Topic: Super Mario Maker 2 Level Sharing

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New Super Luigi U is probably my favourite Super Mario game, so I published a remake of one of its levels:

Remake of Wendy's Thwomp Castle PM2-FD6-QMF

It's definitely speedrun-oriented, level design has been made to be as smooth as possible if you want to hurry.

Now, time for some feedback:

It's really simple, but it's pretty and it's fun, I liked it!

Level design is way too weird/busy/confusing for my taste, with too many sound effects, I gave up in the first level (at the second time we see the sun). The second level has the same problems, but is a bit smoother, I did finish it and gave it a like since the experience was globally positive.

The level looks great and has very good ideas, but a lot of obstacles get you the first time without you being able to see them (the skeleton fish at the beginning, the Spiny), and the part with the fire bars definitely needs a checkpoint just before it.

Honestly, you could just cut everything after the second checkpoint (the part with the troll pipes/doors) and replace it by a neat boss fight, maybe give a little more room/better flow to the rest (the rhythm blocks are a bit tight), and it'd be a fine level. It's already long enough IMHO. Remember Super Mario Maker is more about short experiences. And don't forget to add three 1-UPs in appropriate places, people appreciate them in the endless challenge.

I really enjoyed it! Level design is clear, the challenge is fun, the boss/enemy arenas are well designed, the Zelda inspiration shows but isn't intrusive. Thanks for the fun!

The puzzles are excellently designed and it's very smart to offer different items to use before you enter the puzzles, but if you die during a puzzle (which can happen, messing with the bombs - didn't complete that one, or falling on the Boo circles which you can't see clearly in the ON/OFF puzzle once you're in the air), you don't feel like redoing everything. I beat each puzzle independently except the bomb puzzle and I enjoyed it, gave the level a like.

Maybe a solution could be replacing the keys with pink coins, since checkpoints save pink coins and not keys. You could then put two checkpoints after the other around a pipe to make the save point work.

I was afraid the level would be too aggressive because of the beginning, but it's fine and it's fun.

In case you didn't know: you can lock the scrolling so you don't see the next area if ground/hard blocks cover the entire horizontal or vertical area.

Too chaotic for me, with obstacles that kill you out of nowhere. Being killed by a Goomba falling from the sky isn't fun.

@sjmartin thank you for playing my level, glad you liked it!

I played the intro and the entirety of World 1, and I loved it. I I'm very much into classic Super Mario Bros. design, you may yourself enjoy my own Old School Super Mario series:

Old School Super Mario (Plains)

Old School Super Mario (Cliffs)

Old School Super Mario (Outpost)

Old School Super Mario (Castle)

It may not look like it, but it's actually hard to make classic original Super Mario Bros. levels in Super Mario Maker, because you have to understand how they work, and translate that into Super Mario Maker physics, which are totally different from classic Super Mario Bros. physics.