Ceave Gaming

- Season 4

(2019)

Mario games are all about running to the right. At first glance the right button seems to be required to beat any 2D Mario game. But is it though? Is it really necessary to press right to beat New Super Mario Bros. U or is there a way to make it through the game without ever running into the direction the game wants us to go? In this video we will try to beat New Super Mario Bros. U without the option to go to the right and we will find out what the minimum amount of right presses needed to beat New Super Mario Bros. U.

Super Mario Odyssey is a game all about walking around in beautiful kingdoms, but can the game be beaten without the option to walk? Or to be precise, what is the absolute minimum amount of left joystick inputs needed to beat Super Mario Odyssey? Over the last couple of weeks I tried to beat Super Mario Odyssey without the left joystick and in this video we will find out how often the left joystick is required in the first seven kingdoms of Super Mario Odyssey.

In Super Mario Odyssey the left joystick is mainly used to move Mario, but do we really need the joystick to move through the game? Is the left joystick really required to beat Super Mario Odyssey? Or is it possible to make it through the whole game without the option to walk at all? In the last video we already took a look at all kingdoms up until the lost kingdom, and today, we will finally find out what the minimum amount of left stick uses required to beat Super Mario Odyssey is.

Routing New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe with the lowest score possible is quite a challenge. A lot of Mario elements that we usually take for granted just become forbidden. Suddenly we aren't allowed to collect any coins, we aren't allowed to touch checkpoints nor can we defeat a single enemy. We basically have to find a way through Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe that avoids all the different gameplay elements that grant us score. In this video we will do exactly this. We will route New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe from start to finish, and we will finally find out what the ...

Super Mario Maker 2 has finally been announced. But not only was Super Mario Maker 2 announced, but tons of new elements were already revealed in the trailer and a lot of Super Mario Maker 2 gameplay was shown. In this video we are going to take a look at the first Super Mario Maker 2 trailer, we will discuss the new gameplay elements, and speculate a bit about what could be in the game that hasn't been revealed so far.

The Super Mario series is a phenomenon. 6 out of the 50 best selling games of all time are 2D Super Mario games, the Super Mario franchise is the most successful video game franchise of all time, Super Mario is unbelievably successful. But why? Honestly, why is the Super Mario franchise so popular? At first glance Super Mario isn't the coolest thing imaginable. At its core it's a series about an Italian plumber whos crush happens to be a princess that gets kidnapped by a gigantic turtle a lot. In this video we are going to take a look at the first level of each 2D ...

Since the release of Super Mario Maker the community found many many crazy ways to build levels. We found ways to activate pipes if Mario takes damage, we found ways to forbid Mario to jump, to run or to slow down, we found ways to build binary storage and built turn based combat systems. But there is one super weird, incredibly powerful, and unimaginably complicated Super Mario Maker technique we never discussed in detail before. Namely the giant gap, and POW Block memory. So with Super Mario Maker 2 around the corner, it's time for us to tie up some loose ends and ...

Super Mario Maker 2 for the Nintendo Switch is just a couple of months away from being released, and at first glance it looks like the second Super Mario Maker will add many new and awesome things that aren't in the first game. Custom autoscrolling, Fire Bros., Two State Blocks, Snake Blocks and slopes are just a couple of examples of all the new and amazing tools Super Mario Maker 2 is going to add. But - are those really additions? Are those really new features? Or is most of the new stuff already very much possible in the first version of Super Mario Maker? So ...

There are tons of unused objects and items hidden in the code of New Super Mario Bros U. Some of them are just small neat little things that didn't make the cut into the full version of New Super Mario Bros. U, while others are actually pretty cool obstacles that at some point in development probably had a full level build around them but then got kicked out for some reason. In this video we are going to take a look at a lot of those cut New Super Mario Bros U. features, and we will speculate a bit about what their purpose was, and why they were cut.

The Dreams early access launched a couple of days ago. Dreams is a game about making games. At its core Dreams is a user generated content game like Mario Maker. But unlike Mario Maker, Dreams does not only allow to create certain games, like 2D platformers, but it allows to create literally any game, of any genre. It is probably the most ambitious game ever made. In this video we are going to take a look at how Dreams allows everyone to make a game, and what this means for gaming as a whole.

Super Mario Maker 2 will release in about two months, yet we still know surprisingly little about the new Super Mario Maker. But while we don't know a lot about all the new tricks that are going to be possible in Super Mario Maker 2, we actually know a lot of crazy Super Mario Maker tricks that are very likely still a thing in Mario Maker 2. So today we are going to recap seven very basic concepts and tricks that allowed us to build crazy stages in the first Super Mario Maker and are likely to allow for even more crazier levels in the sequel.

It's quite an interesting time for people interested in user generated content games. Super Mario Maker 2 is just around the corner, Dreams started it's early access a couple of weeks ago, and probably unnoticed by many people, a small Super Mario Maker like indie game called Levelhead started it's early access as well. Levelhead is a Super Mario Maker inspired game, but not only did Levelhead draw inspiration from Super Mario Maker, there are actually a couple of things at which Levelhead surpasses Super Mario Maker. In this video we are going to take a look at 5 ...

Super Mario Maker 2 has finally been revealed. But not only did we get a Super Mario Maker 2 Direct, but tons of new elements got revealed in the Direct, and a lot of gameplay was shown. In this video we are going to take a look at the official Super Mario Maker 2 Direct, we will discuss the new gameplay elements, and speculate a bit about how all the new things are going to work.

The Superstar Road features the nine most difficult stages in New Super Mario Bros U. Even when playing normally those stages are quite challenging, but can those stages be beaten if we permanently crouch? Is it possible to beat the nine Superstar Road levels in New Super Mario Bros. U if our only form of movement is duck hoping? Today we are going to investigate this eternal question, because today we will finally find out how many of the nine Star World stages in New Super Mario Bros U can be beaten while permanently crouching.

Super Mario Maker 2 features a lot of stuff that wasn't in the original Super Mario Maker. Claws, night themes, clear conditions, a Super Mario 3D World theme and much much more. Super Mario Maker 2 is going to allow us to build many different types of levels. But how do we build a good stage? What makes a Super Mario Maker level fun to play in the first place, and how are we able to replicate this? In this video we are going to investigate this eternal question. We will take a closer look at how the stages in traditional Mario games are structured, we will try to ...

Over the years the Super Mario Maker community found many crazy and unbelievable tricks in Super Mario Maker. We found ways to forbid Mario to jump, we found ways to build calculators, we found crazy glitches and much much more. But, at least in my opinion, the most interesting Super Mario Maker tricks are those that make use of Super Mario Makers crazy loading algorithm. In this video, we are going to take one final deep dive into Super Mario Makers crazy quantum loading shenanigans. We will take a look back at how some of the craziest Super Mario Maker contraptions ...

Super Mario Maker 2 finally allows us to build contraptions that were impossible to build in the original Super Mario Maker. Today we start investigating our new Super Mario Maker 2 tools, by taking a look at how to build a level where the floor disappears as soon as Mario jumps more than 3 times.

Super Mario Maker 2 is finally here, and we got a lot of new stuff to toy around with. Slopes, Snake Blocks, Boom Boom, Two State Blocks and many other items got added to the game. But are those new Super Mario Maker 2 items any good? How useful and well implemented are the new items really? Which Super Mario Maker 2 item is the best new addition, and which one adds the least to the game? Well today we are going to finally answer these eternal questions, because today we are going to review all the new Super Mario Maker 2 items.

With the release of Super Mario Maker 2, Nintendo changed the way randomization works in Super Mario Maker. Nothing is random anymore. Clown car randomizers always travel into the same direction, dropping coins always drop onto the same spot, and even the silly Hammer Bros. appear to suddenly behave completely deterministic. Or - so it seems. But hidden in the middle of the newly discovered desert, a very interesting tower was found. The Very Varying Tower. A tower that changes it's layout every time it gets played. Apparently there is still a way to randomize in ...

The level recommendation algorithm works differently in Super Mario Maker 2. In Super Mario Maker 1 each level that got uploaded had a chance to appear in the 100 Super Mario Maker challenge. In Super Mario Maker 2, this is no longer the case. Because of this it is very likely that a new Super Mario Maker 2 level gets not a single play, if it is just uploaded. In this video we are going to discuss what we can do to actually ensure that our levels get played, and we will discuss what Nintendo could do in general to improve the current situation.

Nintendo really did their best to get rid of all glitches in Super Mario Maker 2. They removed a couple of fun mechanics that often were the starting point for Super Mario Maker glitches. Basically, they did everything they could to release Super Mario Maker 2 completely glitchless. Naturally that didn't work out that great. So today we are going to take a look at the first round of glitches that already got discovered in Super Mario Maker 2.

Is there a way to build a Super Mario Maker 2 stage that can only be beaten backwards? I've tried to build such a level for ages, but at least in Super Mario Maker 1 it was not possible. But thanks to the new Super Mario Maker 2 additions it is finally possible to build a Super Mario Maker 2 level where the floor collapses as soon as Mario looks to the right.

We currently don't know about a setup to upload an impossible Level in Super Mario Maker 2. But while a truly impossible Super Mario Maker 2 level is currently impossible, that doesn't mean that there aren't lots of tricks that allow us to make seemingly impossible levels in Super Mario Maker 2. Levels that use obscure mechanics, weird Super Mario Maker 2 glitches, or strange tricks so that a stage appears to be unbeatable. In this video we are going to take a look at 5 of those seemingly impossible level tricks.

What is the highest possible high-score in Super Mario Maker 2? We already tried to answer this question in the original Super Mario Maker, and we were able to get a decent score. But now that Super Mario Maker 2 is finally released it is time to use all the new items, and to try to push for the ultimate high score in Super Mario Maker 2.

Is it possible to max out the high score in Super Mario Maker 2? To collect a total of basically one billion points in only 500 in-game seconds? A couple of days ago we took a look at this question, and we came to a conclusion: Nope, sadly not. All that we were able to achieve were lousy 788.086.500 Super Mario Maker 2 points. Getting more points sadly simply appeared to be impossible - until recently, because recently a couple of very interesting Super Mario Maker 2 discoveries were made which may allow us to reach the perfect Super Mario Maker 2 high score.

There are tons of different types of bad levels in Super Mario Maker 2. There are levels where all there is to do is swim through a seemingly never ending corridor, there are levels where we have to pick one out of four doors while three of them immediately kill us, and there are many other horrible types of Super Mario Maker 2 levels. But while such levels are definitely horrible, they also raise a question, that we as Super Mario Maker 2 scientists simply can't ignore: Can we do worse? Is it possible to improve those horrible levels in such a way that they become ...

Which Super Mario Maker 2 enemy is the most useless one? Which enemy adds the least to the game? Which enemy in Super Mario Maker 2 is the worst one? At first glance this might sound like a trivial question, but as it turns out answering this question is surprisingly difficult. Nonetheless we will try to find an answer today. We will first put all Super Mario Maker 2 enemies in a tier list that determines how useful they are in my opinion, and afterwards we are not only going to decide which enemy is the worst one, but also which enemy is the best one in Super Mario ...

Is the 3D World style in Super Mario Maker 2 fine or is it too different? What is the one thing I would change about Super Mario Maker 2, which enemy should Nintendo add to Super Mario Maker 2 and why is everything surprisingly simple? In this video we are going to answer many of the wonderful questions you wonderful ladies and gentleman asked me a couple of weeks ago.

When I first got my hands onto Super Mario Maker 2 one of the first things I did was to boot up the level editor and to check out the Super Mario Maker 2 3D World style. And, wow, was I disappointed at first. There is no enemy stacking, there are no tracks, there are no dotted line blocks, in short there is a lot of stuff missing in the Super Mario Maker 2 3D World style. Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed. But recently I took a closer look at this alienating game style nonetheless, and as it turns out: There are actually lots of crazy things possible in the ...

When designing the different Kingdoms in Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo did something really interesting. They didn't stick to a single blueprint on how to build the different Worlds in Super Mario Odyssey, but they decided to give each stage a completely different structure. The different Kingdoms in Super Mario Odyssey not only differ in their setting, but they are also all build in a completely unique way. But if all Super Mario Odyssey Kingdoms are built in a unique way, then that also raises a question :Which Super Mario Odyssey kingdom is the best one, and more ...

One Way Doors in Super Mario Maker 2 have a really unique secret property. A small but unbelievably useful trait that allows us to build insane contraptions in Super Mario Maker 2. Keys that activate pipes, doors that only open up once all enemies are defeated, On/Off Blocks that activate Bullet Blasters and much much more becomes possible thanks to this little One Way Door property. In this video we are first going to take a look at a stage that uses this little mechanic, and afterwards we are going to discuss how all of it works, and how to use it.

There is this one barrier in Super Mario Maker 2 which we never found a way around. This one Super Mario Maker 2 obstacle that just prevented us from building truly insane stuff. The death barrier. Basically, we never found a way to transfer information between deaths. We are able to read and write information in tons of different ways in Super Mario Maker 2, but as soon as Mario dies the information always gets reset. Death was just a barrier we were not able to pierce through. Until recently. Because recently a way was found to transfer exactly one bit of ...

A while ago I thought it would be fun to theorycraft the strongest and most secure combination lock possible in Super Mario Maker 2. There never really was a point to this in the first Super Mario Maker, since everyone was able to download each course, and therefore everyone was able to take a look at the combination, but since Nintendo sadly decided that editing downloaded courses is no longer a thing in Super Mario Maker 2, that also means that, at least in theory, it should be possible to upload a combination lock that is so secure that it becomes cryptographically...

One of the first things I tried when I got my hands onto Super Mario Maker 2 was to upload a truly impossible level. A Super Mario Maker 2 stage that simply can't be beaten, no matter what we try. As it turns out, uploading a truly impossible level in Super Mario Maker 2 is surprisingly difficult. In this video we are going to take a look back at my journey to try to upload a truly impossible Super Mario Maker 2 level, and we will finally find out whether it is possible to upload a truly impossible Super Mario Maker 2 stage.

A couple of days ago Nintendo dropped a new Super Mario Maker 2 update out of the blue. The legendary update, and wow, legendary Super Mario Maker 2 update it is indeed. Not only did we get tons of new Super Mario Maker 2 items and even enemies to toy around with, but we also got a completely new game mode, and even an amazing new power up. But all these new additions also raise an important question. How good are the new items, which one is the best one, and which new Super Mario Maker 2 item is the absolute worst? Well today we are finally going to answer this ...