Date played: August 16th
Platform: Wii U
Session fun rating: 7/10
My girlfriend wanted to play of New Super Mario Bros U last night. Now, we've already completed the main game but haven't scored all the secret coins in every level. The last time we played, we managed to unlock the second world's secret level so last night, we beat it. I barely remember it at all...there was nothing really memorable there. However, this opened up the second level in the secret star world.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck man. This level HARD. It's kind of similar to the bonus levels in Donkey Kong Country Returns and Rayman Origins. The entire stage has Mario and company running on top of coins turned into brick by a series of P-blocks. The entire thing has a very tight time frame. As soon as we stopped more than 2 or 3 seconds, our hopes of making it to the next switch dwindled dramatically.
This led to an amazing display of team work founded on a solid routine. I swear, we must have tried this level at least 40 times...and we didn't even make it through by the end of the night. I can feel it though, we've nailed down the first 75% of the level, mistakes being very rare. However, as soon as we reach the second to last P-block, I have a hard time nailing the next series of jumps. My girlfriend acts more as a support player as she helps kill enemies with fireballs and can make suicide jumps to grab special coins. I just have to nail that last little section...
Of course, we could always cop out and use the Gamepad to make platforms instead but I want to avoid it if possible.
Platform: Wii U
Session fun rating: 7/10
My girlfriend wanted to play of New Super Mario Bros U last night. Now, we've already completed the main game but haven't scored all the secret coins in every level. The last time we played, we managed to unlock the second world's secret level so last night, we beat it. I barely remember it at all...there was nothing really memorable there. However, this opened up the second level in the secret star world.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck man. This level HARD. It's kind of similar to the bonus levels in Donkey Kong Country Returns and Rayman Origins. The entire stage has Mario and company running on top of coins turned into brick by a series of P-blocks. The entire thing has a very tight time frame. As soon as we stopped more than 2 or 3 seconds, our hopes of making it to the next switch dwindled dramatically.
This led to an amazing display of team work founded on a solid routine. I swear, we must have tried this level at least 40 times...and we didn't even make it through by the end of the night. I can feel it though, we've nailed down the first 75% of the level, mistakes being very rare. However, as soon as we reach the second to last P-block, I have a hard time nailing the next series of jumps. My girlfriend acts more as a support player as she helps kill enemies with fireballs and can make suicide jumps to grab special coins. I just have to nail that last little section...Of course, we could always cop out and use the Gamepad to make platforms instead but I want to avoid it if possible.
