Yoshi's Archipelago - Last Letter World

[Sugar]

Yoshi's Archipelago is a collab SMBX episode that can be downloaded from https://www.supermariobrosx.org/forums/ ... hp?t=20762.

Yoshi's Archipelago - 1 - whole video is a mario tutorial
- How Do I Mario Bros.?

Yoshi's Archipelago - 2 - green hills with a lake in it
- Agent Toad's HQ
- Hillside Streams
- Colorful Playground
- Fungal Forest
- Tall Tops Forest

Yoshi's Archipelago - 3 - yoshi's island 2
- Autumn Lake
- Mushroom Samba
- Mushroom Steppes
- Burt the Unabashed's Fort
- !!!

Yoshi's Archipelago - 4 - did you know that you can sink in quicksand
- Neutral Nexus Island
- Agent Toad's HQ [world 2 edition]
- Ghost Coast
- Forgotten Dunes
- Tokotoko Desert
- Mirage Manor

Yoshi's Archipelago - 5 - hills with a green lake in it
- Tempest Valley
- Nighttime Oasis
- Doom Dunes

Yoshi's Archipelago - 6 - two piles of rock
- The Grand Pyramid
- Sinister Crypt
- !!!

Yoshi's Archipelago - 7 - beige hills with a green lake in it
- Twilight Desert
- Agent Toad's HQ [v.3]
- Wetlands
- Jungle Rhumba

Yoshi's Archipelago - 8 - buckets of water near a lake (of water)
- Green Thumb
- Piranha Plant Pond
- Big Blooper Basin

Yoshi's Archipelago - 9 - hill boss 5000
- Giga Funklen
- Overgrown Grove
- Naval Piranha's Bog
- !!!

Yoshi's Archipelago - 10 - going inside the giant hill
- Big Fat Phanto Koopas
- Agent Toad's HQ [4th one]
- Mushroom Underground

Yoshi's Archipelago - 11 - vanilla comes in two flavours
- Searing Skull Stepping
- Vanilla Castle

Yoshi's Archipelago - 12 - cave and laval dna evac
- Snake Pit
- Dynamite Grotto
- Barrel Volcano

Yoshi's Archipelago - 13 - blarrg is bigg
- Crazy Mine Madness
- Blargg's Lava Lair
- !!!

Yoshi's Archipelago - 14 - purple hills with ice on it
- Bonestrewn Barrow
- Agent Toad's HQ [the fifth one]
- Chilly Tunnel
- Frostbite Valley

Yoshi's Archipelago - 15 - snowplow parade
- Slip 'n Snow
- Colonel Cryo's Cavalry
- Carps Against Humanity

Yoshi's Archipelago - 16 - an ice level followed by an ice level followed by an ice level
- Frosted Massif
- Ice Climbers
- Col. Cryo's Cruelly Cold Cathedral
- !!!

Yoshi's Archipelago - 17 - mountain mountain
- Super Penguin Bros.
- [the sixth] Agent Toad's HQ
- Lakitu Rampage
- Snow Mountain

Yoshi's Archipelago - 18 - the hole
- Scurvy Skyrates
- Donut Fall
- Nifty Nimbus Ride

Yoshi's Archipelago - 19 - blue skies with clouds in it
- Turbulent Temple
- Bill Bouncing in Billowy Brumes
- General Fly Guy's Air Force
- !!!

Yoshi's Archipelago - 20 - rolling rock gathers no horses
- Rockin' Roll Ridge
- Agent Toad's HQ [v.7]
- Blazing Hot Inferno
- Dragon Dungeon

Yoshi's Archipelago - 21 - lava land (not magma land)
- Boom-Boom Bastille
- Fiery Flumes
- Fire Temple Redux

Yoshi's Archipelago - 22 - i beat the game! (i didn't beat the game)
- Podoboo Peak
- Picante Pass
- Devastation
- !!!

Yoshi's Archipelago - 23 - some of the video is a peach tutorial
- Volcano Lotus Valley
- Princess Etiquette
- Agent Toad's HQ [number eight]
- Future Shock

Yoshi's Archipelago - 24 - two different industrial levels
- Burny Burny Furnace
- Frosty Fridge

Yoshi's Archipelago - 25 - this is it, it happened, a one level video
- Mini-Boss Factory

Yoshi's Archipelago - 26 - factories that don't make anything useful
- Caustic Chemical Compound
- Deathtrap Industries Inc.
- Abandoned Factory

Yoshi's Archipelago - 27 - still not beating the game
- Clown Cars Incorporated
- !!!

Yoshi's Archipelago - 28 - grey hills with some doors on it
- Perilous Pipe Depot
- Secret Agent Training
- Agent Toad's HQ [final version?]

Yoshi's Archipelago - 29 - the cloud forest loop
- Serenade Forest
- Serenity Jungle

Yoshi's Archipelago - 30 - the second cloud loop
- A Cheesy Level
- Comet Observatory
- Sherbet Summit
- Trails in the Sky

Yoshi's Archipelago - 31 - okay now I think I beat the game (there is still more)
- Radiant Rainbow Road
- Quit Clowning Around
- !!!
- The Power of the Stars

Yoshi's Archipelago - 32 - i play the game!!
- Yoshi's World Tour
- !!!

Yoshi's Archipelago - 33 - no hills, no lakes, only stars
- Switch Swap Swamp
- Grumbly Goomba Causeway
- Debilitating Depths

Yoshi's Archipelago - 34 - a fire level and a ice level (in space)
- Fire & Brimstone
- Awesome Ice

Yoshi's Archipelago - Final - 35 - the game is beaten
- The Koopaling Armada
- Peach Beach
- One Meta Ton

[Leet]

Well that's... a start

[HatKid]

It's been a million years since the last SMBX lp! I wonder how this one will go.

[Valentine]

this one of the most boring smbx episodes out there so strap in everyone.

At least all the levels are easy and short for the most part.

[Emral]

curious to see what this one has to offer. i've heard nothing but enthusiastic disinterest about it, but maybe it'll thwart all expectations. even if it won't, it may just be the perfect segway back to mario after dkl3.

[raocow]

nothing but enthusiastic disinterest

this is such an awesome phrase

[KobaBeach]

If this turns out to be SMBX SIG I'll just skip it. Sorry RPGmaker.net dudes (and also SIG)

[FourteenthOrder]

this is not a very promising start

but it is very amusing to see this "overexplain everything" tutorial the morning after heroes'

[KobaBeach]

éhcilC oS erA sekameR

[Piesonscreations]

I'll coin the term SIG-like for this game.

[Sugar]

I kinda appreciate the romps so far. Sure, the player probably won't die due to an actual level, but at least the levels feel like actual places in a way.

[Emral]

mario visits the hinterland mushroom farm and sacrifices yoshi betwixt the stalks

[KobaBeach]

okay i am gonna be that bitch and look at the level design critically yet subjectively (so feel free to ignore this if u disagree)

all the stages played today have like two main themes, one relating to the level theming and the enemy introduced

hillside is water with koopas, colorful is detailed pixel art with nippers, fungal is mushroom ledges with volcano lotuses and tall tops is tree branches with rexes capped off with a boss battle

sadly it never does anything interesting with the enemy behavior or level theming, not even in a rompy sense, even if its something that's been done before because there are only so many things you can do with vanilla smbx

hillside has water sections and some koopas strewn about, colorful has a more open level design and nippers strewn about, fungal is etc etc

the boss battle in tall tops isn't even thematically fitting it's just "oh hey i added a boss battle about kicking shells at piranha plants at the end of a stage", i'd honestly place it on hillside to fit with the koopa theme or near the end of the world as a revisit to the shell manipulation of 1-2

the game also has a big problem with overexplaining like right in tall tops you get agent toad going "man i feel like the answer is right next to me" and then you enter a pipe and like The Game Already Makes Fun Of This with How Do I Mario Bros. and it's like????? have some faith on the player even if this is their first episode G*d. show don't tell

maybe i've been spoiled by jump team's productions and the less absurd parts of vip+aspe but vip also didn't bring its a-game to world 1 (they mostly organized levels by difficulty which meant a lot of the crappier ones got shafted into earlygame most of the time) and i'd point that out all the same. i'd say "maybe this is like vip and it gets more interesting with level design" but sancles and everyone else are like "oh this is boring" so i'm tempering my expectations

However. this does not seem like a bad game, just a very... average one. a fair 3 out of 5. it's playable, it gets the job done, but it's only that.

also nice freeze half way through Thanks Reddy Git

I'll coin the term SIG-like for this game.

excuse me this is a SIGlite

[AUS]

since this isnt a contest we dont have three ppl taking mario too seriously so thank you very much koba very appreciated

[KobaBeach]

since this isnt a contest we dont have three ppl taking mario too seriously so thank you very much koba very appreciated

b*tch do i look like i asked for your sass

i like looking at mario levels critically, if you have a problem with that then ignore the post

[Grounder]

i like looking at mario levels critically, if you have a problem with that then ignore the post

yump 2

[KobaBeach]

im not calling the game bad or trying to shame the creators if i'm stepping over the line then i'll stop

[Emral]

sancles told me that she thinks donkey kong land 3 is basically yoshis archipelago 2 so it might be better to turn the thinking off early at the risk of repeating the same points of criticism every time

[ano0maly]

Honestly I think the aesthetics fit together well and I like the music choices. As for the game, it serves the purpose of "have some time to chill and relax for a while" since it's not super intensive like the other two going on.

[Ditocoaf]

im not calling the game bad or trying to shame the creators if i'm stepping over the line then i'll stop

I think you're a bit more defensive than warranted, they're just giving you mild sass to entertain themselves in a thread otherwise empty of interesting things to talk about.

Your seriouspost was good, I'd say keep doing them.

[Valentine]

I mean I think you're gonna run out of things to comment on by episode 4 because this game gets very same-y very quickly.

Until you get to one of the admittedly few levels that are just god awful.

I'll be honest though, I like the episode cause for the most part it's got this "yeah we're just doing a thing" vibe where everything is kinda chill and nothing and it is nostalgic in a way

[KobaBeach]

I'm sorry to AUS, I just like looking at Mario levels critically because I'm autistic and also I read the post as passive aggressive even if it wasn't intended that way

But I also had to stop myself from going on critically about Sonic as a franchise on the AtS thread because I've been a fan since I was 3 and I have developed Opinions on it

So

sancles told me that she thinks donkey kong land 3 is basically yoshis archipelago 2 so it might be better to turn the thinking off early at the risk of repeating the same points of criticism every time

[admacXx2]

I'm excited to see where it goes from here. I've played a little bit of this in my free time (like 6 months ago) and made it into world 2 or 3, and it's pretty gnarly!

[Valentine]

this might pass by a lot of non-smbx-savvy folk but mr. Agent Toad over here actually explains changes from basegame smbx mechanics, so technically he does serve a purpose!

[TiKi]

this might pass by a lot of non-smbx-savvy folk but mr. Agent Toad over here actually explains changes from basegame smbx mechanics, so technically he does serve a purpose!

I thought this episode didn't use lua at all?