Line #18 VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosForLostPlayers


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2	[[caption-width-right:256:Despacito...]]
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4	Thought ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'' wasn't hard enough? Just wait until you see this...
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6	''Super Mario Bros. For Lost Players'' is a 2021 ROM hack of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''. Falling asleep after a hard day's work, Mario finds himself in a dream with both familiar and foreign worlds merging and meshing into one another. Unable to wake up from this odd walk down memory-lane, he must continue advancing forward, wherever it may lead him.
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8	!!This hack contains examples of:
9	* BaitAndSwitchBoss: You would expect to fight Bowser in his clown car with your plane right? [[spoiler:Nope, Kabula from ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'' knocks him out.]]
10	* TheCameo:
11	** All of the worlds have underground bonus rooms with backgrounds in the same style as the ones from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars'', except with Mario/Luigi replaced with a different character from outside the ''Mario'' universe. In order, they are Sonic, Kirby, Mega Man, a Crewmate, Crash Bandicoot, Funky Kong, Gex, and Goku.
12	** Advertising/TheNoid makes a cameo in 4-3 as a UniqueEnemy.
13	* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Kabula from ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'' (with its sprites from ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Ultra'') knocks Bowser out of the sky and challenges you to a fight at the end of World 9-4.]]
14	* GreenHillZone: The trope namer itself appears as the setting for World 1-1.
15	* MeaninglessLives: In the normal mode of this game you have infinite lives.
16	* NintendoHard: Ooh yes.
17	* RatchetScrolling
18	* RiseToTheChallenge: World 8-2 is a vertical level that forces you to navigate up a cavern that's flooding with rising lava.
19	* RecurringBoss: In ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' tradition, Bowser is the game's sole boss. [[spoiler:Except for World 3, where it's Dry Bowser, and World 9, where VideoGame/{{K\|irbysDreamLand}}abula pulls a BaitAndSwitchBoss on Bowser.]]
20	* SaveThePrincess: Though it's [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Princess Prin-Prin]] instead of Peach. [[spoiler:Peach? She was the Bowser of the 8th world, as revealed by killing her with the fire flower.]]
21	* SpiritualSuccessor: To the Japanese ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', known to the rest of the world as ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels''.
22	* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:You never fight the real Bowser at any point in the hack, as the Bowsers in the fortresses are either fakes or Dry Bowser, and then Kabula shows up to usurp the real Bowser's position as the final threat in 9-4.]]
23	* TimeStandsStill: World 9-2 is a giant homage to ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}'' and begins with all the enemies frozen and the music and background of the X-4 levels. Entering a (hidden) pipe partway through the level sends you back to the start but everts it to the X-2 version, unpausing all the enemies and the timer.
24	* TimedMission: It's very easy to run out of time of these levels. Some bonus areas are meant to waste time.

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