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> platforming game
> you play it every morning
> one morning you randomly decide to go left instead of naturally going right
> turns out you can actually go left for a bit and get something

Blew up my 9-year old mind.
What platforming games reward you for going the opposite way?

>> No.10304810

DKC games hide collectable items this way sometimes. The other example that immediately comes to mind is Monkey Ball - I know at least one of the first two games occasionally hides a shortcut behind a course's starting position. (I know Monkey Ball isn't normally considered a "platformer" but come on it's nothing but platforms.)

>> No.10304817

>reach the end goal
>you can keep going for a while
DKC 3 has a good example of this

>> No.10304823

>>10304802
kirby 64

>> No.10304879

>>10304802
Metroid teaches you that going left is an option by putting the morph ball there, which is required to progress, since if you immediately go right you'll hit a wall.

>> No.10304881

Mega Man X2 hides a heart tank inside the left wall in Wire Sponge's stage.

>> No.10304903

mega man 4 has a 1up to the left of cossack 1's start hidden in the snow.

>> No.10305779
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>>10304802

>> No.10307692

>>10304802
sonic 1 8 bit

>> No.10309129

>>10304802
It's not a platformer, but Crazy Taxi has four hidden "bonus customers" who give way more money than normal. If you reverse at the start of the game instead of driving forward, you'll find one of them.

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>>10307692
I think it was Bridge Zone Act 3... were there any more in this title or other Sonic ones? I can't remember it well...

>> No.10310632
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>>10304802
I always felt like a genious when I found stuff like this out... but I also feel like an idiot every time I attempt it and just ram into a wall...

>> No.10310660

You can skip the first area in James Pond 2 by doing this.

>> No.10312174

>>10310130
Well, 3D Blast can kinda count since levels are freeroam-ish.

>> No.10312178

>>10310632
>but I also feel like an idiot every time I attempt it and just ram into a wall...

You know, it took me about 25 years to find some secrets in NES DuckTales.
I've played the game like 100 times before, imagine my surprise.

Making wild guesses and checking out if its real is great part of old gaming fun. And you double your fun if it actually real, so think about it as of intellectual gambling.

>> No.10312197

>>10305779
Pitfall Rambo

>> No.10313675

>>10312178
Well... you have a good point there, exploring is always a fun time, finding things out, discovering stuff, and that involves ramming into things too, sometimes you'll get nothing, and maybe you do feel a little dumb like I do sometimes, but other times you might find something special, you're right, anon.

>> No.10315580

>>10304802
I know this is such a simple thing... and yet I love it and find it so charming when a game does it. I wish it was a little more common.

>> No.10316026
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Mega Man 4, there's a pit most players wouldn't go into which leads to an obscure bonus item

>> No.10316963

>>10316026
i found that one by accident the first time
i think they put it close to the left of the screen intentionally

>> No.10317624

>>10304802
This game is pure dog shit compared to the SNES game (an actual platformer, not a shitty crouch simulator). It even looks like dog shit and nothing like the movie

Point me to sunflower yellow sand in the movie

>> No.10318853

>>10317624
>It even looks like dog shit and nothing like the movie
It was literally animated by Disney's animators to look just like the movie...

>> No.10320407

>>10317624
>SNES fags are still seething 30 years later.

>> No.10320449

In WarioLand 2 if you simply don't get out of bed at the start of the game you can do an entire set of otherwise inaccessible levels that eventually ends in the completion of the game.

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>>10317624
First scene, lmao

>> No.10322092

>>10322058
SNESfag BTFO

>> No.10324312

>>10322092
Kek