@ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴇᴍᴇᴢ ғᴀɴ
Unpopular opinion, but I actually like “SMB Lost Levels.” I disagree, it’s a “troll game,” as in hindsight it is better designed then most fan troll hard games. And had some gameplay improvements over the first SMB, as 1ups and secret coin rooms are more common. (And the hidden 1ups don’t disapear if you don’t get every coin in the previous X-3 stage, I never inderstood why SMB1 had that infair feature.) The developers even admitted they intentionally made situations where you could grind for 1ups to make up for the difficilty too.
Maybe because I played it sense I was a kid, (and kinda mastered it, as I can breeze through it with 20 lives left now) I don’t mind the challenge much, or because I grew up with old hard games.
Lost Levels seemed easier to me then Castlevania 3 or the first Megaman to me.