Scattered And Lost

In Super Mario Galaxy, the battles against Bowser take place on spherical planetoids where Bowser must be tricked into Ground Pounding the blue spots on the floor, causing him to break the glass and get burned by the lava underneath.

However, if he is lured to Ground Pound on the metallic green platforms, he will destroy them and reveal a coin instead. If he does this from a very specific angle, he will escape the gravity of the planetoid and never come back down. Note Bowser slowly moving away in the footage.

There is no way to continue the battle in this state and the mission must be reset.

the game isn't getting worse. it's you. the change is in you.

you've been playing too long. nothing is new and exciting anymore because you know all the secrets. you aren't getting challenged anymore because you got better than anyone was ever intended to get at this game. you aren't having fun anymore because your friends quit to play other things and you're still grinding away at nothing, unwilling to move on.

you're a grown-ass adult sitting in a ball pit, asking why this isn't as fun as it was when you were a kid. you're scraping the sides of an empty ice cream container with a spoon, crying because it doesn't satisfy your hunger anymore.