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Game Help / Re: Mario vs Donkey Kong 2: Basement

« on: April 20, 2009, 06:55:55 AM »

I fear you're thinking of the Final DK Boss Battle after the 8th floor, where Mario is standing on the top screen next to Donkey and piffs mini marios at him point blank (pretty funny).

But the Basement seems to be a different beast altogether??

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Game Help / Mario vs Donkey Kong 2: Basement

« on: April 18, 2009, 05:59:33 PM »

I've completed the game with enough silver stars to unlock the First level of Basement. Problem is... I can't make any sense of what the Basement is meant to be! I can get my little minis up to the top screen no problem, but what am I supposed to do when they're up there? They just fall down again, and you can't get to Donkey at all, and I can't control them up on the top screen in anyway!?

Does anyone know what this is all about?

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Mario Chat / Re: New Super Mario Brothers

« on: April 10, 2009, 07:44:04 PM »

Actually, I can truthfully say that thought would never have crossed my mind at all. :|

Another thought: Why not turn the Dr Mario phenomena into a DS platformer? At the very least it would have a wicked soundtrack, and it'd have potential with coloured pills instead of conventional powerups...

The possibilities are endless! This is what I mean when I say using SMW as the blueprint for yet another Mario platformer would surely be, to me, uninspired at best. Think outside the square!

(NSMB was essentially a melting pot of SMB 1, SMB 3 and SMW anyway. And highly enjoyable it is too, but why do it again with so many other options?)

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Mario Chat / Re: New Super Mario Brothers

« on: April 10, 2009, 07:34:34 AM »

Haha, mea culpa, don't hate me! Like I said, I know I'm in the severe minority. For SOME reason people seem to love it. :)

But I do think, somewhat more objectively perhaps, that there are a number of much more original possibilities for a "New Super Mario" platformer.

New Super Mario Land would surely be more interesting, a Mario vs Donkey platformer as I mentioned might be cool. SMB3 and SMW just get too much attention, and its as much a bandwagon as it is warranted.

And for what its worth, I think my first post might have been bagging SMW too, I can't remember. :P

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Mario Chat / Re: New Super Mario Brothers

« on: April 09, 2009, 10:06:33 PM »

I've just stated playing Mario vs DK 2. This one was done entirely by Nintendo of America, right?

I reckon these guys should make the next Mario Platformer in this exact visual style, with the same characterisation, powerups, mix of enemies etc. It would completely rock, and be just the right mix of nostalgia and new ingredients.

Personally, and I know I'm in the severe minority here, I have always hated Super Mario World. Graphics are terrible, gameplay is even more convuluted than Toki Toki Panic, enemies are stoopid, rendering and illustration is poor (are those fat ball things meant to be goombas or what??). I would be very disappointed if any new Mario platformer took its cues from SMW.

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Mario Chat / Re: Which character do you think you are most like?

« on: March 01, 2007, 03:41:43 AM »

Waluigi, man. I'm tall and lanky and don't really know what I'm doing here :o) .