Meri

There are 3 more releases of this in the wider console challenge, all of them are essentially the same game. I'm not sure what I am going to do when I get to them. I'll either repeat everything I've done here or just play a few modes and call it a day.

Some of the cards you unlock by getting perfect scores in the Mini-Camp mode; this was far, FAR harder than I was expecting and nearly made me want to call the playthrough at simply beating all the challenges (not perfecting them). I'm glad I didn't give up on this!

Update on my GameCube 100% challenge, finished Madden NFL 2003 last month. 🏈 I don't care about American Football but I can see why they released this yearly, there's clearly plenty of stuff to do. The diversity of teams and the customisation options were ridiculous.

The 100% requirement was to collect all 120 shines, this is pretty tedious as a lot of the shines are effectively duplicates (e.g. the Secret Course red coins). I grew up playing this game so I was pretty familiar with what I had to do. The 8th episode of Pinna Park can fuck off.

Update on my GameCube 100% challenge, finished Super Mario Sunshine earlier this month. ☀️ I'm not a huge fan of this, it's certainly a solid GameCube game but there are far better 3D Mario games. There's simply too much jank and repetition for me to consider it fantastic. 🤔

For some reason this kept crashing at the end of the England rally...? It wasn't a disc issue or disc reader issue. Fortunately letting the replay pan out and THEN moving to the rest of the game fixed the bug, otherwise I don't know what I would have done.

The 100% criteria was to beat and get a perfect score / result in every mode. The training mode had some ridiculously tight time requirements, I was initially pretty worried that the rest of the game would be just as hard.

Update on my GameCube 100% challenge, finished Pro Rally earlier this month. 🏁 The hardest part about this was the training mode, everything else was either trivial or challenging but manageable. Overall it was pretty good, enough content for a decent single-player experience.

The 100% criteria was to obtain every main menu trophy. There were a few Career Mode trophies I didn't obtain, due to either a bug in the game and / or developer oversight, but these weren't necessary as they didn't unlock anything. You could play as an alien. 👽

Update on my GameCube 100% challenge, finished MX Superfly earlier this month. 🏍️ There are no good motorcross games on GameCube, this one was at least somewhat tolerable. The racing was trivial once I realised that clutch boosts and sharp turns were never necessary.

This marks the second time a game doesn't have an '100%' category, there's nothing to do but beat the game. I suppose you could make the best investment decisions but as far as I'm aware this is just for flavour and doesn't do anything...?

Update on my GameCube 100% challenge, finished Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat last month. 🕵️ Personally I found this charming, it's very unique among the wider GameCube library but the puzzles weren't very challenging. The story isn't great either... but I still had fun. 🥺

The 100% requirement was to unlock every arena, character and belt. I only 'finished' this because I didn't unlock all the belts; this required beating Painful difficulty CPUs, I found this too challenging as the counter mechanics are nigh-impossible to work with.

Update on my GameCube 100% challenge, 'finished' WWE WrestleMania X8 last month. 🤼 This was about as fun as Legends of Wrestling. It's similarly complex in terms of mechanics, had more modes and better visuals but had much worse controls.

This marks the first game where there is no '100%' category. Literally the only thing you can do in this is beat the game. There's nothing to unlock, no mission mode, no achievements or ranks, etc. Just beat every level and defeat the final boss. 🤷

Update on my GameCube 100% challenge, finished Turok Evolution last month. 🦖 This is, for valid reasons, generally considered pretty bad. I still had fun with it and at times even quite 'cool', the biggest thing holding it back is the lack of replayability.

The 100% requirement for this was to get Rank 15 on every mode, this didn't unlock anything but there wasn't anything else to do in the game so... there we are.

Update on my GameCube 100% challenge, finished Tetris Worlds last month. 🟥 I'm awful at Tetris but I still had fun with it, the bonus modes were pretty entertaining despite being very difficult at the higher ranks. It did not feel like I had spent 24 hours on it. 😅

The 100% requirements for this are to beat the World Tour mode and obtain every (non-cheat) cosmetic unlockable. I also got a perfect World Tour result because I was curious if it unlocked any of the cheat-locked cosmetics (it didn't).

Update on my GameCube 100% challenge, finished Beach Spikers last month. 🏐 This was fine, largely held back by how unpredictable it was at higher difficulties. Without pause buffering I don't know what I would have done, I probably just didn't understand the controls. 🤔