Gimmick Stages

[Anonymous No.9708745]

Are there any good gimmick levels?

[Anonymous No.9708835]

>>9708745
Helicopter Game stages are usually fun, like the carpet level in SNES Aladdin or picrel

[Anonymous No.9708901]

Sonic bonus stages are usually fun

[Anonymous No.9709079]

>>9708835
Omfg the lag on this otherwise awesome level is unbearable.

[Anonymous No.9709085]

>>9709079
That lag was sadly the most memorable moment. Shame because I remember liking it overall more than the first game.

[Anonymous No.9709176]

>>9709079
Could be on purpose to give you more time to react. Japs do this kind of shit

[Anonymous No.9709193]

A gimmick level that's also one of the best levels in the game

[Anonymous No.9709197]

>>9708745
What is a "gimmick" and why do video essayists thing it's a bad thing?

[Anonymous No.9709225]

>>9709197
They fail to understand that these are amusements. Everything is a gimmick.

[Anonymous No.9709310]

>>9709079
>>9709085
You can just get rid of that on emulator

[Anonymous No.9709312]

>>9708745

[Anonymous No.9709314]

>>9709193
I feel like the submarine qualifies as a gimmick more than the tank does.

[Anonymous No.9709498]

>>9709312
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1675274506079290.webm

[Anonymous No.9709536]

>>9709312
This one was fun

[Anonymous No.9709552]

>>9708901
>Sonic bonus stages are usually fun

When you break it down, just about every bonus stage ever is a gimmick stage. Bonus stages by definition are just 'gimmick stages'.

[Anonymous No.9709583]

Call me completely batshit if you must but I really love the underwater levels in the Metal Slug games, if those count.

[Anonymous No.9709705]

>>9708745
Yes

[Anonymous No.9709783]

>>9708745

[Anonymous No.9710097]

>>9708745
Fuck you i love the Shinobi meme stages

[Anonymous No.9711361]

A “gimmick” is pretty loosely defined. It’s also weird because some games are based around having a new “gimmick” every level, and some games are based on a gimmick. But heres a shot keeping it restricted to 2d platformers.

>Almost everything in Donkey Kong Country 2. Minecarts in the original.

>Most of Wario Land 2

>Most of mischief makers

>Most of the gimmick stages in Super Mario Bros 3 were great. Sun level, Goomba’s Shoe level, the cave with a secret exit, mario eating fish, etc.

>The Special and Star Zones in Super Mario World. Most of the bonus stages in Yoshis Island have a gimmick.

>Sonic’s Special Stages or the Casino Zone in 2. Or the plane level. Snowboarding in 3.

There’s all kinds of borderline stuff though like the final boss in Kirby 64 plays like a rail-shooter, Kid Icarus has 2 levels that are Zelda 2 style dungeons rather than side scrollers. Mario Land has shmup levels.

[Anonymous No.9711375]

>>9711361
>Alex Kidd Bike levels
>Lots of Shinobi stuff
>Astal has bats, riding a weird fish, and rocks falling all in a row

[Anonymous No.9711393]

>>9708745
This and especially the horse stages because the horse can still fucking divekick which rules

[Anonymous No.9711404]

Australians will disagree

[Anonymous No.9711405]

>>9711404
cannot believe the gamegear port is so heavily praised when it omitted this entire level

[Anonymous No.9711412]

snes Aladdin magic carpet ride

[Anonymous No.9712523]

>test

[Anonymous No.9712526]

Thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q3ub1SUYfg

[Anonymous No.9712690]

>>9711361
I would also add battletoads to that list. Every stage is basically a gimmick in some way. ie surf city, turbo tunnel, rat race

[Anonymous No.9712776]

>>9711405
>cannot believe the gamegear port is so heavily praised when it omitted this entire level

I'd praise it too if it omitted that bullshit level.

[Anonymous No.9713457]

When you ride the creature in space harrier and plow through all the trees

[Anonymous No.9714232]

>>9708745
When it comes to auto scroller levels super ghouls n ghosts contains probably my favourite retro one.

[Anonymous No.9714240]

>>9714232
Agree, best level in game

[Anonymous No.9714638]

>>9708745
contra hard corps

[Anonymous No.9714683]

>>9714638
That's not a gimmick, just some sweet parallax effects; the gameplay still plays just like the rest of the game.

Now if you wanna see a shitty gimmick, check out pic related.

[Anonymous No.9714716]

>>9714683
Why couldn't they make it vertical?

[Anonymous No.9714728]

>>9714683
I remember playing this for the first time, I was already familiar with hard corps but this made me realize contra 3 was a weak entry.

[Anonymous No.9714758]

>>9714683
Worse yet, every other stage was like that.

[Anonymous No.9714894]

>>9714716
Unlike the more powerful Mega Drive which can easily do "mode 7" effects using software, the SNES must rely on a prebaked hardware effect to achieve scaling and rotation, which is built in such a way that it cannot do vertical split screen.

[Anonymous No.9714934]

>>9709197
I want to read these shitty essays. Couldn't find anything substantial when I went looking tho.

>>9708745
>>9711393
Yeah the surfing and horse stages were extremely well done. Controls were perfectly handled actually.

[Anonymous No.9715127]

>>9708745
All of Gimmick's levels are good.

[Anonymous No.9715804]

>>9715127
based gimmichad

[Anonymous No.9715831]

>>9711361
I think to be classified a gimmick, it has to switch gameplay entirely. DKC2 adds new elements every level, but it's still a platformer throughout. Until Screeches Sprint, which is a legit gimmick race.

Yoshi's Island Final Boss is also a great gimmick.

[Anonymous No.9716056]

>>9710097
"Meme" is the opposite of "gimmick", anon.

[Anonymous No.9716084]

I always found the minigame stages in Mario RPG to be fun

[Anonymous No.9716106]

>>9715831
I wish we had more levels with that perspective in this game... and more Metallica-like music like that.

[Anonymous No.9716114]

>>9714894
>prebaked hardware
Kids after watching Digital Foundry once... It's cute. Godspeed young Anon, you will acquire many wisdoms throughout your life, so you must always be ready to become ever wiser. I know give some wisdoms for you:
>The world ain't gonna wait for you. You should know what you wanna do as a teenager, and if you don't, do something anyway
>You don't need to go to college, seriously
>Don't be a bullshitter, seriously. Be yourself
>Don't be a people pleaser. If you're good natured and sharp, then helping others will be a natural byproduct of seeking your own interests. People notice when you are attempting to impress them, which renders them unimpressible.
>If an idiot refuses help and cannot be convinced, it's their life
>It's all daunting, but the hardest part is convincing yourself to participate
>Prebaked refers to precalculated graphics like shadowmaps. It's software and entirely stored digitally as a file to be read; hardware features cannot be prebaked

[Anonymous No.9717031]

>>9716056
Explain.