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Before we start, however, here's a quick recap: We're going to cap off our run here with Stars 104-120, all entirely superfluous depending on your view, and bring Mario's first 3D adventure to a close. That's the accessibility-focused genius of the milestone collectible progression system, and why so many imitators (like most of Rare's N64 oeuvre) would be so fixated on the concept. Those extra Stars could be considered post-game challenges, or a type of high-score to share with your N64-owning friends. Even if you went straight to the game's conclusion after the requisite seventy Stars, you would never feel that Super Mario 64 had been truly 'completed' with the other fifty still out there.

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However, for any serious player, nothing short of the full 120 amount would suffice. That would mean never even having to touch any course after the basement - practically half the game. If you knew about the 100-Coin Challenges and where most of the hidden castle Stars were, you could even be done after the first eight courses (7 Stars x 8 courses + 14 secrets = 70). The DS version bumped this up to eighty, but you could still gather that many Stars by completing the first twelve courses and grabbing a handful of secret Stars. The final milestone target is seventy Stars of a possible 120: scarcely over half of the total amount. With Super Mario 64, you have the option of skipping the last few courses entirely. The final location even had a 'back door': providing an easier route to the boss if you could reach it. Super Mario World was even bigger on warps and alternate paths, providing multiple options to reach Bowser's Castle if one path grew too taxing.Saving a stock of items for the final world came highly recommended. This ranged from burning one of the many different suit power-ups of the game, to using the priceless P-Wing or Jugem's (Lakitu's) Cloud: both of which could allow you to skip over a troublesome stage entirely. 3 had the warp-enabling whistles, but more so allowed the players to collect items that could be spent before a level to make them easier to cope with. You could draw some conclusions there as well.) (You could draw some ugly conclusions from the idea that the one female character would also be the easiest to play as, but this is moot as the original source ( Yume Koujou Doki Doki Panic) actually had two female characters, one of which would eventually become Luigi.

2 provided warps as well, far better hidden this time around, and also provided the Princess as a playable character, whose hover jumps made a lot of the platforming-heavy areas trivial.

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(Then again, if you were that resourceful, you'd probably know how to get an infinite number of those little green guys.) A resourceful enough player that knows where all the 1-Up Mushrooms were could use that mid-game to stock up. introduced warp zones (along with almost everything else Mario-related) to help you preserve your finite lives for the harder stages by skipping most of the still-challenging mid-game.

3 or challenging the confusing halls of Super Mario Bros.'s World 8-4, every subsequent Mario game offered ways to mitigate this difficulty curve as well: As every Mario game will slowly escalate the difficulty until you're passing through the intense vehicle stages of Super Mario Bros. What's incredible about the 'you need this many gewgaws to continue' system is how it alleviates late-game trauma. It's an option now with a free-roaming camera, but perhaps not a recommended one. Additionally, both courses make excellent use of the vertiginous feelings possible with the 3D format: it used to be that you couldn't look down. The game ratchets up the difficulty again here, presenting two courses where almost any mis-timed jump will mean a long trip into the abyss.

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This last update entirely covers the top floor of Peach's Castle, where the last two courses and the final encounter with the King of Koopas await.

The final part of our journey through Nintendo's 1996 'starting with a showstopper' N64 launch game Super Mario 64.