I lava good challenge.

The final batch of levels from Book 3 are lava-based adventures that frustrate and challenge.

Playing with a character that can jump repeatedly helps to get out of tight spots, but we have a character that must remain in contact with the floor. As such, the first challenge Magma Road features Toadette at top-speed (as she steps on the red and yellow pads from Super Mario 3D World) and a complicated course moving forward, right, back, left and across narrow paths - and even around circles!

This is followed by the equally challenging, yet sufficiently different Sinking Scaffold that has a tall tower getting alarmingly less tall as Toadette scales it. Awkward camera angles add to the misery of snaking her way through the channels and pillars as she heads to the top of the tower.

Towards the end of Book 3 I finally saw this appear:

It's fair to say these levels depleted a fairly good stock of Toads and Toadettes. Roughly 20 were lost in total trying to complete these levels.

Oh, and incidentally, no sooner had I blogged about the lack of levels that rotate, than I get to enjoy one on the next level! It's still not up to the standard set by Super Mario 3D World, but it was still fun to play one.