As expected, I finally finished Switchball tonight. The last two stages had shorter par times than some of the previous stages, but that didn’t necessarily mean they were any easier, and it took me nearly an hour to finish the last one.

Of that last stage’s hour, probably 40 minutes were spent retrying just the very last checkpoint, which was yet another part where you started a second ball rolling and had to ‘babysit’ it as it rolled along on its own to prevent it from falling off at various points (the second-last stage had a couple parts like this too, but not nearly as hard). A combination of extreme length and tight timing at various points meant that the slightest error would cause you to fail, and so many retries were needed before I could pull off every step perfectly, especially when failing an early step prevents you from even being able to practice the later ones.

It’s done now though, and I’m not even going to try for the medal times, so my ball-rolling days are now at an end for the time being. Unless I pick up Beautiful Katamari…