For this month's "Maps Of The Month" featurette, I wish to draw your attention to RyuMaster's Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy) maps.
Super Mario takes on a variety of Zones in his last big adventure on the first Nintendo portable, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, in search for, well, six golden coins. These will unlock the door to Mario's castle which has been taken over by the evil Wario. Can Mario reclaim Mario Land?
This game is a decent Game Boy adventure, if a little strange. The setting and the enemies are definitely cartoony, but not quite like in other Mario games. For example, the Pumpkin Zone has... hockey-masked creatures with a knife in their head? Even if they are just Goombas dressed for Halloween in this Jack O'Lantern-styled zone, it does seem a little strange - a Mario game is the last place you'd expect to see a Friday The 13th reference. And when has Mario ever lived in his own castle?
Mario's ownership extends past his castle, as before Wario took this over, this was all "Mario Land". It includes the Mario Zone, which is a giant mechanical Mario (for some reason). The other Zones include the Tree Zone, the Space Zone, the Macro Zone, the Pumpkin Zone, and the Turtle Zone, which RyuMaster, master of Game Boy maps, has dissected for us! This portable odyssey of Super Mario's is immortalized here on VGMaps so it can't be forgotten. This interesting take on Mario does have one lasting thing, though - it introduced the Mario's rival, the greedy Wario!
So for mapping this Super Mario oddity, RyuMaster's Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy) maps will be known as VGMaps.com's Maps Of The Month for October 2017.
