Mario's Dream

I am playing this game and thinking about writing a review for it. My first impressions are a thumbs down.

author=Desmo360
Downloaded! Should be interesting... I'm a SMBX game-designer, too.

You are? Never would have guessed.
(JK)

Note: And no, u can't get X( at i fer makn modern abr. for just kidding.

Holy crap shining force 1 music, fucking awesome.

No world map music?

BUG REPORT & OTHER OBSERVATIONS:

1) To enter a gray horizontal pipe, Mario has to stand next to its opening, then move away from its opening instead of towards it. (do the opposite of what is normal)

2) **G-G-G-G-Game Breaker** During the Bombed Farmlands stage there are 2 Lakitus--90% of the time once Mario reaches the second section, instead of floating above at a normal speed like they did during the first section, they will start streaking across the screen like they're on speed, making it virtually impossible to climb the hill without getting hit by them.

3) **G-G-G-G-Game Breaker** Again Bombed Farmlands: If you manage to get past those streaking Lakitus and enter the pipe, 90% of the time Mario will slide to the edge and get stuck, and although you can unstick him by trying to move him towards the edge of the screen, sometimes he will slide back to a safe spot, sometimes he'll slide all the way into lava and die. If Mario is small, he seems to always slide into lava.

4) **G-G-G-G-Game Breaker** Bombed Farmlands once again: small Mario can get trapped underneath the saw next to the first Dragon Coin with no way to escape (have to close and restart)

5) Bombed Farmlands needs a save point. It's the only stage I can't beat because between the "Lakitu speed bug" and the "get stuck then slide into lava" bug, I've only reached the Thwomps twice out of 30+ tries. Then they kill me--though I think I've figured out the trick to making it past them.

6) One stage is named Forest of Darkness while another is called Dark Forest--people will notice the redundancy, you should give one a different name.

7) Speaking of redundancy...some stages are just doing the same thing over and over; getting past one set of koopas marching on 2/3 rows of blocks with goombas underneath, then another set with goombas underneath, then another, then another, then...you need more variety within those stages. Otherwise shorten them. And that's another thing, some of the stages seem too short/easy and incomplete--I know this is a demo, but every stage that is playable should be complete and with enough variety within each stage so it doesn't get monotonous.

8) The Note Blocks' physics seems off; getting Mario to jump while standing on them seems to be a matter of pressing the jump button repeatedly until it finally works--this makes it very difficult to get past the beginning of Forest of Darkness.

9) There are at least 2 ways to get 99 lives fairly easily, fairly early in the game. Makes grabbing coins/1 UPs pointless.

10) After beating a stage/collecting a star there's no indication you've done so on the world map. On my first playthrough, I got 5 stars; on my 2nd, I got 4 stars and can't figure out where the fifth star that I missed might be and I'm not about to replay every stage again just to find it. With SMB3, after beating a stage, a letter 'M' in a box would be placed on the world map covering that stage to indicate it had been completed. This game could use something similar--maybe change the dots that represent each stage from yellow/red to green?

All of this aside, this demo does have potential, you just need to fix/finish some things and this will be fun to play.