Yes, lame name, newbie rip-off premise, whatever.
Anyway, I'm not entirely sure I have enough for an entire thread, but I do have a few things I feel might be worth posting.
The plot is that Bowser has escaped to the realm of gods by gathering the Silver Stars for himself. He then gave these to his children to protect them, you gotta get them so you can get into the god realm (named the Ethereal Eternity for alliterative lulz) and defeat Bowser.
I took out Yoshi coins because I suck at ASM, and I thought star doors were a cool concenpt. That, and I usually just find that my placement of Yoshi coins ends up sucking and distracting from the level.
Here is the first level:
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I should note that I have updated the graphics since posting that.
The new ones look something like this:
An underwater segment in the second level:
Its features include starfish ripped off from Super Mario TKO. I wanted to make it more action-ey than it was...
Part of the current Mystic Meadows 3:
And lastly, a video of Larry's castle.
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I am yet to add custom backgrounds, I should note. I want to make most of the graphcis myself, for the sake of originality and arrogance.
Also, the levels in the videos have been changed a bit since posting the videos (IE the cheap sideways spike trick in the layer 2 room of Larry's castle has been removed) What do you guys think so far?
This actually looks pretty interesting and fun! I have to admit, the first time I saw this topic, I thought it would just be another newbie posting a topic telling us that they were making a Super Mario World hack about silver stars using AOL-speak and leaving that at that until they were told to post screenshots, at which point they would "grace" our eyes with screenshots of unplayably difficult levels full of cutoff and floating Munchers, but you proved me wrong.
Your custom graphics are pretty nice. They really fit the Super Mario World "theme", and the palettes aren't awful, either. From what I can see, your level design is above-average, too.
Keep up the good work!