I finally got the thing that made me want to get the Switch; Super Mario Maker 2! I also learned something about Dashie.. he uses the Switch Pro controller. Interesting.
So I’ve been playing several player-made levels (in Easy difficulty). And the first one I played can be seen as two things; too easy, and a troll if you don’t take the obvious route. Once I find the ID for the level, I will post it here.
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I’ve also been playing Story Mode. Basically goes as a dog with bread around their neck manages to destroy Princess Peach’s castle. The toads need to rebuild it, but have no budget to do so. But that’s where you come in, Mario. You can do ‘jobs’ (levels made by Nintendo employees) to gather coins, and use them to begin construction on a brand new castle.
Each level, you get five lives. You gain more by either scoring 10,000 points in one go or getting a 1-up mushroom (typical Mario mechanics). Having more than five lives when clearing a level, it does not transfer over to the next one.
Dying twice, Luigi comes to your rescue by giving you the option to place blocks to get through tough parts of the level (or give you one free power-up such as a mushroom).
Dying completely and getting a “TOO BAD…” message, Luigi shows up again offering you to retry the level with another five lives, give up… or letting him do the level for
you. By allowing him to do it, you’ll still get the payment for completing the level, but you won’t get any coin collecting bonus.
One particular level I had SO… SO much difficulty on, is #15: NO JUMPING ALLOWED! It’s one of the new challenge flag type of levels, where you have to do something through the entire course to clear it (gather an object, defeat a specific enemy, avoid this
mechanic, etc..). In this case, you’re not allowed to touch the ground if you jump. It got to the point where I tried to watch Dashie’s playthrough/stream of it, he NEXT’ed it and went to doing levels made for him by other players.
But after lots of perseverance, I managed to clear it! 💪 Holy fuck the feeling of accomplishment I felt after that.. only to be stuck by another level by getting some stone by using Yoshi, and trying to somehow vault over a high wall with him in tow as the stone is in his mouth (while running out of time).
I’ve also been playing a few levels Ruffy made. The first one (ID: HGV-BSC-6GF), actually made me tell him “you’re a dick”. Good level though, and I managed to (barely) clear it.
The second level I played (his first level), clearly I need to master how to wall bounce. I’m making even amature wall bounce people, look bad. Only a few times was I able
to (somehow) pull it off.
Clearly I need to get a Switch Pro controller; the tiny buttons on the joy-cons aren’t really working out for me. But since I want to get back into VR a lot more (by getting a
Vive), that’s not going to happen anytime soon. But, I can play other levels just fine.
After I order the Vive (and if I still have enough to survive the month), I’ll tell Gamefly I want to keep the game.
And that might also be true of getting the Pro controller (maybe by October).
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Before I wrap this up, you all may make me levels. And if you do, please email me the IDs of them and I will check them out as soon as I can. 🙂
Or you can tweet me them (@Benie76). Use ‘#Benies-BlogsSMM2Level’ when you do. Get creative and feel free to make me anything (just not a whole lot of trolling, please).