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There was definitely some situations where it was better to punch than to just jump on enemies. Each 3D Mario game adds something new to attack with outside of jumping. While it's efficient it's not as reliable as in a 2D space or when there are multiple enemies around you. I found it more threatening when you were in the castles or airships especially in Mario World. The music was more threatening too. I think that did the void idea better in Mario Galaxy where it was in a dark area of space and black holes where everywhere if you fell. Felt like Bowser went all out there. You're right on spacing things out when making a video you have to play through it faster than normal, but I accounted for that near the end of the video. It took me a full year to get every star when I first played the DS version. That was after exploring all I could I try not to rush, but alot of those annoyances are there even when taking your time, but if I wasn't making a video I would just cherry pick my fav missions and play them are then complete the others later. Like I said in the video I think what the game did was more than just make 3D fun there were plenty of games by then that did, but to me it was the first to truly use the 3D space to design 3D objectives that could not be done in 2D or wasn't just translated from 2D. That is important. Also I don't know what you mean in the last sentence if you are talking about difficulty then I get it I played alot of those games from back then and they were hard especially Crash Bandicoot, but I always surpassed the challenge infact I enjoy it. I only complain when something is annoying or poorly designed and that's how I would describe Mario 64 are the times that it starts to falter. It was never really hard to me atleast as an adult, but unlike something like Crash where a bad level is just a bad level in Mario 64 you still have other areas of that level to explore even if the missions are trash for it. Wet Dry World sucks in both it's missions and most of the level, but that town area was so cool to me I would go back to it. You can't say that for the bridge levels of Crash Bandicoot for instance.

Thanks I got more content on the way. I plan to continue to cover all types of games!

Funnily enough, it's one of the rare games perfectly fit for a left handed person using a simple stylus. Still, there is still an annoying problem with the touch control: if your stylus pushes past the boundary of the analog circle, the circle will move with you, and will follow you to the screen's edge, often going further and preventing you from going in that same direction fullspeed until you lift your stylus and go back to the center, if you don't want to 180°. If the circle always stayed near the middle, i think it would have felt better.

I don't think I went indepth with the touch controls much, but I do remember being able to do that. However when I got the game when I was younger it did not come with a strap infact this is the first I heard of it. Personally I don't think the controls are that bad with the accommodations they made. Mostly because I think the later Mario games were less stiff than 64 so going back to it and then playing DS I was already used to how it played. Plus I'm not a speedrunner so I don't know all of the tech you could only do on N64 outside of the backwards stair jump.

@@Martyste I never relied on the stylus much outside of just messing around. I'm right handed so it always felt awkward. I had a hard time using touch controls in later action games from Nintendo like Kid Icarus Uprising so I'd always find an alternative control scheme. The touch screen is great for the mini games though.

I think the game is held up by it's strong and fun gameplay. It maybe lacking some features of some modern games, but it's blueprint led to games like Odyssey being released. So if you like that game you'd probably like 64 too. I love Odyssey and the other 3D Mario titles so even if I would rank this game lower than some of them I still find enjoyment in it.

I can get what you mean it's the same reason I love Crash Bandicoot so much, but think there is a way to do both like in those games. Some of the levels like Tick Tock Clock or Tall Tall Mountain aren't bad, but the missions have you repeating segments of a linear level. It'd be like if they made you repeat stages again and again for one of the worlds in Mario World. I know they do it to get you on an alternate path, but you usually only have to do it once for that level. I think the themes don't have to restrict the design like you can get away with stuff in Rainbow Ride because it's a magical place in the sky, but when there is a void or a level cut off it takes me out of the experience. I get what you mean though because of all the platformers I think Mario is the purest and by that I mean it mainly focuses on platforming. Alot of platformers have platforming, but aren't reliant on it as much as Mario so the entertainment comes from overcoming those obstacle courses with Mario's abilities. I just think both can work together in 3D. Mario Galaxy to me does this the best.

Yeah the only game in that montage that came out before was Jumping Flash. That section was mostly a little joke on the games that came out before or near it. I still tried to use games that came out at the same time or before especially Crash since it was like it's direct competitor. I also don't think any of those games had enough time to really take from Mario 64. Now after especially in 1998 you could tell games were being inspired by it.

I feel stupid not knowing this because I always used the canon in that mission even when I was little. The later missions make the canon easier to use, but I always find a way to miscalculate the first shot which is all on me😅.

Thanks I have playlist of my old videos. It take a while to put certain videos out, but I am working on more right now for the future.

Yessir I got more on the way

Yes man to this day I still struggle with the old Tomb Raiders. I love playing them, but they feel so awkward to control. At the time Mario controlled the best.

My Dad was only interested in realistic styled games not sure if yours was the same, but he's rather play a bad one like that than play Mario or Sonic with me 😂. It worked out in the end because he put me on GTA and Red Dead even though my Mom hated it.

Thanks this one is my most successful one in terms of how fast it got views, so I'm hopeful I can keep this momentum. I try to cover a wide variety of games on the channel so hopefully that helps too.

@@jayblastnetwork here is a good idea, if you make the intro smaller (5 seconds or less), a bunch of people wont leave at the intro, just look at how long it is 0:47

@@systolicdrake51 Thanks yea I'm was planning on making a new one already though it might not be done until the video after next

Thanks! Some of that stuff I realized at the last minute I got wrong like the 7 stars I said the wrong thing, also on the 70 stars I thought it was 60 because I remembered only needing half of them. Maybe that was just the ds version because I didn't head to the last area until I got every world's star so I didn't get a message telling me how many stars I needed. I can see what you mean by the paintings, but I still feel even an abstract painted world could be better atleast for Wet Dry World. It's just weird having two areas that feel like they were supposed to be two separate levels mashed into one. Mario tends to design levels on function rather than how it could fit into a world in certain games which is fine for the 2D ones, but 3D I feel you gotta do more. I think the later 3D games fix this even when levels are designed like that in 3D World or Land, but something like the first part of Wet Dry World just takes me out of the experience especially when said functionality feels poorly designed. Now to Doom yeah it technically wasn't full 3D, but I think that game was important to 3D games. I see it as an upgrade to Sega super scaler games like Outrun or Space Harrier. They aren't 3D, but they were made to simulate 3D. In Doom you can't move the camera on the Y axis only the X so there was definitely some limitations to what they could do. Looking back I think Quake would've been a better example. Also thanks for pointing this stuff out I'm prone to messing up sometimes.

@@jayblastnetwork Hey, no worries. Little mistakes can be the most annoying because they're just big enough to give nitpicky shitheads like myself an opening. I completely get where you're coming from on the levels in SM64. It's kind of funny that there is an in-universe justification for the lamer level designs, but the "worlds in paintings" idea was never utilized to its full potential so the lame levels fall particularly flat today. Back in 1996, abstract, usually ugly 3D art composed of hard geometric shapes was more prevalent on TV and trapper keepers alike so those levels didn't look as out of place as they do now. But that kind of art was already on its way out due to things like Toy Story's impact on how people looked at 3D graphics in 1995, so by the time Banjo-Kazooie came out in mid-98, you saw way more environments designed to look like actual environments and fewer chrome spheres next to semi-transparent cones floating over checkerboard plains.

@@theidiotchildren This explains some of the early PS1 games looking the way they do. Some do try to resemble real areas or have them like Jumping Flash, but then the enemies just look weird and abstract atleast in Jumping Flash case. Though it was still hard to tell what certain things were I feel like they got better at creating 3D environments and characters around 1996.

They'll come eventually it's probably my upload schedule which I've been trying to fix.

Yeah it would have been cool if it was added and honestly would be ahead of the competition since no other platformer was doing that at the time outside of a spinoff. I think there is a mod that allows you to play Mario 64 multiplayer, but it's competitive co-op like how 3D World is.

I've never saw it like that, but looking at it again I can see how that makes sense. I still don't get the town hidden in the water though maybe it would be another playset? The towns proportions do look very small so I could see it going along with the toy theme you mentioned. I wish they conveyed it better if that was what they were going for. Still wouldn't like the first part , but I could see what they were trying to do.

Some places I didn't have enough speed to do that. Sometimes I tried but had to settle for a jump. I'm able to do it fine in the future Mario titles though, but I know Mario gains speed faster there.

@@jayblastnetwork you can offset the angle of the u turn jump and get it from 180 to 90 to even 0. You go in a direction flip the joystick 180 and while Mario is doing the animation you slide the joystick in the direction you want to jump, try it it simplifies navigating the turning block platforms on ttk by a lot. E.g. you push the joystick forward, flick it backwards and while Mario is doing the animation you slide the joystick to the right, you'll see Mario doing the u turn in the perpendicular axis he was traveling. It also makes possible to climb wet dry land with wall kicks.

It's the instrumental for the ending song of Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction. Here's the link to the full version kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hZxgZ5eGm9SpaI0.htmlsi=Kx8R5wY7STVN_gjY

Jumping Flash was pretty good and there was another one before but I haven't played that one. Jumping Flash is definitely not as good as Mario 64 though nor Crash Bandicoot. I about to sit down and play the old Quake's soon so I'll see how much platforming there is. That's another game I should have included in the video.