Super Mario Land is Chuggaaconroy's 43rd Let's Play.[1] It was announced and released on April 1st, 2020, with a bonus video released on April 2nd, 2020. It is Emile's shortest series, consisting of only 1 episode and a bonus video with a total length of 42 minutes and 57 seconds.
The series was done primarily as an April Fools joke.
Gameplay[]
As a side-scrolling platform game and the first in the Super Mario Land series, Super Mario Land is similar in gameplay to the Super Mario Bros. series. As Mario, the player advances to the end of the level by moving to the right and jumping across platforms to avoid enemies and pitfalls, the screen only scrolls to the right, as the player advances, but will not scroll back to the left, and sections of a level that have passed off screen cannot be revisited. Mario travels to Sarasaland to save Princess Daisy from Tatanga, an evil spaceman. Two of the game's twelve levels are "forced-scrolling" Gradius-style shooters where Mario helms a submarine or airplane and fires projectiles towards oncoming enemies, destructible blocks and bosses. Levels end with a platforming challenge to reach an alternative exit located above the regular exit, the former leading to a bonus minigame styled after a Ghost Leg lottery that awards 1 to 3 extra lives or a Superball Flower power-up.
Unlike the other Mario games, which take place in the Mushroom Kingdom, Super Mario Land is set in Sarasaland and drawn in line art. Mario pursues Princess Daisy, in her debut, rather than the series standard damsel in distress, Princess Peach. When jumped on, Koopa shells explode after a small delay, Mario throws bouncing balls rather than fireballs (referred to as "Superballs" in the manual), 1-Up Mushroom power-ups are depicted as hearts, and the level-end flagpoles are replaced with a platforming challenge. Compared to Super Mario Bros., which contains 32 levels subdivided into 8 "worlds" with 4 levels each, Super Mario Land is smaller, with 12 levels subdivided into 4 "worlds" with 3 levels each. There are five unique bosses, one at the end of each of the four worlds, and a fifth and final boss being Tatanga, who appears when the fourth boss is defeated. The first three bosses may be destroyed with projectiles, or the player may move past them to the exit without destroying them first; the last level has no regular exit, and the two bosses at the end of that level must be destroyed with projectiles to complete the level and the game. Some elements recur from the previous Mario games, such as blocks suspended in midair, moving platforms that must be used to traverse pitfalls, pipes that lead to other areas, collectible coins that grant an extra life when 100 are collected, and Goomba enemies. After the player has completed the game they may play through again on a harder mode, in which the levels are the same apart from enemies being more numerous; if the player completes the harder mode, the game allows the player to start another play on any level in the game.
Description[]
(April 1st, 2020)
An arduous and perilous adventure through the Kingdom of Sarasaland to save Princess Daisy!
Hints[]
- The LP would be the shortest series on the channel to date.
- The game features a character closely associated with Chuggaaconroy himself.
- "Woodn't you like to know what game this is?"[2]
Episodes[]
| # | Video | Title | Upload Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Episode 1 [Finale]: It Takes Two, Tatanga! | April 1, 2020 | |
Mario (Emile) begins and finishes his quest in Sarasaland and rescues Princess Daisy from Tatanga. | |||
| B1 | Bonus Video | April 2, 2020 | |
Emile goes over Easter eggs and hidden details of Super Mario Land he didn't touch on in the main video. | |||
Trivia[]
- This is the second time Chuggaaconroy has posted an April Fools Let's Play on his channel, the first being Mega Man 2.
- It's also the shortest main series. Clocking in at 42 minutes and 57 seconds total, it is Emile's only official LP that can be watched in under an hour.