A Second Mario Thing: free alex

[AUS]

I liked the fish. Fish-chan is my waifu

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[Money]

I'm pretty sure that thing is a Swiss Army Knife.

As the person who sprited it, yes, it is. It was inspired by what happens when you type in "thing" in Scribblenauts.

[shdwdrgnix]

Finally got to that map, huh? Hey, if you somehow are unable to enter the two levels on the bottom left (the ones around them aren't very good either), nobody will blame you. Yes, they're that bad- even worse than most of the levels you've encountered so far. There's nothing you can salvage from them!

I sure the soundtrack will be one positive thing in those levels.

Also bottom left level gets my vote for easiest level in all of A2MT

[Willhart]

The first level had a really fun idea and nice graphics. Most of the level design was good too. The perspective was amusing. Watching the second level after it felt difficult mostly due to the slowdown gimmick.

[Sebby19]

I don't know why raocow hesistated so much with the spam of Goombas and one hopping flame.

Also, did he take out two Para-Goopas with one fireball?

As for the beginning of the second level, no raocow, you didn't touch the mushroom, you missed it by a mile.

[Paragraph]

The first level reminded me a lot of cheap cash-in SNES platformers. These often go complete form over function, make the levels weird isometric affairs to fit the locales of whatever movie or show they are supposed to represent, and often have no way to tell what is a platform and what isn't (a death sentence).

However, the level here looked actually pretty fun despite the visual reminder of bad days past, so good job!

[YelseyKing]

I rather liked the first level today, despite the enemy spam near the end. The tileset was nice, it had some nice Seiken Densetsu 3 music, and it overall had this cute and charming feel to it, especially with Fluffy Big Squee at the end. Eeeee. :3

The second stage... yeah, yay for gimmicks that mess with your controls. Always a fun time to be had there. Was there anything unique in the chest, or was it another Nothing?

[Ishntknew]

Does anyone know what the tileset used in the first level was? I recognize it from using it in RPG Maker a lot back in the day, but I don't know what its original source was. I wanna say a Sailor Moon game, but I don't know for sure.

[AUS]

The second stage... yeah, yay for gimmicks that mess with your controls.

How does that count as messing with controls?

[YelseyKing]

The second stage... yeah, yay for gimmicks that mess with your controls.

How does that count as messing with controls?

It's less the control*s*, and more the *control*. Being unable to run, and moving progressively slower over time, dramatically hinders the player. I dunno, it's just not a mechanic I think looked all that fun.

[AUS]

It could be really fun if the level was designed more with that in mind. I only saw a bit of use out of the gimmick there, only a little bit to remove the 'tacked-on' feeling ASM can give.

Imagine a level where the gaps get smaller near to the end of the level, but your speed is slower to compensate. Where everything is tailored after the specific speed the player can run at, at that point in the level.

I think that'd be cool.
ps alex can I steal this asm for later

[Willhart]

The cheese with large non circular holes looks more like wax. It was probably that way thanks to the heat. The joke was pretty easy to understand and the custom graphics were fun. I wonder if the player was supposed to have a cape or something for the secret exit.

[Menshay]

Do the two coins on the floor at about 7:08 mean anything? Maybe a hidden pipe?

[Grounder]

Today, raocow cheeses a level.

Not really keen on the Simpsons joke, there, but I'm not the one it would really affect, so...

Weird music choice?

[Mineyl]

Chapter 1: Cheese Wheels of Doom

That was a very odd level, difficulty-wise. It seemed to have a bit of a crisis with whether it wanted to be average or hard difficulty. Maybe it's good that the awkward podobo jump was near the beginning instead of right at the end as a fish-like "screw you?"

[shdwdrgnix]

Do the two coins on the floor at about 7:08 mean anything? Maybe a hidden pipe?

yea, that is a hidden pipe that takes you to the secret exit and the chest

[KobaBeach]

Yet another level with Last Battle from RomaSaGa 3 playing in the background.

That's three so far.
There's one more in this submap (and it's a pretty bad level, btw).

Just how many levels have this song playing in it?

Chapter 1: Cheese Wheels of Doom

[screams internally]

Not really keen on the Simpsons joke, there

monkeycheese

not cheese eating surrender monkeys

[PKBeloved]

My lactose kicked in just watching this episode....

[Septentrion Pleiades]

As inherently interesting cheese is for making jokes, it's still yet another level.

You know what really would make this LP much more interesting? It's narrative. I know everyone's like "Plot in a Mario game? LOL" but it really stops the game from feeling like a meaningless drudge.

[Willhart]

Does this hack have anything that is related to Demo's siblings? I remember that some of those hallways were great looking.

[Unaniem]

Chapter 1: Cheese Wheels of Doom

[screams internally]

Don't worry, Koba.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

I liked the monkey joke.

[Septentrion Pleiades]

Does this hack have anything that is related to Demo's siblings? I remember that some of those hallways were great looking.

The intro had Mishi in the background talking nonsense to demo.

I remember the hallway as "Here be siblings; not really." I don't think we even had places in the rom for them. They were done as a last minute additions to make up for the total lack of bosses and it shows.

Since the story is non-existent, can we just assume that the universe meets its heat death at the end of this hack due to the lack of demo beating bosses?

[ano0maly]

That looks hard to do without the TAS.

[Grounder]

Does this hack have anything that is related to Demo's siblings? I remember that some of those hallways were great looking.

The intro had Mishi in the background talking nonsense to demo.

I remember the hallway as "Here be siblings; not really." I don't think we even had places in the rom for them. They were done as a last minute additions to make up for the total lack of bosses and it shows.

Since the story is non-existent, can we just assume that the universe meets its heat death at the end of this hack due to the lack of demo beating bosses?

Demo is in a Lotus Eater Machine to wipe the memories of her siblings.

Iris was going through a purple phase at the time.

[Whimsical Calamari]

Today, raocow cheeses a level.

Probably my favorite thing today was that he actually did it, though.