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More Mario Maker today; the game as a whole can definitely go from super awesome to ARGH FRUSTRATING very abruptly, but I'm getting used to that.

I currently sit at 31 stars, after 5 levels. Apparently the 2nd medal is given at 50? Quite a ways to go yet.

I still dont understand just how people find these though. The first one I played still continues to get played more and more. The others, much less, but the count slowly increases.


Other than that... probably some more Isaac today. The expansion FINALLY HAS A RELEASE DATE.... just over a month from now. I'm so eagerly looking forward to it.

I'd expected to also be playing Eschatos, one of my favorite shmups of all time and one which is FINALLY coming to Steam instead of being stuck on the 360, but I got the date wrong, and it's still 2 aggravating days away. This annoys me.

Pokemon Omega Ruby

I continue with the Mario Making. 46 stars now, just 4 away from the medal I dont actually need just yet! My 6th level nears completion; definitely taking the longest of all of them yet. I must have done about 10 bazillion test runs through it now.

I swear, this game is a freaking addiction, it really is. Expert mode can still be pretty awful though, in the 100-Mario challenge.


Also Eschatos today, FINALLY. I hadnt played that in forever, due to rarely wanting to deal with the damn 360.

Good amount of Isaac today. That game, it just never gets old. I cant wait for the expansion, really cant....

Was going to do some Splatoon originally too, particularly as there's a new map out, but.... ehhh. Not in the best mindset today for multiplayer stuffs. I really prefer to only do that sort when my mood is good enough.

And then more Mario Maker. I'm at 64 stars, when the hell did that happen??? ....no, seriously, I dont know why it jumped up so much.

Might have another go at Expert mode here, and see just how many Lakitu Spam levels I have to skip.... ugh.

I often play multiple games at once [not literally at once], so right now I'm playing Rune Factory 4, my Final Fantasy rhythm game, Fire Emblem Awakening, and Pokemon Omega Ruby. I've lost half of my Awakening army on Hard Mode, so I've got a lot of level grinding to do.

I'm playing Bloodborne on NG+ and Diablo, but my time is quite scarce right now... Sadly.
I might buy Mario Maker next month as soon as I get money, but I don't think it is a good idea to do this in the middle of this semester... There is a 100% that this thing will steal my entire time and dedication.

I haven't been super committed to a game since Onechanbara Z2 Chaos. So now I just play a bunch of random games throughout the day.

Having possible Lymes Disease sucks. I have no energy to play the same game for endless hours.

But to answer the questions of the thread's title, I've been playing Kirby Air Ride a lot.

Ugh, no, I wouldnt bother with those. There's more than one type of challenge, I say, and those both are very much the wrong sort. They end up being about pure repetition rather than pure skill, which is also usually the case with "kaizo" levels and such, or games like Super Meat Boy. They're designed to simply be repeated, over and over and over again, until you beat them via that very repetition.

They're actually very rare in Mario Maker so far (out of hundreds of levels I've seen, I've seen only a couple of this sort), for one major reason: there's no savestates. Kaizo levels are usually beaten by passing a difficult section, saving the state, and then repeating, from that point, until the next section is done, and so on. If you look at something like I Wanna Be The Guy, it does the same thing; ridiculous difficulty, but checkpoints are extremely frequent, and each individual section is short. There's a whole bunch of reasons for that. It's an extremely difficult game.... yet it's not actually that difficult to BEAT, if that makes sense. That's how "extreme platformers" typically are.

In Mario Maker though... it'd end up taking BLOODY FOREVER to beat a level like that. One of the reasons for super-frequent saving/checkpoints or super short levels is that the repetition aspect makes a short section take very long. It'd take *really* freaking long in this, unless the given level was like, no more than a screen or two in size. Even those players that technically have enough skill to complete it, will usually just stop after a short time because of that. *I* would. I dont have that sort of patience.

And of course, the person making the level cant upload it themselves without beating it all in one go, during the upload process. That's the rule.

Never liked stuff like that myself. There's a billion different ways to create incredible levels of difficulty without having to rely on pixel-perfect crap, or things like that. I'm used to extremely difficult games... all them bullet-hell ones I play and all.... but this sort within the platformer genre just annoys me.



Now that all being said, there IS a set of levels to complete that comes with the game, but there's not that many and they are fairly short. They're still good though, but yeah, the game really is all about creating levels and sharing them. And then it has the 100-Mario Challenge which basically takes a big pile of them and structures them into a single "adventure" that you complete in one go (starting with 100 lives, able to gain no more than 3 1-ups at a time in any given stage, cant go over 100 though).