

Endless Game: Played with, as the stage layouts don't actually repeat until mountain 32 is cleared.Edible Collectible: Four stolen vegetables are dropped in the Bonus Stage top part of each level, and can be recovered for points.Drop the Hammer: Nana and Popo's weapons of choice are hammers, which they can use to either bop birds or seals/yetis over the head or smash the ice floor above them to jump up to it.Death Throws: Nana and Popo's death animations involve them getting thrown offscreen.The first 24 have a blue mountain peak while the latter 24 have a red peak. The Goomba: The Yeti/Topi will not actively try to attack you.Excuse Plot: Something about the condor stealing all the vegetables.In VS., a player is given re-access to previous mountains once all 48 of them are cleared. Hitbox Dissonance: In most platformers, you have to be right on top of a platform when you're trying to land on it.The most they are concerned with is repairing the stages.

It's All Upstairs from Here: Each level involves scaling a mountain, one floor at a time.Inconveniently Placed Conveyor Belt: Takes a form of surfaces of diagonal lines.An Ice Suit: The player characters wear sensible arctic clothing, the polar bears wear swim trunks.In this game, to get to higher levels, you typically have to slightly overlap a higher platform as you're jumping up in order to land on it. Jump Physics: Besides the Hitbox Dissonance, the Ice Climber can't control their direction of jumping so well once they're in the air.If a floor has scrolled off the bottom of the screen, it cannot be re-visited dropping down to it causes the player to lose a life.

Nintendo Hard: The game has a terrible jumping mechanic which makes missing platforms and falling down fairly easy.It's tricky, but you can also harm Nitpickers this way by having their mallets hit them as they jump. One-Hit-Point Wonder: One hit from a falling icicle or an enemy and Popo and Nana are down another life.increases the difficulty by adding a new enemy type and a wind mechanic in certain mountains. Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Nana is female and wears a pink parka, Popo is male and wears a blue parka.Much like several other Nintendo protagonists.
