Was thinking the same thing. The Nintendo designers were always so meticulous about the design of the levels, especially what’s visible to a player at any given

Was thinking the same thing. The Nintendo designers were always so meticulous about the design of the levels, especially what’s visible to a player at any given point. To get a sense for this, watch this video [1] (from 7 years ago) walking through the design of level 1-1 of SMB. It’s crazy what (likely) went into planning the design of each level of the various Mario platformer games. But like OP, this is strictly looking at it from a gameplay perspective, ignoring the impressive technical feet that this is. [1] https://youtu.be/ZH2wGpEZVgE https://youtu.be/ZH2wGpEZVgE