@vinny There's a good mod that the community released last November where they ran all the prerended cutscenes through a video upscaler to make them look better and by and large 3's clean up really well.
So I picked up a Wii U around Black Friday and only started spending quality time with Mario Maker over the last few weeks. I was initially not super into it but than something happened and it all started to click.
A little back story, I have essentially no history with Mario. I played it a bit here and there 12+ years ago and obviously have come to recognize many of the pieces over the years through osmosis. So this first level was basically me learning both how to make a level with the tools and also how to play Mario. I have no real idea yet what makes a Mario level great, but I ended up really having fun making and playing my level. I wanted to make something that had challenging jumps and had a few alternate, secret things that encouraged exploration. It ended up being a little harder than perhaps I'd initially anticipated. I spent 4 hours over the last 3 days trying to clear the thing (mainly because I am really not good at Mario yet) and I finally cleared it last night and it was a beautiful, hugely memorable moment.
A few friends have said they will be getting Wii U's soon so I look forward to being able to bounce levels off them and have them send levels to me. The game is pretty brilliant.
Anyways, here is my first level. I'd love to hear any comments on it.
I got it during the sale over the weekend and I have been playing through on easy as I have never really played a turn based strategy game and "easy" is a good difficulty for a first time player for the first time through the game. It's not overly challenging, but I have still had several missions go horribly. I look forward to cranking up the difficulty after I have finished my first playthrough.
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