MARREND'S PROFILE

There was an earlier build of the game with Goho's mom talking about Joruri's dad tormenting the Yasuis about a "debt". It might still be in the game, actually. So that information didn't come from nowhere. The information about Masako and Joruri in the debate club is background information I had on the two women that hasn't seen the light of day 'till now.

After I finish both Kojiro's and Toshie's interviews, I'll be going over all of the interviews to see what information from them I want to include to give the characters more dimension. In any event, I'll be sure to make a blog post about all the changes I want to make to the game before actually changing anything.

I thought this was going to be harder, but it really wasn't. I mean, practically all of this information was totally made up, but I think this somehow manages to capture him nicely.

Roller Coaster

Why do I have to play as luigi? What do you have against Mario?

For the purposes of this stage, I could have gone either way. But I had to be sure the player was one or the other, since the other characters can't slide. What I did, and I'm totally not making this up, is flip a coin. Luigi obviously won the flip.

Very short. May I suggest you add a climbing part to the beginning of it? You know, to get to the roller coaster?

Like, oh, say, a "normal" level before the slide? ;)

It was fun; it just needs some more length to it.

I've a radical idea. Not just in response to this suggestion, but in general: perhaps the stage shouldn't be required at all? Make it a secret bonus stage, or something. I dunno. I just know that I re-played Galaxy Slide off GRS's level pack (the "P" switch still causes a lagtastrophe), played Desmo's Super Slide (The wall right in front of the check point isn't big enough for Super Mario to slide through? What's this noise?), and I've still no inspiration for expanding this stage.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Brick's stage that he posted on SRMNB2's event page (Not Infinite Points. I think it was called My Butt Hurts.) is similar to the one that's in Talking Time's collaboration. However, I guess there's only one way to find out.

Consequently, in the XP build of the game, Goho's dad was supposed to run his business from his house, but I didn't have the chipset to support the idea solidly. Though, truth be told, most other information was totally made up on the spot.

I remember being told that my level could be made better by expanding it with a "normal" stage before you hit the slide. To this day, I've had no inspiration to actually follow through with this advice.

I still don't. :(