Banjo Pilot

[Dark Jaguar]

Oh those shells stop if you jump on them, just make sure you don't bounce right back onto it and start it back up again.

Oh yes, here's another difference in behavior now that you made me think of it. In the games before it, all of them, those koopa shells would bounce forever, smashing through blocks even, thus allowing you to toss them into huge block mazes and smashing the place up, which as a kid is VERY fun and makes you feel powerful :D. In Super Mario 64, you get that same sense of power from the riding around while your character strangely glows with sparkles of invincibility and you ride around on lava, BUT the second you bump into something, the shell is destroyed instantly and it's all over. Your goal is to make sure NOT to bump into anything, something the ol' shell is known for before, because NOW it'll just vaporize and your killing spree will be over. Also, it allows you to go over lava without getting hurt, which is nice.

Ya know, I just thought of something I thought of LONG ago playing Super Mario World, but I still think it would be awesome. If they pull out a new Mario game adding back in a ton of amazing suits of power, they should produce the all-new Blaarg suit! If you recall, the Blarg was a lava creature, in fact the biggest thing Yoshi was capable of eating (and likely the spiciest) that looked like a sort of lava dragon. As you might imagine, my idea of the blarg suit would be a suit that makes you look like one, with Mario's head right about where the mouth would be, and it would let you swim around in lava just as effortlessly as the frog suit lets you swim in water, only more like a dragon, and Mario would be sorta sweatin' because the suit is still uncomfortably hot :D, and it would be COOL because it would let you get to secret passages or items you couldn't reach before, but you can't see TOO far into the lava because, well, it's LAVA, or maybe you could, whatever ended up being most fun.