Apparently Galaxy is linear?what legends said but to say it again anyways.
galaxy was kind of a traditional platformer. select level, go from point A to point B. yeah,,. you could move around in 3 dimensions but it's general level design was an A to B design not too dissimilar to a chapter in uncharted 4.
mario 64 was kind of a open world game of sorts. it was tiny as all hell but remember it was also on the n64. anyways,.. select map (there were several). choose an objective (something like collect 5 stars). wander around somewhat aimlessly (aka open world game) and eventually achieve the objective.
i loved galaxy and hated mario 64. hearing about this kind of makes this mario dead to me. i know a lot of other people loved mario 64 but i thought it was the worst mario game ever created. i generally don't like sandbox games though so it's nothing personal to mario 64. i just don't like the aimlessness of open world games.
