What do you think is the most difficult Mario game to 100%?

Marwikedor

Marwikedor

Marwikedor
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And by Mario game I mean of every Mario, Wario, Yoshi, or Donkey Kong game. 100% means 120 stars in SM64 and SMS, for example, 242 in SMG1and2, 101% in Donkey Kong Country and DK64, etc. etc.

There hardest Mario game to 100% (and I have 100%ed all of them) to me is Yoshi's Island.
 
Yoshi's Island DS. Hands down.
 
Baby Luigi said:
Yoshi's Island DS. Hands down.
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Oh crap that is the ONLY mario game I have yet to 100% I was going to a year ago but I cant find the cartridge so I better get a new one somewhere.

Is it [YIDS] even harder than the Super Mario Advance remake of Yoshi's Island which included, among others, Endless World of Yoshi's that the original SNES version didn't?
 
I never played Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island (shameful, huh?), but in Yoshi's Island DS, you have to collect ALL red coins, ALL flowers, and don't let your star meter go down ONCE (or something like that) in ONE play-through of the level
 
Baby Luigi said:
I never played Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island (shameful, huh?), but in Yoshi's Island DS, you have to collect ALL red coins, ALL flowers, and don't let your star meter go down ONCE (or something like that) in ONE play-through of the level
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Since you have to do ALL THOSE THINGS in Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island, it doesn't answer my question as to which of those two games is harder to 100%.
 
Don't ask someone who's never played the original Yoshi's Island :-\
 
Is it [YIDS] even harder than the Super Mario Advance remake of Yoshi's Island which included, among others, Endless World of Yoshi's that the original SNES version didn't?
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Unlike the original, you can't win items from the bonus games so you can't, say, use a 10 stars panel if you got hit during a boss battle.



The Yoshi Egg Quest in Super Mario Advance takes the cake IMO, if only for the sheer inanity of it.
 
The Yoshi egg thing is daunting at first but around world 3 or 4 you start getting a sense for where they're hidden. It didn't give me too much trouble.

100%-ing Yoshi's Island on the other hand requires completion of Endless World of Yoshis.
 
Herr Shyguy said:
The Yoshi egg thing is daunting at first but around world 3 or 4 you start getting a sense for where they're hidden. It didn't give me too much trouble.

100%-ing Yoshi's Island on the other hand requires completion of Endless World of Yoshis.
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Yeah that's right Endless World of Yoshi's was a nightmare but it only took me a day or two. Since the original SNES didn't have the six cruel secret stages like EWOY, it is far easier to 100% (I know this and I have never 100%ed the original SNES version, but I know for a fact I could and it would be much easier. It's like beating a huge weight lifer at arm wrestling and then telling that guy he can't beat a skinny nerd who has never lifted weights).

But it was mentioned you cant use star panels on bosses in YIDS. I know, atleast in the GBA version of Yoshis Island, you couldnt either (although you could use the star panels ANYWHERE ELSE), you have to suicide yoshi and start again with the boss from the Middle Ring
 
At least Yoshi's Island DS gives your lives out like candy. Not sure about Super Mario World 2, though.
 
The Yoshi's Island games truly are the toughest to get 100% in, since that means finding all red coins and flowers without taking any damage in boss fights.