I picked up a few months back and after an initial burst of “this is really fun!” I got distracted by other things for awhile. Recently I resumed my quest to collect 120 friggin’ “power stars” from the game’s “Galaxies,” and I’m down to just one remaining. And it’s a bitch (“Luigi’s Purple Coins,” in case anyone’s curious).

The challenge at hand is to collect 100 purple coins that are scattered across a range of floor tiles cleverly arranged to resemble the 8-bit version of Luigi. There are 150 coins actually present in the area, and once 100 are collected, the star you’re trying to earn appears at your starting point for that area. Sounds like a cakewalk, right? Read the full story...

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