/vr/ - Retro Games

>get all 120 stars
>50 more than you needed to reach final Bowser
>tortured yourself to getting 100 coins in Tick Tock Clock and Rainbow Ride
>Your reward is a cannon outside the castle and meeting this cunt
>he gives you 100 lives which you have no use for now that you have all 120 stars
>You bothered to get 50 more stars for basically a lazy little easter egg
>no final Bowser showdown, no "true ending", nothing, nada
What were they thinking

>>6814171
it had no soul.

>Be me in early 2000, about 6 y/o, Italian
>Be about at about 95 stars in SM64, trying to figure out how to get the others (no guides, no internet, only my best friend to help me)
>One day I was browsing through the options, guess I was curious
>Not understanding shit since the game was completely in English I thought "erase" was a nice word.
>Select erase
>Erase my save file
>Imadeahugemistake.bin
>Cry for days
>After some days of darkness and sadness, I decide to start all over again. It was my mission, I had to finish that game.
>After a while, I manage to beat Bowser again, but got stuck again at 100 stars or so
>Gamecube comes out
>Play less and less SM64, eventually unplug the N64 and put it in the garage.
>FFW to last month
>See N64 in garage, decide to bring it back home
>Plug it in. Time to do this.
>Finally, finish Super Mario 64 in a couple of weeks, got all 120 stars and got to meet fucking Yoshi on castle's roof.
>Dem feels.

Just wanted to share with you bros :)