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Super Mario Bros. (1985)

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Part 2 of Strider for the NES playthrough. Hiryu takes a train ride to visit the wonders of Egypt. And eviscerates a few commies along the way.\n\nCommentary below:\n\n0:17 - Here we have a message from another Strider that missed roll call, Ryuzukai, a guy who is seriously into the Strider/ninja thing. This disk doesn't have any plot relevance, but it does open up Austrailia on the map. Why? No clue. You don't need to go there for a long while yet.\n0:44 - Egypt via Phantom Train? I think we have our next destination...\n0:56 - On the train. Notice the increase in energy up in the corner. We still have nothing to spend it on.\n1:30 - An easy mini-boss, just walk over and kill it. Now you're at the level proper. Nice music.\n1:48 - Tempted to slide down the pyramid? Bad idea. There are enemies along the side that do a good chunk of damage when you slide through them. Just jump over them.\n2:38 - This is the first of two required "triangle jumps" in the level (and in the game). The glitchiness of the controls doesn't help you doing these either. You pretty much jump into the wall, then you press the other direction and jump at the same time. This one is the easier one, and I get it without too much difficulity.\n3:05 - Aqua-boots, which I guess I just found out, let you walk on water, instead of drown in it.\n3:24 - Long zipline back to the start. Note the long stretch of water, complete with shark.\n3:51 - The sub-menu. Here you can see Hiryu's stats (everything is self-explanitory except S. Level, and I have no idea what that is), his moves (the Slide), the data disks collected, keys collected (you start with #1), and boots collected (just Aqua so far). There's also a menu for Tricks, which is still empty. \n4:56 - Remember him? Not too tough, just wait for him to pop up, duck next to him, and slash away.\n5:07 - The really hard triangle jump. Honestly, I thought I would have to cut the video here to make this fit. I've spent a half-hour trying to make this jump before. It's that much of a pain. Thankfully, it doesn't take long. Triangle jumping is hard enough in games where you have full control of your actions, it's way too tough in this glitchfest game. Fortunately, this is the last one we have to make.\n5:40 - Now that's how to negotiate! And now we have the #2 key. Back to Kazakh. A level-up, too.\n6:05 - A shortcut back to the start.

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