I know the game's supposed to be difficult, but...

[Sacorguy79]

Can I sum this up in one post?

The game is hardcore, and not an "easy-going" title like most Mario games (the keyword being "most").

Plus, the bugs you find in the game are most common, coding the game is quite a task for the developers, and no one can spot bugs like a fly on the wall (no pun intended).

[Wetwoo]

The game is hardcore, and not an "easy-going" title like most Mario games (the keyword being "most").

Plus, the bugs you find in the game are most common, coding the game is quite a task for the developers, and no one can spot bugs like a fly on the wall (no pun intended).

MKF is no longer a Mario game by a stretch. It's it's own kind of platformer that combines Mario with everything else. If big commercial game companies cannot find and resolve every bug in their multi-million dollar budget games, what makes anyone think that a group of fangame makers working on their free time on a freeware product can do any better?

[Sacorguy79]

I wasn't trying to imply that bug finding was "easier" to do in a freeware product.

[Dnm7boy]

I like that its hard, puts up a bigger challenge and is addicting, no one wants to make a game that they put years into making and it can be beat in a day or less, it actually shows how creative the makers are to put up a challenging game, without it being annoying or unbeatable. And as far as bugs go, its a working pprogress. There havent been any major bugs that have stopped me from completing a stage so no harm done lol 

[Zemik]

I played most of the levels in 0.41 and some of them are just too difficult. Especially the ones in world 6. For 5.0 I've really only touched world 1 and a few outside and the difficulty has gotten better.

On a related note, has anyone here seen the web show Extra Credits? They talk about game design and other topics related to gaming. Down there is a link to the playtesting episode which I think is pretty relevant to the topic.

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/playtesting

[EvilMariobot]

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/playtesting

5:41-5:47 You hearin' this Del?

[SeekerOfAllEquations]

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/playtesting

5:41-5:47 You hearin' this Del?

I'll be honest here, I laughed pretty hard at that line. And that's not only because of Del, it was just hilarious how blunt the guy was about this matter.

[Del]

BUT MY BRAIN JUST WON'T LET ME THINK LIKE A NOOB WITH 4 MISSING FINGERS DOES

[Zemik]

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/playtesting

5:41-5:47 You hearin' this Del?

I'll be honest here, I laughed pretty hard at that line. And that's not only because of Del, it was just hilarious how blunt the guy was about this matter.

That line there was the main reason I posted that video.

[SeekerOfAllEquations]

BUT MY BRAIN JUST WON'T LET ME THINK LIKE A NOOB WITH 4 MISSING FINGERS DOES

Oooh, come on, that was just a joke. The game is just fine right now. As long as the main stages for the first few worlds are at least a bit forgiving, it's alright.

I totally agree that the new generation of gamers needs to learn about the persistence we old-school gamers had to show to play these kinds of games back in the days.

(Too bad I do not have the time to show any persistence right now... Stupid final exams coming up soon...)

[Quantus]

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Hahaha this statement makes us happy that we dropped out of college. Un--fortunately we also only have 7 dollars and 50 cents right now.l 

[Del]

you can't enter levels while you're in the airship, and you can only land on the regular path with no levels on it, you can't land in the secret levels' path