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I still think these games are great! And Brothership is amazing. Ranking the games is tough cause I think the really good ones all have reason to be the best, but I think Paper Jam is easily the worst, I have no clue how I thought it was better than PiT back then. I think my explanation then was that I didn't like how disconnected the world was in PiT, but like, PJ might do that better, but the actual world itself? Sucks. Really sucks. I'd probably rank these games with BIS, DT and BS (I don't know how one abbreviates brothership so read that correctly please) in whatever order and then SS 4th, PiT 5th and PJ 6th. I dont' think any of these are bad, (ok yes paper jam did make me very very angry but i was biased because i made it difficult. I STILL WANT TO MURDER NABBIT FOR WHAT HE FORCED ME THROUGH IN NEO BOWSER CASTLE.). My Superstar Saga playthrough was a little bit of a trainwreck? Because I actually knew how the mush badges worked this time, and i wasn't playing the remake where they were nerfed like last year, the entire late game devolved into avoiding every enemy cause youre underleveled and will die in one hit and whenever a boss happens just use chopper bros and theyre dead. Oh and I also managed to beat the entire game in one day. I found PiT surprisingly pleasant, since it's like the only one of these games with basically no backtracking or padding. It is a little short cause of that but it's nice that you're always seeing different stuff. BIS was great as always, the Challenge Medal also improved the late game bosses a lot, since one of my biggest issues playing the game for the first time was that everything past the legendary sm64 level i mean boss fight Bowser in the Clinic every boss died way too quickly, so a fair challenge was nice. But the overworld encounters got very very boring. They already go on for a while, the added hp and def for the enemies doesn't help. So with patience I think the Challenge Medal is how I'd rather play the game, but it's why I didn't do Dream Team hard mode. In hindsight I should have, because that game ended up being a JOKE. I loved the game as always, the characters, world and environments are amazing, but man it was really easy knowing what I was getting into. I also found out about the Gold Badge + Miracle Badge combo, which freezes enemies for 2 turns, and that's the story of how (alongside being overleveled)I defeated Dreamy Bowser, the final boss, without him ever getting to attack. I still hate the zeekeeper fight also. Paper Jam was VERY boring, enemy encounters lasted forever and I'd usually die with the bros meaning paper had way more exp, this went for bosses too, after a certain point the bros would go down and it'd be a struggle with Paper doing pathetic attacks until eventually the boss died. I'm not joking when I say this, the Kamek Duo fight took an entire hour. I ended up with like 22 hours of playtime as well, so that's a very big fraction... Brothership was a regular run, though I did all the sidequests and crafted every plug. The only areas where I had actual trouble were Glohm Pipegunk (did it as soon as it unlocks) and i
I actually died once on the final boss cause I forgot to change plugs.

So yeah, my thoughts on the games

Superstar Saga is just generally good, no real flaws
Partners in Time isn't amazing, but it feels very smooth to play through cause there's barely any padding
Bowser's Inside Story is again, generally really good, although the mid game does kind of drag?
Dream Team has some great environments, I love the world, but it's very slow
Paper Jam is boring and lazy and unoriginal and I hate it
Brothership I have the same thoughts as Dream Team, like it doesn't play the best and certainly does go on for a little too long, but it also made me very emotional both times when I beat it, so what do I know. Very glad it exists, and a 5/10 for this game is just so thoroughly incorrect I cannot emphasize this enough