If you are still sedately making your way through the earlier levels of Super Mario 3D World you might want to skip this thread, POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD.
I am of course talking about Champion Road.
I heard alot of early talk suggesting that Mario 3D World was perhaps a little easy. I agree that the first few worlds were rather easy but there is enough challenge in the latter third of the game to make me feel that I thoroughly got my money's worth. Not all of the latter levels are hard but there are enough challenging stages to keep you on your toes, even though much of the challenge does come from trying to get all the stars, simply making your way to the goalpost is generally fairly easy.
That is until you make it to the last world. The mystery challenge stage was hard enough but the final stage was a complete shit. I don't recall struggling on a stage like this for a very long time. It's the longest stage by far, there are no powerups and no checkpoints. What's more the challenge has nothing to do with collecting the stars, they are laid out in front of you at safe points in the stage as if to point out to you that EAD could have made the stage even harder if they felt like it. Extreme challenge DLC anyone?
Anyway, I finally finished the stage and I was feeling pretty pleased with myself until I came across this video. Apparently I'm not very good at this game because I was using Princess and needed powerups....... :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4mBos2m7tY
