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Alice wrote: ↑7 years ago I doubt it's any more difficult than S. Mario

It is.

(OSE probably isn't though)

Oh, the OSE version has a midpoint. I guess that makes it somewhat doable, then. Not sure how that translates into LP difficulty, but it's a huge improvement. Btw, how many years did it take to beat the original version? I've been trying since 2013 and have not gotten remotely close. Well, I rememb...

The 3rd has got to be the strongest prologue out of the 3 Sky games, holy shit. As great as Estelle and Joshua turn out to be later in the first two games, Kevin and Ries give such a better "first" impression. I really like the laid back nature of early game FC actually, much more so then...

There is no way in hell he's beating this savestateless. Even if he makes it through most of the game, the last castle is IMPOSSIBLE. Might be even harder than Bowser's Starship in The Second Reality Project. I'm predicting heavy savestate abuse by world... 5 maybe? Impossible is a very strong word...

No midpoint, huh. There is, but the shortcut skips it. This level suffers more than others from what I've seen as a clear trend by now: AxemJinx really, REALLY wants people to master an obstacle. This is why he repeats everything three (or five or seven...) times with minor, if at all, variations: ...

ft029 wrote: ↑7 years ago If the first half were twice as long, I would have been convinced that levelengine made it.

More like 5 to 10 times as long, just look at Colossus' endgame.

I enjoy most of levelengines levels though.

morsel/morceau wrote: ↑7 years ago Being able to slide safely into it, as well as other such enemies (e.g. Big "Boo"), would surprise no one.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1332294

raocow wrote: But I think you still need to train your ENDURANCE

In that case Super Mario Infinity is the game to play!

don't

Anyways, congrats!

Extremely unpopular opinion: I really like the baloon room, it's probably in my top 5 M/M levels of the hack actually. As for the plants, I dunno, I guess I'm really used to them from other hacks, so predicting their patterns is really second nature to me. There are certainly things to nitpick, like...

I also felt the need to login and comment on how well designed midnight arbor was. Wonderful level in every aspect.

For the record, Depraved took me a bit over an hour total, maybe 1.5, whereas anon's level took me like 4 hours. So I guess I really don't fall in line with the majority. Gotta play more kaizo I guess.

Well Jolpe... looks like one person likes your works LUL Playing through Bits and Pieces (by levelengine of course) may have helped. All of those levels are like 400 SMW seconds of sprite spam and other RNG obstacles, which is different from Depraved Stronghold's simple but deadly jumps. However, i...

i don't think it's just a matter of developing a feel or understanding for Mario's movement. I tend to think I have a pretty good understanding of Mario's movement, and this level took me 3 times as long. Though I'll admit I probably would have played better with a keyboard since it tends to give m...

And anonymousbl00dlust's fun times are easier than this nonsense. That's quite debatable. For instance, I beat each of the sections in this level in well under an hour, whereas the ---------Yoshi-------- section alone in anon's level took me a full hour. I'm not the only one either, just look at le...

Low challenge but high punishment is tedious and not very fun. There are entire genres like roguelikes or survival horror built around the latter. I really disagree with this sentiment in general, and am not even a big fan of Super Meat Boy precisely because it's levels are build around many deaths...

as a math person: nobody should be expected to do what essentially amounts to memorization drills in a mario level As an actual mathematician, there isn't really any memorization involved in solving the problems in this level. As a matter of fact, I pretty much reasoned exactly like M/M described i...

But remember how Chains of Atrophy went? I had to make a post defending Iso because he had told me how he felt about the situation but wasn't speaking up himself. I feel as though the level authors ultimately want their revised version to be the true version that people judge their levels based on,...

I know people mean well but I find it a bit annoying that people keep constantly recommending QubicTom to switch versions whenever he faces adversity (same with raocow and savestates). QubicTom is not just doing this for the viewers but also for himself, so if he wants to play 1.01, just leave him b...

I didn't think anyone would be insane enough to beat it on one life. You don't get anything out of it besides the painting, and the downtime between deaths is about a second or so, so I just made sure they were actually beatable without doing a deathless run myself. If I did, I probably would have ...

Regarding the age old difficulty discussion, and the previous JUMP mention: Let me start by going on a tangent and mentioning that I beat JUMP toollessly and legitimately never got to the point of being frustrated (maybe some minor annoyance at a few things). Now to be fair I've been playing challen...

Hmm...
I think he should at least finish world 6 first though. He could still do Bowser's castle before doing world 7 if he needs to keep some breather levels before the rest of special world.
Anyways, voting BALLS because you need a nice and easy level after the green switch.

So I had found the level design of this game up to this point to be very underwhelming outside of maybe one or two levels, but todays offerings were solid. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.

Well okay, here are, in no particular order, some levels that I find harder then House of the Holy (all v1.01): [ispoiler]1F8[/ispoiler] [ispoiler]Shattered Dreams[/ispoiler] [ispoiler]Depraved Stronghold[/ispoiler] [ispoiler]Miscellaneous Monument[/ispoiler] Pixel Perfect Disarray Gourmet Race [isp...

nathanisbored wrote:Good job, one of the hardest levels in the game is over! ONE of them.

I know you want to encourage QubicTom, but I really wouldn't even put this level in my top

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most difficult levels.
I wouldn't even say it's the hardest level QubicTom has beaten so far.

But anyways, good job!

anonymousbl00dlust wrote:I haven't watched all the videos yet, but from what I've seen so far this is probably the best smw hack ever made. Congratulations on beating the game, raocow!

I really could have used your help when defending Morceaus levels in this thread, but oh well.