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Thursday 18 January, 2007
I've actually never sat down and played this game (back in the day, I owned a PS1), but its status in the world of 3-D gaming is supposedly legendary. I played through 2 levels in this sitting, and I think the linear level design (a series of platforms, climbing a tower to fight an oversized boss character) was a particularly successfully executed aspect of the gameplay. The controls are responsive enough, albeit simplistic. The graphics were probably mind-bogglingly amazing for their time; I was somewhat bemused by the grandiose self-exaltation of what now seem like simplistic graphics. The one thing that I felt frustrated with was the difficultly of lining Mario up to read signs in an effecient manner (I spend an extra 5-10 seconds each time attempting to reposition him). I was also somewhat miffed by the camera controls. These problems were fairly minor and I look forward to "doing more homework" (as I explained to my housemates when asked).
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