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[Anonymous No.9783263]

Did the devs ever explain why they restricted such a fun and novel power-up to a single, bland stage?

[Anonymous No.9783269]

>>9783263
I'm just guessing they added it last minute and didn't have time to bug test it in the other levels.

[Anonymous No.9783279]

They were stingy with every suit, what is there, like two hammer bros in the entire game?

[Anonymous No.9783283]

They made a whole game based on the concept and people complained that yoshi made the game too easy

[Anonymous No.9783286]

>>9783263
Precursor to their modern design of "this mechanic only appears once in a level"
That said, it did kind of lose its charm now that its in mario maker among some other games

[Anonymous No.9783295]

There are a bunch of pre-made levels in Mario Maker with it. There's a high heel one too, for some japanese reason.

[Anonymous No.9783302]

Mario 3 had a bunch of random shit that rarely appears anywhere. Like the fire hammer bros. You'd think they'd be a regular enemy, but they only appear twice in the game, both in places that are pretty easy to miss.

[Anonymous No.9783315]

Tezuka was a coward

[Anonymous No.9783353]

>>9783263
The rarity gives it a mystical quality. To this day I remember when I was a kid and realized I could get in the boot. I ran upstairs to tell my mom. Then i drew a picture of those dudes who could throw blocks at you. Then everyone clapped etc

[Anonymous No.9783381]

FRIENDLY REMINDER
Goomba's shoe: correct term
Kuribo's shoe: tranny interpretation

[Anonymous No.9783389]

>>9783263
All of the powerups in the game were a load of fun and were a huge part of the games marketing then they barely show up. Except the furry tail they dump on you every other item box.

[Anonymous No.9783398]

>fun
lolwut? it was a shit "power-up"

[Anonymous No.9783489]

NOT SO FAST M*RIO

[Anonymous No.9783527]

>>9783489
>tanooki shoe koopa
what a time to be alive

[Anonymous No.9783539]

>>9783489
BASANDO
the Mario 3 cartoon was kinoplexio

[Anonymous No.9783563]

>>9783489
Best post in thread

[Anonymous No.9783571]

No, Tezuka refuses to answer my calls. We may never truly know why.

[Anonymous No.9783574]

>>9783283
Oh damn, you’re right.

[Anonymous No.9783643]

>>9783279
The manual doesn't say anything about the Hammer Suit. You wouldn't even know it existed unless you found it through dumb luck, was told by a friend, or used a third-party strategy guide.

[Anonymous No.9783652]

It makes the shoe special and the level memorable.

[Anonymous No.9783769]

>>9783263
I simply did not like this dumb boot.

[Anonymous No.9783925]

>>9783283
Yoshi is totally different from the shoe.

[Anonymous No.9784363]

>>9783283
I know you didn’t just call my main man a glorified boot

[Anonymous No.9784679]

>>9783295
>high heel one too, for some japanese reason

[Anonymous No.9784681]

>>9783643
I played the shit out of Mario 3 as a kid and I got really curious about the layout of a level, and discovered the hammer suit by complete accident. Imagine my surprise.

[Anonymous No.9784723]

>>9783643
You can get them from the World 6 Toad houses.

[Anonymous No.9784808]

>>9783283
>yoshi is the same thing as kuriboh's shoe

[Anonymous No.9785079]

>>9783643
Or you know went to world 6 where they hand them out like candy

[Anonymous No.9785374]

>>9783652
the level wasn't very good. of course, they needed to ensure the stage could be completed without the shoe, but a secret or something that was only obtainable with the boot would have been nice.

[Anonymous No.9785475]

>>9785374
There's a hidden 1-up in a pit of Munchers that needs the boot to safely collect, if that counts.

[Anonymous No.9786063]

>>9783263
The 2nd level to have it got cut.

[Anonymous No.9786174]

>>9784723
>>9785079
No one went to world 6. It takes too long to get there playing normally and if you have whistles you'd just skip to 7 and 8 anyway.

[Anonymous No.9786179]

>>9783279
Just checked. Apparently 4. That shit was super OP and it should be rare. Fucks up ghosts and Bowser like you wouldn't believe at the cost of not having a slow fall like with a racoon suit.

[Anonymous No.9787629]

>>9786179
Ducking also blocks fire balls since he has a shell on his back.

[Anonymous No.9787829]

>>9787629
Only the little fireballs spat from Piranha Plants, not anything bigger like Bowser's breath. I don't think there's any practical use for this.

[Anonymous No.9787950]

>>9786174
Would have been nice to employ the hammer suit earlier in the game. Also the Frog suit is basically good for one world since there’s only one or two more water levels in the game after World 3.

[Anonymous No.9788075]

>>9784808
>this image
just why

[Anonymous No.9788084]

>>9786179
There are five, but two of them are RNG from Toad houses.

[Anonymous No.9788090]

>>9787950
just replayed mario 3, honestly, flower suits are better for the water levels, with all the piranha

the better controls of frog suit are not that good to compensate for fireballs

[Anonymous No.9788126]

>>9783527
Also fire.

[Martin Mcgee No.9788138]

>>9788090
this. the only level that benefits the frog suit is the auto-scrolling stage in pipe land, and by that point, most people have blown thru their frog suit inventory.<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

[Anonymous No.9788139]

>>9788126
bowser already possesses fire ability so it isn't notable

[Anonymous No.9788142]

What if the shoe had a tongue?

[Anonymous No.9788151]

>>9788139
Yeah but he's orange.

[Tommy Dodson No.9789318]

>>9788139
Ackshually, DiC's King Koopa never once demonstrates the ability to breathe fire naturally.<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

[Anonymous No.9789880]

>>9788142
Shoes have tongues

[Anonymous No.9789972]

>>9789880

[Anonymous No.9789998]

>>9789972

[Anonymous No.9790030]

>>9789998
Wait, what the fuck?

[Anonymous No.9790047]

Kuribo's Shoe is more of a boot, innit?

[Anonymous No.9790054]

Who rides a shoe, honestly?

[Anonymous No.9790081]

>>9783381
Kuribo is just the Jap name for Goombas so it's really weird that they made such a stupid mistake

[Anonymous No.9790176]

>>9783925
Though they always said they wanted to make Yoshi but couldn't make it work on the NES, so I imagine the boot is a failed attempt at inventing Yoshi.

[Anonymous No.9790204]

>>9790054
Haha, I got the reference. Very good anon, sensible chuckle.

[Anonymous No.9790294]

Well it's in Mario Maker now finally so you can play an endless amount of good levels with the shoe.

[Anonymous No.9790321]

>>9783279
you gotta try SMB3 with the game genie codes for perma-flying and perma-hammer bros

[Anonymous No.9791293]

>>9790294
fuck that noise
the drop shadows in mario maker are unacceptable

[Anonymous No.9791312]

Because that's partly what made it cool, it was a little thing that made the level stand out. Occasional, novel experiences are what help make the game memorable. That said, yeah, there's a good chance it was meant for more than one level at some point in development, but for whatever reason the other levels which featured it were cut or had the shoe removed for making the level too easy or generally not geling with the layout.

[Anonymous No.9791315]

>>9791293
I think they look very stylish

[Anonymous No.9791330]

>>9783283
This makes sense and I hate it.

[Anonymous No.9792078]

>>9783643
Hello obvious zoomer who was clearly not alive in the golden age of NES gaming.

[Anonymous No.9792080]

>>9783283
>people complained
>people
Autistic, friendless losers complained. As a normal kid who played outside and had friends, SMW's difficulty or lack thereof was never a detriment to endless amount of FUN it offered.

[Anonymous No.9792146]

>>9789880
Way to ruin my meta joke

[Anonymous No.9792260]

>>9792080
>As a normal kid who played outside and had friends
was none of those things and still haad fun with SMW.