Beetlebelle Harbour

Beetlebelle Harbour is a Make a Good Level X3 contest entry, submitted by Timothy Simmons. The player may choose between Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad.

Sturg
I dig the aesthetic! It's like taking a mid-day waltz on a busy pier. It's cool! The design leaves a lot to be desired though. It doesn't feel like it's suited for Mario's design with how flat everything is. You can chuck a shell or ice block and demolish every obstacle. The constant supply of ice flowers was... helpful??? Haha. This was pretty cute though! And I enjoyed myself!

Zatsupachi
This level has an obsession of giving you Ice Flowers all the way through except for that one Leaf power-up, which was probably a mistake. The level ends with enemy spam but you have so much tools at your disposal that it was just… eh.

Rameau's Nephew
What a strange level! It looks and sounds pretty decent, honestly, but there's not much in the way of design, and what design there is is super-weird. The level is extremely flat and populated by huge masses of largely harmless Buzzy Beetles, most of which actually walk away from you, and frequently saunter directly in to the water. A bit more of a threat is provided by the admittedly excessive amount of jumping Cheep-Cheeps underneath the piers, but as this level hands you 2-3 Ice Flowers every screen, you're never in any serious danger. Things get mighty overpopulared towards the end, but as there's shells everywhere and you now have Ice Flowers growing out of your nose, plus the occasional POW on top of this, this doesn't really matter much. Finally there's a coin message in the sky, but it's *not* announcing the name of the contest or telling us we're a super player! What a twist!

+ Honestly not too bad in terms of sound and visuals

- Super weird and inconsequential

Other: Does knocking a coin sign out of the air count as vandalism, larceny, or both?

Author's notes
CHOICES:

Location:

Harbor

Graveyard

Lake

Igloo

The Sun

Adjective:

necessary

obnoxious

chilly

true

smooth

NPC:

Nipper

Buzzy Beetle

Jumping Bowser Statue

Shy Guy

Piranha Plant

I CHOSE:

Location - Harbour

Adjective - Abnoxious

NPCs - Buzzy Beetles are the main focus, but i also added a cluster of cheep cheeps that will all jump out of the water to fit the obnoxiuos adjective that i chose.

[Enjl's note: This author's previous "extra" pick was "all of the above", which might explain some of the enemies in this level. However, since no selection was ever truly made... no extra option was chosen. (even after PMs back and forth)]