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Fun Fact #1: This level was originally called "Ice Climbing," because the design is reminiscent of Ice Climbers in certain places.

Fun Fact #2: Thanks to not playing for some time, this level took several tries to record successfully. Seriously, it pummeled a lot of the rustiness out of me.

Fun Fact #3: Savestates were NOT used during gameplay.

I guess I should explain a bit about this level. Many people have pointed out that Mario doesn't stay on layer 2 side-scrolling vines. Yes, this is silly, but I expect the developers saved time and space by not writing code they themselves had no use for. In any case, I thought it would be easier than it was for people to get used to this. Personally, it became pretty mechanical for me to constantly adjust left or right, but hey, I'm the level designer :p

The thing is, there's something else that people seemed not to notice, and I probably should have put this into one of those parenthetical message boxes. When you jump straight up and down with no x-speed and land on a scrolling surface, you don't move upon landing, even if the surface is slippery. As you can see from the video, this can help a great deal in the beginning of the second half.

Perhaps I should have put another powerup in the second half. What do you think?