[ShadowMarth]

Well dying I have done plenty of times. Just that I've never once seen the Game Over screen. If you know where to get them, you can get like, ten extra lives every time you start the game, and five more every time you re-enter the hub world. After a three hour play session I had accrued over 50 spare lives, without even bothering with all those bonus shrooms scattered about the hub world. Kind of ridiculous. The difficulty is excellent, just after Sunshine I expected it to be harder. Hopefully once I get up into the higher stars there will be some more challenging ones.