A Ridiculous Retrospective Of Super Mario 64

I've recently been going through the game collection. There are so many fun titles to experience. I really don't know where to start. Look at all these modern titles with their great graphics and high performance, but I can't really be bothered to join them. with these trendy fashion years I have to point out God I love 1996 the world was so cool I wasn't in it yet well it looks like I'm back talking about Super Mario 64 the game where Nintendo did what once thought it wasn't possible. I forgot how to tell Super Mario 64 has been widely considered one of the best games of all time, something you'd be proud to show to a non-gaming friend or family member to show off what the medium is capable of.

Interestingly, the deck was stacked against the success of this game for a while, but let's get ahead of it first, we can take a trip back in time and take a look at one of the best things Nintendo ever released. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the Super Mario series in the early 1990s, was working on a new game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the follow-up to the very popular and often considered savior of video games, the Nintendo Entertainment System or NES for short video games. , had had a rough ride since its conception in the late 1950s, back then every game was a few pixels playing pong, but that all changed when companies like Atari came along and really started popularizing home console gaming. , the idea that you could have something that played the same. the game room in your own home on your TV was a magical concept at one time, which is why the Atari 2600 was introduced along with its nice Bare Bones games, but come on, what did you expect from 1977 games with experiences like Breakout ?

Oh, this is Rich, so yeah, obviously. The games weren't exactly the Blockbuster experiences you get today, but there was still an audience for these things and it was clear that they had a bright future, yes. 1983 arrived in the video game. The market dropped dead, leaving many people to believe that was it. For the little ones, many things can now be credited for this happening, but the main one that everyone points to is ET for the Atari 2600. This game came out in 1982 and, according to Wikipedia, was developed in five weeks, apparently it didn't work well , Atari. I thought the game would have big sales due to the movie's high box office numbers.

No, this game is ranked among the worst of all time and critics criticize it for its bad graphics and because it simply doesn't make sense for 90 people to work. Find out what the hell you were supposed to do in this game, and if that wasn't enough, Wikipedia also says that Atari themselves buried a load of ET cartridges in a landfill and sealed them with concrete. Now you might be thinking this is a joke, but no. There's a documentary about it, so the game was received so negatively that Atari fled the scene, buried the game in a landfill, sealed it, and then crashed the video game market.

Well needless to say there's a reason why people thought this game caused the crash of 1983, so thank goodness the creators of ultra handhela are backing Nintendo, one of the most recognizable faces in all of gaming , they have gone on to create some of the best games of all time and yet interestingly back then they were primarily a toy company which is what their next big products were marketed as, as you can see, due to the total carnage caused Because of the crash of '83, many stores simply refused to sell anything related to video games, they didn't want anything to do with that phrase, it was all they had.

What had happened up to that point was a complete money sink, most people involved in the video game industry at the time had walked away wishing they had never known what a video game was, it was just refusing to have a true success and gave its developers a night. terrors, but that didn't stop Nintendo from trying the crash of '83 had obviously left a bad taste in everyone's mouth, but Nintendo was determined to change that after trying their hand at arcade games in the early 1980s, they decided to create a home video game system. that stocked games on cartridges, the problem was that they couldn't actually sell them due to the terrible image of the market and the stores flatly refused to stock video games, so the new console was called the Nintendo Entertainment System and had a robot named Rob packaged in with it to sell it complete it is a toy acts that were going for you you are a toy but you can't have a gaming system without some games and that's why Nintendo got to work on launch titles for NES, many of them things like games of sports and these are lovely stylish black boxes, unlike Atari, Nintendo didn't really try to put themselves on the box with graphically impressive visuals and then the game is like that, not with an NES box, what you see is what you get, The box is mainly includes game sprites and I have to say that I really like these designs.

Something about this packaging is so cool that everything works brilliantly but of course there was one game that changed everything completely. Bike Excite Bike Hunt, one of two bundled games. with nes.com I also used an accessory for the console that you see here in the box, we have the controllers gone, yes the NES zapper, as Nintendo called it, was used to shoot the ducks in Duck Hunt and then let the People will complain because video games encourage. violence and all that, the parents who complained about this definitely weren't ready for what video games would do.

Oh, Cato wins, but aside from Duck Hunt, one of the games came bundled with the NES, a game about running and jumping through obstacles to reach. the goal at the end of the level a game about grabbing power-ups to fight enemies a game about violence against turtles Super Mario Brothers was the NES game this game completely redefined what video games could be on their own, bringing back the industry giant error era, the original Mario Bros was an extremely simple game that essentially consisted of running sideways and jumping, but the simplicity of the game along with its

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ly fun level design is what made it stand out from the rest and It really made him more of a gaming powerhouse. it went on to sell more than 58 million copies that's absurd that's double Peru there was no sequel but that game was just a version of another game Doki Doki Panic but with Mario Sprites however those are the kind of worms that can remain firmly closed in the upcoming sequel Super Mario Bros 3 for NES only sold around 17 million copies.

Bros 3 is one of the most beloved NES games if you ignore Clue Crew Lund, that's just to show how enormously successful the original Super Mario Bros was in saving the gaming industry and allowing it to find its place back in the mainstream as As time passed, Nintendo realized that they had a good business with all this video game business and they began to work on their next system, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, this console was launched in the late 1990s and received 49 million sales worldwide, this was a huge number, obviously this made Nintendo a lot of money, but it failed to outsell the NES, which sold around 62 million units.

This could be attributed to many things, but I think the main reason for this is. Many people simply didn't understand the concepts of upgrading their system back then, like why would you buy a new Nintendo console when this one plays Yoshi's cookie. Obviously, the idea is much more common today to the point where when a new console is released. comes out, it sells out almost immediately, there are some people who even now in 2023 can't get a PS5, no, that's a completely different topic, but it's a great showcase of how the industry has grown since the era of NES games .

It is now as popular as the movies and in some cases even more so. Grand Theft Auto 5 had a better launch week than any movie in history when it came out, further pushing gaming into something that everyone would care about, not just a more niche audience in the '80s. In the '90s, Super Nintendo was a 16-bit system, which meant it could run games with twice as many bits as the NES, which now only had eight, personally, even today I'm not quite sure what exactly bits are and the average consumer Neither was everyone. What we knew was that the higher the number, the better life was with all this new hardware.

We return to Shigeru Miyamoto about the game he was developing. You see Miyamoto was working on a game called Star Fox and he saw you playing as a space-traveling Fox. who Pilots a Starship, the game was kind of 3D, obviously 3D games were relatively unknown at this time and the idea of ​​moving anywhere other than left or right kept people awake at night , but Star Fox was a completely different type of game than the standard 2D Mold. The way he achieved this was by utilizing the Super FX Graphics chip which allowed Miyamoto to create the technological wizardry you see in Star Fox.

He quickly began developing an idea during the development of this game through the use of this same technology. Super FX. create a Mario game for the SNES that had the working title Super Mario FX, unfortunately that specific idea never got a chance to come to fruition due to the SNES controller being too limited for this game to work properly, at least according to Miyamoto, thankfully your problem. would be solved with the release of Nintendo's next system, Project Reality, yes, this time you will taste that cookie, the most exciting incredibly realistic 3D video entertainment ever seen. Project Reality Leagues Beyond any hardware currently available or anticipated, Project Reality will bring to home video players the same types of stunning visuals seen in films like Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park, when this technology is created, gamers interactives won't just stare at their TV screens, they'll dive headlong through them.

Nintendo partnered with the company Silicon Graphics to create a CD-ROM Peripheral for the Super Nintendo, however, in the end they decided to scrap the idea and create an entirely new console. Honestly, this seemed like the smartest idea considering that I doubt many consumers would be willing to purchase an expensive accessory for their already expensive system, so this new console idea made a lot of sense, and in early 1993, Project Reality officially launched. to development and just a year later, in 1994, Nintendo announced that the name of the currently unreleased system was Nintendo Ultra 64. It was intended to be Nintendo's most powerful system yet running at 64 bits, they were so sure that they put it in the title, but this system ran four times longer than the SNES bits and eight times longer than the NES bits again, I still have no idea what they actually are, but damn, that's a big number when you're talking about the ultra 64.

Nintendo even said it was more powerful than the first moon landing computers, but Nintendo was so sure that they told you they were selling you a NASA computer, but then the most shocking thing happened. about the ultra 64, the cartridges that existed, this was considered a big mistake at the time, considering that the Sony Playstation used discs as a game format and could hold thousands of more data than any cartridge, why would a third party developer choose develop for the ultra? 64 when they could make bigger and better games and put them on the Sony console which already had a huge install base and if you were a developer looking to port your games to the 64 then you better hope it wasn't huge in vial size or was nowhere near a 64 cartridge, this was probably Nintendo's biggest mistake this generation as they essentially shot themselves in the foot before they even started and the only reason they did it was because the cartridges are harder than the Pirates.

Nintendo has always been afraid. Out of their wits about people pirating their games, but finding solutions to that problem only to cause an even bigger one is just stupid in my opinion and the hits just keep coming because then we got to see the controller and it was, oh, it was something. Very well, this is a punishment for the sins of humanity. The N64 controller will always be the most baffling controller in all of gaming. There is so much about this controller that makes me want to turn to substances to begin with. Nintendo decided that, for some unholy reason, this controller should have three.

Forks like spikes falling out of the bottom, making me wonder if they passed biology in high school, we only have two of them trying to figure out the right way to hold this damn thing, it's a nightmare. Do I hold the sides in the middle? The general idea. it's keeping the left side in the middle when you need the d-pad and the right side in the middle when you need the buttons, that's stupid. Any check you do on mechanging the way I hold it when I need to access new buttons is not. Although it's such a fantastic controller, obviously the word 3D gaming was still in its infancy and no one had the foggiest idea how to create a controller for it, but that doesn't stop this from being an absolutely terrifying machination that haunts my every moment. vigil.

To launch, Nintendo decided to show the official name of the console, which was Nintendo 64, because it just wasn't Ultra enough, the word Ultra was removed, which is fine. I don't think anyone has lost sleep over it, but everything else has. They lost an unhealthy amount on it, so we have a system that can barely hold data, has a controller shaped like a sadistic fork, and was released over a year after the PS1, which sold out. Oh yeah, Nintendo was going to need a lot. a game to bring this console back from the hiatus a game that would not only pique consumer interest but also revitalize Nintendo for a new era of gaming, so thank goodness Pilot Wings exists one of two launch titles for the pilot N64 Wing 64 is a flight simulation game in which the player pilots a hang glider through a series of rings and it's actually quite fun.

The game may seem a little clunky and dated, but it's certainly not bad. Oh yes, there was something else. Development of Super Mario 64 began on September 7, 1994, which led to the construction of the first working version of the game, not the one with Wario's evil magic, but a small portion of the game taken from an N64 emulator. which essentially makes the game think it was running on N64 hardware, but in reality, it was just software that mimicked that hardware. Pay attention. There will be an exam. This initial version of the game featured Mario interacting with a rabbit.

The development team named mips based on the n64's mips architecture processors. The goal of the mips test was to test things like Mario's animations and how he interacted with other entities in the game world. Interestingly, this rabbit made it to the final game. He can be found in the basement of the castle and gives you a power star if you catch him. Hell Mips are even used with some speed. running tactics for the game, so needless to say, this bunny became a pretty big part of Mario 64. As it turned out, the developers were also working on a split-screen co-op mode for the game in which players They would control Mario and his brother Luigi, but they could never get it working well enough to implement it.

Sadly, in November 1995, Nintendo publicly unveiled Super Mario 64 with a playable demo at the Space World game show, which left people completely speechless. to all. Minds 3D was nothing new at this point, PlayStation had taken care of that, but this game was on another level, the sheer amount of freedom it offered to the player was Monumental, it allowed you to annoy Edwards without doing anything in particular or Moving through the game as quickly as possible put the fun and options in the player's hands. Players and people alike noticed that everyone who played in the Space World Showcase left extremely impressed, and players knew they were in for something special.

The game was later shown at E3 1996 along with several N64s set up so people could play it, it was easy. the most anticipated game at E3 and people just wanted to try it, the N64 release was actually delayed just to accommodate this game when Miyamoto said the game needed more time in the oven, everyone knew this game would be the reason why which people bought n64, so they gave us a little extra time, originally wanted to include even more courses but were forced to make some cuts due to the large size of the project and the time constraints the team was under Working through the stress of working on the project was so great that it caused several programmers to quit or change departments, but eventually the game was finished and ready to be released to the public.

Let's hope that for the first 3D entry in the Mario series the reception was good. It also doesn't matter Super Mario 64 released in June 1996 in Japan, September 1996 in North America and March 1997 in Europe and Australia, this game was one of the biggest critical hits in the video game industry during its first three months on the market. North American market. the game sold over 2 million copies and grossed $140 million people praised the level design the music the replayability factor the game was endlessly fun and was a true showcase of everything the N64 was capable of doing the pro Game Outlook rated the game as the most visually stunning game of all time, that's right, PS5 games are wasting their time with such amazing review scores in public reception, this game has really been considered something special, but I'll be damned if I literally trust any of them, so I played the game from Start to finishing this video again to form my own opinion and see if this game lives up to the praise it received at the time.

As soon as we open the game, we are presented with something: this Mario face was from Nintendo. way to flex the capabilities of the n64 as soon as you start the game a way to say this couldn't have been done on other consoles you can move your face with a little hand it makes noises this is cool I could waste hours here kind of fun inclusions like this are which is where a lot of the heart and soul of this game comes from and it's really cool to see how Nintendo implemented things like this, but after we're done with our short 30 hour menu session we can jump into the actual game, so let's get started.

Take a look at what's in store, oh man, I'm so nostalgic for this opening now that I'm sure you can tell. No, I didn't grow up in the 90s. In fact, I played the DS version of this game to death as an idiot five year old, this opening is great, the music, the view of the castle, Lakitu flying around the place with his little camera , it all adds up to create this magical feeling every time you start a new game, it never ceases to amaze me. Every time I look at it, this was the first thing people saw of a Mario game on N64 after growing up on a diet of 2D platformers.

Nintendo decided it was time to give us something special and some of this pure spectacle that we can control. Mario for the first time and damn, this game didn't invent 3D platforming, but it was the first to do it really well, the controls, the movement, the strange environments to shape this incredibly tight and well-functioning experience, that's it. One of the main reasons why people loved this game when it was released, we had never before been able to explore worlds like this or move around so freely, so you have to imagine how revolutionary it was at the time, however by anyone's standards current the camera is a bit rubbish, trying to move this thing is like trying to maneuver a boss, it can be very awkward and get stuck in strange places but it still works and despite all the horror stories I've heard about This is not as bad as people think.

Plus, the rest of the game controls like a dream, even compared to other more modern games, and that's really saying something, speaking of the camera. Lakitu serves as our cameraman in this game, literally being the camera as he films Mario doing his thing. Adventure presumably so some toad director can get licensing rights and profit from Mario's exploits, but I heard this joke, people have said that if lakita is the camera, then who is recording the key in this scene, wait, so if Lego 2 is our supposed cameraman who is recording. Hello Internet and welcome to Lakitu's game theory in dialogue.

Says Laquito Bros. Now this isn't just a fun reference to Mario and Luigi, no no, this is strong proof that Lakitu is being filmed by another lakitu Cannon Jokes Apart we finally make it inside the castle to be greeted by Bowser or more exactly a message from Bowser. You might think that Bowser left his ominous message on a sticky note above the door after kidnapping Peach because how else is he Mario? Getting this message is either Bowser just yelling too loudly from behind the stargate or what was the original idea of ​​the stages being 3D versions of the 2D style levels with Mario having to reach the flagpole at the end like in the original Mario Bros. but that idea was scrapped because this game needed to be available for the release of the n64 and developing so many stages would take too long and also the N64 cartridges could barely hold a small amount of data, so cramming 50 courses into it was just not possible. , so the team opted for far fewer but larger levels with multiple missions to complete in each one.

I must say that this style works remarkably well for 3D Mario. I mean, think about if I just go to the flagpole. just 3D Mario, but in this more open level style I'm free to do any mission I want in any order I want. I can run around the stages and explore, search for secrets and complete one of his many objectives. This more complex style of level design allows much more freedom for the player and gives us a real idea of ​​what it means to be a 3D Mario. Philosophers have been working on it for a while.

This single decision influenced how 3D Mario games would be designed in future games. Like Sunshine in the more recent Odyssey, they're all built around this form of level design and it's brilliant, although many consider Super Mario Sunshine to be too Super Mario Sunshine for their tastes. Super Mario Odyssey has received critical acclaim. and perfect for its sprawling worlds that you can run around and get lost in, and these worlds originated right here in Super Mario 64. So how do the levels hold up well? Battlefield is an absolutely brilliant introduction to the game's mechanics and sets the stage for future levels to build upon, this unique chain shatters the nightmares of many children around the world.

Your main objective for the level is to beat Big Bob on Atop The Mountain in the middle of the stage, but you can go out and do it. Whatever mission you want, there is the red Coin Star that appears in each level. Basically, find the eight red coins hidden throughout the stage and grab the star. I think the red coin stars are a great inclusion because it actually adds incentive to explore these levels. to find them and sometimes you end up coming across a completely different star during your search, for example you might be trying to get all the red coins on a battlefield but then you come across the one in the jump in chain so you grab but you can't help but notice the star on the cage behind it so you tried to open the ramp by opening the sign.

The chain is attached to it, but bam, you feel like the Einstein of our time because all the stars you can grab here are cool. Also, whether you shoot other island cannons in the sky or race the giant turtle to the top of the mountain where you fought the bomb, the creativity doesn't stop at this stage and it's clearly where many of the development teams love and The focus was gone, but they were trying to design an opening that would make players feel comfortable in the game, although the boss fight is a bit boring, literally all you do is lift the bubo king with your strength apparently

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human and throw him to the ground when he was a child.

I tried to throw him off the mountain because it seemed like I had a better chance of killing him, but he just jumped back up. I think the DS version that came out years after the original N64 game did this fight a little better in that regard. one had to hit him with his own bombs, which was at least a little more creative than this, just following the slow guy and then committing a personal space violation isn't too interesting, at least the next fight has a little more substance However, the wamp King is a giant slab of concrete that will try to crush you by violently face-planting you into the ground.

You have to dodge him and soften his back. I actually played a bit of a backseat game once I saw a friend of mine play this game for the first time. and they couldn't figure out how to hit Grand, so this fight lasted about 10 minutes and they tried to kick King Wamp, which serves as a reminder that no matter how easy Nintendo makes a boss, we'll find a way to screw it up. The actual level itself is pretty good, it's a pretty vertical stage and most of your time is spent trying to reach a higher position than you currently are.

It's a nice variation on the wider, more open battlefield, but it puts you at constant risk of plummeting. However, if you spend too much time on some falling platforms or miss a jump, the level really becomes an upward climb after the boss is dead and this big Terror appears at the top that you have to climb to get a star .There is also this. stupid Apple in the level to help you get a star in the cage and my god I could never do this. I've missed this damn cage about 600 times because for some reason I'm really bad at controlling this owl every time I play this game. happy until I realize I have to do the damn owl part again oh my god this game is amazing one of the next stages is Jolly Roger Bay and oh my god the music is so relaxing this stage is lovely, honestly this is one of the best video game tracks.

Can I ever just relax here, this eel alone scared thousands of kids who have played this game over the years. This terrifying machination of hell stares into your soul as you try to grab any star in this level with the first one. Star that made you drag the damn thing out of its little hiding place. I have no idea which Twisted game designer created this thing, but well done, this thing actually had such a menacing presence in the level that it turned it from one of the most relaxing levels into the scariest level in a snap of the fingers. after playing this game for years and not being five anymore, the eel isn't really scary now it's more like hello book oh aren't you bad buddy?

Thanks, not bad, not bad, but when I played this. I played it for the first time years ago this was very creepy the rest of the level is cool too. I particularly like the part where you need to get the pirate treasure from the hidden cave. This entire stage is so meticulously designed to the point where I actually enjoyed a water level, how the hell did they pull that off? What are the levels in the games? They generally have an aura about them. Damn, why does this exist? But somehow Jolly Roger Bay manages to be really funny while having a ton of fun. a lot of this, but now we move on to the last normal level in the cool Mountain on the ground floor of the Castle.

This is one of my favorite scenarios in the entire game, it is very fun, everything has this Christmas atmosphere with the music like a real Jam. Baby penguin created more memes than your average dumb frog and here we go they're both reunited and we have this wait what are you doing Mario oh my god are you real? Wow this is so sad, remember this guy, this is him, I feel old now. This level is really cool though, having this whole mountain to explore on a huge slide to go down inside the mountain itself. There is a star hidden under the cliffs.

You have to use some perfectly timed Wall Kicks to reach it and the red Coinstar is a blast, but this level houses my least favorite star in this entire game competing with this stupid penguin. Then, the same slide that brought me so much joy in the past because this penguin cheats time for a boring programmer. Insight here, the sliding penguin in Mario 64 operates with something called rubber band AI essentially when you're further back. The penguin slows down when you are ahead, he speeds up, this should be simple and work well but for some reason this penguin has broken the rules of reality and is abusing his own broken AI to destroy you in the slide game in the second literally in that you get ahead of this penguin.

He accelerates like a fighter jet through the sound barrier and uses enormous body mass to launch you down the slide. I swear this penguin has probably killed me more times than Bowser himself and don't even bother trying to take the shortcut or else the penguin. it just scolds you for cheating and I won't give you anything for your efforts despite my problem with a virtual penguin, this level is really fantastic and I appreciate the cool theme it has with the whole winter once we're done with everything. In the stages at the main entrance of the castle, we can open the large stargate and face Bowser for the first time.

Bowser's levels are structured much like traditional Mario games, where there is a path to follow and a goal to reach that goal. boss fight, these levels are an interesting glimpse into what could have been for this game and while I definitely prefer the more open level style, similar to Bob in Battlefield and Mountain, I can at least appreciate these levels for what they are , They are beautiful. They serve as challenge gauntlets for all the skills you've learned up to that point, testing your platforming skills with plenty of tight jumps and difficult enemies to contend with. In fact, we have a complete vision of what a 3D Mario game in this style is.

Years later, with the release of Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS, that game was structured much like these Bowser stages with a concrete objective to achieve rather than being free to complete objectives in any order you wish, the game fits perfectly. The more portable nature of the 3DS, but I think for a home console, Mario definitely made the right choice with the level style of this game after fighting our way through the level we reached in the first battle with Bowser. Andy looks like he's made of Play-Doh. I don't know, I never found Bowser

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intimidating in this game, the graphics are obviously a limitation I know, but a lot of the game looks great for a game released in the 90s, it's just that Bowser seems to have a little too thick here.

Instead of being menacing, he's just a funny looking turtle, especially in the last fight where they decided to turn him into a rainbow for whatever reason, oh, probably because the fight itself is pretty interesting. We have to grab Bowser's tail and throw him into one of the bombs scattered around. the sand oh my god, I'm so bad at this. I've never been good at throwing Bowser in this game and I always end up being the dictionary definition and end up slowly approaching him along the platform until I hit his nose. the edge of the bomb I still think this is a boss fight with an interesting design no, we had to do it three times no, when you beat Bowser, he drops a key that I don't want to know where he kept the key, opens the door to the basement which is full of new stages for us to explore and is also home to the Mips rabbit I mentioned earlier, catching him for the star can be a huge hassle if you're uncoordinated like me, although we now have full access to the basement, giving us the pleasure of playing in quicksand oh no, this scenario is solely responsible for the creation of half of the world's sadists, what the hell happened here?

This damn stage is so incredibly unfun to play that it drives me crazy for one, there's a ton of sand you can dive into and instantly die in a random collector magic coin style that lasts way too long. A bird that steals your hat like my God. That's an awfully quick side note. When the bird hits your hat, you actually take more damage when you don't have it. That doesn't make sense unless Mario's hat emits some kind of force field to defend the wearer from it, so if I'm sitting here complaining about realism in a Mario game, who's the real idiot here?

Nintendo, another stage we can enter in the basement is Deadly Lava Land a stage that is much more intimidating than it actually is This stage is generally pretty easy which is kind of funny considering the painting tells you how much plan to kick today but then you play it it's pretty tame overall level just intimidates bullies wow this game is a great life coach there was also an enemy plan for this stage but unfortunately it never made the final cut it was this thing looking like lava snake which actually appeared in future games like Super Mario 3D World in the Wii U's Nebulous Maze Cave is our next stop here and in my opinion it's nothing special but I'll give this level points for featuring to Metal Mario the Mario franchise, which became everyone's favorite Mario Kart.

The level filler also has this big blue thing called Dory, which appeared in future games. We can collect a star from Grandpa when he returns. I'm starting to understand the dispute between Nintendo and Peter opening the big star door on this floor. will grant us access to Daya Daya's documents and is literally just a worse version of Jolly Roger Bay. Hey, not everyone can be Keepers. The server reuses the music, resources and almost everything from that previous stage and that is why it is missing. no real identity of his own, but let's be honest, this level is more of a preview of what's coming next because after boring Bowser's submarine we receive access to Bowser's next stage, this stage is pretty solid and has a lot of lava hazards in it. everywhere and really Giving you Vibes of the Bowser levels from the older 2D Mario games, this level is once again structured in that more traditional style, as well as being a nice shake up from the game's standard level design.

Get to the end and you fight Bowser for a second time and he has some new tricks up his sleeve, now he jumped to tilt the stage and you have to run backwards before sliding into the lava. Bowser can also teleport now and let me tell you when Bowser starts teleporting. There is no way back. Totally screwed, trying to grab his tail gets a lot harder once he starts doing this little party trick, oh weird, but you can still throw him one more time at a bomb to knock him out, interestingly it's only one punch to knock him down again, which I found strange because the last fight requires three hits to completely knock him out, so why not make this fight require two hits for an extra layer of challenge and better prepare players for the final battle?

But what do I know? a game developer looks at me after removing Bowser from the equation, we recover another suspiciously warm key and receive access to the upper level of the castle by unlocking this area, we are greeted with the privilege of playing Snowman's Land, check this out, why not ? other games make this joke. I always like this scenario and for good reason there is a fun little segment where you have to use a penguin to stop a huge snowman from flying off your face. It's good, believe me. I don't think my description really sells. Imagine telling this to someone who doesn't play video games, they'd think you'd lost it, but in all honesty, I think Snowman's Land is a great setting, not as good as the previous winter themed setting, which is cool, cool, Mountain, but It's a nice, fun little level that doesn't require as much running to get to your goal, it's much more condensed, no, while that might seem negative, in this case it's not because Cool Mountain is such a huge setting with a billion . little gaps and cracks to check out, so in the end these two end up balancing each other out pretty well, okay let's see what the next stage is, oh, wet and dry world socks, and I mean, it really sucks, it's such a bland level and bored with this.

Stupid mechanics that mean you need to continually raise and lower the water using these weird triangles and oh my god it's such an infuriating level because it could be so much better. The water level mechanic sounds really cool and could lead to some brilliant level design, but. no, instead it just evolves to hit the switch, go to a boring wooden board, jump on a boring wooden board, use it to get somewhere and it just sells out really fast, plus this level uses really bland colors, the lighting often looks funny, this is the worst stage in the game hands down to the point where sometimes I just skip it in reviews of this game simply to save myself the angst and even though I may not like it move the sandy dirt, at least it's dry, pick a damn lane, hello future self.

Here it turns out that I didn't write a huge little island in the script, so my bad little huge island is quite interesting, it has everything like an expanded and then reduced mechanic, it's quite interesting and I appreciate the trick they were implementing. level, but overall it's not one of my absolute favorites, so yeah, sorry for leaving it out. I don't want to see all the comments, but I met my wife on a huge little island, yeah, whatever, sorry to forget, we have access to the final stage. On this floor there is a tall mountain and it's okay, don't get me wrong, it's not bad.

I just feel like after the first time, having to climb the whole damn mountain every time you want to get another star can get pretty boring and repetitive. In previous levels like Bob in Battlefield or the cool Mountain, there was more to explore up, down and around, whereas here you just have to follow the same damn path every time. That said, I like the star where the monkey steals your hat. I always thought that. it was kind of fun and there's also this star that you can cheese by just using a hover jump from this flying enemy instead of using the cannon like a good member of society.

I really am the lowest scum in history when you finish this floor of the castle that you received with another star gate, no one was a fight like last time. I'd complain here, but I'd complain even more if I had to write to Bowser four timesdifferent, being basically the same fight every time, it just feels like they were racing against the clock for the release date and so we went to town with those sweet, sweet keyboard keys through this stargate that will spit you out on the top floor. of the castle containing two of the most difficult stages in the game along with its infinite ladder which is a strange way of saying fast lane, the first of these two new stages is Tick Tock Clock and is essentially a platforming challenge that will test every one of the skills you've been honing over the past few hours of gameplay.

I'd find the stage a bit boring if all the stars just scattered across the top, but instead they're all different levels, making you wonder which one you'd rather grab. Am I safe and grab the one close to me and lower down? I risk everything and head to the top, in my opinion this stage also has the best trick, depending on which way the clock hands are facing the moving parts of the level will go at different speeds, does that mean you could just stop the level to move completely yes if you want to be a huge coward but keep in mind that if you decide to go that route then you will avoid getting some stars as you need the moving parts to reach them overall this is a fantastic scenario and it is great, we can leave it and hit Rainbow Ride.

This level is essentially a factory that produces nothing but rage. This is an incredibly difficult level, and to make matters worse, it's very boring. With Tick Tock lock you will find challenges. but fun with the rainbow ride you will find Satan, this level is so infuriatingly designed that you sit on a magic carpet for about 20 years to CATCH each star and the red coins are the biggest pain in the back to collect this stage, no mention the annoying Getting the 100 Coin Star in this level you better know the stage inside and out, because if not you will most likely end up dead some days, you should ruin your mood by remembering the mere existence of this level even after you have passed it. that hell, the seemingly endless stairs will forget the definition and now you can reach the end, this sends us to the final Bowser and to be honest it's a pretty good stage, it has some pretty challenging platforming without being annoying, it offers some well designed areas and , overall it's a lot of fun, but I think tiktok clock was a better final exam if you want.

Tick ​​Tock Clock was a great stage to test how well you master all of the game's systems and it allowed you to play with the speed to make it as challenging or as simple as you want, this level just feels like Rosa's first stage but better, It also offers the same linear style as the rest of Bowser's stages. Honestly, both levels feel like they were taken from a different game, sometimes Bowser Absolution if you will, why the hell did I write that no one is going to get that anyway? Proceed to the end of the stage and face the big man himself.

It doesn't sport a neon color scheme. This makes the fight feel like you're fighting Bowser at a Rave, Rosa's last fight is practically a longer version of the previous ones, but it has its uniqueness, for example Bowser can take out trunks on the stage around you and he retains all his moves from the older fights, now you need three hits on the bomb to take him down and my god I can never hit them. This fight always ends up lasting much longer than necessary due to my inability to properly aim the airborne turtle. It's this fight that confirmed to me that I could never be a sprinter afterwards.

You're done beating up the defenseless Disco.Turtle, you're treated to the game's final cutscene with Mario picking up that final giant star and walking away with the Wing Cap before meeting up with Peach to finally eat some damn cake. I have to know that Peach is the only one in the entire Mushroom Kingdom who knows how to make a cake. I could have gone to Asda saved some time, you might think we're done, but stopping there is for the occasional, get the 120 stars in the whole game, which it does include, and you will have access to the roof of the castle where you are. with Yoshi, who gives you 100 lives, we then show a rather tragic scene, although Mario fails to convince Yoshi from the ledge, and with another reptilian creature executed by the laws of physics, Super Mario 64 officially comes to an end, it is difficult. to understate the impact this game had at the time of its release and still has today, the modern 3D formula we see used in almost everything would not exist without this game, thousands and millions of games would never have been created.

The innovation this game has brought to the table is so amazing and will always take its place in gaming history, so all the graphics may be outdated, the camera movement is awkward, and the sound lacks that modern Christmas , not even a thought really matters when the game is so well designed, it doesn't need to be run on the best hardware and the best graphics to be considered a great game because if the Creator's vision is good enough, it can come to life in such a way. magical. Continue with Define generations by making these not only video games but also works of art, they can generate emotions in our minds, they occupy our time but, most importantly, they unite us, which is why many communities and groups of people have come together for Pure love for this game. and it's at that point when a game becomes more than just a video game and it means that at the end of the day we all have to thank Super Mario 64 for changing not only games but for changing us too strange, what are you doing Mario, oh?

Oh my god, really? Wow this is so sad dude still thanks so I started studying quantum mechanics to solve time and quickly realized that doesn't make me better at Mario and is therefore useless so if Lucky 2 is our assumption. Reflecting camera guy, oh my god, he has a face, thank you, thank you so much for playing my game.