Well, That will Be All from You, Mr. Zero

I'm deciding to move on from F-Zero GX.
It is a damn difficult game, and I've now given it more than plenty of a chance. I didn't see credits, but I've given it a pretty thorough play-through. I expect more thorough than many people did.

I've beaten the four available cups on Novice, Standard, and Expert classes. Once I finished Expert, the new class Master was unlocked.

There is a fifth cup. But if I want to play it, I have to beat all the other cups on Master. This is a little more time than I'm willing to put in. I mean, I'll try the Master cups. ONCE. If I can't beat them, I'll move on to the Story Mode. If that proves too difficult, I'm moving on.

I do not consider this defeat. This is not the same as surrendering. The reason I'm going through with this project is to play the games that I've started and left unfinished, or hardly played at all. F-Zero GX is one of those games. I've now played it quite a bit, and even quite a bit more than I originally played it. I feel I've accomplished what I had set out to do with this game: I've gotten my money's worth. I enjoyed myself. I almost cried in frustration at the difficulty of the racing. I ended up with watery eyes at the end of races from not blinking due to the breakneck speed.

I'm not done, but I'm pretty much done.

** Update: I managed to beat two more cups in Master class, but after being unable to beat the last two, I'm truly finished.