Of course as someone mentioned in the replies, the tilting iron platforms are also present in NSMBW in W8-3. Some of em had to slip through the cracks somehow! If there are any other inconsistencies or mechanics that you think should have or not have counted, feel free to reply in this thread and I might also reply with an explanation if there are any lol

im glad to see these games get discussed other than “haha its the same game again” because these games actually do have unique ideas to them

Snailicorns specifically never left my mind as they're such a unique and memorable design for something they NEVER used again.

would've rioted if cork wasn't s-tier

4:06 2-4 is also the only level where Paragoombas appear. There are just those two in the whole game.

As a kid, I thought that MC Ballyhoo from Mario Party 8 was a Blockhopper that decided to dress fancy instead of being a block.

15:53 "I don't know why it does that but that's very cool" sums up the game perfectly, at least to me.

In addition to the levels, I've always felt the Blue Shell is an incredibly underrated power-up. The Mega Mushroom stole a lot of the spotlight, but the Blue Shell is like a superior version of the SMB3 suits: It gives you superior swimming, immunity to contact damage and fireballs while crouching, and shell dashing is so incredibly fun. I once tried to determine how many stages you could shell dash through from beginning to end, as well as try to beat all possible bosses strictly with shell dashing. It's such a fun power-up that, unlike all of the flight power-ups out there, still forces you to engage with the level design and layouts, but vastly changes up how you play.

Imagine if we could get a Blockhopper as a partner character in a new Paper Mario? Imagine, like, a seemingly empty town full of brick blocks everywhere, the nearby villages believed that this town was abandoned when suddenly- You discover that it’s quite the contrary- it’s populated by tons of Blockhopper folk! :D

“This kickstarted someone's feti- A tier!”

The SomeCallMeJohnny reference at 8:35 was hilarious! Nice one dude

I’d love to see you do this with SMA4’s World-E gimmicks, they feel very much like the spiritual predecessors to NSMB’s style of wacky gimmicks.

This game is honestly one of NIntendo's greatest of all time. Sooooo glad to have grown up with this

Finally, someone made a video about the unique aspects of this game. I'm glad that NSMBDS has been finally getting the credit it deserves and isn't just being lumped in with the rest of the NSMB games.

I think if they make another NSMB, they should have Koopalings make an appearance in the miniboss towers, and original bosses appear in the boss castles. IMO it would be the perfect balance between recurring minibosses and original bosses, even the original NSMB is guilty of overusing Bowser jr for every tower.

5:59 The change from hurting you out of nowhere to only hurting you when stepping on you is also a plus.

THE BUZZY BEETLE DESERVED BETTER and glad i could give a hand with this!!!

Glad to see people talk about this game The cork is funny and I like the blocks attached to strings for some reason

The tilting iron platforms were also in NSMBW in 8-3

And Happy New Soup to you too! 🍲

Actually quite a few of the new enemy designs in this game feel like they'd be right at home in the Paper Mario series, and clearly Sticker Star was able to use some like the Snow Spike, so why the hell did it not make use of more of the wacky designs from this game?

8:36 love the somecallmejohnny reference

"We need a new 2D Mario with weird gimmicks" SMB Wonder: "Allow me to introduce myself"

When you mentioned hammer bros only naturally appearing in 2-4, I was about to object due to the level chock full of those enemies in 8-7; but as it turns out, there aren't actually any hammer bros in that stage; only fire bros, boomerang bros, and sledge bros

the arrow platform at around 15:20 reminds me of the arrow platform in mario 64's hazy maze cave

New intro, funny New Soup throwback, AND a Johnny reference? Yeah, this year started off great.

Maaan, I was so prepared for the Piranha on the Cork to fly into Nova, the way the video set the scene up

Loved the mention of scripulous fingore. I hope that he is brought back in the next 2d Mario game!

I was literally just talking about these levels the other day. See, stuff like this is what made the original NSMB much more memorable to me.

The bendy pipes were a very cool feature that was used in a couple levels. You get into them, expecting to be shot straight up, but then they bend slightly, or sometimes massively, and you get chot in that direction with a proper arc and everything

“Masquerade Block Killer” is such a awesome name for the block hoppers.

8:40 Gotta say, love the somecallmejohnny reference Great video! Glad someone finally mentioned the original things from the orginal nsmb instead of lumping it with the rest of them

I'm glad this game is being talked about more. Its got so many unique mechanics that STILL haven't made it into other games.

First ZoomZike now this? New Super Mario Bros eating good these past few days

Within the mario universe, I always considered gravity changing to be a whoa zone mechanic. It combines well with some of the cooler aspects of Super Paper Mario.

The platform in 8-6 are a reference to the original Mario Bros because the main enemy in that level are spiny, and that's what the turtles are replaced with in the Gameboy ports

The parts that really made laugh like an idiot were the unagi with that cool chair spin and the haunted platform representated by an actual piano falling out the window.I always called it candy platform because of the colors,but it's nice to kniw the official name

How is it I barely remembered most of these? Thank you so much for reminding me of these and making me appreciate this game again!

Please make more of these videos, the tier list was the cherry on top. Nobody makes videos talking about Mario's unique level mechanics in depth. (you could even expand to other franchises, MAKE THIS A THING!)

13:34 Don't those also appear in New Wii with a nifty 3D effect too?

The (as the Mario Encyclopedia calls them) "Mario Bros. platforms" do reappears in the NSMB series (Sumo Bros levels) The titlting iron platforms re-appears in NSMBW's World 8 and NSMBU's Iggy's fortress

I think it's a good opportunity to say that, excluding NSMBU's switch release and the Mario Maker games, it's going to be 10 years this year since NSMBU released and no other original 2D mario games came out after that. If you count New Super Luigi U, it would be 9 years.

12:27 not even the haunted piano was safe from that cursed platform

I will never understand why people don’t think the NSMB games have any distinct features. They’re not the same, and the DS entry is solid prof of that. One of my favourite thing is the new enemies. Some have come back a few times but quite a lot haven’t returned. The bosses are also great, being a simple advancement of a regular enemy but with distinct battle gimmick.

I really dig your video style and the way you incorporate you humor in it🙌😂

This video is like EXACTLY what I was looking for. I always randomly think about these weird one off mechanics from this game so it’s cool to see a video cataloging them!

I really liked Spike Bass's appearance. It's more interesting than Porcupuffer.

Nintendo should make a little Moneybag coin purse, I'd buy that in a heartbeat

Such a great video idea! Also I loved that Somecallmejohnny reference, pretty funny!

4:18 I always thought that those bars looked like yellow crayons when I was younger.

I really enjoyed this video man. It was fun looking back at these mechanics that I haven’t seen in years. They’re very quirky and nice :)

I never realized that those rotating rooms just teleport mario but frame by frame you can clearly see the point where the shading of the blocks "jumps" also looking in the editor you can see both versions of the sections right next to each other either way that level got me obsessed with rotating levels, which is why I absolutely loved Roiling Roller Isle in Bowsers Fury and want to do something like that in a future custom level

"But wait, the same ghost house also gives us...Scr- *SCRIPULOUS FINGORE-"* That part is hilarious.

Nintendo, if you're watching this, put some of these gimmicks in Super Mario Maker 3. They'd be fun to experiment with.

0:36 that’s me with Kirby’s Return to Dreamland

Hey, a video based on that one tweet you made! Nice work!

That one haunted platform is actually so iconic

That final castle is probably one of the best 2D Mario levels ever.

NSMB DS is my favorite because it feels very unique with all these features that don’t really get used again.

Great vid! I'd love to see you cover the rest of the series

Snow Spike is a really cool variant of Spike who I wish was used a little more often, and those falling wooden blocks in the beach levels I like as they're a thematically relevant take on the donut blocks. Also Moneybags > Coin Coffers.

I feel like you should have definitely included the gimmicks that were unique at the time of its release

just saying, your channel is very awesome!!! i came from your jellycar stream (because im a jellycar fan) but you make nintendo content which i like, so you just earned a subscriber

props for including what music you used. Hate it when people don’t do that

Wow, I barely even remember some of these, it's been so long! This video was a fun way to revisit a game I really enjoyed as a child.

I've literally been thinking that this would be a video I'd want to make for years but I'm glad someone talented actually got to it for realls

And this is why nsmbds is my absolute favourite of the whole new super Mario bros series. It had lots of unique gimmicks that often were refreshing and only were used once so it didn’t get stale.

God whenever he cut to the later games it feels as if they were in black and white compared to the original

12:59 If you think about it... they did reuse this gimmick in Mario Kart Wii. They're red... they hurt... and upside down.

I really enjoy your videos on the forgotten/overlooked/underappreciated parts of Nintendo's history. All of them are insightful and entertaining, and they're always well-researched. If possible, I'd love to see you do a video on the 3DS's StreetPass functionalities, and by extension the SP Mii Plaza. I imagine a lot of people had fun playing the plaza's selection of games (I sure did), but I haven't seen anyone on the internet talk about it in-depth.

I would love to see a video tier listing super mario wonders unique gimmicks, Theres a lot of unique gimmicks too!

Never realized how unique this game is holy shit

This is my first video ive watched from you and the One two three four! Cue from rhythm heaven fever damn-near knocked me out bc of the happy shock

9:58 These actually exist in another 2d Mario Game, In New Super Mario Bros 2, in the secret star world that you get from beating the game in the first level almost identical gates appear around the first half of the level

keep doing videos like this, this is a really awesome topic to cover!!

Bruh this was lowkey a very funny and original video, keep the good work!!

8:39 OMG, I LOVE YOU FOR REFERENCING THAT ONE GUY THAT I WILL NEVER REMEMBER HIS NAME!

As a kid I remember playing that really cool wiggler riding level and telling my friends about it, but they didn't believe me and for some reason, stupid kid stuff, couldn't find it again. I forgot about it till right now. I'm glad I was right cause it's as awesome as I remember.

I'd love to see you cover gimmicks in other Mario games. Cool vid!

This is one of those videos that feels like it was made specifically for me. Love it~

The spike bass is a bit different for the reason that the porcupiffers eat you instead of simply diving/jumping at you, just thought id say

i clicked on this video, listened to the intro and INSTANTLY subscribed, i need to support anyone that knows about rhythm heaven in any way possible lmao also the video is good too

Maybe NSMB is derived because it more or less encouraged Nintendo to just rehash old concepts, but there is something special about the tiny but satisfying, candy colored levels of the original game

The development of NSMB is such a good topic. The massive changes that happened from 1st look to release is amazing. 64 DS may be even cooler because of how much of a different game it would have been. It's been this long and I want to know what the image of all 4 playable characters facing Bowser under the castle in a big empty room.

Loved this game when it came out. Great video!

"And in 4-6 Dorrie becomes a big boy, seriously it's been 5 levels what did you eat" super mushrooms obviously

new super Mario bros was my first mario platformer games and it’s had so many gimmicks that we’ve never seen again, I wish we got to see more of them used in current games

I’m glad to see more talk about some of the suprising unique stuff in DS

Since you talked about balloon boos and Kab-ombs, you should also mention those pumpkin guys in the ghost house in world 8.

If im gonna be honest.. i dont dislike the nsmb style. I get that its more fun to have original and innovative games, but i think that is just hard. They are doing their absolute best on the 3d mario series, and its kind of a miracle that they still go back to 2d. I would love more unique 2d marios, but i think its not really something attainable. I think the best chance for something unique would be 2d galaxy or something, but i would also hate if they trade unique 3d games for unique 2d ones. I know people really want it, but even with how big nintendo is, there is still a limited amount of creative people in charge of thinking up new games. The nsmb series is easier to make because it doesnt require a new movement system for every game, they can just create content and give it to us. Mario maker 3 would be the perfect solution, because that would give us a new outlet for the creative minds of the community, but that is probably still some years away

Imagine if the star killed the giant terrain wiggler, dropping you into the void

The rotating platforms in world 2 castle remind me more of the reznor boss fight in super mario world.

4:10 can we appreciate how expertly he's dodging those hammers, like, damnn.

I'd love to see more videos like this with some of the other games, like goin over that one Starry Night themed level in NSMBU

From the title I thought this was gonna be just a list of all the unique mechanics, and I absolutely was down to watch that, but it's definitely more entertaining as a tier list

I really appreciate the Family Basic gag, wasn't expecting that XD

Hey thx for blowing my ear buds up on the unagi section! Really nice to not have warning!

They really need to bring back the Blue Shell

Also love Bob-ombs, best enemy in the Mario Series! (Bob-omb for Smash!)

I was gonna say that the cork was the best feature and child me loved the cartoonish element that brought, thanks Nintendo!