#Super mario land 2 wario castle plus#
#Super mario land 2 wario castle series#

One thing that I can see putting people off though is the length of it. They also remembered not to turn levels into a maze and force players to collect 30 Mario Tokens to open the exit, or some bullshit like that, which I will always appreciate. At the core it's as mechanically sound as any of them though and they remembered to make the platforming fun.

#Super mario land 2 wario castle plus#

That plus the way it's in black and white and zoomed in close enough for you to see Mario's nose hairs I guess. The levels are a bit more open than the older Mario games I've been playing this month and that, combined with the more forgiving physics, conventional scrolling and less abstract level art, gives it a bit of a different feel. It's perhaps a little too easy to make progress in it, but I've no complaints about the way you don't lose progress for screwing up. Not surprising really considering how the developers went out of their way to make it appeal to me, with the big open world map, the replayable stages, the reappearance of my beloved Fire Flowers, and the way it saves after every level. I didn't love Super Mario Land 2, but I found it very easy to like. In fact, I don't remember Mario living in a mansion in Super Mario RPG or Superstar Saga, so I'm just going to consider my failure here to be canon. Go crash at Peach's house maybe, it's not like she hasn't got a spare bedroom. Sorry Mario, but Wario's going to be keeping your castle, at least for today. Again, not all that shocking for a castle in a Mario game, but the step up in difficulty is really jarring and now that I've lost my momentum the spell has worn off and I've remembered that I wasn't supposed to be finishing this anyway. There's no checkpoints in the castle by the way, You've got to finish the whole thing and then kill Wario all in one go or else it's back to the very start of the castle. Back to the fire spitting piranha statues then. Huh? So Mario and Wario have been enemies since childhood, and Wario's been trying to steal his castle all this time? Since when has Mario had a castle? Since when has Mario had a land? Did he buy it with the money he made as a doctor? Is Wario from Brooklyn too? I have so many questions! We must collect the 6 coins, attack Wario in the castle, and save everybody! Without these coins, we can't get into the castle to deal with Wario. These Golden Coins are guarded by those under Wario's spell. Wario has scattered the 6 Golden Coins from my castle all over Mario Land. He has been jealous of my popularity ever since we were boys, and has tried to steal my castle many times. While I was away crusading against the mystery alien Tatanga in Sarasa Land, an evil creep took over my castle and put the people of Mario Land under his control with a magic spell. Okay, now I'm suddenly curious about what the plot to this game is.

Up turns out to be the wrong way though, as that just leads to Castle Wario and the 'Mario Land 2' nightmare door, apparently constructed from the remains of all the the bosses he's slain. I've only seen about 10 seconds of gameplay and I don't even know how others rate it, so I get to go in entirely blind for once! As usual I'll give it an hour or two, share my first impressions, maybe a few second impressions, then find something about it to nitpick afterwards.Д¬ompleting the first stage has let me through the mushroom to the world map proper, and it seems I've got a bit of freedom where to go here. Most of the other Mario games I've played so far I've been very familiar with, but this one's a big question mark (block) for me. Don't feel bad for Mario though, he had things like Super Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG and Super Mario 64 to keep him busy through the mid-nineties (when he wasn't playing Go Fish in Mario's Game Gallery.)

#Super mario land 2 wario castle series#

series and turned it into Yoshi's Island after the fourth game).

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins is also the final game in the Mario Land series before the villain hijacked it and turned it into the Wario Land series (like how Yoshi stole the Super Mario Bros. So if you were hoping to see Hotel Mario or Mario is Missing show up then I'm afraid your princess is in another castle, so to speak. Today on Super Adventures I'm playing the final game of my Mario Marathon Month, finishing off the first decade (or so) of Mario's big platformer games.