#Mario 64 castle secret stars series#

Other than the name of the star, thereвЂ™s nothing in WhompвЂ™s Fortress (and earlier in the game) that would tell you that this wall is destructible or that you can use the cannons to destroy the environment. Mario will slam into the wall, breaking the edge off and revealing a power star.Д«ut вЂњBlast Away the WallвЂќ is one of those power stars that requires you to look up a guide or watch a YouTube video. Then, you jump in the cannon, aim yourself a little above the corner of the wall, and blast away. To get this star, you first have to talk to the Bom-omb Buddy to unlock the cannon. But what did it feel like the first time? I honestly canвЂ™t remember, but I have to imagine I was irritated. When IвЂ™m playing Super Mario 64 today, climbing into the cannon and blasting through the wall in WhompвЂ™s Fortress is instinctive, like finding the hidden block with the extra-life mushroom in Super Mario Bros. With the necessary вЂњ Super-Mario-64-is-greatвЂќ preamble out the way, here are the seven worst power stars in Super Mario 64. With 120 power stars to collect, itвЂ™s not surprising that some of them arenвЂ™t great, right? You donвЂ™t have to find all 120 stars to reach the final boss fight with King Bowser and save the princess.Д«ut if you want to complete the game and see Yoshi on top of the castle, you have to look high and low for every single one of them. Throughout Princess PeachвЂ™s castle, there are 120 power stars that Mario has to find to complete the game. ItвЂ™s also where our modern concept of open-world gameplay and 3D platforming begins. (I know IвЂ™m skipping over Super Mario RPG, but many people donвЂ™t consider it a mainline game, and Nintendo released it just a month before Super Mario 64.)ДЇour short years later, Mario was a fully developed character who could in three dimensions! Super Mario 64 is where our image of who Mario is and what he sounds like emerges.

#Mario 64 castle secret stars series#

Playing through Super Mario 64 in 2021, itвЂ™s easy to forget how revolutionary Super Mario 64 was in the вЂ90s.Д«efore its release on the 64, the last time we saw Mario in a main series Mario game, he was just a little 2D sprite on our Gameboy screens in 1992вЂ™s Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.