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Quick side note on Sonic 1, not a fan of the stop and go nature of it myself, but I love the small sampling of era thread titles of posters puzzled by how to Sonic, one of the most baffling recurring trends of this forum in recent years. Now in 2020, it's a game I still very much enjoy but as my own preferences changed, I find a lot of the level design feeling sparse, build up without release and the secret exits I loved for allowing me to sneak my way to Bowser's Castle from Vanilla Dome as a kid, are now more curmudgeonly viewed by me as "replaying an entire stage and taking a left instead of a right" more often than not.Īt least I still recall that other perspective, but in its base form, SMW now strikes me as a good game with mechanics not fully explored and an arguable step down from SMB3, something my replay of both this year reconfirmed to me.īless SMM1 and 2 for giving me the chance to take those very mechanics and pleasing visuals/aesthetics and build new stages out of them, there's a reason the kaizo scene bursts from SMW, the game is capable of so much. It's the game that basically took gaming from curiosity to mainstay for me, the nostalgia is relentlessly strong, the role it played just can't be matched by any other title (except oddly, by Stunt Race FX that got me to switch the SNES on in the first place). SMW is a game that now fills me with conflict of sorts. The SMW instruction manual is a nostalgia trip and a half for me, I pored over that at my grandparents back in the day, I took it home with me for a week because I couldn't play the SNES when not there and this was a small solace when I was enraptured by SMW.