I'm at a point that I think may be just before the final boss. So far it's just in the middle. It isn't a cakewalk (especially not the level Cakewalk), but it isn't like I'm going to predict you're going to die a lot and throw your controller at times. Especially not if you pace yourself. There aren't many live or die leaps. However I'm doing the multiplayer so when I die I just have my partner survive until I'm back up. That might be making it easier than it is otherwise.
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Super Mario 3D World |OT| Next-gen starts right meow!
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I'm at a point that I think may be just before the final boss. So far it's just in the middle. It isn't a cakewalk (especially not the level Cakewalk), but it isn't like I'm going to predict you're going to die a lot and throw your controller at times. Especially not if you pace yourself. There aren't many live or die leaps. However I'm doing the multiplayer so when I die I just have my partner survive until I'm back up. That might be making it easier than it is otherwise.
Telephoto999
Member
The main game is pretty easy / average
The
stages after the game are over in the stars are insane. I'm at 350 deaths and I just now unlocked the very final set of worlds. One of them is a mystery house with 30 challenges... 30.
Post-ending spoiler:
Anybody have experience with the Elgato Game Capture HD, or any other comparable capture card? I kind of want to get one to capture some of my speed-runs.
Blast Block Skyway in Flower World is probably my favorite level so far. Probably died about a hundred times speed-running it and trying to do it like this.
Anybody have experience with the Elgato Game Capture HD, or any other comparable capture card? I kind of want to get one to capture some of my speed-runs.
I'm now trying to calculate how much money other companies would have charged for all that extra content.
Dat Nintendo.
Telephoto999
Member
It's really quite staggering honestly.
We have battlefield 4, which is a great game when it works... but it launched with 10 maps and you're paying 50$ for more expansion packs. I honestly can't see how there was that much more development as far as level design goes in a game like that compared to what we get with this game.
And don't even get me started about the Forza issues. I own the game and I think its marvelous as far as sim racing goes... but some of the gameplay decisions and the things that happen off the track are simply inexcusable.
It's probably a little bit easier at the start, but it ramps up much more quickly in this one.
Telephoto999
Member
Yes. Levels are bigger on average, with more secrets and lots more bonuses and hidden gems along the way.
Telephoto999
Member
I think the first few worlds are designed with an age of 6-10 playing them. 3 full worlds for a kid to explore and play, someone that may not be able to ever get past those seems like just the right amount.
I don't feel so bad about my death count now...then again I don't think I've checked since blowing a bunch on the true last level. And I think going for everything changes the difficulty a bunch. I'm just running through everything with Luigi now and just flying through the levels.
Speaking of flying, one nice trick with the cat suit is bypassing some warp blocks. See the next segment way off in the distance down below? Jump dive and hope you make it.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Omg I hate playing with my sister she entering the tunnels and and warp boxes before I could get the green stars lol
NotoriousPUG
Member
I think the first couple worlds are about the same as the 3D Land, although more fun. Instead of waiting for 8 worlds to up the difficulty, 3D World starts ramping up at about world 3, and so far has been getting both harder and more fun.
Off topic: my only gripe with this game is grab and run being the same button. When on a small platform with another player I'm almost guaranteed to grab them (or them me) before attempting to jump which usually leads to one of us being thrown down a pit. Grab should have been the R button of something.
gamergirly
Member
Gotta sync up, unless she leaving you for a reason hehe
Charlie0108
Member
Just pre-ordered this now from ShopTo, unsure if I'm too late to get it on Friday though
ShockingAlberto
Member
I don't think Grumblebumble Volcano is a very good stage at all.
Nicktendo86
Member
And this is why I want to punch anyone who celebrates or wishes for the demise of Nintendo in the face. They do things old school, too old school in a lot of ways (online etc) but you get your fucking money's worth of content. The whole Forza 5 debacle has really brought that home, you are paying MORE money for LESS game, and people look forward to next gen? I just don't get it.
Lapidus' Beard
Member
So glad this arrived yesterday at my local store. I've played through 4 worlds and it just keeps delivering. I relived a lot of good memories from past Mario games through the evening!
Interceptor
Banned
Does it support multiple languages or is it in english only?
The Librarian
Banned
What world is that in?
Probably multi-5 as usual, not sure though.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Bowser-8, I think. It's the one with the blocks with faces on them that tip over and over while you're on them.
Interceptor
Banned
I was hoping for this. What about the digital deluxe promotion? After all the fuss with pikmin 3 i am a little bit scared to buy at GAME again.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
youre not jumping I hope
UncleSporky
Member
Yeah it's actually extremely easy if you don't jump. Once I learned that from the mice I beat it with like 2 more deaths which were just attempts at getting the stamp and green stars.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Nope, but the difference between "running over the edge and being fine" and "it's not quite far enough and you're vaulted in to the lava" is maddeningly thin.
I finished it yesterday but I spent like 20 lives getting all the green stars.
The Librarian
Banned
Oh, that one. I started to enjoy it once I realized that jumping was bad!
ShockingAlberto
Member
I never jumped (since they pretty implicitly tell you not to by watching the rats) but it still caused me a lot of problems, especially right after the checkpoint flag.
Thank you for the news, I was wondering when they will put up the download code option. I looked yesterday and it wasn't there so I thought they will release it on Friday mid day as they usually do and already was thinking about all the time lost not downloading it at midnight.
UncleSporky
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I started playing Mario 3D Land again, y'know, the 3DS one. I have all star coins, every level from the first half of the game 100%'d, every level in the last half completed as Mario, and randomly some tops of flagpoles on those remaining levels. I also have triple crown lives. Basically I just need to suit up Luigi and run through what's left.
And I gotta say, going back to it after 3D World? Holy crap! It feels like comparing NSMB to NSMBWii.
I mean I love 3D Land, I still do, it's still one of the 3DS's best games. But when you don't need lives or star coins and you're playing as high jump Luigi with two Tanooki suits, just getting through levels as fast as you can? Compared to 3D World the levels feel so tiny, sparsely populated, and really easy. And this is in the harder half of the game. I guess I should consider that a good thing if I just want to 100% the game at this point.
I got through the first 4 worlds in no time yesterday.
Anyone else who has both games, if you haven't played 3D Land in a while, play a few levels and check out the difference, it's nuts.
And I gotta say, going back to it after 3D World? Holy crap! It feels like comparing NSMB to NSMBWii.
I mean I love 3D Land, I still do, it's still one of the 3DS's best games. But when you don't need lives or star coins and you're playing as high jump Luigi with two Tanooki suits, just getting through levels as fast as you can? Compared to 3D World the levels feel so tiny, sparsely populated, and really easy. And this is in the harder half of the game. I guess I should consider that a good thing if I just want to 100% the game at this point.
I got through the first 4 worlds in no time yesterday.
Anyone else who has both games, if you haven't played 3D Land in a while, play a few levels and check out the difference, it's nuts.
Should work, too. I got a Wind Waker HD code from the bundle off eBay and still got the credit.
ShockingAlberto
Member
It is usually halfway through a level right before a difficult part or a part that would be difficult if you didn't find the solution.
Brainiac 8
Member
This game should have a single hit death mirror mode run like Donkey Kong Country Returns had. Now that is the stuff that champions are made of.
Every level would be like the Grandmaster Galaxy.
Every level would be like the Grandmaster Galaxy.
WHAT
UncleSporky
Member
Yeah, I was thinking about that too, I would appreciate that.
Man with all the content it's got already...
They could also do like they did in one of the 3D Land levels, and start on a 30 second timer, awarding a little more time for every enemy killed. Of course some levels might not work out for that, but it's an interesting challenge mechanic.
PeterVenkman
Member
I was jumping, but always jumping forward and into the direction of the flip. I didn't have a hard time clearing the level but grabbing the green stars was a sinkhole for lives. Jumping or not, you still have to
make it onto that tiny ass narrow platform while someone throws hammers at you (or fireballs? I don't remember)
I also had peach, so yeah. I bet my life would have been easier if I had watched those rats instead of immediately tail swiping them
IAmtheFMan
Member
Post-game, made me smile big time:
2nd green star. I wasn't expecting that. Got to World 9 last night and started 9-1. Saw a couple torches, with that door, and was like "that's kinda Zelda-ish, whatever." And then revealing the 8-bit Link image, with the re-mixed Zelda theme... so nice.
As I expected, 4 stages in and my nephews now want a Wii U
The joy the kids have, priceless!
seeing my 4 year old jump on a goomba all by himself for the first time....
now he's addicted and i'll never get to play alone again.. is there any way to make the gamepad player 2?
