>>1441617Sorry in advance for the essay, this is actually something I've thought about a bit but I've never expressed it. TL;DR I felt that she was more engaged with Galaxy and had more fun with it, and it also helped that she had no capture delay.
The capture delay being a thing gave us the legendary undocking moment in Odyssey, but overall it's a better experience to play the whole game normally. I already loved her Odyssey playthrough so I was excited to learn that she fixed the biggest issue with it.
There were a couple of Odyssey streams somewhere in the middle where I felt like she wasn't in a great mood -- not in the sense that she'd tilt at things, that's normal, but her mood in general. I specifically remember that she didn't play the game for like ~1 month and that when she returned to it again I was surprised to see her be more cheery/cute in comparison, which was more in-line with how the entirety of the Galaxy playthrough went. Galaxy felt a lot more consistent as a result.
On that note, I felt like she was a lot more engaged with Galaxy as a game, not just in terms of its aesthetics/music but its challenges as well. I don't care if Ame's bad at the games she plays (and sucking at platformers goes without saying for her) but with Galaxy, her excitement to try out the prankster comets and other challenging missions that you don't have to go out of your way for was endearing; watching her learn and succeed at them all (minus purple coin comets, which is fair enough) was satisfying and made me proud. Considering her skill level, I guess it's kinda like watching your little sister improve at one of your games. She managed a few cool sequence breaks just for fun and figured out most of the secrets on her own too which gave her bragging rights, I find it pretty cute when she gets excited or smug over stuff like that. Odyssey having less of this investment isn't bad per se, but it did make it a little less interesting to follow.
Lastly, this has more to do with a bias for the game, but the storytelling parts in Galaxy were 11/10. Shame none of the other mainline Marios have anything extra like that.
