Skewer: Difference between revisions

====''Super Mario World'' / ''Super Mario Advance 2''====

Skewers, referred to as '''pistons''' in the [[Prima Games|Prima]] game guide,<ref>Bueno, Fernando. ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Pages 88, 121, 148, 149.</ref> make a comeback in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', where their coloration is black and they now spin as they move. In addition, their spikes are patterned through out the pillar rather than uniformly aligned on the front and sides of it. The game introduces a very long and extremely fast Skewer that runs along the floor for the length of a long room in {{world-link|4|castle|World 4-Castle (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)}}, and very large vertical ones in {{world-link|6|tower|World 6-Tower (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 6-Tower}} and {{world-link|7|castle|World 7-Castle (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)}}. The three levels are the only appearances of Skewers in the game.

Skewers from ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'', referred as Spike Pillars, make a return in ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'', making their first appearance in a 3D ''Mario'' game; they are no longer in castles, instead appearing on two [[airship]] levels. They are colored to be dark blue rather than black. Spike Pillars typically face the player to take advantage of the [[Nintendo 3DS]] 3D effects, occupy the length of the platform they are shooting out from, and they always give a small movement before they shoot out. In addition, all Spike Pillars make a sound when they are moving. They cannot be destroyed, even while invincible; as [[Statue Mario]] or [[Invincible Mario]] (including [[White Tanooki Mario]]), they are like walls if run into with these powers.

In ''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', Skewers make a reappearance as rare obstacles. However, unlike past ''New Super Mario Bros.'' installments, they take their coloration from ''Super Mario 3D Land'', and twenty of them appear only in one, auto-scrolling course, {{world-link|3|towern2|World 3-Tower (New Super Mario Bros. 2)}}, which is a water-filled course, similar to how the first two installments of the series have Skewers introduced in water-themed courses, and only horizontal Skewers are featured. Skewers in the game can defeat [[Fish Bone|Fishbone]]s. The first appearances of the rows of Skewers are located right next to the [[Checkpoint Flag]] halfway through the level, and they move very slowly through the water, taking around 13 in-game seconds when they hit and retract. Two pairs of them hit the walls that enclose the Checkpoint Flag, while two pairs surround the top and bottom parts. Further up the level before the pipe that leads to the boss door, three more pairs of Skewers are encountered, moving quicker through the water than the first, taking 10 in-game seconds to complete their cycle; in this part, players can take cover in between walls to protect themselves from the Skewers. In the secret exit route of the level that requires [[Mini Mario (form)|Mini Mario]] to access, six Skewers are featured, with the first two being separate Skewers. Later above, two pairs of Skewers that hit each other appear with the moving platforms that can crush the player.

Skewers reprise all of the aformementioned roles in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe]]''.

====''Super Mario Maker'' / ''Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS'' / ''Super Mario Maker 2''====

Skewers return in ''[[Super Mario Maker]]'' as an addition in a software update that was released on March 9, 2016. They function identically to their previous iterations, activating every few seconds, but with some differences. Their tips have been flattened, they come with a base that they shoot out of, and have a maximum length of 13 blocks long and the base, unless they hit terrain. They tear through bricks unhindered and also are able to destroy other harder blocks, but stop and recede after doing so. If they hit a Note Block, they release objects inside of them. [[Donut Block]]s are the only destructible platforms that can block Skewers. In ''Super Mario Maker'' they warn players by pushing inward and then releasing, which is the opposite of the behavior from Skewers in previous games where they inch out and then slam into an object. They do not spin when they are retracting. Skewers additionally cannot hit each other unlike in the previous ''New Super Mario Bros.'' games, and they do not interact with enemies and certain objects such as [[P Switch]]es, [[POW Block]]s, and [[Trampoline]]s.

Skewers can be used by shaking a Thwomp; however, they cannot be enlarged with [[Super Mushroom]]s. In ''[[Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS]]'', Skewers are standalone course elements and are no longer created by shaking a Thwomp.

 

This is a list of the following official courses where Skewers have been used in:

|'''Official courses'''

|'''Event courses'''

|'''Super Mario Challenge'''

;''Super Mario Maker 2''

|'''Individual jobs

In ''[[Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3]]'', Skewers appear appear only in [[Course No.19]] in the second main area of [[Sherbet Land]], where they are found underwater protruding out of ice cubes in a constant, fixed pattern. Unlike Skewers from the ''Super Mario'' series, players can see the blunt end of them through the ice. The ones that bob up and down are covered with spikes, while the ones that move side to side appear to be made out of wood and are only tipped with a spike, resembling [[Spike (Super Mario World)|Spike]]s from ''Super Mario World''. Despite this, making contact from any angle is just as harmful, making it an aesthetic difference.

[[Jagged Jewels]], a Key Temple level in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D]]'' contains some cylindrical, vertically-oriented Skewer-like obstacles, where they are found around the second [[Puzzle Piece (Donkey Kong Country series)|Puzzle Piece]], referred to as '''spiked shafts''' in the [[Prima Games|Prima]] guide<ref>"''The third Puzzle Piece hovers over a '''spiked shaft'''. […] The next Puzzle Piece is below a '''spiked shaft'''.''" &mdash; '''Michael Knight''', ''Donkey Kong Country Returns [[Prima Games|Prima]] Official Game Guide. Page 161''</ref>. These are encrusted with rows of sharp purple jewels, serving as spikes, and end with a large, similar pointy gem on their top. Much like the Skewers in the ''Mario'' games, spiked shafts are indestructible; they shoot vertically, moving back to their starting point after a strike and repeating the action, though they do not hit obstacles such as walls or ceilings. Their movements are quick, but they always signal their darting with a brief tremble and make a slashing noise when they activate. The first three spiked shafts move at succeeding times and are facing upward, while the next set of three spiked shafts alternate between pointing up and down and move slower than the other spiked shafts. The last two spiked shafts point upward.

Five Skewers appear in the 4-player minigame from ''[[Mario Party: Island Tour]]'', [[Kabob and Weave]] (Squish Kebab in the British English version of the game), where players must simply avoid them. They are inspired from their appearance in ''Super Mario 3D Land'' where they face the screen. At the beginning of the minigame, the middle Skewer hits Blue Toad. In the British English version of the game, they are referred to as "Spike Pillars".

Skewers reappear in ''[[Mario Party 10]]'' in the 1 vs. 2 or 3 minigame [[Skewer Scurry]], where the solo player controls them by selecting the direction they want them to activate in, while the other players need to avoid them by taking cover where the walls stop the Skewers. Skewers give a spinning warning to indicate what direction was pressed for the solo player. The solo player can additionally quickly change direction of which Skewers are going to activate to fake-out players. They appear as an obstacle in [[Chaos Castle]] on the [[Unlucky Space]]s to take away ten [[Mini Star]]s from the player if the vehicle stops on it and launching the vehicle to the beginning of the other fork in the route. Once this happens, the Skewer in question retracts, causing the Unlucky Space in question to transform into a [[Green Space]].

[[File:3DS SmashBros scrnS01 07 E3.png|thumb|[[Fox McCloud]] and [[Mega Man]], hit by Skewers in ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]''.]]

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