"It's the thrill of seeing the 90 degree angles, stacked on each other, in such a way to create a convenient mode of vertical ascension, while also moving steadily horizontally."
"The turtles make me run for my life! I see them everywhere and know how to avoid them but they're moving so goddamn fast. So when I finally see a staircase I'm thinking that I might not die anymore."
i love how half of the time Kosmic pulls off some insane ass plays because he's just too damn good and half of the time there's just too much random shit on screen for him to even process but it all just happens to line up perfectly so that he ends up surviving
Since SMB1 is such a simple game, it can be hard to recognize skill level beyond for a casual viewer. That is to say, it's really hard for an average Joe like me to understand just how difficult most of the speedrun tricks are, and there's nothing too insanely flashy in the runs that makes it look ridiculously difficult. I loved this video because it made me go "goddamn... this guy's good at videogames." Seeing you adapting to the random terrain and getting through it with tight movement was just genuinely impressive, in the same way normies tend to appreciate watching Olympic-level gymnasts over sprinters: it's easy to quantify how amazing they are just by watching them, you don't need a stopwatch to understand it. TL;DR Great vid, easier to comprehend than speedruns, loved it
@@fan0 No, you just restart the level you are on. If you made the midpoint (in a level that has one), you even get to restart in the middle. If you lose all your lives and get a game over, then you have to restart that world at area 1 with 3 lives. You only have to restart the whole game from 1-1 if you restart the console.
Long time viewer here - more random discourse like the pronunciation commentary would be really fun to hear/see in these videos! (I know editing more of that stuff in would be tough, but it would be worth it too)
Really appreciate you linking the songs you play throughout the video. Sometimes I go crazy hearing something in a video and not knowing what it's from.
I feel like 15:17 is the only reasonable reaction to the entire experience. Edit: Honestly Mario should just start screaming every time an enemy appears in this hack.
Kosmic trying to instant turnaround in real life isn't as dumb as me trying to double jump irl But is okay, I ended up learning to BLJ irl from dad Shoutouts to Simpleflips
3:15 - new record 20:09 - holy Cow 23:16 - Insane [This long segment definitely shows why Kosmic is one of the best Mario Players ever] ps.: This would also make a great Angery Video Game Nerd Episode "There is Sh*t flying everywhere" 24:43
wow, so cool of you to try mm2 kaizo levels on super expert difficulty! 🙏 and re: the pronunciation aside, would love to see more of that in future vids! I thought it was great x)
Glad you're checking out Level-Headed again. Even though it's still pretty simplistic, getting completely randomly generated is just really cool. One day having something like this for other Mario games or even stuff like Super Metroid would be incredible.
Its actually a bit more complicated the what the current product showcases. Each level is created from "blocks" , and each "block" of a level must fit with another to create a possible route, that includes jumps and such. Coolcord has not put in a ton of time with creating new "blocks" for each section in sometime so this is why a lot of levels will look similar, especially the castle levels where he has the fewest "block" sections.
Whenever I think about these crazy romhacks where you can barely keep a powerup, I think of that Badger song. Badger Badger Badger Badger ... Badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM Badger Badger Badger ... MUSHROOM *MUSHROOM* ... SNAKE!!!
Bowser _walking back and forth_ "I...am tired...of this sh!t, we have loads of minions... AND CAN'T KILL ONE FAT PLUMBER!?!! I AM TIRED OF THIS SH!T!! YOU WHY DO YOU MOVE SO SLOW?!!? YOU KNOW YOU CAN MOVE FASTER RIGHT?!! BULLET BILL FFS YOU'RE A FRIKKIN' BULLET! ACT LIKE ONE!! I'M LEAVING THE CASTLE TO GET SOME FOOD -- WHEN I COME BACK HERE, I EXPECT TO A PLUMBER'S CORPSE LAYING AT MY FEET! UNDERSTAND!!" *enemies* "YES SIR!!!"
Your Stickerbush Symphony comment… I used to be a dog groomer, and I once unintentionally called the song Slicker Brush Symphony after one of the tools I used every day. XD
Don't know what's more embarrassing, the fact that so many people in chat didn't know Tidal Terror from DKCR or the fact that they all asked what song was playing and... just no one answers for so long.
Loved the music selection in this one. The cracked out enemies are giving me flashbacks to Kirby's Dream Land on Extra mode with 1HP. =/ 15:35 I only mind people pronouncing things as if they were spelled completely differently, IF they insist on doing it AFTER they know better. There seems to be a global allergy to being corrected for some reason. 23:16 Legit slack-jawed during that.
I mean, speedrunning it isn't a big deal. Kosmic is only dying this much because is his first time on these levels, but if someone memorizes all of them, they can speedrun them (in theory)
@@gaslit7442 i mean, there are seeded runs for MC speedruns. If we talk about actually speedrunning random seeds then we might have a problem in our hands...
@@gaslit7442 but the thing is, this randomizer generates a whole new mario game that you use as a ROM, so you can analize it all you want and then attempt your speedrun. That's mostly how it would work because of how the randomizer works. It depends on what the commenter meant by "this" If they meant "these specific levels" then my answer applies. If they meant "A whole new, random world. Blindly" then you would be right Edit: like, in the video, when Kosmic died, he didn't go in whole new run like you would do in a roguelike. So after defeating every level and memorizing them, he could have reseted this new ROM and potentially speedrun them properly. Level headed doesn't work like Minecraft or Roguelikes, so i bet that it's speedruns would work differently as well
Music around 11:00ish? Sounds like compositions by Steve Reich or Dan Deacon played at 1.5-2x on Donkey Kong Country sound fonts and that portamento flute synth thing from Metroid Prime
*_"This is more like it!"_* Kosmic says while being mowed down by a machine gun
Going over the top in WW1 moment
This comment is amazing without context
Lmfao
Now this is what *I* call podracing
Woah similar profile. Neat.
"I see stairs, I get so excited" is the kind of thing to tell a therapist
“And after that, what happens in the dream?”
"It's the thrill of seeing the 90 degree angles, stacked on each other, in such a way to create a convenient mode of vertical ascension, while also moving steadily horizontally."
Omori
uh oh.
"The turtles make me run for my life! I see them everywhere and know how to avoid them but they're moving so goddamn fast. So when I finally see a staircase I'm thinking that I might not die anymore."
"Midway?" says Kosmic before dying of old age
hahaha xD 😋
hi friend :)
Midway games
Mario: **hits enemy's head with his nose**
Enemy: **gets absolutely destroyed**
Enemy: **hits mario's head with their nose**
Mario: **gets absolutely destroyed**
*It's free nose estate*
Just _smells_ em to death
his nose is too powerful
It's super unfortunate that the ancient curse of failure in the first language sounds exactly like "It's actually so easy" in English.
Itsachlii so’iisy
@@backwardsface3046 itzachille soyze (itz achille so yze)
Wait, seriously!?
@@MasterZebulin No
@@MasterZebulin no lol, this is a joke. It's a popular saying
9:50 that kooper outrunning bowsers fireball is 😂 hilarious 🤣
i love how half of the time Kosmic pulls off some insane ass plays because he's just too damn good and half of the time there's just too much random shit on screen for him to even process but it all just happens to line up perfectly so that he ends up surviving
real
Since SMB1 is such a simple game, it can be hard to recognize skill level beyond for a casual viewer. That is to say, it's really hard for an average Joe like me to understand just how difficult most of the speedrun tricks are, and there's nothing too insanely flashy in the runs that makes it look ridiculously difficult. I loved this video because it made me go "goddamn... this guy's good at videogames." Seeing you adapting to the random terrain and getting through it with tight movement was just genuinely impressive, in the same way normies tend to appreciate watching Olympic-level gymnasts over sprinters: it's easy to quantify how amazing they are just by watching them, you don't need a stopwatch to understand it.
TL;DR Great vid, easier to comprehend than speedruns, loved it
yeah, im outdated in smb1 any% at this point but I still think give me something like this and I'll perform the best of anyone
At the end of the day, SMB1 is a pretty easy game, so you need something like this to ramp up the difficulty to make skill more obvious.
Kosmic casually flexing in the replies
@@EebstertheGreat I don't think it is pretty easy, sure, there are warp zones, but if you die, you return back to 1-1.
@@fan0 No, you just restart the level you are on. If you made the midpoint (in a level that has one), you even get to restart in the middle. If you lose all your lives and get a game over, then you have to restart that world at area 1 with 3 lives. You only have to restart the whole game from 1-1 if you restart the console.
Long time viewer here - more random discourse like the pronunciation commentary would be really fun to hear/see in these videos! (I know editing more of that stuff in would be tough, but it would be worth it too)
Really appreciate you linking the songs you play throughout the video. Sometimes I go crazy hearing something in a video and not knowing what it's from.
23:30 Kosmic having a very good time
and 23:38 probably the loudest scream ive ever heard from kosmic the gamer
Randomizer: How much sh!t you want on screen at once?
Kosmic: Yes
23:16 stretch looks like a 30 second TAS of this. Just INSANE.
The Metroid Prime music just wraps it perfectly
26:00 - 26:17 The conversation every teenager had to have with their parents
lol
Underrated comment
LMAO
hilarious
What kind of nickname is "Cheeps"?
23:34 - 23:47 And here we have Kosmic just casually ascending 4 layers of reality above us mortals.
25:38 ... 8 layers of reality here
Yoshiha12, 21:23 - "half a bullet bill, he won half a bullet bill"
"if it's playable it can be randomized"
- Mahatma Gandhi
I feel like 15:17 is the only reasonable reaction to the entire experience.
Edit: Honestly Mario should just start screaming every time an enemy appears in this hack.
Kosmic trying to instant turnaround in real life isn't as dumb as me trying to double jump irl
But is okay, I ended up learning to BLJ irl from dad
Shoutouts to Simpleflips
Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahooyahyayayayayyyyyyyyahoo
This is brutal indeed!! Really impressive to see
the way the koopas run so fast is like an old flash game
Player: I see coins🪙
Fire bro: Do you mean walls? 🧱
3:15 - new record
20:09 - holy Cow
23:16 - Insane [This long segment definitely shows why Kosmic is one of the best Mario Players ever]
ps.: This would also make a great Angery Video Game Nerd Episode "There is Sh*t flying everywhere" 24:43
Literally god gamer
wow, so cool of you to try mm2 kaizo levels on super expert difficulty! 🙏
and re: the pronunciation aside, would love to see more of that in future vids! I thought it was great x)
With all these bullets, it's not the Mushroom Kingdom anymore.
*_Welcome to Gensokyo._*
The hit box on that fire that bounced off the coin was rude.
11:08 the Firebro comes at him like the Yeti in Skifree.
“BURN-ie, is that you?”
PLOKPLOKPLOKPLOKPLOK “that’s youuuuuu”
Notmal bullet bill: snail speed activate
Brutal bullet bill: I am a literal bullet. Fear
bullet bill launcher: MACHINE GUN TIME
Glad you're checking out Level-Headed again. Even though it's still pretty simplistic, getting completely randomly generated is just really cool. One day having something like this for other Mario games or even stuff like Super Metroid would be incredible.
Its actually a bit more complicated the what the current product showcases. Each level is created from "blocks" , and each "block" of a level must fit with another to create a possible route, that includes jumps and such. Coolcord has not put in a ton of time with creating new "blocks" for each section in sometime so this is why a lot of levels will look similar, especially the castle levels where he has the fewest "block" sections.
I feel like every single game nowadays is getting a randomizer mod
And i love it
The bounce over the Bullet Bill at 13:36 was insane.
Given how often they were committing suicide, I'd say the fire bros were anything but jovial.
the fireBALLS! The way the bounce :)
Suicidal fire bros throw jovial fireballs? That's a cruel irony
It feels like some strange Super Princess Peach enemy the way you talk about the fire bros.
I dare you to get an 8000 shell kick on this
How comftorble do you feel about Wendsdays in Febuary?
lol, the thought brings me great comftor
Whenever I think about these crazy romhacks where you can barely keep a powerup, I think of that Badger song. Badger Badger Badger Badger ... Badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM Badger Badger Badger ... MUSHROOM *MUSHROOM* ... SNAKE!!!
Kosmic: *gets gunned down by bullet bill launcher, is attacked by turbo koopas and flame bros*
Kosmic: It's fine, tis just a scratch.
Thanks for the recommendation Kosmic, I wasn't aware how awesome this randomizer would be!
Wow, those fireball hitboxes are so janky!
"... saying nu-cue-lear is less egregious than saying comf-ter-bul." That broke my brain even more than the gameplay.
23:16 when you're so sure he's gonna make it
Kosmic is one of the only streamers I find tolerable to watch because he's soft spoken enough that his mic barely ever clips .. Great stuff as always!
That's Machine Gun Bill
Bowser _walking back and forth_
"I...am tired...of this sh!t, we have loads of minions...
AND CAN'T KILL ONE FAT PLUMBER!?!! I AM TIRED OF THIS SH!T!! YOU WHY DO YOU MOVE SO SLOW?!!? YOU KNOW YOU CAN MOVE FASTER RIGHT?!! BULLET BILL FFS YOU'RE A FRIKKIN' BULLET! ACT LIKE ONE!! I'M LEAVING THE CASTLE TO GET SOME FOOD -- WHEN I COME BACK HERE, I EXPECT TO A PLUMBER'S CORPSE LAYING AT MY FEET! UNDERSTAND!!"
*enemies*
"YES SIR!!!"
This is amazing, lol, the green koopas yeeting themselves into oblivion had me dying 🤣
downloading level headed now this seems pretty fun.
Hey Kosmic, I love your stuff! Your vibes are so nice! I would love to see you play Tonkachi Mario for a romhack wednesday. Thanks for makin vids!!
Thanks! Yep I'll play that at some point
I'm so glad you actually used that for your thumbnail XD I thought you were joking!
"For Brutal Difficulty, this is so easy" - Dies to the same Koopa three times in a row.
Yep, only 3!
20:46 "if you're gonna go down, at least go down firing".
23:44 Kosmic: An Opera in Two Acts,
ft. Cheep Cheep (alto) and Fire Bro (baritone)
POG! For sure...
23:15
Kosmic (falsetto)
I loved the classical music. Would be cool to see you do a run using all that style of chill classical!
A 5-stack of machine gun bullet bills is going to haunt my dreams
“5-stack machine gun bullet bills” sounds like a Sticker Star enemy
I think it's just hillarious to see the koopas going back and forth like pepehyper. The music just hyping up the koopas is also hillarious.
Your Stickerbush Symphony comment… I used to be a dog groomer, and I once unintentionally called the song Slicker Brush Symphony after one of the tools I used every day. XD
Wow. Imagine having platforms in a platforming game
FIRE UNDER WATER?????!!!!!????
That is actually the “fixed” or “patched” Lakitu behaviour when the spines are thrown to home or bait on the player’s face or moving direction, ha!
10:00 Kosmic turs into Marty McFly for a second.
you know, knowing what happened last time i am expecting the same here
I was literally screaming and laughing in 2-5, holy shit, you’re the god of gamers
16:57 Kosmic getting out-dash-danced by a Koopa.
3:16 the quintuple bullet takedown!
22:41 The old Sonic the Hedgehog reference from freezing time with rocket missiles around you.
Holy cow, 2-5 had me covering my face and jumping out of my seat
I'm hearing a lot of Mega Man Zero music in the background, nice to see you have good taste.
Gotta love it when something so crazy happens all Kosmic can do is exhale lmao
I really want some SM64 gameplay videos form your channel.
I saw you on the marathon and was so impressed by your 3d gaming!!
Don't know what's more embarrassing, the fact that so many people in chat didn't know Tidal Terror from DKCR or the fact that they all asked what song was playing and... just no one answers for so long.
I had my butt clenched the entire time b.c of how intense this is. Sick dodges left and right
The Kirby music makes this lit
Kirby music makes anything lit
This is both terrifying and hilarious at once. Super entertaining!
Ever tried Super 1-1 World in Mario Maker 2? Every level is a variant of the original 1-1. Some are pretty easy, while others are insanely hard.
Loved the music selection in this one. The cracked out enemies are giving me flashbacks to Kirby's Dream Land on Extra mode with 1HP. =/
15:35 I only mind people pronouncing things as if they were spelled completely differently, IF they insist on doing it AFTER they know better. There seems to be a global allergy to being corrected for some reason.
23:16 Legit slack-jawed during that.
I don't know why but the constant bullet bill sound effect is soothing to me
at about 12:50 is one of the most singularly impressive miracles i've seen in this game
this is why waluwigi is not in smash, this is a normal adventure for him. he is too powerful
Is there anybody crazy enough to speedrun this?
I mean, speedrunning it isn't a big deal. Kosmic is only dying this much because is his first time on these levels, but if someone memorizes all of them, they can speedrun them (in theory)
@@jestfullgremblim8002 Since it's a randomizer, wouldn't it be handled like MC random seed?
@@gaslit7442 i mean, there are seeded runs for MC speedruns.
If we talk about actually speedrunning random seeds then we might have a problem in our hands...
@@gaslit7442 but the thing is, this randomizer generates a whole new mario game that you use as a ROM, so you can analize it all you want and then attempt your speedrun. That's mostly how it would work because of how the randomizer works.
It depends on what the commenter meant by "this"
If they meant "these specific levels" then my answer applies. If they meant "A whole new, random world. Blindly" then you would be right
Edit: like, in the video, when Kosmic died, he didn't go in whole new run like you would do in a roguelike. So after defeating every level and memorizing them, he could have reseted this new ROM and potentially speedrun them properly. Level headed doesn't work like Minecraft or Roguelikes, so i bet that it's speedruns would work differently as well
I’m just imagining the Benny Hill theme playing whenever the super-fast enemies appear.
21:21 yoshiha12 "half a bullet bill, he won half a bullet bill" Lmao
Shoutouts to simpleflips
Music around 11:00ish? Sounds like compositions by Steve Reich or Dan Deacon played at 1.5-2x on Donkey Kong Country sound fonts and that portamento flute synth thing from Metroid Prime
i put all the music in the description. That one is from DKCR
SMB where every enemy is freakout LMAO
24:27 Epic Gamer™ wins coin flips during sick Piranha Plant pipe jumps. The Most Clutch Gamer™ Alive™™™
That run on 2-5 was pretty sick.
Here we catch a glimpse of the original original SMB2, before it was made easier for release in Japan
Gameplay, when Bowser took his "taking Mario down" job seriously
A TAS of this would be incredible
I come to this channel for the semantics and linguistics dialogue. Not disappointed.
0:25 the king
Fire underwater? You dno't see that in the regular game.
Oh wait. You do.
16:16 Finally someone understands!
Little did we know, this was footage of the new Nintendo game, Super Waluigi Bros.
"NICE :D
_dies_ , noooooooo :(
midway ?
YES :D"
Kosmic, the Ethan Hunt of Super Mario Bros.
I like the accurate cannon firing speed from the bullet launchers
10:36 a man of culture just earned yourself a sub
Bowser really upped his level design this time
1:32 that koopa had some coffee
Call of Mario: Mushroom Kingdom Warfare.
22:50 Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation