Super Mario Maker 2 - Custom Course: Sky or Bye
0Another multiple-choice level. This time, instead of the usual normal/hard path choice, you have a choice between a normal path or a more Faustian resolution.
Course ID: Q23-STX-W7G
[0:00-1:26] Sky Path (Low)
- 0:45 Hidden 1UP in the block supporting the door.
- 0:50-0:56 In the Bowser Jr. fight, you can drop the Muncher on him for an instant win, but if it misses you'll have to deal with that hazard on the stage. He tends to stomp the P-Switch himself if you let him, which may sometimes cause him to brain himself with the Muncher.
- 0:58 Those Burners can actually crush you if you jump between them as they're about to cross each other, so be wary of that. I somehow missed this all this time and only noticed when I recorded this.
- 1:07 Another little flaw here, if you're Super Mario when you enter the pipe, you only get the 4000 points instead of the 1UP that you would get if you were Small Mario.
[1:26-2:48] Sky Path (High)
- 1:34 This jump is rather precise, but going through this path gives you a 1UP, a bunch of coins and the Super Mushroom you missed from the lower path. The rest of this run is normal (which I should have cut out).
[2:48-3:16] Bye Path
- By choosing this path, you sacrifice yourself for a quick and easy victory, but you only get the measly 100 points as a reward.
I had an idea of the sacrifice for a skip and really liked it, so for the next level I immediately built the first room before even figuring out what I was going to do for the other part. The WIP title for this level was "Mariotransaction", but I wasn't really feeling it when time came to upload. In hindsight, the replacement title wasn't that good either.
There will be another level upload soon after this one because this is where I started what would become a sort of pattern where every normal level is followed by a quick 10-second gimmick level.