SUPER MARIO LAND 2

    Alright, so I am not exactly sure how to start off this post, so I will just write what I think, and hopefully this blog post will work itself out. So, first and foremost, since many of you are starting to get to know me. I have been a pretty big gamer most of my life. I started playing games when I was about seven years old (I will get to that later on in time), and somehow the habit never stopped. I mostly played old school beat em up games, fighting games, and RPGs, and of course as I got older, I just continued to play fighting games and RPGs.
   Though I played mostly beat em up, fighting games, and RPGs, I did try out other genres of games of course, and a few of these games were from the Mario franchise of Nintendo. You heard of Mario, right?

   If you haven't played the games, you have heard of him, right?

    Of course you do, everyone and their baby's mama knows who Mario is. If you don't, I have no clue what to tell you except, "WHAT THE FUCK?!". So anyways, I was originally going to say, "Though, I have played the Super Mario games, I have actually never finished one". But looking back on it... actually I kind of did. I finished the Paper Mario series, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, and these other games I never really finished, but basically won at was the Game & Watch Gallery series, Dr. Mario series, the Mario Kart series, the Super Smash Bros. series, and the Mario Party series. But now I can add a new game to that list of completed Mario games, and that game is Super Mario Land 2.

   See growing up, though I played these numerous Super Mario games, but I actually never beat any of the Super Mario platform games, and to be quite honest, I never had any motivation to, because I found them to be really quite hard. But I have seen them been finished before thanks to my oldest brother, Daniel. Daniel is about eight years older than me, so he grew up in the NES, and SNES era. So our bonding time (with me, and all my brothers) was playing video games. Either we played together or we watched someone else play. This was always fun, and though we have all grown up, got jobs, worked, have babies, gone to school, etc. whenever we had that free time to just sit down together, and play, that was our special time. So whenever I wanted to see an old school Mario game be played, Daniel was the one to count on, and he was the one who always got it done.

   Later in time when the new Mario games came out like Super Mario 64 or Super Mario Sunshine, those games were left for my little brother, Ryan. Ryan is about two years younger than me, and he played the Mario games from the N64 era until now. So when Ryan played these games, I usually would just sit back and watch. So once again, if I wanted to see a NEW school Mario game to be played, Ryan was the one to count on, and he was the one who always got it done.

   So how did I... BLAZE... all of a sudden decide to play Super Mario Land 2, and actually finish the game? Well... there is two things that caused this wonderful event to happen. The first one is:

YES, THE SEXY LEG

and

Oh, Nintendo, you!

And this is Mii (lol, get it, like "me"?)

And this is what my Mii looks as of right now.
(She is trying to take a shit, LOL, JK!)

 

 
   YES! YES! LOL! My freakin' fractured tibia, and the Nintendo Miitomo app. For those of you who don't know what Miitomo is, Miitomo is a free social networking app developed by Nintendo for iOS, and Android devices. It lets you converse, dress up, earn coins (coins for Nintendo rewards, and coins to buy clothes for your Mii), answer questions, play little drop games to earn clothes, and accessories for your Mii, and you can link it to your Twitter, and Facebook accounts. Since I usually play my 3DS more than anything right now, you know damn well I got up on this app once it came out. 

   So basically over time, I saved up enough coins to get some stuff from my Nintendo Rewards. I got some accessories for my Mii, and then I got WarioWare: Touched!, and Super Mario Land 2. Let me remind you, I got all those for free. I did not have to pay anything, all I used were my coins from Miitomo. I was originally just saving my coins for WarioWare, but since I had a little extra left over, I decided to get Super Mario Land 2, because... why the hell not?

   It was downloaded, and I had it on my 3DS for a while, but I never attempted to play it until I fractured my tibia. So one day, while I was laying in bed, with nothing really to do, I wanted to play something NEW, something FRESH, something a little different from what I was use to playing. So I thought to myself, "Oh, why the hell not? Just play a level, it wouldn't freaking hurt". Next thing I knew that one level turned into me playing one zone, then after a couple of days, I was doing a zone a day. Then one day, I was just having so much fun, I ending up doing all the rest of the zones, and  I was even searching for all the secret levels, and next thing you know... I collected all of the 6 golden coins, and it was time to face Wario. 

   I couldn't believe I did it all by myself, and I couldn't believe I had the balls to continue. See, with the other Mario platform games when I was younger, I just use to be so scared. I would get nervous about the upcoming challenges, freak out, and then mess up, and have to start over. After a while it got old, and hence why I never beat any of the Mario platform games... until recently. 

   So after I grew my pair of balls, I went to Wario's castle, and decided it was time to kick ass, and chew bubble gum, and I was all out of gum. The last level was hard (as it should be), I died a couple of times, but... BUT... in the end, I did make it, and I did come face to face with Wario.

   Like many of the bosses in the game, Wario was no different, and definitely did give me a challenge. But it was worth it, and in the end, I definitely came out victorious. I remember beating the game, and thinking to myself, "Wow... I did it... I actually freakin' did it. I beat Super Mario Land 2". While the victory was amazing, I was also a little sad, because the adventure had ended. 

   You know growing up, I always wondered why my big bro and my little bro were so attached to Mario and these games. Especially my little bro, Mario is his hero, and holds an incredibly special place in his heart. They could play the games over, and over again (and beat them!), but for whatever reason I could not get into them (but I did enjoy watching them being played).

   But once I beat the game, I think I finally understood why my brothers loved the Mario games so much, and why they loved to replay them, and I also understand why other people do the same. The adventure was just amazing, from the different zones, the different obstacles, the different enemies, the different challenges, the power ups, the fun mini games, etc. It was all just really fun! And to be quite honest, I never thought I was going to have as much fun as I did (and I am not going to lie though, that save point method on the 3DS was super helpful for helping me finish the game).

   In the end, I was bummed it was all over, but I was glad I played the game. I just want to say thank you so much Mario for the adventure. Though it may not really seem like a big deal, this game left a special place in my heart. It has been so long since I had a lot of fun with a video game. Again, thank you so much Mario for the adventure! It was an amazing one! I hope we go on more adventures soon!

'Till we play again!

_BLAZE