SR2 Night of Doom - Course 9: Mysterious Snow Castle, Star 3 (No Savestates)

Jun 24, 2019

Star Revenge 2: Night of Doom is a Super Mario 64 hack created by BroDute. In this video, I complete the red coin star of course 9 without savestates.

Alright, let's talk about what an unexpected nightmare this star turned out to be for me, taking 5 hours of attempts. First of all, there's the coin in the room with the invisible floors. Surprisingly, this wasn't even one of the top 3 things that gave me the most trouble with this star, it might not even be in the top 5 worst parts of this star! Sure, it's annoying and dumb and, in my opinion, a poor level design choice, but I had a pretty decent success rate with it.

Now, onto the horrors of this star. I collected all 12 red coins, spawned the star, and died on my way to retrieve it... four times. Two times, I died from failing to properly line up the heave-ho at 19:30 to get me back up. For this reason, I actually dislike the last coin's location a lot more than the invisible floor coin (even though that coin still sucks). My other two deaths after spawning the star were even more agonizing. I died twice in the same spot climbing the thin ledges along near the start of the level. They aren't even that hard, yet this form of choking occurred TWICE.

To make things even more agonizing, during the first of my two chokes on an easy jump near the very end of the level, I had a GREAT run of the star. I got through the level a lot more efficiently than I did in this video. In this video, I get stuck in the hexagonal lava-bouncing room for TEN FREAKING MINUTES. In the aforementioned choke, I got through the lava-bouncing sequence ON MY FIRST TRY. This is why even after getting the star, some of the disappointment still lingers and it feels like a bit of a hollow victory. The length of my recording of this star could've potentially been half of what it is.

That lava-bouncing room initially didn't cause me much trouble, I'd usually get through it in one or a few tries. But at some point, it just became difficult for me for some reason and I was continually getting stuck in that room for 5+ minutes. And of course it was just my luck, that on my one successful attempt, I got stuck in that room longer than any other attempt. This star has left a bitter and frustrating taste in my mouth even after beating it. But the ultimate goal is to complete Night of Doom savestateless and even if my work isn't always pretty, this still takes me one step closer to it.

Also, at least in my run of secrets + 100 coins (which will be uploaded soon in a video with the rest of the other stars in this level) I managed to get through the lava-bouncing room on my first try.