BICFARMER'S PROFILE

This games too hard for me. Went into the castle 8 with 30 lives and died to bowser. This game seems to take some inspiration from dkc, since the stars are almost always in side rooms or dead ends. Im also guessing that each level also has a side area with a 1 up. Which means that the design of each level gets pretty formulaic. And most of the levels have very similar design anyway if you don't count the level's gimmick. Game wasnt hard at first, but gets increasingly tough unless your using peach. Regrettably, I shoulda used peach for the final boss instead of mario, but whatever.

Castle 8 was extremely annoying. One of the biggest problems i had was the spikes. They are extremely hard to notice because they have a dark color like the walls and other decoration so u dont see them when you're busy dodging other stuff. Theres a reason spikes are usually white and now i know why.

u cant kill the dragon if u try to attack it straight up. there's an elaborate setup that u have to do to get the dragon into a position where u can defeat it. I think this is about as much i can say without spoiling the answer.

oh i didnt expect a fast reply (since im usually lurking the bottom end of RMN's database there usually isnt any replies) so i dont have the game anymore. It's a simple RPG but balance was pretty good for how far i got.

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I like a challenge, but this was a bit much. Annoying levels that came to mind were 5-3 and 6-4. I have an issue with 6-4. There is a jump there that REQUIRES the feather because the gap is too big for regular mario to get across. Which means I have to go back to 1-3 to farm feathers which is a long way away. But I'm ok with going back for powerups, just not with that kind of level design. (I also noticed that a couple of other levels had disgusting jumps that seemed to require feathers, but i got past them since i had a feather at the time.) I gave up on 8-4 which i assume is the final level because of a donut jump. I could probably do it if I played longer but I didnt feel like it because of how long it takes to get there each time. Also smbx crashed once on 8-1 when i died for some reason.

you have to defeat the dragon. its slightly harder than the other levels but not by much. Anyway this is a nice little simple puzzle game. Could probably get alot more complicated if it was bigger.