Here's some day 2 Impressions
SPOILER WARNING, SPOILERS FROM STARS 21-34 CONTAINED WITHIN
SPOILER WARNING, SPOILERS FROM STARS 21-34 CONTAINED WITHIN
SPOILER WARNING, SPOILERS FROM STARS 21-34 CONTAINED WITHIN
SPOILER WARNING, SPOILERS FROM STARS 21-34 CONTAINED WITHIN
Okay, so picking up from the night before, I went back and beat the second challenge stage. I died sooooooooooooo many times -- most of the time trying to get 1ups. After beating that I went on to the 3rd room to play the tropical galaxy and the haunted house galaxy.
The tropical galaxy is aaaaaaabsolutely beautiful. I'm constantly in awe of the water in this game. Things are just so colorful and nice, really puts Super Mario Sunshine to shame. My one complaint about this level is that swimming controls are still a little meh. That is, until you hitch a ride on a shell. Shells are kinda like motorized boogie boards you can ride on underwater and allow you to travel faster, and easier. You can also shoot them out at things by flicking the wiimote.
The haunted house galaxy is also quite nice looking and boo mechanics can get quite creative. The secret star on this level is probably one of the coolest "auto scroll" stages I've played. In the first star stage you rescue Luigi and from then on Luigi will help you find stars in random stages. When he does find a star, you'll get some mail with a picture of Wario standing in some undisclosed stage with a message that will say something like "Hey I found a star, but I can't get down from here, come get me!!" Poor Luigi, he gets no respect.
Other galaxies in this room were pretty cool. One of them was this top down maze where you use the wiimote to blow wind at a bubble to get around. I died quite a few times here. The other was this 3D octagon where all of the platforms slowly disappear after you step on them, forcing you to figure out how to get all the musical notes without trapping yourself. Not too tough, but still, pretty fun.
After getting most of the stars here I went to the extra stage number 3 which is an underwater stage where you have to kill these lampreys with shells. Quite a bit easier than extra stage 2. I didn't die once.
After beating all this stuff, I beat the 3rd room boss, which was Bowser JR riding on a ship that shot stuff at you. You used shells to hit him from a distance, kinda easy. The nice thing about this stage was that I found a short cut. At the beginning of the stage, you get shot out of a cannon which you can aim yourself. The cannon starts out pointed at a flag pole with some spikey things revolving around it as to say "HEY! LISTEN! OVER HERE!!" and at first, I went over there. I quickly died and went back to the beginning of the stage and instead of just shooting myself off in the most obvious direction, I looked around and spotted another flagpole to the left out in the distance. I shot myself over there and found a large skateboard. I got on the skateboard, which by the way is so fast you can't walk on it, and got killed a few times by bombs being shot at me. That was okay though cause there is a free 1up on this path. I soon discovered, though, you can just duck under everything. So, I did, and got straight to the boss. THAT WAS AN EASY OPERATION.
Anyway, doing all this opened up yet another room, the blonde chick's (sorry, I never pay attention to this stuff) bedroom.
OH, this reminds me, earlier on in the game, like star 21 or something, I unlocked a library. In the library the blonde chick reads a story book (which btw, has some awesome watercolors that I'd kill to have as desktops) and I assume you unlock new chapters for it by collecting stars. I only had the first chapter.
Back to the main game. So the bedroom unlocks the apple galaxy (the one with the fucking amazing music) which so far is eeeeeeeeeeeasily my favorite world. I only got the first star in this world though, I can't wait to go back.
The other main galaxy in this room was the desert galaxy, which I actually didn't finish the first star (I needed to go to bed) This is where you find the 2D mario stages XD
I only unlocked the first of the 1 star stages, but I found something really interesting there. The stage itself is a "tower" obstacle course that has you jumping to the top to get the star. Before climbing though, you have to go underwater to raise a platform. You do this by blowing up a cage that sends a section up to land. Also down underwater was a mysterious warp pipe that also needed to be blown up to access. I did that, went in the warp pipe and found myself at the very top of the tower. I went along this path and I spotted a green star. I got the green star and was warped back to the hub. Turns out this green star is a key to access the "Challenge stages", but I need 3 more (or 3 in total? I kinda skimmed past this) to access the star launcher. Very interesting. Can't wait to see what kind of ball busting stages are in this area.
Before going to bed I went back and challenged a blue comet stage (race agaisnt a shadow mario) and a yellow star stage (all enemies are sped up) Both of which are very fun.
I'd go into more depth, but I gotta go to class now.
