Game:

Super Mario Bros. (1985)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 22:38

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With my 600th video, we finish the game, sort of. We're beating the final boss, anyway, but we have a couple secret levels to get through first. 8-S1, Laser Time, BOYZZ! (yes, that's the level's name), is all about killer laser beams that blink on and off, as well as a floating orb enemy that shoots lasers at you and I think is unique to this stage. 8-S2, Polluted Passage, is another sewer level, this one with water so nasty that Mario can only stay in it for a while before dying. (See, air meters can actually be okay when they're used as a one-off gimmick instead of being active in every freaking water area in the game. *looks accusingly at Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze*) Then, last but certainly not least, there is Mecha-Bowser's Castle. It's a *decent* level, with a variety of different obstacles and enemies (smashers, fireballs, Grinders, flame pillars, Thwomps, a vertical section, auto-scroll...), but it takes a while to get through due to having three sizable sections and a two-phase boss battle, and having only one checkpoint makes it overstay its welcome pretty easily. (Let me emphasize that this video was 11 minutes longer before editing, and most of that was just the post-"midway" part of this level.) The second part of the boss also tends to cause a lot of cheap hits, I find, due to his attacks coming out so fast and randomly. (The first fight is yet another SMB1-style Bowser battle, while the second has him charging at you and shooting barrages of fireballs.) In any case, we have officially beaten the game. We're not done with it just yet, though, since there is still the matter of that star warp....

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