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Further random thought on 3D World: I'm actually surprised at how much of what I previously considered to be Mario Odyssey movement is actually from this game. Ground pound into a spinning high jump, the on-ground spin you get by rotating the control stick that can transition into a floaty spin jump...

Got the infamous Champion's Road in SM3DW yesterday. And yeah it's pretty tough but mainly because of the final challenge that has you running along boost pads collecting 5 key coins while a bunch of beam emitter guys are making almost the entirety of the floor unwalkable, so good luck doing it with...

That little shot of the island falling out of the sky looks like a Wario Land 3 cutscene

Keeping on themes of "Mario games I've been meaning to get back to," I finally cracked into the copy of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury that I bought I-don't-know-how-long-ago. I played 3D World when it came out on Wii U but I never really got SUPER into it? Like I did an obligatory &...

Finished all stars in Super Mario Galaxy 2. I didn't recall that you needed to deposit 9999 star bits to the bank toad before The Perfect Run appears, so that really ground my momentum to a halt when I was all amped up to do it. I ended up having to grind star bits in the second mission of Melty Mon...

Doing green stars in Galaxy 2. Man, this really highlights a scenario where they should have stumbled into the Mario Odyssey moon collecting idea sooner - i.e. not having every star kick you out of the level. It might not have always worked as levels are more linear in this game as opposed to Odysse...

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Started Super Mario Galaxy 2 yesterday. This will be my second playthrough of this game. I bought it on launch day back in 2010 (incidentally 3 days before my join date on this forum), and enjoyed it a lot but after 100%ing it over the span of several days I just... never came back to it. I suppose ...

Dumping some more thoughts on Mario Wonder after 100%ing it a second time (finished my badgeless run) I've said since I started playing the game that Super Mario Bros Wonder takes heavy inspiration from Super Mario World in many aspects, and that includes the signs that it was kinda rushed. There’s ...

Just finished off Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth. It was... eh. Can't say I loved it. I once again found the final episode too long (I don't think as bad as AA6, but it still felt like forever with the rate I played through it). There was a lot of rambling about the duties and honor of...

I've been casually playing Mario Wonder for short bursts here and there while listening to podcasts, now trying the online features which I turned on for a couple levels early on and then promptly turned off because I didn't remember the explanation for how they worked and I just thought the ghosts ...

It's not a super massive game. I'm not sure about overall level count (and there's a lot of level-type-things that probably shouldn't be counted as "levels") but at the very least there's less worlds than normal. That said, individual levels are very high quality, and there aren't really ...

It's not a super massive game. I'm not sure about overall level count (and there's a lot of level-type-things that probably shouldn't be counted as "levels") but at the very least there's less worlds than normal. That said, individual levels are very high quality, and there aren't really a...

My local Gamestop did a 10pm launch of Mario Wonder last night so I went to that. When I went to the launch for Tears of the Kingdom I showed up like 10 minutes early and ended up waiting in line for an hour because there were so many people. So this time I decided to show up half an hour early to s...

Yeah so the Asinine Attorney DLC was like 30 minutes each and also really stupid. They're like non-canon joke episodes, with all the hilarious comedy stylings you'd expect from a cringe anime filler episode. If they wanted to do a non-canon "what if?" episode, why not go nuts? Phoenix beco...

Alright actually finished Lost Levels now. World D wasn't that bad. It's weird they kinda remixed previous levels but I'm not convinced they were harder than the originals. Biggest issue (which is kind of a running theme with the game) is they just put a lot of hammer bros which are a stupid and bad...

words As a Lost Levels enthusiast, you are not wrong. It would never work in 80s America (or Europe for that matter, though most of us were into microcomputer gaming at the time due to it being less expensive). As for the continue situation, SMB1 and SMBTLL both restart you at the beginning of a wo...

I played through SMB The Lost Levels (SMAS version on NSO) for my first time. Gonna be honest, NOA probably made the right call swapping out Mario 2 for a different game. It's pretty frustrating sometimes, and I assume in the original version it was setup like SMB1 where a game over sends you back t...

Finished up the 5 main episodes in Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice and holy HELL that final episode is long. I believe I checked my playtime after finishing episode 4 and I was at ~20 hours. After finishing episode 5 I'm now at over 34 hours. I'm gonna do the DLC episodes and maybe write up some mo...

I stopped crying and just went and killed Air Man which incidentally gave me Item 2 (I should really know where the transport items come from with how familiar I am with this game, but I kinda never paid attention and assumed they were given after killing X robot masters), and then I was able to con...

I was looking for something mindless to play today so I hopped into Mega Man The Wily Wars which I think I might have played through years ago on emulator. I went through Mega Man 1 and it was... idk, Mega Man 1 but a little bit less janky. Then I went onto Mega Man 2 and until this point I was will...

I had some podcasts to catch up on so I played through Donkey Kong Country 3 today. It was pretty good, and I like that they got rid of having to pay coins to save your game. Difficulty and level length seemed kind of all over. One level I'd be dying for like 20 minutes, and the next I'd run through...

Last year I was planning to play through all the Ace Attorney games, and I got as far as playing through the first 5 mainline games but just kind of stopping after Dual Destinies. I think maybe I had burnt out after that one, especially cause I had a lot of issues with it. That was back in a frame o...

Oh, I actually found my old post from when I was doing my original playthrough: https://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=732&p=273886#p273886 Kinda funny searching this forum for "twinmold," you can see everyone complaining about it: https://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewtopic.ph...