It's beginning to look just like an...

[Dark Jaguar]

Ice World

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[etoven]

You get +500 points for the HTML5 media player! :)

[Dark Jaguar]

It's the present, TODAY! Come in, and know me better man!

[A Black Falcon]

Bah, ice worlds aren't usually much worse than the other types of themed stages... sure, slippery controls can be annoying, but snow is beautiful!

[Dark Jaguar]

Actually the very maker of this comic enjoys ice worlds. This was just a fun comic to vent. I like 'em too. All the same, I've still died more times than I care to admit to a little more slide than I expected on some tiny block, or crashing into some unexpected tunnel in Mario Kart.

[Sacred Jellybean]

I would think that underwater levels and swimming controls are notoriously more clunky and frustrating. In the 3D Mario games, they never did seem to nail down a more intuitive method of both swimming in all directions and jumping out of the water. I remember yelling at Mario, as though it were some extra-controller maneuver, saying "no, up, UP ya dumb bastard! Arrgghh!"

I was always partial to the breathtaking (at the time) snow and ice levels in Donkey Kong Country.

[Dark Jaguar]

Indeed, but water isn't very Christmas-y so it wouldn't work for the song very well.

I remember the steady increase in snow density as I went through the snow levels in DKC. It still looks pretty amazing.