Ice platform
| Ice platform | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Model from New Super Mario Bros. U | |||
| First appearance | New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) | ||
| Latest appearance | New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (2019) | ||
| Variant of | Lift | ||
| |||
Ice platforms,[1] also referred to as sliding blocks,[2] are moving columnar lifts in New Super Mario Bros. Wii and New Super Mario Bros. U. They are composed of bluish, translucent ice and are of varying sizes. Their tops appear frosted over, similar to icy terrain. Like Ice Blocks and similar icy objects, the surface of ice platforms are slippery and they occur only in snow-themed levels. The player character is surefooted on ice platforms if they are in their Penguin form.
History[edit]
New Super Mario Bros. Wii[edit]
In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, ice platforms occur only in two levels within the snow-themed World 3. They are the primary platforms available in the first section of World 3-3. Most of them perpetually rise from the rightmost corner of an underground pool and float leftward. Once they reach the opposing wall of the pool, they sink. The part of the terrain they seem to flow through is a false wall that conceals one of the level's Star Coins. The ice platforms themselves are of various sizes and wobble slightly as they float. A pipe releases Goombas onto the ice platforms as they float by. A large ice platform near the rightmost portion of this section bobs up and down with an Ice Bro tossing Ice Balls on top of it.
In World 3-4, the ice platforms are on solid ground, there they slide between two opposing elevated pieces of terrain like hockey pucks. The player character has no means of stopping their movement and they are damaged if crushed between terrain and the platform. A very large ice platform is the only footing available in order to cross a large chasm towards the right of the level.
New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U / New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe[edit]
Ice platforms appear only in Cooligan Fields, where they extend from bottomless pits. Cooligans belly-slide across them as they shift up and down, teetering slightly. The ice platforms are so tall that their bottoms are not visible to the player. In New Super Luigi U, three stout ice platforms occur at the base of Ice-Slide Expressway, where they bob up and down in water.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 氷リフト[3] Kōri Rifuto |
Ice Lift |
References[edit]
- ^ Bueno, Fernando (2009). New Super Mario Bros. Wii: PRIMA Official Game Guide. Roseville: Prima Games. ISBN 978-0-3074-6767-6. Page 60.
- ^ Bueno, Pages 66–67.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "New Super Mario Bros. U" in 『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106569-8. Page 150, 215.
