Random Bits of Trivia
After investing over 1000 hours into this game (95% of it online), I've noticed a few random bits of trivia:
- Since all of the non-Yoshi and Nabbit characters play the same, the issue of multiple players choosing the same character is handled when in online mode. Those characters will appear as "reskins". For example: if you use Mario and another player in the same level uses Mario, they will be "reskinned" as Luigi, then Peach, etc. Same happens when multiple players pick the same Yoshi color. You can easily tell if a player is "reskinned" if they are stand on an invisible block that can only be seen by that respective character or if you rescue their ghost and the heart point that appears is a different color than it normally would be.
- When a character is on their last life and they touch an enemy or stage hazard, they will have a different voice quote than they normally would if they had more lives remaining before turning into a ghost.
- If you pause in online mode, you can still rescue other players' ghosts. This is extremely useful in certain stages like the Deep Magma Bog Special: Solar Roller stage in the area with the dragons.
- In online mode, if you stand still for about 30-40 seconds, you will be kicked out of online mode for the remainder of that stage. This also happens if you pause for that amount of time.
- You can duplicate a placed power up balloon if you grab it at the same time as another player.
- It seems like a lot of newer/younger players love spamming the Spin Jump for some reason. Spin to win?
- In Japanese culture, bowing is a sign of respect. In online mode, I noticed that after helping out another player, quite a few of them tended to crouch repeatedly. My guess is this is their way of saying "thanks!" since maybe they didn't know how to use the Emote system.
- Spamming the ð emote during the stage clear sequence after helping another player clear a difficult level never gets old. ðððð