Release ~ Neo Super Mario Land

[@Red_Biker_Dude]

I'll play this right now. I love SMBX. I'll come back to this video to then give it a review.

[@h2643]

NSMBX Forums are closen now.

[@GoldenShine]

Apparantly Nintendo shut the fangame AND it's website down. There's a forum named NSMBX that's supposed to replace it, but SMBX is pretty much dying in terms of community. I mainly uploaded this because I don't want the time I spend on my mod to get completely lost. Even standalone and no longer in-development, this game is incredible. It's very worthwhile playing, especially if you've never played it before. I believe my own Neo Super Mario Land pack will only add to that fun as well.

[@GoldenShine]

Considering the site was literally called "SuperMarioBrothers(dot)ORG", I'm sure they just took it down for the name alone. Y'know, copyright on the Super Mario Bros name and all. It redirects to Nintendo's official Mario page now. As for SRB2, you should definitly get back into that once SRB2 2.2 is released!

[@IceisNice_FollowingChrist]

you should check out smbx 1.4.4, love the sonic generations music btw

[@GoldenShine]

It's really epic how far Mario Bros X has come. Eat your heart out, Mario Maker!

[@IceisNice_FollowingChrist]

SuperMysticSonic you can said that again brother!

[@WedgeStratos]

I'll try and make footage for you, man. It seems like a decent project. I'll try it out.

[@GoldenShine]

@MysticShadowdude If you checked the forum when it was still there, you would've seen this mod released by me. I even had the SAME name as I did here! "SuperMysticSonic" XD

[@joshwannapaas]

I love this game and maybe ill try this mod out

[@MysticShadowdude]

@SuperMysticSonic I never checked the forums, so eh D:

[@Red_Biker_Dude]

Well... I completed this episode. When I say completed, I mean I have beaten every single level here. Both normal and secret exits. Oh, boy, do I have so much to say about it. This review likely will turn into a multi-paragraph essay, so prepare yourself. If you want a short version, basically, the whole thing was overall mediocre. It doesn't stand out much and one level in particular REALLY sucks (I'm talking about the bonus level). Now time for a more descriptive review. Let's start by talking about level design. Overall, Every level felt way too linear. Sure, there might be some pipes that lead to some secret places or you might have been able to run on top of the level to get to a secret bossfight, but other than that, every level feels like just a straight line with random obstacles and enemies. And one thing that I *really* didn't like about every level here is the *insane* ammount of multi-coin blocks here. Multi-coin blocks aren't bad when used sparingly, but the absolute huge ammount of them here slows the game down so much that I stopped hitting blocks multiple times at all. Other than those complains, the level design is fine. There are some fun obstacles here and there and it isn't all bad. Now, about graphics. Remember when I said this pack doesn't stand out? This is one of the bigger reasons why. There are absolutely *no* custom graphics here. That isn't a big problem though. You can still create cool stuff without having to stand out. There is a much bigger problem with graphics here, that being the lack of detail. What do I mean by that? Well, lack of corner blocks, blocks that are cut off at the sides, lack of decorations on certain parts of the world map (which really sticks out because the parts that have decorations have *a lot* of decorations) and the fact that the transition between ice and grass on the world map looks... just not smooth at all. You could've just made sure to put corner blocks everywhere, use custom graphics or just blocks that have all 4 sides, put a bit more stuff on the map and for the last one, either make custom tiles that make it looks smoother or just move the ice part to the left and make the transition between ice and grass not vissible. Also, near locked doors there is a grass NPC that has text. The problem is that the grass is vissible and just looks bad. What I would've done is taken a random npc and making their "m" graphic entirely white (in case you don't know what that means, I'm refering to the black and white gif file that almost every graphic in this game has where black pixels indicate what part of the graphic is vissible and white pixels indicate what part isn't). Also, this episode doesn't have water. I tried jumping in water, but turns out it's just a background object with no water hitbox in it. Why? How could I have guessed that isn't actual water? Either have water or just a death pit. Now onto one miscellaneous thing. I don't like it when locations such as Mario's house, toad villages, Peach's castle, pipe transitions, etc. have power ups. I don't want to immediately get 2 mushrooms and yoshi at the start of the game. I don't want access to infinite fire flowers from the pipe transition. Just put the power ups in the levels and nowhere else. Of course, this does depend on preference, so if you want it that way, you can keep it. And now comes my biggest problem with the whole episode. That damn bonus desert level. So, this level sucks, REALLY sucks. It has too much enemy spam. This is NOT how you make a difficult level. Don't just spam enemies everywhere. Also, this level has a trap. If you want to collect the 3 red coins in a secret passage bellow the main route, you'll fall into a pit! Why? Why is that there? That's just horrible level design. This level is just overall not good. Also, a minor graphical complaint, every pipe except for 2 connected to the optional challenge area are SMB3 styled, while those 2 pipes are SMW styled, which really sticks out. Yeah... So... Overall, this was pretty mediocre. I had *some* fun, but I also often got frustrated at the many flaws this episode has. Hope this helps you out in the future... In case you still want to continue on this episode of course. Best of luck to you. Edit: Holy crap I just realised this video released 12 years ago

[@MysticShadowdude]

So you had SMBX. Why the fuck you didn't tell me? D: