Has anyone been doing the challenges for this game? The few early ones are easy enough but the difficulty ramps up very quickly. You have to be absolutely perfect in every way to get a gold! And it makes you realize how great the level design is for these too. Really fun!
I've only done the first 4 or 5, but I'd like to finish the main game before I do any more of these. It's such a great addition and I love how it saves a video of your best run for each challenge.
I agree with Guillaume. I've only played the first two and a half worlds, and already I've died plenty of times. I'm also missing a few hard to find coin stars and have yet to find any alternate exits.
This one, I would argue. Hell, yesterday I was thinking about how the level design reminded me of SMW and how it was similar in difficulty. And personally, I find SMW difficult, especially once you hit the Vanilla Dome levels, slippery and full of spikey enemies!
@Guillaume I'm still really early on, but for me so far the challenge is coming from the time limits. It seems like by the time I reach the mid-level flag that I'm already starting to run low on time on just about every level.
I was just making the point that calling a Mario game too easy based on the first couple worlds makes no sense at all since almost all of them are very easy to that point in the game.
@GameDadGrant The first stages of Mario games are never very impressive to me, it's when you get into the deeper ones that they distinguish themselves.
Of course, I'm coming off of NEW Super Mario Bros. 2's DLC stages, so most 2D platformers are easy in comparison. I just wish Nintendo took some extra time to really get the difficulty right, before they pushed it out the door for the console's launch.
I don't know what was i the air tonight but my nieces and nephews... did they get this worked up over NSMB Wii? I forget. But man, like every other second someone was whining about not getting the power-up they wanted, dying because someone else move the screen forward, and Yoshi is the worst, because none of them hold onto him for very long, but they FREAK OUT if they lose their Yoshi and other people still have one. CHAOS.
I've only played the first three levels so far but they were all great...can't wait to play a bunch more tomorrow.
Is this game like Super Mario World, where you're actually shown on the world map if a level has multiple exits....or is it like the other NSMB games where you just have to figure it out for yourself?
Most of the flagpoles are HARD to hit at the top.
