So I finished Super Mario Galaxy last night. It was a good game, of course, but with all the hype it generated when it came out, I was expecting so much more. I mean, it had (and still has!) such a good rank on all the big sites and everyone's been raving about how it's the greatest game to come out in years. I thought it was okay, but nothing awe inspiring. o_O; Granted, I didn't search every nook and cranny of the game. I was getting everything I could--completing every galaxy, etc--for a good half the game. I usually ended up going to the new sections of the starship and was able to unlock the boss planet as soon as it opened up. I did get bored of that pretty quickly and upon finding some planets that I really hated, just stopped altogether and half-assed the end. XD; But I really didn't enjoy the game as much as I thought I would. I'd prepared myself for the best game ever and was let down quite a bit as a result. I thought the levels were too linear. Now... I started on the Mario franchise at SM64. XD I never played the 2D ones which were probably rather linear themselves. But this game was... pretty boring. There was no real exploring of the worlds. They were pretty, yes, but there was really just the one objective in each one. You couldn't branch off and grab another star instead, save for the few hidden stars in certain levels. D: I found that pretty boring. I also just suck at platformers, so some levels I found really, really annoying. I do plan to pick it up and go for perfect on the game eventually. I'll probably do it slowly over the years when I'm bored, like I did for SM64. In the mean time, I'm going to start plowing through the Final Fantasies I own. I've restarted III (I never really got anywhere with it anyway) and after that, I'll move on to VII. Then VIII and IX (never touched IX before... I'm excited! :D). I guess X comes next, but I'm still paranoid about playing it in front of my brother. XD I accidentally deleted his perfect file once--he had all the secret weapons and everything. I felt so bad and haven't played it since in case he picks it up and asks where his file is. Though I did the same thing with his perfect VII file (I FAIL AT SAVING, KTHX) and he believed it glitched, which I think the memory card eventually did, since I lost a file too. But I digress--I guess I can play X when he's not around. Then X-2 where I get to FINALLY FINISH THAT STUPID DUNGEON so I can beat the game. Then zoom through it again and pick up that 0.4% that I'm missing so that I can get that perfect ending. No, Andy, I won't just download it. :C So that should keep me busy while I fail at looking for real jobs and end up with a crappy Tim Horton's shift or something. :