Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX

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Screenshot from Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX, as Mario squares off with King Boo.

Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX is a non-profit fangame based on Nintendo's Super Mario series. It was released on July 30th, 2005. The game is a 2-D platform game created by game designer Ryan Bloom using the Clickteam Multimedia Fusion software authoring tool. It has been downloaded over 300,000 times and was featured on G4 television's Attack of the Show.

1 Plot
2 Gameplay
3 Reception
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] Plot

In the introduction, Princess Peach and Mario settle down to rest after another rescue from King Bowser. According to legend, a castle appears every Halloween to curse the land. The castle rises near Mario and the princess, and Bowser kidnaps her once again while fleeing within.

[edit] Gameplay

Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX has a total of twelve stages (including two secret areas) and seven bosses. Most stages are based on aspects of Halloween, including a graveyard, pumpkin patch, and haunted clock tower. The secret areas include Christmas and April Fools' Day themed stages.

Throughout the game, Mario is pitted against many traditional Mario series enemies with a Halloween twist, as well as several familiar bosses including King Boo, Kamek, and King Bowser. The bosses of the two secret stages are not from the Mario series, and one of them (the Pumpkin King) is an original creation. It is notable for being featured

Most of the music in the game stems from various Mario titles; notably Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and Super Mario World. Music was also reused from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!.

[edit] Reception

On the week of August 6, 2005, Blue Twilight was voted "Game of the Week" at The Daily Click^[1] and on August 19th, 2005, it was on G4's Attack of the Show for "Free Play Friday" ^[2]. However, when it was shown, Kevin Pereira accidentally gave out the information for the original Super Mario: Blue Twilight (the footage shown was of the newly released Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX). ^[3]. To date, it has had over 300,000 downloads total between the two versions (1.03 ^[4] and 1.04^[5]). It has also been briefly mentioned in GamesMaster ^[6] and the gaming blog Kotaku.com ^[7].