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Currently bashing my head against the difficulty walls that are Orochi 2nd Fight and Dying Fires. My party is currently level 25 with one level 20 MonWran I respecced from a Thief.

No matter what strategy I pull, what equipment I rearrange, or what spells I use, I can’t beat either of these two.

I’m stuck. Please help.

Update: I DID IT! I beat both of them within like an hour of each other! Had to rethink my strats as well as do some shopping for fire resistant gear in Mur.

These two very often get compared in terms of what 2D Mario means to people, and this was especially true back when Mario Wonder first launched. Both of these games also got enhanced re-releases on subsequent consoles featuring new content and more playable characters.

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I just got the ship and I sailed all the way the Theddon, did the Ultimate Key stuff, and attempted the boss fight for the green orb. And it made me wanna go somewhere else instead lol.

I went for the red orb first because it happened to be the easiest, I got the merchant town set up so now I just gotta dick around the world for a bit before the game tells me to go check on that town again. So what’s the next recommended orb I should go for? I did also discover Jipang on my travels, so maybe that one? Idk.

This game had easily one of the biggest personal impacts on my life, as it spawned a lifelong love of both Mario and 2D platformers in general. I also spent a large amount of time in the Mario vs Luigi mode with my brother back in the day.

And it’s also undeniably one of the biggest games in the entire DS library, selling nearly 31 million copies and receiving 9/10s across the board from critics.

Now in retrospect, with regards to the three sequels, you’d think by the way some people talk about them that they killed their grandma or something. But the DS original usually avoids said criticism in large part because it was the first, and the formula hadn’t been beaten into the ground yet.

This was easily the most anticipated first party game during the Switch 1 generation alongside Metroid Prime 4. From its initial reveal at E3 2019 all the way to its release in May 2023, Tears of the Kingdom was always going to do well. After all, it was the sequel to the most anticipated and universally acclaimed Nintendo game of the entire 2010s. This was also Nintendo’s first $70 game, for better or worse. As for me? I bought it the day after I graduated college, and I ended up getting distracted by other things. Whoops. I got past the tutorial islands before my graduate degree program started in June and I was consumed by that for the next several months. In that time I mainly dabbled in more pick-up-and-play titles for my free time.

Edit: Updated for added clarity.

Asking now because Nintendo’s quarterly financials just dropped and Tennis was nowhere to be seen in those reports. Game came out in mid-February and the reports are as of March 31st, 2026. For a new exclusive Mario game launching in the first year of a brand new Nintendo console, that sure is something. And this is only the second Switch 2 exclusive Mario game after Mario Kart World.