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Super Mario Maker is going to be the most fiendishly challenging Mario game of all time, well beyond "nails-from-diamonds hard," exclusively because it's guaranteed to have certifiably impossible levels. How can it not, when so many of us who love playing the Mario games haven't the first real clue of how to put together a satisfying course? We know, but we don't understand. (Edit: users will be able to report stages for inappropriate content, or if they simply do not work, and if a level's creator cannot complete their own stage, it will not be viable for sharing online.) This game is going to kill you, and kill you, and kill you, just like From Software's fantastically acclaimed series. You might not get a "You Died" screen every time Mario's toasted by a fireball after navigating 99 percent of any given stage's nasties, but the pain's the same: so much effort, for nothing. And the little messages are akin to those found in any Souls session—and you just know that sadistic sorts are going to fill them with misleading information. Try jumping? OK, sure… fuuuu… Dead. These bastards are going to measure their levels' success in rage quits.Super Mario Maker will have its breezy, family-friendly stages too, of course, the kind a dad (hi!) can enjoy with his kids on a rainy weekend. Nintendo gets "play," and it knows that what it's putting out are toys, more so than any other games developer. The company's 30th anniversary Mario title is one unlike anything that's come before it. It's a terrific gift, an invitation to innovate using iconic designs that have resisted the test of time superbly.Follow Mike Diver on Twitter.On Noisey: Video Game Music: Demystified