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I'm not sure if many here are aware but there is a huge community of Mario Maker players dedicated to beat every single level. With the announcement of Wii U servers shutting down April 8th, there has been a huge push to clear every level and at the time of writing this, it's just less than 300 levels left.
This might not be the biggest clear yet but it has one of the best stories. Celeste player 0815Ryan was following the 0% progress a while back while he was sick and wanted to contribute, but he had never really played Mario and there's basically no easy levels left at this point. But a level caught his eye: "hardest skull level (175 blue)". Why? Well, it's super straight forward: you do the same thing over and over again. Swim down to a blue skull, jump, rinse and repeat. 175 times. Two problems tho: you only have a 2 frame window to jump. And there is time pressure, so you can't take your time.
This is what is called a "consistency level" and the maker of the level, zun, has specialized in water precision levels. Out of the 300 levels left, zun had 3 of them, meaning it was 1% of all the unbeaten levels in the game. He has also been able to protect the country of Spain from defeat: the community has focused on beating every single level from all countries and now there are only 3 left: Japan, Spain and Canada. With this clear, Spain has two left (both Zun) and Canada has one outrageous level left, that might survive for quite some time.
So Ryan decided to give it a go. He bought a copy of Mario Maker on eBay and got to work. Over the past 10 days or so Ryan has spent close to 50 hours grinding the level, and getting better and better. His consistency kept improving, and he made it close to the end several times, doing the same thing over and over. But just a little while back, he finally pulled it off:
With this he has finally beaten a level in Mario Maker! Might be his first and last.
I just thought it was a cool story and wanted to share. Also, following the 0% team is amazingly fun and I'd recommend everybody to try and follow it this final month ahead of the servers closing. I have no doubt they will reach completion!
This might not be the biggest clear yet but it has one of the best stories. Celeste player 0815Ryan was following the 0% progress a while back while he was sick and wanted to contribute, but he had never really played Mario and there's basically no easy levels left at this point. But a level caught his eye: "hardest skull level (175 blue)". Why? Well, it's super straight forward: you do the same thing over and over again. Swim down to a blue skull, jump, rinse and repeat. 175 times. Two problems tho: you only have a 2 frame window to jump. And there is time pressure, so you can't take your time.
This is what is called a "consistency level" and the maker of the level, zun, has specialized in water precision levels. Out of the 300 levels left, zun had 3 of them, meaning it was 1% of all the unbeaten levels in the game. He has also been able to protect the country of Spain from defeat: the community has focused on beating every single level from all countries and now there are only 3 left: Japan, Spain and Canada. With this clear, Spain has two left (both Zun) and Canada has one outrageous level left, that might survive for quite some time.
So Ryan decided to give it a go. He bought a copy of Mario Maker on eBay and got to work. Over the past 10 days or so Ryan has spent close to 50 hours grinding the level, and getting better and better. His consistency kept improving, and he made it close to the end several times, doing the same thing over and over. But just a little while back, he finally pulled it off:
With this he has finally beaten a level in Mario Maker! Might be his first and last.
I just thought it was a cool story and wanted to share. Also, following the 0% team is amazingly fun and I'd recommend everybody to try and follow it this final month ahead of the servers closing. I have no doubt they will reach completion!
