Super Mario Maker player finally beats his own 'impossible' level after 4,368 hours

Super Mario Maker's 'impossible' level
(Image credit: Nintendo/ChainChompBraden)

After six years of effort and 4,368 hours of playtime, one Super Ma🌱rio Maker creator has finally defeated his own i🃏mpossible level.

Braden 'ChainChompBraden' Moor first built his level, called Trials of Death, in 2016. It's built in the Super Mario World style, and involves taking advantage of pretty much every little physics trick in the game. You can watch the🎀 successful run on , but if you're not already familiar with ultra-difficult Mario courses, it may not make a lot of sense.

Di🎃d you know you can stand on top of a P switch for a fraction of second to enter doors or jump to new heights? Imagine pulling off that sort of millisecond-precise trick dozens of times in the course of playing through what's already the most ridiculous Mario level you've ever seen, and you might have an idea of what Trials of Death looks 𒆙like.

Moor completed Trials of Death on September 30, 2022, with The Rumbling, one of the Attack on Titan the﷽mes, appropriately blaring in the background. "Not only was I unable to process it then, but days later I still f🌌eel like I haven't processed it yet," Moor told in the latest of the numerous interviews he's had with the outlet.

Part of why the level's been so difficult to beat is that Moor has kept making it harder. In 2016, he told that "Every time I found myself improving, I started feeling as though the level didn't meet my eꦛxpectations in terms of difficulty. That's part of the reason why this has been such a long project. It's an endless cycle of improvem𓆏ent."

That was even true in the final months leading up to this accomplishment - he'd just tweaked one of the leᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚvels final jumps to make it harder just a few months earlier. On the final, successful attempt, he says "I was about to get my first chance at the 'new' jump, and I was ready to call that in itself the progress for the day. But to my - and everyone watching's surprise - I hit the jump."

If you're itching to try Trials of Death for yourself, there's bad 🌊news - this is a Super Mario Maker level, not a stage in Super Mario Maker 2. In the time since Moor started building this monstrosity, Nintendo shut down level uploads in the original Wii 💖U game, so Trials of Death now exists only on his console. Maybe it's for the best that the rest of us are spared the pain.

If you want something more reasonable to play, one person has created their own Super Mario Bros. 5, and you can always check out our guide to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Super Mario Maker 2 levels.

Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearไly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.