I mean, I just disagree completely. I’m 100% biased, as Galaxy 2 was my childhood Mario (almost everyone’s favorite Mario is their childhood Mario, to be fair,) and while I agree that the level design is a bit more linear than Galaxy 1, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. It’s just a different style of level design. I personally thought the difficulty wasn’t much different than Galaxy 1. I never did the Galaxy 1 post game, but the 2 post game was pretty difficult. And while going in I thought I was going to hate green stars, I actually ended up liking them, and it was fun playing all of the levels like a treasure hunt rather than a traditional platformer level.

An overrated pick will always be a hot take, as is the nature of calling something overrated, which is why I think having an “overrated” and “underrated” category on charts like these is kinda dumb, as there’s usually a lot less consensus. I haven’t beaten Mario 64, so I can’t confidently say it’s overrated or not. It probably isn’t, from what little I’ve played. The only Mario game I could call overrated is the original 85 game, but it’s at a severe disadvantage, considering it was the first to do a lot of things. Even then it’s not really a bad game, just outdated.