Comments on: The Anatomy of Super Mario: XXII. Is it cold in your little corner of the world? http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/09/07/the-anatomy-of-super-mario-xxii-is-it-cold-in-your-little-corner-of-the-world/ Defunct, amateurish, game design analysis by Jeremy Parish Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.7 By: J. Parish http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/09/07/the-anatomy-of-super-mario-xxii-is-it-cold-in-your-little-corner-of-the-world/#comment-2007 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 01:09:14 +0000 http://www.2-dimensions.com/?p=8751#comment-2007 Yeah I screwed up. Need to post a correction.

]]> By: MetManMas http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/09/07/the-anatomy-of-super-mario-xxii-is-it-cold-in-your-little-corner-of-the-world/#comment-2006 Sat, 07 Sep 2013 23:58:37 +0000 http://www.2-dimensions.com/?p=8751#comment-2006 As someone who’s played and replayed this a lot, I can confirm what David said as true. You can’t kill Spinies in the original Super Mario Bros. by hitting a block underneath them. That only makes them bounce.

Lakitu really was a total unpredictable bastard back in the olden days. Like Tomm, I miss how the guy would chuck out Spinies at random. New Super Mario Bros. era Lakitu’s more fair, but being slower and telegraphing his throws from a mile away makes the guy much more boring.

Oh well, it’s nice to see him in the NSMB games. After Super Mario 64’s Tiny-Huge Island showed just how hard it was to make Lakitu a threat in three dimensions (Also not helping is he only throws one Spiny) the poor guy got stuck doing spinoffs and RPGs to get by.

He’s still better off than that weird grey thing, anyway.

]]> By: Tomm http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/09/07/the-anatomy-of-super-mario-xxii-is-it-cold-in-your-little-corner-of-the-world/#comment-2005 Sat, 07 Sep 2013 23:02:58 +0000 http://www.2-dimensions.com/?p=8751#comment-2005 This really highlights why Lakitu was my favorite Mario enemy for a long, long time. He feels very neutered in more recent (or should I saw “New”) SMB titles, which is a shame.

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