Vertically Challenged Marathon

So it's clearly going to be a sick nasty hard set of red coins... until we find one just sitting on the ground in a completely random place. With a blue coin too. Seriously, did you guys run out of ideas? Couldn't stick it hidden in some random spot that was at least kinda clever? Guess not.

So yeah, we begin again (though not to continue for long this time) with the last named star, followed by some investigation/exploration in the plaza, finished with the hundred coin stars. It's gonna be good. By which I mean painful. And time consuming.

Hmmm... this "fluff festival" is highly suspicious. Especially with the fluffs leading to clouds... that go nowhere, and have nothing useful, certainly not the red coins we're searching for. Now, we suspect the fluffs are superfluous entirely. Or maybe not. A few more lives should hopefully show us the way.

Or maybe not. We're still kinda clueless. Now OSK is relearning the finer points of gravity. Sweet man.

Well, that marks the first full album done. What have we accomplished? Well, we've found all of the red coins. OSK got hit by some essence of pwn though, so he's on take 2 to try getting them all at once. Anyway, I do have to give him major props for lucky camera angles. He saw the shadow of a red coin on giant leaves without seeing the coin itself. Also, props to both of us for the last coin. OSK for the assist, calling that they would totally be those guys who put the coin on top of the grating you hang from, and I followed up with spotting the coin itself, and the idea on how to get from below to above. So yeah, what I'm trying to say here is, we rock mario like bowser rocks peace. Wait. I take that back. That could never work.

Ok, so the shine appeared over past the wisps, so they did matter. A sick shine, but tough.

Holy crap, mario pinball is amazing! Like SO cool. Dude. Yeah. Mario pinball. And OSK is getting owned by it. He's getting better (slowly) but it's starting to be pretty ugly. He's actually running out of lives (remember way back when he milked that secret level? Yeah, those rolled over, and they're mostly gone. Ouch).

Ok, it's getting legit bad now. As OSK himself said, "it's really frustrating." Straight from the horse's mouth. They tell me that's a phrase... not sure I believe them, but whatever. The point is, I think we've found OSK's tower secret level. Ok, so OSK finally got a game over (after 12-15 lives or so), and then I got a try. 2 words: first time. I was right, his tower secret level through and through. But now that he's seen it done, it should go more smoothly. Ok, much better already. Yep, he's got it.

Ok, noki bay hundred coins now. Ugh... I'll speak of it not.