Super Mario 2006

[GherkinForce]

[robo]

I’m not sure about the post game moon hunting. My loop so far is pull up the map, walk around a marker looking for things (usually while toggling the map to make sure I’m pointed in the right direction. If only there were a second screen…), do a bit of Mario stuff if I find where the moon is or don’t and move on to the next, then repeat. It’s bordering on busy work. Should I be talking to the parrot or buying hints instead? Am I doing it wrong?

[Broco]

No, that’s pretty much the game at least until you reach tough straggler moons. If you buy hints for 50 coins it puts a blue marker on your map for the non-cube moons. The parrot might show some use for 100% completion but hasn’t seemed worth the hassle for getting 500 moons.

I think the pacing is the weakest aspect of the game, yeah. It has an atomized and uniform feel for such a long game. For a game called “Odyssey” it didn’t take much inspiration from the journey through monsters and stormy seas that wrecked his fleet and killed his crew, leaving him to return home as a beggar. You just fast travel whereever and pick up easily accessible goodies, and there is hardly ever anything at stake that you can lose.

[Father.Torque]

Reminder that the part of the Odyssey that everyone remembers is like a third of the poem and the rest is Odysseus being a whiny liar and killing people

[Tulpa]

you’re forgetting the Telemachiad

[Brooks]

Who else is fixing to at least audiobook the new Wilson translation

[a_new_duck]

Or as a friend once told it “The Mildly Boring Adventures of Telemachus”

[a_new_duck]

My uncle who works at Nintendo told me that this game is actually based on O Brother Where Art Thou?

[VastleCania]

I’m trying not to use the map too much but uh

yeah it’s way faster to use the map

[ronk]

one legitimate bullshit gripe i have is that you can’t set custom markers on your map. i dunno if its because you’re supposed to rely on your compass that no one uses?

[Broco]

The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ Into English (Published 2017)

Good passage on how Super Mario has been described through the ages:

Chapman starts things off, in his version, with “many a way/Wound with his wisdom”; John Ogilby counters with the terser “prudent”; Thomas Hobbes evades the word, just calling Odysseus “the man.” Quite a range, and we’ve barely started. There’s Alexander Pope’s “for wisdom’s various arts renown’d”; William Cowper’s “For shrewdness famed/And genius versatile”; H.F. Cary’s “crafty”; William Sotheby’s “by long experience tried”; Theodore Buckley’s “full of resources”; Henry Alford’s “much-versed”; Philip Worsley’s “that hero”; the Rev. John Giles’s “of many fortunes”; T.S. Norgate’s “of many a turn”; George Musgrave’s “tost to and fro by fate”; the Rev. Lovelace Bigge-Wither’s “many-sided-man”; George Edgington’s “deep”; William Cullen Bryant’s “sagacious”; Roscoe Mongan’s “skilled in expedients”; Samuel Henry Butcher and Andrew Lang’s “so ready at need”; Arthur Way’s “of craft-renown”; George Palmer’s “adventurous”; William Morris’s “shifty”; Samuel Butler’s “ingenious”; Henry Cotterill’s “so wary and wise”; Augustus Murray’s “of many devices”; Francis Caulfeild’s “restless”; Robert Hiller’s “clever”; Herbert Bates’s “of many changes”; T.E. Lawrence’s “various-minded”; William Henry Denham Rouse’s “never at a loss”; Richmond Lattimore’s “of many ways”; Robert Fitzgerald’s “skilled in all ways of contending”; Albert Cook’s “of many turns”; Walter Shewring’s “of wide-ranging spirit”; Allen Mandelbaum’s “of many wiles”; Robert Fagles’s “of twists and turns”; all the way to Stanley Lombardo’s “cunning.”

[ronk]

oh hey here’s something online to get irrationally mad about

Ranking the core Super Mario games

[VastleCania]

biggest complaint: why is mario land 2 above SMB2

okay bye

[ronk]

having that particular game be number one feels like it might be trolling but if it’s not, this might be a fireable offense

whenever i think of people flooding innocuous online articles with angry comments i wonder about the people who spend the time actually making an account to dump all those negative thoughts and unfortunately it looks like i found my triggering threshold

[Felix]

wow this is wrong!

I guess it’d be OK if you just remove all the NSMB and galaxy stuff outright, bump 64 above world, and put SML2 down below sunshine and lost levels

[VastleCania]

is this your wrongest post?

@Felix

bump 64 above world

no

@Felix

remove all the NSMB and galaxy stuff

no

@Felix

SML2 down below sunshine and lost levels

okay maybe

[Victor]

mods please flag this content as offensive

[RT-55J]

God bless Jeremy Parish.

[bib]

wow right out the gate

[Victor]

imaginary super peach hack with smb2us character select + touch-screen powers removed + recreations of all levels from every 2d smb with more hills added in to slide down