[SMS:Eclipse 18] Peach Beach + Final Boss (Backlogging 51)
2So maybe I wasted an extra 10 minutes on the final boss trying to style. So what.
I wonder if they just ripped the level straight from the Double Dash files and made a SMS navmesh, or if they rebuilt it entirely from scratch. The Box Bashing minigame is honestly pretty fun. It's also a really great way to practice Turbo Nozzle Spinjumping to Ground Pounding for precision. I'd imagine speedrunners would have a field day with the level optimizing the best lines and times for it. You definitely need to figure out a good pattern with some of the blocks going underwater occasionally.
No idea what those squids are for, except maybe to be obstacles. Even Yoshi can't eat them. They definitely should add some extra sprinklers around, too, outside of the Speed Trial level. I'm not sure if there are checkpoints for the Speed Trial level or you can just go around the back real quick like. I'm sure they probably put some checkpoints in you needed to hit before finishing knowing what everyone does about the Blooper Surfing Safari checkpoints, but where they are would probably require looking at the code or lots of trial and error.
That Pianta under the tree on the beach taking delight in others misfortune is a mood and half. Also, the secret level entrance is full of fresh banana peels and Koopa shells. Kind of terrifying if you think about it as if the Koopas ran out of bananas to eat in captivity and wasted away(but there weren't any dry bones, so don't worry about it!). And those green coin hitboxes are way smaller than you'd expect.
As for the final boss fight, the Piantas going around actually did something for once and evacuated everyone! How come they took this long to actually do anything instead of just making Mario get all the Shine Sprites back? But yeah, I was making it harder than it needed to be. I'll take this fight any day over that Firey Pete fight. That one was just annoying. I feel like a lot of work went into making a single level and song for a single Shine boss battle that'll last less than 5 minutes anyways. Also, the radio tower collapsed, so I don't know who's putting out the D.E.B.S. report during the fight!
I really thought that water rocket would shoot where I was aiming with Y button even while spinning. Still hit the 360 NO Scope though :D
I'm still curious if you can get a 100 coin shine on the final boss level though. And yeah, Mario doesn't really throw those bombs very far.
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Chapters: 0:00 Getting There One Final Time
0:31 Initial Exploration And Box Bashing Try 1
6:55 Box Bashing Try 2
10:59 Box Bashing Try 3
14:35 Uhh, Where's The Last Box?
15:54 Back To Exploring And Doing Shines/Blue Coins
20:47 Speed Trial Shine And 100 Coin Shine
22:36 Trying To Find More Blues
26:00 Accidentally Going Into The Secret Level
28:42 A Painful Failure Clicking A Too Fast
30:20 Actually Locking In
32:14 Blue Coin Hunt
44:28 Last Shine
45:02 Back To Hunting The Last 2 Blue Coins
46:04 Looking Up Their Location
46:27 Collecting Them
47:28 Going Back To Delfino Plaza To Turn Everything In
48:04 Money Money Money
48:50 Exploring Final Boss Fight Location: Ruined Delfino Plaza
56:32 Learning They Thought Of Aiming The Water Rockets While Spinning
57:20 360 NO SCOPE OH BABY A TRIPLE COLLATERAL
57:48 Greeding For A Second Trick Shot
59:02 Imagine Though
1:00:45 Camera Ruining My Lineup
1:01:07 I Missed
1:01:45 Finally
1:02:44 The Birth Of A Shine Sprite(And Everyone Inside The Temple Probably Perishing)
1:03:07 The Fastest Town Fixing In The West
1:03:48 Wrongwarping The Subtitles Or Something IDK I'm Not A Developer
1:04:15 Credits Roll
1:06:06 Post-Game Unlocked
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