/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5815543
Fun.

>>5815543
coins restore health

>>5815543
Soul

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO COLLECT THEM THEN DON'T
>>5815549
>also it's This.

>>5815543
Why are there no windows in that castle?

>>5815548
fpbp

>>5815543
Handholding

>>5815732
How do you figure?

To teach players you can climb ledges, I assume.

If you exit a level from the pause menu your health is not restored. The coins are to heal you if you escape in bad shape.

>>5815860
Then why not just restore your health automatically when you exit.

>>5815543
I loved when every little detail in a videogame could hint to some hidden secret, like L is Real 2401.
I miss childhood imagination.

>>5815862
Because it's like 5 seconds of effort. I actually enjoy having a tiny bit of work to heal, but I also enjoy things having a bit more challenge.

>>5815862
Nintendo was good for teaching players mechanics. Besides there needs to be somewhat of a challenge and not being healed was a tad bit of an extra one.

>>5815862
I don't know, I didn't make the game.

>>5815889
>>5815890
>>5815898
So in other words you have no answer and therefore can't say for sure that they placed coins on a ledge to heal with if you escaped a level by the pause menu instead of just automatically healing you.

>>5815925
Sometimes it just exists because the devs thought it would be a nice addition. Maybe there was no intention at all.

Realistically, it's a non-issue and you might want to take stock of your life choices, friend.

>>5815543
it gave you purpose

This thread is now about useless items in games

>>5815543
It refills your life. If Mario incurs damage to his life bar, even if he gets a star and completes a stage, his life bar isn't restored. When you complete a normal stage this way you return to inside the castle, so it's the fastest way to refill life and also helps beginners who aren't necessarily aware that the water outdoors also refills your life.

>>5815984
No, that's incorrect, getting stars fully heal you

>>5815971

>>5816181
its use is fun (:

You can hurt yourself jumping from the top of the stairs

The coins are your means of healing yourself

>>5815543
Peach showboating.

>>5815862
If you want to always have full health than just full on cheat and get a game shark...dilweed

>>5815927
Wtf are you on about? The point I proved is that people don't know for sure.
>>5816286
I never said I wanted to have full life all the time. I said 'people don't know but seem to be trying to state their guesses as facts', and I was proven correct.

To show their wealth to a lowly working class plumber

>>5816448
Kek
I'm a plumber and we always try to make rich people pay through the nose
when you talk to a trophy wife it's too easy to upsell a $500 job into a $4000 one that only takes a couple hours of labor

>>5815543
What about the ones under the castle bridge? Those ones you cant even get, just look at. What the fuck were they thinking?

>>5816231

I like that

"Here's some free coins, free for anyone to take! Don't worry. there's PLENTY more where those came from!"

And then there's a little Toad servant whose job it is to refill them whenever they got taken when nobody is in the foyer.

>>5816316
We're *literally stating what the purpose of coins being there are, even if there's a singular one the developers intended, they're all true.
>If you exit the level via pause menu you don't heal
>When you see the coins you may be enticed to learn you can grab ledges
>>5816515
>That is one of several secret 1up's

>>5815674
there are you just don't see them because of hte angle

>>5816515
git gud. You can easily wall jump and grab those coins

>>5816515
>Those ones you can't even get
Unironically git gud. If I could get them at like 7 years old you can figure it out.

>yfw you punch a butterfly

>>5817305
>Another secret 1up

>>5815971
There's a key in the final room of Link's Awakening's Key Cavern. No matter how you play Key Cavern, you will always finish with 1 extra key.

>>5817810
Something about if it didn't exist then the dungeon would be unplayable. I wonder if it's possible to finish with zero keys, just leave it behind when you notice you're going to acquire the extra key.

>>5816231
Kek

collect 100 coins around the castle for the 121st star

>>5816557
your wrong

>>5818725
What about My Wrong?

>>5815890
Semi related note, I've heard about how the first screen of 1-1 in SMB is supposed to intuitively teach the player the mechanics in this brilliant way but if you stay on the title screen a few seconds a movie starts playing that shows you exactly what to do

>>5816515
hee hee hee

>>5818727
teh windows r a lie XD

>>5815543
It's probably to get players to jump around more and/or teach them what coins do

>>5819256
New players can learn to time jumps for precision, you can reach that ledge with a second jump.

>>5815543
To teach players to that there are more ways to get somewhere than the obvious way, and also to liven up the hall.

>>5816475
They don't even have to be trophy wives. You could do this to my wife no problem.

>>5818730
And for people that don't wait a few seconds, it teaches you on the job. Always error proof for idiots.

>>5818730
It's attract mode like in the arcades, because all game designers at the time were arcade game designers first and foremost and Nintendo was an arcade game company until the NES. "Attract mode" is when the game automatically plays a scripted sequence to show what gameplay is like. Most 8-bit and even 16-bit era games had it. Today games normally play a CG movie if you dally too long on the title screen, which is a sort of evolution of attract mode.

Meanwhile, yes, the SMB's 1-1 teaches mecahnics to players. The enemy forces you to jump. The blocks spawn coins and then a mushroom. First there are pipes to jum over, but the space between them is safe. Then there are pipes to jump over with a pit between them. A fire flower. Finally, the ladder up shows that jumping at the top of the pole is good for you. Right away, 1-2 makes you put all this knowledge to the test. It's purposeful and clever design, solid as they get.

>>5816515
it's a scientology reference

>>5815971
>>5815971
Blood

>>5815674
Because its nintendo, not microsoft, ba dum tiss.

>>5815548
Yes! God damn that was what was going through my mind before I even opened the thread.

Just think how more sterile that space would be without those coins. Little details, big payoff.

>>5823086
Don't know if you're being sarcastic but I agree, the coins and the ledge do carry a degree of entertainment.

>>5815543
Probably aesthetics. That said I used to get hurt from jumping around while trying to find secrets so the heal there was handy.