jim otm about the optical illusion paintings leading into tiny-huge island. another rad touch: the snowman's land painting that's only visible in the giant mirror at one end of the room.
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
un-rad touch: the kid in middle school who said you could get to the end of the endless staircase after about 15 minutes, he "totally did it"
― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
really the only shitty thing about this game were the random Toads that would give you stars for nothing
― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
another point for hazy maze cave: this moment of genuine like hushed awe in the dark lake deep underground
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― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
haha it was so mean that you had to butt stomp its head
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
while we're on this nostalgia trip BRB
― 乒乓, Friday, February 1, 2013 11:49 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
favorite place to hang out in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
gonna throw a vote for snowman's land because i love it
― castle grayscale (Lamp), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
in all its polygonal glory
snowman's land is awesome for shellsurfing
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
This was def a very consistent game, I have fond memories of every single level
The Bowser levels were the most fun with their pure platforming and instant easy deaths but a vote for them would bely the scope of the game. I vote Hazy Maze Cave, what with the Steel Mario bit and the part where you ride the dinosaur, great level.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
nah you buttstomped its back to make it lower its head so you could climb on it before it raised it again. it's got fat back there; it can take it. altho the noise it made was p wrenching.
xp omg yes
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
also that little igloo that became this weird ice palace inside??
that xp was to dayo's zelda poll
Shifting Sand Land seems like a shitshow but it had those hilarious rolling metal boxes and the disembodied hand, come on, great level!!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
I like Hazy Maze Cave because of the way the music changes depending on where you are. This is something I really love about Mario games by the way, like how you get the bongos whenever you're on Yoshi. Galaxy was full of tricks like this.
― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
you fight the pair of disembodied hands with the eyes in them that you punch in shifting sand land, right?
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah; i think that was my favorite boss. (possible competitor: big boo, not because of the actual enemy but because of the setting, up there on the mansion balcony in the dark and the wind with no guard rail.)
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
yes they're in the pyramid in that tomb in the middle that you can only get to by standing on the 4 pillars outside which causes the tip of the pyramid to explode revealing a secret entrance
― ciderpress, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
hand boss was weird though. i didn't feel it fit in.
that boo battle was pretty incredible; all I remember is the camera angle really screwing with you, probably on purpose
― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, me too. just the other day i dug out my n64+SNES+NES and hooked them all up, but my N64 and SNES controllers are busted, somehow. anyone know a good place to get new/used controllers? i see some on amazon but they all appear to be crappy 3rd party, stiff controls, etc.
― Z S, Friday, February 1, 2013 11:55 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark
the worst was analog stick dust
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
think I remember coming across a controller where the octagon ring surrounding the stick had literally been ground into a circle
the owner of it prob played 1080 snowboarding to death
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
I liked it, it was scarier, suggested a dark heart
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
i'm surprised mario doesn't have CTE from me banging his head into so many basement walls trying to catch that fucking rabbit
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
i still can't do the fucking rabbit.
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
those fuckers who do the speedruns get him in like 2 seconds. always felt the rabbit was Nintendo's way of needling the player a bit
― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
I look forward to playing this today.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
this poll is amazing, thank you for making it, also I've literally only just woken up and in all seriousness thought one of the poll options was 'Tiny-Huge Cock'
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
Embarrassing nicknames from Mario's past
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 February 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
Cool, Cool Mountain isn't the best or most fun or rewarding level but I don't think I can vote against penguins
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 1 February 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
Cool, Cool Mountain did have that atmosphere.
I think my favorite single stars were the Bowser levels, but I can't fully seperate the experiences enough to vote for one of them right now. This is hard.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 2 February 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
If this was "best place to hang out" like the Zelda poll then my answer would 100% be Jolly Roger Bay, I honestly did turn on the N64 sometimes just to go and hang around in there, the music for that level is still my all time favourite videogame music and yeah, you could remix it yourself by wandering round: the beach was chimes only, then the lovely filtered synth strings faded in as you jumped into the water, and you'd get those light skittery drums in the hidden cave. Whether or not it's the best level is trickier. Might just vote for it anyway though.
I was 21 when this came out btw.
― JimD, Saturday, 2 February 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
I posted it on this board before but there is one level on this game that is just a straight rip of a caetano veloso song
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 2 February 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
the level's music obv (I'm sick)
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 2 February 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
I heard the dude who did the music for this game bought an affordable housing unit located inside a larger division of identical housing units with access to shared facilities and resources. he called it his koji den of sick jams
― 乒乓, Saturday, 2 February 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhAYJZ66giw
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 2 February 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
jimd really otm about the atmosphere in jolly roger bay -- plus the eel has the same, like, majesty as the monster in hazy maze cave, where it's this huge creature that mostly ignores you (although the eel will snap if you get too close) and that you can just watch swim around its habitat.
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 3 February 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
as a level there's not much to it but it's the prettiest.
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 3 February 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
playing the water levels of SM 64 + wave race 64 in such close proximity to each other really has made water environments the Best Thing in video games
― 乒乓, Sunday, 3 February 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
wave race 64 still the finest racing game ever. who would sponsor such a tourney?
― 乒乓, Sunday, 3 February 2013 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit I forgot about Wave Race 64!
― :C (crüt), Sunday, 3 February 2013 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
what a game.
^
― 乒乓, Sunday, 3 February 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
Great poll idea.
No love for Tall Tall Mountain? I can't remember any of the specific puzzles but I thought it had a cool 'feel'. I hated any of the ones that felt too contained in an obvious box - especially Lethal Lava Land. Wet-Dry World had a solid gimmick but suffered from this IMO. Kind of claustrophobic. The more 'landscapey' ones I think brought out that sense of majesty or peacefulness. I could say a lot more but it's late.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 February 2013 08:09 (eleven years ago) link
i approve of this bomb ass remember the 90's thread. My favorite level was the ghosthouse, and wave race was my jam. Ghosts were so cool.
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― sleepingbag, Sunday, 3 February 2013 08:51 (eleven years ago) link
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― sleepingbag, Sunday, 3 February 2013 08:56 (eleven years ago) link
playing through this again and I'm leaning toward tiny-huge island atm
― ron paulstretch (crüt), Friday, 8 February 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 28 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm going Tall Tall Mountain, seems like an underdog and I just love how spatial it is - moreso than some of the others you get the sense of "oh yeah, now i'm above that place I was before" and so on. Also just hits that sweet spot I loved about Tomb Raider and even a shitty game like Ultima 9, these early 3D worlds where it was just so much fun to explore. It's a pretty small area but it feels more about roaming and experiencing the ambitious, death-defying landscape than it does about solving little polygonal puzzles.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 28 February 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
i cannot finish majora's mask it is too scary
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq8HZmN0zMs
― jmm, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
I wonder if that was inspired by House.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link