Odyssey provides a fantastic first playthrough, but it's possibly the least replayable 3D Mario. It's got great level design and music, but the moon collection concept doesn't quite feel as rewarding as collecting power stars or shines. Moons reward exploration more often than platforming challenges or completing bosses. This is fantastic on your first run, but when you already have explored everything the moons lose their impact. Probably the second most tedious 3D Mario to 100%, behind Sunshine.

Beat all the tower bosses and collected all the pals in singleplayer, rarely touched the multiplayer side. With a LOT of polish, this could genuinely be a great and respected survival game on its own merit unrelated to the drama surrounding its release. The gameplay loop is addicting and I loved optimizing my base with better and better pals. I felt a closer connection to my bootleg Pokemon than any real pokemon game, which goes to show how far Pokemon has fallen. The pals are integrated not just into battling, but exploration and construction. However it has a grind at the end to collect ore and repeat boring dungeons that brings the game's captivating loop to a screeching halt. Despite this, Palworld has TONS of replay value due to its very flexible custom difficulty settings, which I recommend tweaking liberally for keeping the game interesting when it reaches an undeniable grind towards the endgame (only really applicable in solo of course). It's in early access, so hopefully things are ironed out in the future, but for now I'm satisfied with what I've done and can confidently put it down until major content patches are out. I much rather have my fun with a game and never touch it again than play mindless live service garbage, so this isn't a complaint at all. I hope this game going forward gets the love and attention it needs.

The BEST gameplay and story in the series. I've completed it 100% on Hard mode, and I can't say that any other Metroid game has had me desperate for more content. The music is the only lacking part of the package, but can be easily overlooked as you explore masterfully thought out labyrinthine areas and fight awesome bosses. The sequence breaks are still here, I did a handful on my first playthrough and it felt like the game was rewarding my intuition. The final boss is probably one of the best of all time without exaggeration, and a fantastic sendoff to this arc in the Metroid series.