On Sunday, I got back to Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on Switch, which I had been intending to beat two months ago, but I got a couple of game overs at the final boss and got frustrated with myself. So I took a break. But on Sunday I got it first try. This is a great game, and I do intend to try 100% it! This morning I beat Shark Tale on GameCube. This game was a bit disappointing. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. I'd expected more because there was an ad for this game in Shrek 2, which is my favourite GameCube game so far. However, while both published by Activision, Shrek 2 was also developed by Activision, while Shark Tale was developed by a second or third party (Edge of Reality), so it makes sense that it wasn't as good. I do not intend to try 100%ing it, as the game works with missions, where you have to clear the main mission to beat the stage (usually the main mission is essentially 'beat the stage'). Then there is a 'bonus mission' and an 'elite mission', and several of the elite missions seem obnoxiously hard. So I decided to just not even try. Edit: Ah, both games keep track of your playtime, that's always an interesting statistic I think. I've got a bit over 40 hours into The Thousand-Year Door, and 3 hours into Shark Tale.
The Switch version looks really cool, Nintendo did a great job with altering the Gamecube ISO with superior graphics, and even implementing shaders at runtime. Some of the tracks are too overkill for me, but I do love their artistic takes on them regardless. Definitely takes me back to when I was a kid when this game first game out for the Gamecube!
I beat the Story mode of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania on Switch recently. It has no new stages, it's the same as Super Monkey Ball Deluxe from 2005, but I haven't played that game. I enjoyed most of it, although there were quite a few stages that I found too gimmicky. The levels that I enjoyed most were those that did not include any moving parts but were quite difficult. I also beat Donkey Kong Country 2 on GBA. I think I'll try going for 100% completion, but I might give up before getting there, as completing DKC games tends to be rather tricky. And I somehow forgot to post something really big... after almost 15 years, I 100%ed Mario Kart: Super Circuit!! I actually recorded a video to commemorate it. It's 20 minutes long, though, so it might not be worth watching.
