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Into the Depths: Super Mario World - Part 1

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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Mario 64

This game really feels like a game that's fundamentally about secrets. And secrets are like ultimate expression of knowledge bas video gaming, like knowledge. That doesn't get better than that if you want to be, you know, skill, performing and, um. I think one element of this is that the game did have so much experimentation,. The systems are a lot more detailed and and deep than i mario three. Like even stuff like how there's four different colors of cupas. They've dfferent behaviors in and out of their shells. It makes a lot more sense to design levels with the knowledge aspect rather than the performance aspect.

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