Game:

Super Mario 64 (1996)

Duration: 28:44

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0:00 Level Entry from Course 5
0:34 Star Within the Fortress
2:40 Fraudulent Star Detected
4:36 Perilous Ledge
7:14 Aggravating Red Coins of the Dust
18:42 Bowser 1 Fight Entry
22:16 Bowser 1 Purple Coin Comet

Oh boy! Well, its levels like these where you see why this game is considered D tier. Or at the very least, a cut below most mainstream kaizo hacks. Fate of Dust is all kinds of sloppy. There's jank, unintuitive jumps, reclimbs, and poor collision in several areas. The beginning has you navigate around these intentional invis walls, which is a cool idea, but doing it every time gets really tedious. Also why does this stage have 3 normal stars that are all nearly identical and uninteresting? It makes you feel like this stage was just made for reds and that's it. The red coin star here is quite difficult. In fact, getting the 3 normal stars in a row would be easier than reds. It's a difficulty spike compared to everything else before it, but still not incredibly difficult. I've played this course several times so at this point I know these weird jumps by heart.

Okay now for something more positive. The Purple Coin Comet as a key fight is a nice idea. The key area is B1 inverted which I guess just means 74EE VC at this point cause that level already got inverted once. I enjoy purple coin comets and this one was no different.

Rating for this level: 3/10
Rating for the Key Fight: 8/10

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