the first one to be honest.

2 botches things that worked very well before. Especially the camera that did a good job of always being in the right place in 1, but in 2 you suddenly have crazy angles and blind spots that play against you. This can’t even be explained by more complex level design, so who knows what happened.

Also they got rid of the hub for a small, disturbing looking ship and a very generic map, and they killed any trace of story. Those were two things that really set Galaxy 1 apart IMO.

On the new side of things, there were Yoshi, with different powers, and more challenges (but they kind of feel repetitive, because you end up needing to do the same things with just an additional timer or enemy etc…). And the last stars were quite a bit harder than anything in Galaxy.

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- catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That sounds about right. I feel like it played more like an expansion than an outright new game. I do remember banging my head against some of those tougher levels now.
  
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