Super Mario Maker Course - Take the High Road (Hard Route)

Course ID: F676-0000-0086-41D2

(**This video is a full run of the "difficult" path and its bonuses in this two-path level, and so spoils several solutions. Watch none or skip around to get a general idea of the level if you want to otherwise be surprised and work out how to overcome some obstacles yourself**)

On a whim, I picked up the GamePad and started messing around in the editor again. I figured I'd try and make another underground level, but I wasn't entirely sure what to do with it

The first thing I did was actually move the underground section to a sub-area, with the main area set to the overworld style, to give it kind of an authentic "Super Mario Bros." feel in that you enter the underground section immediately after starting, and exit before finishing

As I started designing, I started with the upper, more difficult path with intent to allow access to bonuses in the overworld from there. I wanted to create "Coin Heaven" areas, but since the music has to be attached to an object that follows you around to remain persistent, I decided to use Lakitu's Cloud and have you fly around collecting stuff. I just threw down some track for the first one and thought it looked good (added the "windows" when I noticed it looked like a house), and decided to do another track pattern for the second

The upper path is designed so that you can only enter if you've found a hidden Fire Flower. Otherwise, the Pipe and Piranha Plant pattern doesn't allow you to make it all the way through alive. Since I started it with a timed skill jumps, I decided that that would be the theme for this section

After completing the upper "difficult" path, I decided to make the lower path "easy" so that overall it wouldn't be such a pain in 100 Mario Challenge. Obviously, I couldn't help myself and still made it very slightly challenging