If nappies do not evolve from what they are now, I fear for my potential children.
I received the most wondrous Parappa the Rapper doll (and Sunny Funny - not to demean her but she's no Parappa) and an added bonus is when it detects my guard is down (I'm not sure if motion-sensitive, but he's next to my keyboard where I tap away, so it's that or audio-sensitive) he shakes his maraca-laden arms.
To make him shake his maraca-laden arms you need to put batteries in first. This was an adventure in itself, as I began to disrobe Parappa I noticed the smallest of screwdrivers was needed to enter into Parappa's back. After one was found, the screw itself was temporarily lost inside Parappa's trousers. I had to attempt to pull the trousers off him to get the screw back and then found it nigh-on impossible to put the trousers back accurately enough for things to look correct, even from a distance. In the end, batteries were placed in, and he shook his funky stuff, and the rattling got a little annoying within minutes. However, it's still a gorgeous little thing. Thanks again, Jess!
I finished Mario 3 at about 3 AM today, with all levels completed. I am content for now. I also did a little retail therapy of my own, acquiring Die Hard (but then selling it to work, so I can rent it out whenever) and The Last Samurai, and also picking up a copy of Prince of Persia for the Gamecube. I'll sell my PS2 version back to the shop later on as a result.
I'm not a bad hoarder. It seems, of the games I currently have, I've more games that I've played for less than an hour than I've completed. Anyway, now to shush. I'm off to Nan's as usual. Back around eleven.
Ah, life is good.
And what's the deal about nappies ya sissy! ;)
Shep: "Big Bertha's gonna get ya."
Geoff: "Not if I jump onto this... DAMN!"
Shep: "Ha! Told you."
Geoff: "Shut up!"
Shep: "Oops, shouldn't have slipped there."
Geoff: "I can get back in time."
Shep: "No you can't."
Geoff: "Ye.... DAMNIT!!"
Shep: [way before Geoff is in any danger whatsoever] "You're dead again."
Geoff: "No, look, all I need to do is climb up here... [slips] DAMNIT ALL TO HELL."
I say it's karma for not having any trouble with the angry sun. I always remember those terrifying me way back when...
I had to use a fire flower and blast Big Bertha at every opportunity to get through the level I believe you're talking of. It's a cleverly-designed level. I respect and despise it in equal measures.
The water world was one of the things that'd prevented me from attempting this completion of every level when I was younger. Those "large evil fishes" who could eat you in one go seemed cruel. Then I saw some of the levels in Sky World, and I wished for the Water World to return very swiftly instead.
Sky World always felt like a pleasant reprieve for me. I mean, how can you say bad things about the world in which you get Kurubo's Shoe, a Tanooki Suit or two and a Hammer Bros. suit (maybe)? I also liked how the level was divided in two, even if the ability to travel between them was fairly pointless. I still did it, dangit -- once you could navigate that castle without losing a life, you could still earn unlimited extra lives that way.
For some reason, the level where you jump on the flying enemies never bothered me. It was kind of novel, too -- enemies that aren't out to hurt you! Kinda like the various helpful species in Super Metroid, right?
Throughout my completion of the game this time through, I never used a Hammer Bros. Suit, so that point's moot. The level divide... it seemed a novel idea, though also a slight pain to traverse, now all the levels bar that are unlocked for playing at any time.
I liked the idea of enemies that weren't meant to hurt you, it was just the fact they moved and other things kept popping up to get in the way, and I was never the best at jumping when I was younger, and the bad memories of that level made me steer clear. For the younger Dean Rivers, a lot of difficult jumps were traversed by jumping as far as possible and getting lucky.