Forest of Illusion.

My apologies for the length of time between posts, and my apologies again when I tell you that I haven't even finished the forest of illusion. The wait for this post was caused by my preoccupation with World of Warcraft (shameful I know) and then my complete new found obsession with Borderlands. BTW, Borderlands is so awesome, everyone should play it. I found a purple (which apparently means epic) gun that Joe is so jealous of, it makes it ten times better to play the game. Anyways, added to this, when I went to complete the last level of the forest , it looped my back to the pond level, and I can't, for the love of god and all that is holy, cannot find the correct way through it.Until now, I was planning on writing a blog bragging about my vast improvements at Mario as I was breezing through the levels like a bat outta hell. I thought I was the greatest pimp to ever pimp. I was dodging plants, actually keeping yoshi past the halfway point instead of losing him right away, and dying less often. When I finished the pond level, I had accidentally aggro'd every little puffer fish and had a dramatic chase to the finish. I ended up yelling, "take that! stupid horde of puffer fish!!" in which Joe responded I was too cocky. And I was, cause once again it all went downhill from there.The level that I thought was just another level but is actually a tricky level, a level of illusion if you will, took me a while to beat in the first place. Those dudes on they're clouds with their tricky dangling 1 ups proved to be too tempting for me to just leave alone. Even when I learned my lesson and did avoid that little mushroom I'd still accidentally jump into it at some point and then get fireballs thrown at me and die. So when I finally beat the level, you can imagine my horror as I watched the path lead back 2 levels instead of forward.
"What? Why did it do that??" I whined at Joe, to which he responded, "because there is a secret way to beat the level to proceed."
"but why? WHY??"
"Because it's called the forest of illusion, brainiac."
"Can you tell me how to do it?"
"Nope. that would be controversial to your blog."
"I'll still play, you just need to tell me where to go..."
"nope. I can't remember how to beat it anyways."
And that was that. He totally knows how to beat it too...he's just jealous of my sweet ass shotgun in Borderlands (omg so awesome). So I turn to you. World 5, Forest of Illusion 4: how the hell do I beat it?? I might not be trying hard enough, but I need some hints in the right direction! PLEASE! You don't need a blogspot account to add a comment, you can comment anonymously also, so just comment it up and tell me how to get through this.
The fate of this blog and my sanity is left in your hands.

Cheese Bridge, Cookie Mountain, and Ludwig's Castle.

I took this photo in Hot Topic when I was in the states and forgot to put it up, but thought it was appropriate for my blog as it is awesome. However, I did not have 58.00 to blow on a tshirt material hoodie, so I took the picture of me wearing it instead.

Joe needed a break from watching me play, so my poor cat Josie decided to take his place by my side during these levels. Worst idea for a small silent animal, like ever. Sometimes, while playing, I get really fed up and fling my arms out to my sides with an exasperated "OH MY GOD!" and normally just hit Joe. This time, however, I may have accidently punched my cat. Like 5 times. And also, maybe scared her half to death a few times with my random outbursts of rage towards my little DS. Needless to say, she has been avoiding me, even when I am not playing the game.

Cheese Bridge was frustrating, with all it's blades and shit, but I actually got through it pretty fast and can proudly say I have no frustrations to share with you that I can remember. I definitely died quite a few times, but it was mostly the usual jumping down holes and running into enemies because of my toe thumbs, nothing out of the ordinary. Cookie Mountain, actually, was not too bad either. The only trouble I encountered was when I went down this tube, struggled to get past this stupid puffer fish only to find out that the tube only took me back in the level, not forward. I could see the rest of the level being a struggle for me, but, as luck would have it, I got a star and finished the level at warp speed. And then there was Ludwig.

Ludwig's castle was what caused me to accidently beat my cat. Spikey balls on chains suck balls. So do Spikey roofs. Together, the two create a vortex of things that suck balls. I spent the majority of my time trying to master the two together and get to the halfway point. Not even the boss, the halfway point. Then come the fences. I kind of enjoyed climbing the fences, because I had to do it so many times, I actually saw myself improve at it. This is a big deal for me because I suck so hard at all the levels, ALL THE TIME. So by the time I actually got to Ludwig the time I beat him, I was feeling pretty good. It took more attempts then usual to kill him, though, and when I finally did beat him, I threw my arms out in triumph and hit my cat again. Honestly, it was not a good day for her.

I can honestly say that I am feeling better about playing after coming to a realization brought to me by none other then Buddah Joe. Through this level, and my cat can vouch, I got a little rage filled. It was not unusual to hear me speaking in tongues and flailing around like a psychotic banshee. So after three nights of this getting progressively worse, Joe finally turned around from his computer and yelled "Stop raging! what is wrong with you!" to which I furiously responded, "I'm playing MARIO, what do you think is wrong with me!?" and this is when the realization came to me that I probably suck so bad because I rage at the game so much. So I toned down the rage and calmed myself, and I can happily report that what I've played so far of the Forest of Illusion is going pretty well. Am I an evolving gamer?