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GameKyuubi's Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
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| [February 24, 2007 03:26:05 PM]
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Alright. I did something monumentally stupid. I got to the end of World 6. Like, quite literally, the fortress ship. And then I pushed B and hit A. I didn't really even mean to push anything. Can you guess what the first thing on my list of items was? That's right. The whistle. So I got whisked away to the warp zone, and if I wanted to continue, I would have had to re-beat World 6. That's not the only time having that whistle screwed me. I was in the middle of World 6, and I had just received a hammer from defeating a pair of Hammer Bros, and was planning to use it to enter a pipe. I had no idea where this pipe led, so I was pretty curious. I figured why not kill the other Hammer Bros before I go? So I do, and I get a Hammer Bros suit. Sweet! Guess where that suit went? Right on top of my hammer. That's right, I had reached the maximum number of items, and the Hammer Bros suit replaced my Hammer. =( Oh well. I was getting nervous about the 7th World anyway. I've tried to beat it before, but I never have.
That being said, I did get quite far. Up until then I had beaten every single stage I had come across. I went out of my way to make sure that everything had been cleared. I like to think that I got a pretty good taste of SMB3. And I can say quite honestly that the level design in that game is absolutely beautiful. Everything fits perfectly. There was no one stage I had particular trouble with, yet all of them were challenging in their own unique ways. Almost every single one of them had some kind of secret to uncover as well. Whether it was just a few coins suspended above the field of view, or it was a freakin Tanuki suit, I greatly enjoyed finding the ones I did. A few times I actually went out of my way to attempt a stage again just to find a secret. Sometimes I would see something that quite obviously required the ability to fly, but at the time I would have the Fire Flower. I would intentionally die, use a leaf item from my item list, and then re-attempt the stage just to get there. I was having such a great time just flowing through the Super Mario Brothers 3 universe that I didn't realize that I had been playing for upwards of 3 hours. It was time to go to bed. ;)
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| [February 24, 2007 03:06:32 AM]
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I love SMB3. Back when I was a little guy, I would get up at the crack of dawn, waay before my parents did and way before school started, help my younger sister out of her crib/pen thing, and then the two of us would head downstairs to watch cartoons and play NES. While I have beaten the game before, I had never done it without using any whistles. So today, I have set that goal for myself. I will attempt to beat every stage in SMB3 without using whistles, without getting a game over, and without using any continues.
So far, so good. I'm at the end of World 3 and though I've run into a few particularly tricky problems, I got past them and am now working my way through the rest. I can't wait to get to World 4 (the one where everything is giant). OH YEAH! I got this secret in the first world on stage 4. I don't exactly remember how you do it, but if you complete stage 1-4 just right, a white mushroom house appears on the world map containing a free P-Wing! CRAZY O_O! I accidentally got the first whistle, too. It's just a habit thing, you know? I won't use it, however.
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GameKyuubi's Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Friday 23 February, 2007
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