After 8 hours of making, 3 hours of playtesting, and some large amount of time protoyping the stage on the Wii U, I finally completed my first 100% original Super Mario Maker 2 Story Level!
I call it...
The Yoshis: A Tale Of Alliances!
The Code: 7VX-HDR-2TG
So to go into more detail than the in-game description: The story here is that Bowser has been on the run, but a local Yoshi couple that live in the mountains found his last hideout, so its up to them and you to defeat Bowser once and for all. As you can probably guess... things happen!
This level has more bite to it than my other two story levels, but I made sure that it was possible to complete without using the run button, and that most things needed to beat the level are tutorialized earlier. The exception is the "true ending" (there are two endings). The true ending, while you can probably guess how to do it near when you get the worse ending, does at least require you to use run. Unlike the Lakitu, theres actually a bit of challenge in getting this! But not too much.
I want to thank people on the Nintendo Era and Smogon discords (Poochy Parker in particular for Nintendo ERA, who I think is
The Poochy Kid ?) and Hulavuta from Smogon for pushing me to make this level less bland. I also want to thank my Brother for playtesting this level, it seems like its first iteration was probably more difficult than it should have been!
Phew, I think I'm gonna take a break from story levels for now (or at least until I get another good idea). I think I'll focus on more mechnically based levels now!