I've been playing plenty of Super Mario 64 DS since the Australian release a week ago, and at the same time have got two friends addicted to the game update. I've had absolutely no problems using the Thumb Bandana, and and up to about 80 stars.
They've added so much to the original 1996 engine. The new boss levels are fun and use a lot of floating / swirling platforms which I like. Plus the Chilly Chief boxx I thought graphically looked really nice, with the falling snow, and the ice slicing downwards looked very 'clean'.
Since they've added a lot to the game like powerups and whole levels, they could easily make a new game with a whole set of new levels, new ideas, new power ups. If they made a sequel, what would YOU like to see? The return of the 4-man team up? What would the HUB area be?
Heres mine:
- Bigger Levels. Still keep the same amount of them, but make them just 'bigger'. Perhaps with branches leading to different sets of SMS 'zone' platforming action. Both water levels just seem very small compared to, say, Bob-Bomb Battlefield.
- Make the game more difficult. There are a fair few of the more 'difficult' parts of SM64 which become a piece of piss once you figure out where the owl is and fly back.
- No World-Within-World bits, like the Metal Cap area in Hazy Maze or the Luigi Painting. They should be avaliable through the HUB, though hidden.
- Give us something special when you get all the Stars. Neither SM64 or SMS had anything good at the end.
- Return of the Fire Flower.
- Make Bowser difficult to kill. The first two battles with him are too easy. Bring back the Koopa Kids too, I don't want to fight the same boss a bunch of times [like the Squid in SMS].
They've added so much to the original 1996 engine. The new boss levels are fun and use a lot of floating / swirling platforms which I like. Plus the Chilly Chief boxx I thought graphically looked really nice, with the falling snow, and the ice slicing downwards looked very 'clean'.
Since they've added a lot to the game like powerups and whole levels, they could easily make a new game with a whole set of new levels, new ideas, new power ups. If they made a sequel, what would YOU like to see? The return of the 4-man team up? What would the HUB area be?
Heres mine:
- Bigger Levels. Still keep the same amount of them, but make them just 'bigger'. Perhaps with branches leading to different sets of SMS 'zone' platforming action. Both water levels just seem very small compared to, say, Bob-Bomb Battlefield.
- Make the game more difficult. There are a fair few of the more 'difficult' parts of SM64 which become a piece of piss once you figure out where the owl is and fly back.
- No World-Within-World bits, like the Metal Cap area in Hazy Maze or the Luigi Painting. They should be avaliable through the HUB, though hidden.
- Give us something special when you get all the Stars. Neither SM64 or SMS had anything good at the end.
- Return of the Fire Flower.
- Make Bowser difficult to kill. The first two battles with him are too easy. Bring back the Koopa Kids too, I don't want to fight the same boss a bunch of times [like the Squid in SMS].
