Super Mario 3D World - We need to talk about this.

[Hynad]

RolStoppable said:

Hynad said:

So there's something I don't get then... There's only one stamp per level and only a handful of them are unlocked my pressing a "character switch" for which you have to play as the correct character. You don't need to finish every single level with all the characters to find them...  What am I missing? You can spoil it, if I'm missing something. I don't mind.

It isn't before completion of the final level that the game adds visible information for who has finished which level. At that point it's also easy to recognize that five stamps are missing, but there are none left in the levels. So filling out all those little squares is the obvious thing to do, and finishing all levels with one and the same character triggers a message and gives you a stamp. 

In a sense, it's a good thing that the levels in this games aren't very long. Do you have to just finish the level, or do you also have to get a golden pole with every characters?