same here, I’ve played hundreds of hours of Odyssey but the 2d platformers I will barely make it through to the end credits. For a company that produces as many games as Nintendo I think it’s reasonable to consider the 2d and 3d mario platformers different series and hold them to independent expectations.
in any case though they’re definitely holding off odyssey 2 until the next console release at this point 🫤
Head First Design Patterns really helped me untangle the spaget