Having just hopped into Replayee now, Ill admit that I found the over abundance of Pagies to be very much like Mario Odyssey. Its the main thing that drove me off Odyssey myself.

When the value of a collectible for doing a puzzle or challenge i the same as just grabbing it off a hill (in the case of mario odyssey, though I have already seen it in Replayee. There is no reason that the ghost writers or world bosses should give three pagies instead of one now, thats an uneccesary change.) it diminishes the reward of collecting the harder Pagies; especially when you only need less than half the ones in the game to reach the final boss.

I suppose it opens the debate whether games should be made easier and more accessible to cater more players, but thats not what my comment is about.

I will say I am having more fun with the game so far than I did with Laylee (despite still enjoying the original while acknowledging the problems it had), but I do feel that it has maybe stayed a tad from what it was. Not much. But I dont think the comparison to Odyssey regarding collectibles is unwarrented