Late Night Mario
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Late Night Mario was named Game of the Month in August 2010. |
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| Developer(s) | Glukom |
| Announce Date | Jul 27, 2010 |
| Release Date | Jul 28, 2010 |
| Genre | Adventure/Platformer |
| Players | 1 |
| Input | Keyboard |
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| Platform | Windows |
| Status | Released |
Late Night Mario, originally known as Late Night Topic, is a fangame for Windows, developed by Glukom for the first Joke Game Contest, which he won. A sequel, Late Night Mario 2 has been announced, and is planned to be released in the middle of September 2010.
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Gameplay
Late Night Mario is a 2D platformer/adventure game, in which the player takes up the role of Mario, and jumps/runs through two levels. Mario defeats the Kremits by jumping on them, but dies when they walk into him, not entirely unlike the Goombas in Super Mario Bros. The other enemy type, the Suns, are not possible to defeat, so the player has to dodge them instead.
Story
Reception
Late Night Mario received mostly praise from its reviewers; MoneyMan stated that "Late Night Mario is an Amunounovstremesome game that will change your life. It sure changed mine", and gave it a full 10/10 score. Sorario stated that it has "solid gameplay, story, art, and a memorable soundtrack", making it a "must play for anyone who calls themself a fan of videogames". He gave the game a 8/10. VinnyVideo called the level design mediocre, and said that the game was too short, but rounded up the review with "a couple of beers is all it takes for you to see all of this game's cleverness and none of its serious flaws", giving it a 7/10.
Late Night Mario did also receive a few reviews with lower scores. CrystalMike, the first person to give it a score below 7/10, said that the game has no good points at all. He ended the review by saying that Late Night Mario is a "terrible game, too badly drawn and the only thing that seemed Mario-like were the characters", and rated the game 2/10, the lowest score the game has received yet as of writing. After the publishing of CrystalMike's review, he was greeted by a horde of MFGGers disagreeing loudly about his review: DJ Yoshiman called the review a "nice troll review"; Char said that "this is a terrible review :(", stating that "someone has never heard of jokes before apparently".
In the game's comments section, people were talking about how good/bad they found the game. Mariofan128 originally said "This is the worst game Ive ever seen. I hate it. It's a terrible concept. MFGG's quality control is terrible if they have accepted this. DONT make more games", but his comment was changed to "This is the best game Ive ever seen. I love it. It's an astounding concept. MFGG's quality control is terribly awesome if they have accepted this. PLEASE make more games" by the staff.
Development
Sequel
As Late Night Mario gained quite some attention from the MFGG community, and became very popular, Glukom decided to make a sequel, called Late Night Mario 2. On Sep 4, 2010, Glukom announced that the game will be released in the middle of September 2010, so that he can "win it [the game of the month award] this month too". Other than that, very few details have been announced yet, but it is known that Late Night Mario 2 will more or less be in the same style as the first Late Night Mario game, but with a deeper story, improved graphics, and more (and longer) levels. One new power-up, unofficially known as Manly Mario has been announced. It's currently unknown what the power-up's effects are and how to obtain it, but it will give Mario a more manly and angry look.
