I am a Mario Historian, but equally important, I am a Mario Super Completionist. Die hard. Because you have not beaten a 3D Mario game unless you have collected all the stars. If you have less than the maximum amount of Stars or Shines in ANY Mario game, you may not say you have beaten the game. You may be able to say you have beaten the final boss, but you may not say you have beaten the game. Period. If there is but a single star or shine you cannot obtain, the game has BEATEN YOU. A loser is you.
What about other Marioverse games? If you have not gotten every badge and star piece in "Paper Mario", for instance, you have not beaten that game. Because someone who is mental could just beat the main story for PM, you must obtain all Badges and Star Pieces to really say you have beaten the game to the fullest. You must get 101(DKC and DK64), 102, and 103% completion in all of the Donkey Kong Country Games to say you have beaten them. If you don't have the maximum 200% completion in DKC Returns, don't even bother trying to say you've beaten in. Don't have all the Dragon Coins in one of the best games ever? Nope sorry. The GBA Classic version of Yoshi's Island. Haven't 100%ed the Endless World of Yoshi's and EVERY OTHER LEVEL? Then you have yet to beat the game! Haven't unlocked the final Golf Course in Wario Land 3? You've proven you can beat a big guy dressed like a clown, not a handheld classic in that case.
I'll say it once, I'll say it 1,000 times until everyone on the internet and eventually the world penetrates their thick skulls: Beating the final boss does not mean you have beaten the game.
What about other Marioverse games? If you have not gotten every badge and star piece in "Paper Mario", for instance, you have not beaten that game. Because someone who is mental could just beat the main story for PM, you must obtain all Badges and Star Pieces to really say you have beaten the game to the fullest. You must get 101(DKC and DK64), 102, and 103% completion in all of the Donkey Kong Country Games to say you have beaten them. If you don't have the maximum 200% completion in DKC Returns, don't even bother trying to say you've beaten in. Don't have all the Dragon Coins in one of the best games ever? Nope sorry. The GBA Classic version of Yoshi's Island. Haven't 100%ed the Endless World of Yoshi's and EVERY OTHER LEVEL? Then you have yet to beat the game! Haven't unlocked the final Golf Course in Wario Land 3? You've proven you can beat a big guy dressed like a clown, not a handheld classic in that case.
I'll say it once, I'll say it 1,000 times until everyone on the internet and eventually the world penetrates their thick skulls: Beating the final boss does not mean you have beaten the game.