User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 23

'''Linerider: Super Mario Galaxy! (December 12, 2007) [Runtime: 1:40, making it beat “Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Makes Me Happy!” as the new shortest story.]'''

Prelude:

So to give some history for this one, Linerider is a video game developed in 2006 by Boštjan Čadež, whom for the sake of my sanity I will never refer to again by name. He ended up creating this game for a class and uploaded it to Deviantart in 2006. It later blew up and became rather popular, or at least that’s what I’ve read online. So, being rather popular in the 2006-2007 period and being a free online game, I don’t suppose it’s a shock that MM would choose to have it be the subject for a video. What I do find odd, however, is that this is the only video where he uses this game for video effect. I don’t blame him since it would get boring quickly seeing videos of a guy skating through black and white drawings, but it’s kind of unlike MM to visit something and then just forget it for any other of his videos.

This is less than two minutes so this is going to be a quick video and review as a result. So, let’s go ahead and see what MM created in Linerider! Also yes, if you’re curious, MM has a deviantart account. However I don’t feel like we need to visit that cursed place at all so we’re going to ignore it for now.

See this video first though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9eYJfeAYrA&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=23

The Main Video:

This video can be summed up as MM54321 making his sled run through a Super Mario Galaxy-inspired course. Ah yes, Super Mario Galaxy was released by this time, wasn't it. You’ll grow to know that this is perhaps one of MM54321’s favorite games of all time and thus will get referenced a lot in the upcoming videos. And I mean, it contributes hugely towards his universe. I’ll talk more about it later, though, for a video that’s probably more important than this one. We also have Scatman’s World as the music for this video. Scatman Counter: 14.

As for the Linerider guy, his goal in this is to get a star at the end of the level. He ends up sliding through drawings that are...well all I can say is that it’s about the best someone who I’m guessing doesn’t draw all that much can do. But eh, it’s no fun not mocking these drawings, so I’ll be as brief as possible. There’s star bits that look like meteors, a launch star that doesn’t look like a launch star at all and a slope that somehow makes a mountain curve that makes Mount Crumpet look tame in comparison. Plus there’s random lines everywhere that don’t really fit in, though I guess that’s more to help with the flow of the sled than anything. There was an attempt, but that’s all I can really say without being too negative. Eventually he gets to the end and grabs a star, but since Linerider doesn’t allow you to collect stars he just falls off and gets stuck in a black hole instead. He presumably died. Also it's probably best if I show you some images as well:

And that just about ends the video! Yeah I told you this would be a short one, I really don’t have much else to talk about.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Linerider Guy - 6 lines [100%] (Can we have him as the new main protagonist? Because honestly he’s already better than tons of other characters).

Total Lines: 6

Um...this is a bit of a pickle. If there’s only one character that appears in a video, then it would be a bit unfair to use the Biggest Chad and the Biggest Loser awards, wouldn’t it? To be fair, Linerider Guy could apply for both. He could win Biggest Loser because he did drive past a star and died in a Black Hole like a chump. On the other hand, he used a sleigh to get through a pretty steep course and that’s quite the feat for Biggest Chad. However earning the Biggest Chad or Biggest Loser awards means that you had to have competition for them. I can’t just accept that the same person is both for being the only one to exist. Therefore, I’m making a participation award for this special type of scenario.

Biggest Loner: Linerider Guy - That’s right, he gets the Biggest Loner award for being the only character in this video. No one else liked the sled enough to be in his game, so it makes sense that he’s a perpetual loner.

Favorite Quote: “Too bad!” - The game. (Said when the Linerider Guy fell right into the black hole.)

Well that was brief. Next time we’ll get to an actual Mario video.