| twesterm said: Who said you have to see a game over screen for a game to be hard? The first time I realized just how brilliant Super Mario Galaxy was in that cake galaxy level with the moving ground and holes in the ground. You're just crazy if you think that was simple, especially at the point in the game you got it, and it was pretty hard. In most games I would have just thrown the controller on the ground and walked away because it would have been too hard, but not Super Mario Galaxy. They had a very well placed 1UP and made it not too hard to get 1UP's in general so you wanted to keep playing and not get a game over. If I would have gotten a game over I probably would have never gone back to that level but since I could keep playing I did and I eventually finished that level. |
Most 1-Ups in Super Mario Galaxy are well-placed. In fact, they're too well placed. 1-Ups always preceed hard sections or places where you're about to lose. If you are going to lose or die in a stage, odds are very good that somewhere between where you respawn and where you get killed there's a 1-Up.
Consequently every time I saw a 1-Up in a stage my thoughts were along the lines of, "Oh sh*t, something is about to kill me." ^_^
