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Super Mario 3D World |OT| Next-gen starts right meow!
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The Librarian
Banned
Eh. Wasn't too fond of any of the more Mario64-like levels in the Galaxies. Enjoy the pacing of 5-1 so much more than more low key design of the more open world-ish Beach Bowl.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
its lovely but nothing beats beach bowl galaxy
In presentation maybe but that level isn't very exciting or redeemable.
Nocturnowl
Member
5-1 was the long horizontal stretch of sand with the paddling pool depth water right? yeah I can't say I was a fan of that stage really. I get what it was going for but the whole trinket hunt is limited by the layout.
Coming to think of it none on the outright Beach themed stages in 3D Mario has ever stood out to me that much.
Beach Bowl has wall kicking up waterfalls and the Stone Cyclone area so it wins on those alone...even if there's no beach in those areas.
Coming to think of it none on the outright Beach themed stages in 3D Mario has ever stood out to me that much.
Beach Bowl has wall kicking up waterfalls and the Stone Cyclone area so it wins on those alone...even if there's no beach in those areas.
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
its lovely but nothing beats beach bowl galaxy
Beach Bowl was so booooring. The only levels I wasn't a fan of in the Galaxies were the ones that were more like SM64. I feel the same about Sprawling Savannah in 3DW.
Funnily enough, Sunshine porbably has the worst beach levels in any Mario. Sirrena Beach (Hotel level) and Gelato Beach (way way too open) are some of the worst levels in the game.
RobFox64tm
Member
Going through the levels today, trying to finish collecting all the stars n' stamps, it hit me that this is, in fact, my favorite Mario game ever. The Galaxies were great, but they weren't as characteristically Mario as 3D World is, and even though it's very similar, it's so much more fleshed out than 3D Land. It also goes without saying how much more inspired the design is to that of the NSMB series. If they were to say 3D World would be the last Mario platformer ever made, I'd honestly feel the series went out on top.
You can do a spin jump and then wall jump to get that. (Grumblump right?)
I shamelessly Cat suited that.
Too much swimming. Not enough riding in Koopa shells with four players with Boomerang suits. And Plessie's in 5-1 also, right?
(Beach Bowl Galaxy is still great, of course.)
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Don't know about favorite water level ever, but 5-1 definitely one of my favorites of the game. They do that a lot in the Water Galaxy levels, the whole "here's five items you need to get" so they can get you to explore the level and see all the level gimmicks. But they've very large so it takes time to get anywhere. I really liked the compression of 5-1, putting that EAD Tokyo water level design in a single area, and just making the playspace really dense with things to interact with and secrets to find. And the music is so godlike. It also has maybe my favorite incidental animation in the game, where you throw a Koopa shell off the edge, and the Koopa will sag his shoulders and look downtrodden.
Beach Bowl Galaxy has the Ice Mario waterfall stuff and the Secret Undersea Cavern, so its cool with me.
Beach Bowl Galaxy has the Ice Mario waterfall stuff and the Secret Undersea Cavern, so its cool with me.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Yes, any combination of supported controllers works but certain levels/minigames require at least one person has a gamepad. I think that's the only limitation.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Awesome. I was going to buy an extra Pro Controller anyway, but this extra controller support should save me some cash. Thanks!
I just hate water levels, even those in World. But at least these ones are split into small sections with some platforming interlude, so it's not too bad
well fuck me...infinite bag of tricks indeed!
i found a way to beat them, use
go behind the hisstocrats, spin around to do your spin jump, then use her spin attack as an extra boost to get on top of them. beat those two fuckers in 20 seconds using thatRosalina
well fuck me...infinite bag of tricks indeed!
I suppose it
is more of a surprise that there are levels beyond Star if that's the first one
DragonKnight
Member
All set up with a the wiiu. Need friends.
My NNID is ThatNaiveCube23. Yes it is a spongebob reference.
My NNID is ThatNaiveCube23. Yes it is a spongebob reference.
Im Morfeo, add me if you like
Also, the context for the last message, as im sure anybody reading this thread regularly understood, is that I FINALLY beat Champions Run.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Can't get imgur to upload from Miiverse, gets stuck at pending.
Got my five shiny stars though! And co-op is war, I probably had sub-400 deaths during my solo stuff (at least up to the final level, I probably had 600+ I didn't save there since I was forcing myself to go Mario with no powerups first). Co-op was full of suicide and intentionally killing each other.
Wonderful game. I don't know how EAD Tokyo does it.
joffocakes
Member
It's ludicrous how many deaths co-op creates. Often absolutely hilarious though. I'd lost 292 lives upon completing Champion's Road (a quarter of those on that stage alone) before going back to co-op the early stages and losing an easy hundred more. Patience goes out of the window and the lives drop in quick succession. Plus there's grabbing folk and suiciding off the edge, just to be bad, haha.
Are there any four player runs of the final stage online yet?
Are there any four player runs of the final stage online yet?
Vampirolol
Member
I had this feeling too, so I'm replaying both and I think that level design in 3D World is just more crazy and fun, but ideas were more platform related in 3D Land and based more on the Tanooki suit and the flying box.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
This would be insane, unless you just reset every time you die to keep the counter at zero.
It's theoretically possible, but realistically I doubt anyone will pull it off for a while until we start seeing some crazy 100% speed runs for the game.
StAidan
Member
I played my first real co-op last night, just with the wife. I agree about it causing many hilarious deaths. I'm not far into the game (our session took us through World 3), so we first discovered the head cannon (or whatever it might be called) last night.
She picked it up and from that point on was sniping me unintentionally every time we exited a pipe (she was always right behind me). It wasn't until I found one in a later level that I discovered you could actually hold back your cannon fire by holding down Y / 1.
She picked it up and from that point on was sniping me unintentionally every time we exited a pipe (she was always right behind me). It wasn't until I found one in a later level that I discovered you could actually hold back your cannon fire by holding down Y / 1.
Hot damn at those deaths haha. I thought my 400 was something to brag about
Can't get imgur to upload from Miiverse, gets stuck at pending.
Got my five shiny stars though! And co-op is war, I probably had sub-400 deaths during my solo stuff (at least up to the final level, I probably had 600+ I didn't save there since I was forcing myself to go Mario with no powerups first). Co-op was full of suicide and intentionally killing each other.
Wonderful game. I don't know how EAD Tokyo does it.
abstract alien
Member
My cousin was playing and used one of the white suits. Is there any way to rid the star penalty, or do I just need to start a new file?
Chezzymann
Member
I have gotten every single star and every single flagpole in world flower, but I cant find a single stamp. I've beaten each world multiple times looking for them, looked through every crack and crevasse, and still have not found a single one out of the 12 or so levels. Ugh. Are there no stamps in world flower or something? Are they really this hard to find? I might just use a wiki to find them.
its lovely but nothing beats beach bowl galaxy
<3 BBG. The penguins are so cute! Totally reminiscent of the SM64 penguins as well (the Plessie levels actually remind me of the race against the penguin in SM64). I have to say thought that while I do like the aesthetics of BBG, I don't think it's a very fitting SMG level. It feels more like a SM64/SMS exploratory kind of level, except there's not a lot of purpose to exploring it. Fun level, just felt a bit out of place to me.
We are all glad you approve.
TheCongressman1
Member
A huge letdown. I saw the Mario Kart theme in the trailer and thought this level would be amazing.
Levels with stamps have an indicator on the selection screen.
MaverickHunterAsh
Member
It's taken me awhile thanks to work, but I just got to
. From what I've heard, I'm in for quite a challenge with
. Looking forward to it... I think! Galaxy 2's The Perfect Run was so damn satisfying to beat.
World Crown
Mystery Mouse Marathon and Champion's Road
It did feel a bit strange to
fight the previous bosses in the game head-on and then not actually square off with Meowser* per se. I think it was kind of in line with the 3DL Bowser battles though where you are trying to dodge his attacks and make it to a switch to defeat him.
*just sent myself a letter containing this, ghetto copyright, come at me
Mario
Grownd pound my friend.