Postby HeroLinik » Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:04 pm
As well as having good level design (which do not always have to be nonlinear and have slope spam) the story needs to be maintained throughout. I've seen a lot of SMBX episodes with a cool story about something like Bowser kidnapping Peach and stealing the Star Rod in order to wreak havoc over the Mushroom Kingdom but by world 4 this idea gets lost completely and it plays like the standard Bowser kidnapping Peach episode.