January Retro Community Playthrough - Mischief Makers

[techwizard]

This new-fangled year of 2014 is off to a mischievous start with Mischief Makers for Nintendo 64! The votes are in and though it was a tie between this and Paper Mario, the Community Playthrough hosts broke it with this great hidden gem. Paper Mario will definitely be on the back burner for a future playthrough.

Overview:
During a visit to Planet Clancer, Professor Theo is kidnapped by the evil Emperor! His maid Marina Liteyears jumps to action and sets out to save him.

Platform:
Nintendo 64

Checkpoints:
Week 1: Finish world 1
Week 2: Finish world 2 and 3
Week 3: Finish world 4
Week 4: Beat the game/improve your times and gems!

Achievements:
1. Get all gold gems

2. High score challenge #1: Have the most red gems total

• 1st: Stigzilla - 687
• 2nd: Techwizard - 298

3. High score challenge #2: Fastest level completion times (list levels separately, you can check times by pressing B in the level select)

• 1-1 - Stigzilla - 0m46s42 - A
• 1-2 - Stigzilla - 6m11s18 - D
• 1-3 - Stigzilla - 5m10s73 - C
• 1-4 - techwizard - 2m33s23 - C
• 1-5 - Stigzilla - 5m42s28 - D
• 1-6 - techwizard - 1m51s18 - B
• 1-7 - techwizard - 1m16s47 - B
• 1-8 - Stigzilla - 1m45s85 - B
• 1-9 - techwizard - 5m32s87 - D
• 1-10 - Stigzilla - 1m01s45 - B
• 2-1 - Stigzilla - 4m02s30 - C
• 2-2 - Stigzilla - 4m31s68 - C
• 2-3 - Stigzilla - 2m27s20 - C
• 2-4 - Stigzilla - 4m03s80 - C
• 2-5 - techwizard - 1m29s50 - B
• 2-6 - techwizard - 1m02s02 - B
• 2-7 - Stigzilla - 4m40s55 - C
• 2-8 - Stigzilla - 3m25s25 - C
• 2-9 - techwizard - 3m30s22 - C
• 2-10 - techwizard - 3m17s98 - C
• 2-11 - Stigzilla - 9m39s67 - D
• 3-1 - techwizard - 3m26s23 - C
• 3-2 - techwizard - 2m01s38 - B
• 3-3 - Stigzilla - 4m45s12 - C
• 3-4 - techwizard - 3m44s05 - C
• 3-5 - techwizard - 7m08s77 - D
• 3-6 - Stigzilla - 1m40s65 - B
• 3-7 - techwizard/Stigzilla - -m--s-- - D
• 3-8 - techwizard - 0m49s02 - B
• 3-9 - techwizard - 3m57s92 - C
• 3-10 - Stigzilla - 2m58s85 - A
• 3-11 - Stigzilla - 0m56s97 - B
• 3-12 - Stigzilla - 3m39s65 - C
• 4-1 - techwizard - 6m04s23 - D
• 4-2 - Stigzilla - 2m15s47 - B
• 4-3 - techwizard/Stigzilla - -m--s-- - D
• 4-4 - techwizard - 6m36s77 - D
• 4-5 - Stigzilla - 1m20s22 - B
• 4-6 - Stigzilla - 4m49s30 - C
• 4-7 - techwizard/Stigzilla - -m--s-- - D
• 4-8 - Stigzilla - 1m26s47 - B
• 4-9 - techwizard - 2m02s47 - B
• 4-10 - techwizard - 2m45s62 - C
• 4-11 - Stigzilla - 5m12s78 - C
• 5-1 - Stigzilla - 6m56s15 - D
• 5-2 - techwizard - 1m01s85 - B
• 5-3 - Stigzilla - 1m06s13 - A
• 5-4 - Stigzilla - 2m53s47 - C
• 5-5 - Stigzilla - 5m44s12 - C
• 5-6 - Stigzilla - 9m38s57 - D
• 5-7 - Stigzilla - 2m23s48 - B
• 5-8 - techwizard/Stigzilla - -m--s-- - D

4. Get at least 5 S ranks

5. Finish the game

• Techwizard
• Disposed Hero
• Stigzilla

6. High score challenge #3: Fastest game completion time (use the time listed under the menu where you hit B during level select. that time tracks your actual completed level times, the overall file time tracks time even when paused so it will unfairly pad your total time)

• 1st: Stigzilla - 4h00m42s60 - C
• 2nd: Techwizard - 4h28m01s12 - C

Participants:
techwizard
Disposed Hero
singlebanana
Shadow Kisuragi
Stigzilla

[Disposed Hero]

I have no clue what this game is, but I have a copy of it, so I might as well play along.  Count me in!

[Shadow Kisuragi]

SHAKE SHAKE

Game's ~5 hours long total for your first playthrough.

[singlebanana]

I'm in for sure.

[Fleach]

If the game is roughly 5 hours long maybe a speedrun would be a good achievement?

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Existing speedrun is just under an hour. I'd say under 3 would probably be a good starter, possibly under 2.

[techwizard]

alright everything is updated on the first post! really sorry for the delay, i've been pretty busy.

[singlebanana]

No worries. Looks like some fun achievements. I plan on getting started tonight.

[Disposed Hero]

Has anybody else been playing this?  I played the first few levels and still don't feel like I know what this game is about.  I went into this playthrough blind with no prior knowledge of the game.  Before playing it, I thought it would be a 3D platformer, then right after starting it I thought it would be a sidescrolling shooter similar to Mega Man, but turns out it's a 2D platformer.  At least, that's my impression for now.  It could change yet again after another level or two. 

I found the first couple of levels really boring since nothing really happens and it's mostly just tutorials.  It got better with the next couple of levels though.  I'm still only half way through the first world, so I feel like I still haven't seen much of what the game has to offer.  Controls take some getting used to, although I'm sure the clumsy N64 controller isn't helping, but I think I'm finally starting to grasp it.

[singlebanana]

I played last night and made it to level 2-2. I'm still trying to get a grip on the controls and am having a bit of a problem with elevating my jumps after grabbing onto the face/ball thingys. Yeah, the story is kind of quick and without a lot of familiarity with the controls, I seem to be leaving quite a lot of gems behind every level. I did enjoy the boss fight with the worm though.

At this point, my goal is to playthrough without achievements in mind and come back for those after I get a better handle on the controls.

I will go ahead and say that the N64 is not my favorite system and as a result, I'm very new to the controls. I'm interested to see how this plays out for me and hope to gain a better appreciation for this game and the system as this playthrough moves along.  

[Shadow Kisuragi]

The story will develop as you play through the worlds.

[techwizard]

finished World 1 last night! i'm glad it didn't take long because i felt bad about changing week 1's checkpoint with only a couple days left. i'm considering week 2 as starting now because week 1 started on a wednesday

[techwizard]

how's everyone doing on this one? do we have anymore participants that want to get in on it? there were 5 votes in favour of it but only 3 people listed as playing so far.

i did a level or 2 of world 2 over the weekend (was busy with friends) but i plan on putting in some more time tonight. really enjoying it so far, and i see what you mean about shake shake shadow

[Disposed Hero]

I spent a little bit of time with this last night.  I'm still not quite finished with World 1 yet, but I'm starting to warm up to this game a bit.  Levels 1-6 and 1-7 were a refreshing change of pace from the previous levels.  I'll try to spend some more time with this game tonight or tomorrow.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

SHAKE SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE... Heheheh.
I'll join in with you guys in the next couple days if possible. The main reason I haven't been playing along is that the controller will bother my wife and she's hard at work, so I've been trying to keep her in mind when playing things in the room.

I guess HA and YEAH might be the ones you hear more, but that's the one that sticks with you.

TRY TO THE NEXT LEVEL.