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The Pianta Village "secret," for example, wasn't entirely a "trial and error" situation for me. I used Mario's first-person view to line myself up with the people and I took it from there.


Yeah, but I had to go through some trial and error just to figure out that lining up was necessary.

EDIT: To clarify that, as far as I can tell, with the exception of the characters in that stage, the location throwing characters will toss you is fixed, irrespective of how or where you talk to them. In fact, that also seems true for the first couple in that very stage.

And when you're thrown vertically upward, it seems like you go in an arc.

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