Yep it’s a gorgeous game. Still love world 5 (the sky?) the best, but fuck world 7 forever.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
5 is tower-to-the-sky, yup! We stopped after arriving there last night... about one world per sitting feels like the right amount although I suspect with 5 and 6 we might break 'em up. I can't remember how big 7 is - just all the pipes and floating arrow-platforms... never my favorite.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
one thing that's kind of nice about social media is finding out there's a shared trauma among people my age relating to the sun level
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
imo the appropriate SMB3 playtime per sitting is 1 entire SMB3 game per sitting
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
xp the angry sun is how I perceive summer every year
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
lol, that's amazing
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
that rules
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
and yeah in principle i'm all in favor of the chill day wiled away playing straight through this game --- it resonates with me --- but right now our attention spans and especially endurance for looking at screens is completely shot, so taking this one in chunks is feeling surprisingly good. we did Yoshi's Island and SMW together this way a couple years ago, and maybe they're slightly more natural fits for that format (tho i'm with the "SMW is mostly a fancy re-do of SMB3" crowd) just because of the idea of replaying levels to find secrets and bonus areas.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
i was only kidding about poopsocking it being the only appropriate way to play smb3. it definitely is appropriate, but it's also a lot of fun to just dive in, get the first couple warp whistles, and skip straight to your faves. there's no wrong way to smb3
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Yeah you can probably 'finish' it in under 30 min with the warp whistles trick, but it would be fun to play it again with the idea of actually seeing all the levels.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
yeah as a kid i think the desire to visit levels 4 5 and 6 again predominated. but sometimes warpin' makes you feel cool.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
dr casino has inspired me to play SMB3!
I have a new twitch pseudonym: https://www.twitch.tv/zach_tbd
starting up my sesh now. I think I got my streaming settings fixed, for once, so the choppy/terrible experience of the last several years should hopefully be improved. i am so old and bad
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 January 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
i just did the angry sun level
it was fine
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 2 January 2021 00:16 (three years ago) link
We started playing this today but it was abandoned when someone got frustrated with the controls, alas. Still great fun.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Saturday, 2 January 2021 00:36 (three years ago) link
just hopped on to watch, this is great! but also so strange to see the All Star color scheme, it makes everything look like a fan level in Mario Maker.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 January 2021 01:28 (three years ago) link
watching this after playing some Castlevania III this morning reminds me of another badly needed design fix for both games: if you get a powerup the old one should pop out next to you so you can swap back if you mistakenly pick up some trash.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 January 2021 01:31 (three years ago) link
there are SMM levels designed entirely around avoiding the "bad powerup". It is part of the game imo.
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 2 January 2021 02:19 (three years ago) link