Mario, the Lost Levels Review

[@KidPrarchord95]

The game was specifically designed for those who have mastered the original. It's pretty much world 9 through 16.

[@AnisterStarlight]

Well I for one have beaten the original multiple times and I still had a rough time with lost levels.

[@KidPrarchord95]

@@AnisterStarlight Same. I've since become good enough to where I can usually make a run with only two or so deaths, though.

[@AnisterStarlight]

@@KidPrarchord95 Exactly. So if I can play through SMB1 with little issues yet I struggle with Lost Levels, then the whole "made for those who mastered" excuse doesn't work.

[@KidPrarchord95]

@@AnisterStarlight It works just fine. You mastered the first game, so now you have an even harder game to master instead. The phrasing "Made for those who mastered the original" doesn't mean that the game was made to be completable at the exact same skill-set. It means the game was made to be a new, more difficult challenge for those who seek it after the original is no longer difficult. The fact that you struggle with the The Lost Levels after already being great at the first game means it's doing its job as intended.

[@AnisterStarlight]

@@KidPrarchord95 Well it wasn't working for me anyways. The difficulty for me and few others are unforgiving and cruel in our eyes.

[@batpunk.]

When it said Welcome to the Warp Zone! And would send you to world 5, I think it should of originally said: "Welcome to Hell! Go back 3 worlds now!"

[@masona.5631]

I just realized: when you get to a reverse warp zone, can't you just wait until the timer hits zero instead of going back?

[@ThuN00b]

+Mason A. (Mariofan717) Oh hell yeah. But when I first made this video I guess I wasn't smart enough to figure that out xD

[@arachnidplays6162]

+ThuN00b you could also fall down the gap on the left side of the warp zone to quickly restart the level

[@arachnidplays6162]

+ThuN00b also on 1-2 it is possible to go under the bricks with fire mario by fucking under the first block and breaking it so you can go under it

[@loganmcbride8212]

+Psycho Studios 2016 did you mean ducking

[@arachnidplays6162]

Logan M yes

[@CosmicFlareYT]

So the Warp Zone from World 8 takes you all the way back to World 5. No big deal, just wait till the time runs out and you'll be able to retry the level with just the cost of one life.

[@AnisterStarlight]

The end music actually changes. It's an extended version of Peach's theme.

[@ThuN00b]

It was a very broken real Wii

[@Symboite3099]

Till it was dead.

[@JNSStudios]

Why would there even be a world 5 warp in world 8?!

[@fonejunky6306]

I know, right?

[@Imdatrobloxboi]

Maybe if you want the game to be longer.

[@BigHead2615]

So, when I was a kid in the 90's, and I would play Super Mario All-Stars endlessly, I remember when I'd play The Lost Levels, on 1-1, the first actual mushroom that pops out into that G-shaped box (with the breakable bricks), I never knew to jump and knock one of the bricks to have the mushroom bounce out of the box to get it; I'd seriously just go jump on top of one of the ?-blocks and jump into the box to get the mushroom - I did know about knocking the bricks to stun the koopa troopa though.

[@johnnobon]

The level design is good, if you assume the player has played the original Super Mario Bros, whereas Mario 1 was good for anyone, even if they have never played a game before. Videos have been made about why Mario 1 had a very smart "teaching without telling" and progression system. This game clearly was not aiming for that, and it really didn't need to unless it was trying to re-invent the formula again. Although it was very difficult and requires constant trial and error and memorization of level layouts, and even though the US version of Mario 2 was fresher and did more to expand the Mario world, I do really love this game

[@rienjen]

I agree with you on pretty much every point. I think that the American version of Super Mario Bros 2 is a bit too different--there is no King of the Koopa, none of the same villians or fire flowers or anything that feels like a Super Mario Bros game. But at least it's fresh. While I think the Japanese version of SM2 is fun (frustrating but fun), it really does just feel like an extension of SM1 and not a real sequel. Super Mario Bros 3 is the perfect blend of old and new, which is why I think it's the best of them all.

[@zombiehunter2898]

4:46 you have to take damage to pass the gap

[@warioland523]

This game I think is the closest thing to a Mario game matching up with difficulty of a ROM hack. Super Mario Bros 2 has some nasty tricks. Hammer Bros that charge you, Piranha Plants that no longer go inside their pipes when you stand next to them plus upside down variations of them, faster enemies, Lakitus having somewhat of an arc to their Spiny tosses making them a bit more unpredictable, water enemies encountered in land levels, land enemies encountered in water levels you can't stomp on making Buzzy Beetles effectively invincible underwater, super large and fast Fire Bars, invisible block puzzles and traps, backwards Warp Zones (that's just mean. Might as well just ignore any secret alternative paths altogether if they are going to pull that crap), fake Poison Mushrooms that hurt you if you touch them, winds that can blow you into pits, spring boards that launch you so high you can't gauge where to land. I mean really. I think I know what the plot of this game is. Bowser wants to kill Mario. That's the plot and I mean it. He REALLY wants to kill Mario. He has gone out of his way to make some of the most diabolical and evil levels that Mario has to traverse just to stop him. By the time you get to World 8 the game just gets sadistic in it's design but at least you beat the game right? Psyche you still have 5 more worlds after World 8 including World 9 and the letter worlds of Worlds A through D and to top it all off in the original game you had to beat the first 8 worlds 8 times in a row. Yeah. To truly defeat Bowser at the end of World D you had to beat the game 8 times unlike the All Stars version where you just had to beat World 8 and choose to continue and you are bought to World A immediately (or go to World 9 if you did not use the Warp Zones.)

[@ActuallyTragic]

"This game is the most uncreative Mario game I've ever played" Your argument is invalid, this was designed to be a new version of the first game for those who had mastered it. Even the version in SMB Deluxe dubs it as "Super Mario for Super Players"

[@ActuallyTragic]

***** Don't even get me started on that game...

[@Levelol10]

***** The most uncreative is the Wii version of SMAS.

[@tgsachris]

If its supposed to be a new version of the first game they shouldn't have called it smb2 :/ you know with a 2 there i was kind of expecting a sequel, not the same shit but much harder.

[@ActuallyTragic]

tgsachris Yeah, calling it "SMB2" was a bad idea. ESPECIALLY for what was designed to be an expansion pack.

[@ljletsplays5830]

***** What do you mean that game was fun everyone keeps saying it's bad because of loads of coins lol yeah it's not the best but there was alot of good things about it and super mario lost levels i find not has hard as people make it out to be ._.

[@Symboite3099]

The thumbnail puking is me seeing that Nintendo made a hard game just like cat Mario. Then I puke.

[@retrofan4963]

The only Mario game I can think of that would dare to have the same territory of difficulty as Castlevania and Ghost N Golblins. And even then, Ghost N Goblins and Castlevania NES trilogy are still more difficult than this game, shows how really, really challenging platformers are back in the 80's.

[@Kirbymasters87]

12:15 R.I.P Wii 2006 - 2016

[@warioland523]

I actually beat Super Mario Bros 2 without a single Game Over but I used a 1up trick at the start of the game.

[@goodnamehuh1606]

Do it legit.

[@AntoRetroGamer]

The game feels like an extension of the first game? Maybe that's because it was made for an add-on to the original hardware.

[@Nintenducky]

I'm on world 7 on that game and I'm only 9 years old

[@tokagestudios2370]

games with nolan I was only 9 years old..

[@sonicledgend]

+Pernell Butler what??? UH no.

[@thenightjackal]

@P C B And PC is better than all of those combined

[@BigJunnySoprano69]

You’re 13 now

[@itsabe90]

so basically Super Mario Brothers 2 is DLC before even DLC existed that's awesome

[@itsabe90]

I know I was joking round

[@Zynovia]

I guess Bowser made this game. XD

[@millertime97jm]

This review came out just a couple months after Johnny's review of the same game. I can't decide which one's better.

[@zombiehunter2898]

11:11 a bullet bill was trying to spawn

[@guyudontno7689]

This whole video is basically just him complaining about the game's difficulty and pointing out details that don't relate to the gameplay.

[@CompactRisk]

The ground and brick block sprites are different.

[@DLAbaoaqu]

So many S&M fans defending this trainwreck...

[@chrisrj9871]

That's why they named it Lost Levels, so it's like an add-on to the first game.

[@sornlol1]

i just started playing Mario a few days ago and i played this right after beating the first one and i only got to 4-4 before getting mad and quitting.

[@Bobbybrowninthewild]

I went thru 100 guys today and couldn't get passed 4-4. Can't get thru the level big can't beat it small😡

[@thesmilingman7576]

6:33 this game was on a floppy disk foes that not have enough stprage to add water psyics to these tiles

[@Mecrazyfang]

Excellent commentary style. Funny, sympathetic to the players, and observant of tiny detail. The game comparison was somewhat prolonged, but extremely amusing. Overall, I'd like to see you do some more of these. Perhaps you'll find something to complain about in one of the more popular shooters? Maybe you'll get into the MineCraft craze? Or perhaps you'll stick to handheld devices. Oh, and before I forget...First.

[@slavic_boi2007]

To unlock World 9 - You need beat ENTIRE game, but only not warps. To unlock World A-D - Instand beating entire game. YOU NEED BEAT EIGHT TIMES, WITHOUT FREAKING WARPS!

[@Karmy.]

looks to me like the mushroom platforms are a drug joke or something the mushrooms are magic mushrooms and the clouds underneath them (that's what it looks like to me) are supposed to represent being high or something

[@x1g5dj7dh4]

Inconsistencies: 4:40 You CAN go under if you have a shroom/flower, you need to slide underneath the first one, break them, then slide more. 10:00 There is another hidden block, noob.

[@tgsachris]

Thats not inconsistent, look up what that word means

[@tokagestudios2370]

That may be, but it is designed as though you would stand on the block and then jump, not finding another invisible block.

[@esmooth919]

11:10 I can't tell if he's serious, and that's very concerning

[@Symboite3099]

He is

[@swordkeeper1161]

The lost lvls are the original super Mario's 253 -1,-2,-3 so on glitch levels so there are flying squids they didn't take off and that's why its so hard.

[@jakespidermonkey1994]

No, the Lost Levels is not the glitch levels from the 1st game. Find a game genie code to access those glitch levels, and you'll find the levels aren't even remotely similar, besides the flying squids. The levels in the Lost Levels are completely different.

[@grantkelly8696]

At least in the SNES version the poison mushrooms are color coded to signal they're poison. In the NES version it was the MARIO version of Russian roulette.

[@19Szabolcs91]

Honestly, this is a pretty bad review. Yes the game is hard, but it does get gradually harder, and it's meant to be played after the original. World 1 of SMB2 is around the same difficulty as world 7 of SMB1 and it gets progressively harder from there. Also you CAN get get under that gap in 1-2 as big Mario. First you slide under the first column of blocks, hit them, and then do a big running slide which will get you over the gap.

[@bleh-cy8bx]

You can hear his chair creak in the background 4:07

[@wolfgangfrost8043]

Japanese TV commercials showed players getting frustrated with the game over how difficult it was. I think that kind of marketing made it clear to Japanese buyers what they were getting themselves into. Playing SMB2J as an "import curiosity" without having mastered the mechanics of SMB1? You're probably gonna have a bad time.

[@help4343]

At least this game feels like a Super Mario Bros game, unlike the version released in the U.S. as Super Mario Bros 2.

[@Lizuma]

Mario 2 feels enough like a Mario game to me, just like how Mario 64 does despite being quite different from the previous games. In fact, Mario 2 is a very fun and unique game in the series I really enjoyed, unlike what feels more like a frustrating rom hack for the lost levels. While the lost levels is funny to play around with for experiencing the infamous extreme difficulty, it's not so fun when I want to just enjoying playing a Mario game for its quality or to have a good time throughout the experience.

[@Raven5666]

Awesome review. Can't wait to see more :)

[@ThuN00b]

@Mecrazyfang Thx ^^ Yeah, i tried to keep the comparison shorter, but i eventually just left it as is, and i don't know if ill be doing anything related to shooters like minecraft, although, eventually i may want to talk about Duke Nukem forever.. But yeah, thanks again

[@yosh9192]

this game is the VERY first kaizo mario

[@jordanvaldez7262]

Is it Cuphead hard

[@yadidimeanmaine]

At least this game switched it up more than most CoD sequels.

[@PeruvianPotato]

You're bluffing

[@grandgojira8182]

I just noticed this video was uploaded on my 11th birthday

[@ThuN00b]

It was like that, they actually have bad warp zones that send you back lol and i think i said siamese, cause they were joined together

[@Imdatrobloxboi]

I have a idea next ThuNOOB... You could review super Mario Bros. 2! (not the lost levels, the one where a rattish is a item)

[@JamesPlaysGames95]

i played the lost levels from unlocking it on Super Mario Bros Delux on GBC. and i thought "wow this is just a really hard mode the guys just wanted to mess with players". then i discovered it was a real game on famicom. its way to difficult and feels like its designed to troll you. reverse world warps and difficult jumps and poison shrooms on the first level. feels like a fan game

[@lucastorres3786]

Super mario lost levels has a wold 9

[@mistygrelk1659]

need luigi

[@kirby4everfan1]

12:10 Was that a real wii?

[@willalmeidamakers6400]

12:10

[@Symboite3099]

Yes

[@reversalmushroom]

This game was designed for the people who played the first game; that's why it's so hard.

[@redf0xmiller365]

repro cart?

[@ThuN00b]

@KrazyKarla34 Thx ^^ and thanks for subscribing

[@scyhh4233]

Actually the credits music is different

[@lemonking361]

did u throw your wii

[@fonejunky6306]

Ehhhhhhhhh...i think he did.

[@somethingsomething9008]

Jhoney vs did the same thing and nobody complained about him complaing about the difficulty

[@fonejunky6306]

Noob+the lost levels=this video. (His name is thuNOOb.)

[@Imirui]

Ah yes. My first thunoob 7 years ago.

[@Lego_Weegee_Good]

4:53 U CAN DO IT WITH A BIG MARIO AND ANYWAY WAYS I THOUGHT U WOULD KNOW THIS GAME WAS DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO BEAT THE FIRST One sorry got a little bit tense there

[@shrimppimp4509]

I got the game on my 3ds and its easy when u do the 100 lives glitch

[@sparkzz-games6790]

Hang on. How in the world did you fall for going down that pipe in 1-2? I had no problems whatsoever. Unless I see *WELCOME TO WARP ZONE* overhead, I'm most likely not going to try going down it. Curiosity kills the cat, and this game is definitely not an exception.

[@Edgelordess]

I just want this game for its novelty.

[@Imdatrobloxboi]

In 2-2, There’s Actually 2 Invisible Blocks. .-.

[@superwhatbrosdes5064]

12:14 WAIT TILL THE TIME RUNS OUT

[@Tiffanyhuang2003]

12:1 How did you make the game say that? or was it like that already? 3:49 What do you mean by the "sign me goombas"?

[@BigJunnySoprano69]

12:01

[@GeneralSirDouglasMcA]

At least you don't get sent all the way back to 1-1 at game over.

[@Joshisgood2]

Good review!

[@kinger7070]

7:56 Don't question Nintendo logic.

[@Zerio105]

How is the poison mushroom being at the very beginning even remotely a bad thing? If it were placed in, say, the middle of the level, that would mean a first-time player would essentially be forced to redo everything. Here, they just need to walk a couple of screens to get back to where they were. It's the least terrible way of introducing the mechanic to the player. Not to mention it sort of foreshadows the game's difficulty. Along with the first super mushroom being hard to access.

[@gamesforyou2351]

better with liugi he jumps higher

[@Rebel_Railroad_Productions]

I made a review of this game a few days ago. I had fun with it, but damn was it difficult. As some reviews have put it, Super Mario Bros The Lost Levels is basically the *Dark* *Souls* of the Mario series.

[@SuperGoomba554]

acctually, toads ARE the blocks...it's true...look at the original mario bros manual....

[@finnmack1220]

its true apperently bowser turned them all into blocks it is really true SuperGoomba554

[@warioland523]

They are the ? Blocks. I don't think they are the basic Brick Blocks because that would mean every Brick destroyed a Toad dies and that would be pretty dark.

[@SuperGoomba554]

yeah they are.....thats whats so dark about it XD

[@stephenpaget1517]

according to the Japanese manual, Peach has to reverse the spell and also bring the Toads back to life. They were already dead.

[@mamaanimations7196]

:O I need this game how can you get it

[@lokkevit9224]

It's on the e-shop for the 3DS and Wii U.

[@forensicphdmmp]

8:33 7 seconds you win!lol

[@cringe9361]

1:54 or just the toads are dumb and put in a poison mushroom

[@MariotheMastermind]

To be honest, even without the difficulty, the game still would've been bad as a sequel. It just feels like a retread of the first game. They didn't even change the music.

[@HarryPotter-gr9ot]

LOL the ending XD

[@SpaghettiSN]

I feel like the first game was harder than this besides when I first stated playing

[@frankulrich4929]

awesome

[@josephfrye7342]

hey thunoob you mean super Mario bros 2 aka lost levels not the united state of America one the one with

[@Robotvike1996]

In my opinion Luigi is considered to be the easy mode and mario is considered to be the hard mode so if you really want to play super mario Bros the lost levels play as Luigi.

[@Robotvike1996]

Well if your playing the SNES version.

[@PeruvianPotato]

Wish more people just made thumbnails like yours instead of the generic "surreal" thumbnails nowadays

[@MaoRatto]

***** The first thing you said was soo cheap. It isn't. Because the game CLEARLY wants to say " Hey get that challenging item on the left not the plain sight ". This game is flipping cruel and cool. It is fun in the Ninja Gaiden way. Not for being normal difficulty, but hard! At-least you learn from it. It is teaching you lessons on how to pass through obstacles. I notice you have be laid back to play.The level design is HARD! Most uncreative mario game? That is actually not the truth at all. It went with... Flying squids ON LAND! It is the official super Mario bros hack! It has wind gimmicks in it! Which it is not cheap at all. The game is for " SUPER PLAYERS ". Hint hint.

[@alexandergeorge9577]

best game review ever!!!

[@eletgres519]

how the fuck did i even know about this youtube channel. Its so fucking obscure

[@SantiagoMonroy5]

Why did you destroy your wii?

[@Symboite3099]

Because the game was hard

[@TrevZed]

the ground looks like glowstone from minecraft

[@DS-bi3fz]

how can toads do that did you know toads are in those blocks

[@Drixenol86]

They should rename it Super Mario Water Torture.

[@videogamemaster2123]

This is super funny XD!

[@madslapper7776]

It's an easy game when you play it right.And it' better with luigi. I have it for famicom disk system.

[@MaoRatto]

***** This game is like an extension and for people who mastered the game! I know your not good at video games and your new, but you have to learn to take your sweet, sweet time. And second of all, YOU ARE EASILY EXPLOITED AND YOU MIND CAN BE READ BY THE GAME!

[@abdullakc]

It is the lost levels

[@Z-Mikes00]

BE LUIGI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@douglasemsantos]

I laughed from start to finish xD

[@hockeyrox2001]

Dude your awesome

[@MelodyMoon246]

Now rhat i watched the video i no where the mushroom is

[@CWG500SUBSWBC]

I posted it

[@markolivares6943]

lol the ending was the best lol

[@ThuN00b]

@jmario232 it is a good game and because Japanese business men thought it was too difficult for anyone else xD

[@AnisterStarlight]

An American Nintendo employee actually played this to see if the US could enjoy this and he had negative feedback with the game's difficulty. So instead we got a reskin of Dokie Doki Panic.