/vr/ - Retro Games

Can we have a thread about SMB2J / Lost Levels?

I beat the All-Stars version (inb4 wimp) today and the level design blew me away. Sometimes I found it borderline hilarious what they expected of you for certain jumps or how far you were meant to make it without taking a hit. It's cruel, but it's so well done how many things they thought of.

It pissed me off, but the Invisible Poison Mushroom Blocks™ placed right where you WOULD try to jump over Hammer Bros. in 8-3 was pretty brilliant.

You better believed I had a Game Over on the stairs in 8-4. The ones you start at.

After I beat the game, I saw a map in 1-2 of where the FORWARD warps are hidden. Mind blown. It's just so awesome that this is an official Nintendo game and not some romhack. This shit is real.

All this is coming from someone who just recently gave a shit about this game, and playing every level of it (and the original, which I also found quite engrossing but not as much as this one).

Anyone else think this game is brilliant? Have you beaten the FDS version?