Not a final review - Ongoing impressions

Controls for Mario in SM64 are pretty smooth. You find yourself wishing you had a full-360 control of the camera, but the right stick is an improvement over the C buttons.

Currently at 96 stars, trying to go for 120 before Ultimate Bowser. It's been a huge pleasure to revisit this game.

On Sunshine, the emulation is making everything look really good except for the cutscenes - certain voice lines, particularly from the Piantas, sound extremely muffled. And then the cropping and brightness settings they're using really make the cutscenes incongruous with the gameplay.

I'm one of those who ranks Sunshine third among these three games and I'm still struggling. Mario is so damn slippery when landing on platforms, that it irrationally angers me. The music and gameplay animation makes me happy, though.

I bought this to finally finish Mario 64 and Sunshine, something little kid me could not do back then. My quick reviews on the first two is that they do not hold up and there is no real need to play them longer than say the first 2 hours to appreciate what they were doing at the time.

This collection as a whole is kind of sad when held up to others of its kind that also try to showcase the behind the scenes making of these childhood games for some folks. Everything in here just feels bare bones. Even the minor touch ups and game soundtracks stuck in the game just aren't enough in my opinion to make these re-releases feel valuable for a limited time release.

Don't feel like you need to buy a marked up copy of this if you didn't buy a copy before the cut off date in March 2021. It's honestly not even worth the $60 price tag it was sold for.

To celebrate Mario's 35th Anniversary, Nintendo released a compilation of Mario's 3D games. "Super Mario Galaxy 2"? What's that? All we have in this package is Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy. No extras, no concept art or anything like that. We do have soundtracks but, overall it not that crazy.

Now the controversy begins. It was announced that it would be a limited edition release till March 31st 2021. Both physical and digital releases of the game are limited. People leaked the game and it was found out that they are just emulations (mainly). SM64 and SMS are running off of Nintendo made emulators and SMG is being compiled on the spot but, an emulator is used for graphics and such.

This version of SM64 is the Shindou version. This means no BLJ's or gay Bowsers. The camera gets inverted at times and it's a PAIN getting used to it. If you've never played the games congrats you aren't going to have issues. If you have muscle memory of the original then it's gonna be hard to adapt. Overall, if you don't mind the small changes and inverted camera then have fun.

Nintendo has starved us of SMS for ages. This is the first rerelease of the game in over 18 years. I really enjoyed this one particularly, mainly because there have been little to no changes to the game. It's now in 16:9 but, its still the same old SMS. A good thing for speedrunners and people who don't want to play the game the right way.


Mario Galaxy is 60 FPS and 16:9. Looks fantastic. Doesn't hold up as well as it used to. Controls are quite clunky and its hard to between the freeroam aspects of SMS and SM64 to the linear clunky gameplay of SMG.


It was a good play but is it worth 60 dollars? In my opinion, yes. If you have played these games in the past and aren't desperately needing them then I'd say pass. If you want these classics on the go or haven't played any of them then go get the game.

There is not much to complain about when it comes to what can be regarded as three of the most popular and enjoyed games of all-time. If you are looking for hours of fun to take you away from the terrible world we live in today, then this collection is perfect. The price of €60 may seem hefty to many, but for me, Nintendo could have easily sold these three games separately and people would have still bought them, so I am glad that something that once seemed like a far-off rumour was able to exist physically in my hands.

Obviously, the collection would have been perfected if it had been remakes of the three games, rather than just upscaled ports, but sometimes in life not everything can be the ideal version of what you would want. I too would have adored remakes of these three games, but my want for remakes does not detract from my enjoyment of playing the originals.

No, i will not fall with the "These games were good when they released so they are just as good 20 years later and the game deserves 4 stars" logic, even then sunshine is kinda ass. This was sold as a $60 non virtual console game in 2020, an official release, and even small re-releases fix issues in games like DMC2 on the switch. But this Sunshine is still janky, and 64 still has a fixed camera, all with a lowball resolution because they couldn't get their emulator working well. Otherwise, yeah, the games are as solid as they were back then so its not entirely bad but not worth the price its being sold. If you want to know how i feel about those games read my reviews on them so i don't have to retype it here but as a collection not a big fan of this.

Cons:
>Not many Quality of Life changes
>No fixes or updates to Mario 64
>No much need changes and updates to Sunshine
>Missing an entry in the galaxy series, it feels weird
>Only a music player is given as extras to pad out the rest of the games worth
>not as good as what other collections or re-releases do especially older ones from Nintendo themselves, and their last mario all stars.

Con este juego he descubierto (el horrible) Super Mario 64 y un correcto y simpático Super Mario Sunshine, culminando con la joya de la corona: Super Mario Galaxy.

Como ports dejan muchísimo que desear, no hay cariño ni esmero, solo unas adaptaciones bastante cutres.

El 64 tiene un manejo de la cámara TERRIBLE, cosa que solucionan paulatinamente el Sunshine y el Galaxy, pero manda tela que con todos los años que hay de por medio entre el primero y el último no hayan sido capaces de pulirlo al máximo.

¿Super Mario Galaxy 2? Vete tú a saber por qué lo han dejado fuera de esto.

Weird how barebones this collection is, and honestly not the ideal way to play any of these games, but Mario Galaxy alone is worth the price of admission if you have never played. Weird that the only bonus feature is the option to listen to the soundtracks though. I feel like with a little extra content this could have been a great package for both oldheads and people who want to play classics they may have missed, but it feels like it was pumped out last minute and is therefore only really worth it if you missed these on original release.