After a long while without creating any new levels in Super Mario Maker 2, I was suddenly struck with ideas for more stages. In fact, that creative streak was so considerable I ended up making enough courses to fill up an entire Super World. In this post, I share the codes to some of these levels as well as some comments about each of them.
As it happens in the WordPress universe every once in a while, there is a tag going around and I have been selected by Red Metal from Extra Life Reviews to take part in the fun. I used to let a lot of these tags go by without ever replying to them, not because I do not like or appreciate the whole game, but because I ended up telling myself I would write about them later only to completely forget my mental note until it was already too late. However, given it is fun to write about different topics every once in a while, and also as a way to make my appreciation for the mention be known, I have recently made a point to try to reply to all of them if possible. Therefore, let’s get to it. As usual, Red Metal has created some pretty thoughtful questions and I hope my answers do them justice.
Thanks to Red Metal, who runs Extra Life Reviews, one of the finest blogs about games and movies you are going to find out there, I have been tagged with a Mystery Blogger Award. In the past, whenever I was given one of those, I bookmarked them while telling myself I would get to replying to them later. Of course, I would then forget all about it for quite a bit, usually remembering I had questions to answer when creating the post did not make much sense anymore due to the elapsed time. In a way, this one was not really different, since the tag happened about a month ago. But I will get to it anyway because answering these is fun. So, without further ado, here are the questions and answers.
Browsing through my blogging history, I came to notice that it had been a whopping five years – slightly more than that, actually – since I last replied to one of those tags that travel around the WordPress universe every once in a while. Don’t get me wrong, it is not that I never appreciated the recognition or anything of the sort: I love it and I am quite grateful for it. It is just that I always ended up putting those posts on a pile of future pieces that I needed to get to, but then so much time went by without me sitting down to write them that I felt publishing a reply kind of lost its point. However, I guess that it is never too late to overcome a somewhat bad habit, and for that reason I decided to – for the first time in forever – answer the questions proposed by a fellow blogger who was kind enough to give this humble space a nod.
With the arrival of Super Mario Maker 2 and its pretty spectacular level-making component, there also comes the opportunity for us fans to wear our Shigeru Miyamoto hats in order to try our hands at some level-design – an activity that ends up revealing itself to be not only rewarding, but also quite hard. So, like I did the last time around, I decided to gather the stages I have constructed so far in a post to share them with those who visit this space as well as to talk a little bit about what went into their creation.
It is emotionally poignant, both in terms of joy and sadness; expertly filmed, as many scenes are bound to go down in history as unforgettable pieces of movie-making; finely written, with strong dialogues and interactions popping up all through its running time; accurately acted, given the whole cast is working at the peak of their big capabilities; and relentlessly thrilling, with non-stop action and developments. It is a science-fiction flick as powerful and engaging as it can be. It introduces us to a cast of amazing characters that are bound to work as the central items in a fantastic trilogy that will only add to the franchise’s legacy, and maybe even surpass what was built by the three originals. With stumbles along the way, The Force Awakens sets the table and arranges the pieces to what will likely shape up to be an incredible series of movies.
As it turns out, I have had some more productive weekends with Super Mario Maker. So here is another batch of levels alongside brief descriptions containing their motivation, inspiration, and other random thoughts. Here’s hoping that those who try them have fun.
Given I have finished my first batch of Super Mario Maker levels (five of them), I decided to post them here for anyone that is willing to give them a try and, subsequently, curse me; praise me; provide positive feedback; deliver angry rants; or write constructive criticism.
If you don’t know about the Liebster Award, it is a simple tag through which bloggers nominate other users whose work and writing they like. It is a way to spread the word about great blogs and show appreciation for the posts made by others. Getting the Liebster Award means I have to do three things: firstly, I must answer the queries posed by the ones that tagged me; secondly, I need to post eleven random facts about me; finally, I have to list other blogs worthy of the award and ask them a bunch of questions. Let’s get to it!
I have heard many people say that one of the main ways to get through the loss of someone special is to understand the lessons that they left behind. By doing so, it is possible to learn a valuable lesson from their passing and honor their memory by applying it on our day-to-day life. In the case of Little Flower, I already have that quite figured out.
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