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Yumetaro wrote:It seems there are a lot of recurring themes in SMBX episodes, what are some that just piss you off?

I get really annoyed when people put a super serious novel-size story in their episodes even though Mario isn't a series known for its story, or when they put in characters that have no reason to be in a Mario game.

Boss Rush episodes are just fucking lazy, I can't even begin to count the copious amount of Boss Rush episodes.

i was making one for a short amount of time

What you describe above is not exactly a trend, it's just a comedic trolling introduced in "A Short Level" of TI2. It barely had any iterations from what I know.

Personally, I think it's the star collectibles/plots. They've been done to death for generations to come.

Really?

Plots are fine in episodes, I'll tell you this, it's better than lazily written "0h my g0sh you goiz da prunecess has b33n captur3d!!1111!11!!!1one!1! collecc da stars to progr3ss becauz magical star barrier do0r th1ngy" (Despite the fact my episode had that. But I'm making a plot based episode next time around.).

And besides, plots are really fun to make, especially heavy plots.

Touhou music. Lol, idk why but it annoys me.

AndrewPixel wrote:Touhou music. Lol, idk why but it annoys me.

Oh. No.

Those songs haunt me.

Generic boss battles

holding back the awesome power-ups

Eureka wrote:Generic boss battles

Oh look, a boss door! I wonder what's behind it?
It's Boom Boom in a 1 screen sized SMB3 dungeon block room with no other hazards or enemies! How original!

The Dwarven Digger wrote:

Eureka wrote:Generic boss battles

Oh look, a boss door! I wonder what's behind it?
It's Boom Boom in a 1 screen sized SMB3 dungeon block room with no other hazards or enemies! How original!

^
I SERIOUSLY wonder how people can play these kind of boring unoriginal episodes over and over again

arcade999 wrote:

The Dwarven Digger wrote:

Eureka wrote:Generic boss battles

Oh look, a boss door! I wonder what's behind it?
It's Boom Boom in a 1 screen sized SMB3 dungeon block room with no other hazards or enemies! How original!

^
I SERIOUSLY wonder how people can play these kind of boring unoriginal episodes over and over again

Perhaps someone really likes Boom Boom. Or they really hate him and want to destroy every single Boom Boom ever created. Either way, someone has some really strong emotions towards Boom Boom.

arcade999 wrote: ^
I SERIOUSLY wonder how people can play these kind of boring unoriginal episodes over and over again

I guess some people just don't care about what they're playing

The creators of such Boom Boom bosses should probably play Boom Boom Evolutions

The Dwarven Digger wrote:

arcade999 wrote:

The Dwarven Digger wrote: Oh look, a boss door! I wonder what's behind it?
It's Boom Boom in a 1 screen sized SMB3 dungeon block room with no other hazards or enemies! How original!

^
I SERIOUSLY wonder how people can play these kind of boring unoriginal episodes over and over again

Perhaps someone really likes Boom Boom. Or they really hate him and want to destroy every single Boom Boom ever created. Either way, someone has some really strong emotions towards Boom Boom.

Apparently @PixelPest likes them a lot .

Cedur wrote:holding back the awesome power-ups

I hold back the tanooki suit and hammer suit because they basically need levels designed around them and most of us don't know how to design levels properly around them so i will never use them for my 2.0 project as its easier to design levels around the normal power ups and also the tanooki suit and hammer suit make most of the levels very easy or in most cases boring.

Eri7 wrote:

Cedur wrote:holding back the awesome power-ups

I hold back the tanooki suit and hammer suit because they basically need levels designed around them and most of us don't know how to design levels properly around them so i will never use them for my 2.0 project as its easier to design levels around the normal power ups and also the tanooki suit and hammer suit make most of the levels very easy or in most cases boring.

You know, in Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii, there is an entire world focused on the hammer suit.
I take Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii as a font of inspiration.

The_Loaf_Lord wrote:

The Dwarven Digger wrote:

arcade999 wrote: ^
I SERIOUSLY wonder how people can play these kind of boring unoriginal episodes over and over again

Perhaps someone really likes Boom Boom. Or they really hate him and want to destroy every single Boom Boom ever created. Either way, someone has some really strong emotions towards Boom Boom.

Apparently @PixelPest likes them a lot .

yeah, but he scripted the fights to make each one unique

I dislike episodes (and levels) that focus too much on being original instead of being fun. I'd prefer both, or fun, but not super original and unfun.

Broken episodes that are broken because you're playing them on a later version than intended so you have to enter the files and change their levels so you can actually beat them.

There are a lot of things that really bug me in episodes, but a lot of them are ones I can't really point out right away. I'll just explain the ones that I recognize and that bug me the most.
1) SMB3 Graphics for everything - I don't mind this for episodes that sprinkle in different game styles in levels or have worlds dedicated to that style of game, but I honestly think more people should try doing other styles. Trying subcon and SMW wouldn't hurt, and can bring some cool ideas along with it.
2) Inconsistent Music - This is super nitpicky, but when a creator of an episode has very contrasting music choices. It wouldn't hurt to try to find music that sound like they belong in the same game. This isn't hard if you're musically inclined, but usually this kind of thing doesn't bug me too much, but this leads me to another thing that really bugs me.
3) Music that just doesn't work in a the atmosphere of the game - This one is hard to explain, but if you have grim orchestral music and you haven't established that atmosphere for your episode, it just feels wrong, and somewhat laughable.

...I wish these things didn't bug me as much as they do, haha.