User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 7

'''Mario’s Pixelated Nightmare!! (September 2nd, 2007) [Runtime: 4:16]'''

Prelude:

Fun fact: the length of time between this video and MM54321’s previous one is noticeably the longest break so far, about 17 days in total. The previous ones ended up coming out within the same 8 days of each other, so this is a notable period of wait indeed. The wait will only get longer as time goes on, so I’ll keep track of the waiting periods. I doubt we’ll have any competition for this spot until 2010 though once we get into 2008 and 2009’s content.

I don’t think there’s anything else to say for introducing this video other than speaking more about Rice’s Video Plugin from the last review. There’s another thing to change textures called Toad’s Tool 64, which also edits objects in-game. So basically MM could be using either program to edit textures, but at some point he’s exclusively going to use Rice Video Plugin. I’ll point that out when the time comes, though, so for now take that little nugget of information in as we watch the video.

View this short video first though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg3XdwfvhoI&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=7

The Main Video:

We start this one with a blue screen displaying...oh wait no we have an intro this time? As in a proper intro? Well this is a welcome change to be sure. Over the past six videos we’ve had the same ‘MarioMario54321 presents…’ on a blue screen, which is about the laziest type of introduction possible. This intro on the other hand shows you everything you need to know about MM54321 as a content creator. There’s Smash Bros stuff, Mario Kart 64 stuff, but mostly Mario 64 content. And MM himself even appears in the video!

Okay it’s not the most exciting introduction ever made since the music sounds super relaxed, but it’s a definite improvement over the old style of intro. So good job, MM, I like it. We start the actual video with Mario doing his usual shtick for these videos: he declares it’s a good day and goes to do something. The fact that Mario’s even here says a lot about how easy he must have gotten off last time. That or Peach has forbidden him from stepping foot in the castle over La Revolucion’s conclusion and he has to do stuff outside the castle.

Either way, through sheer boredom or through the ban of the Princess, Mario decides to do the mundane task of climbing a tree. He ends up climbing one and gets a 1-up Mushroom...which he then panics over for some reason. Um...why are you panicking, Mario? It’s a 1-up Mushroom, don’t those usually mean a free life? And I’ve never heard of poisoned 1-up mushrooms before so I don’t...ah wait, no, I’m not being observant enough. If you look at the left top corner Mario already has 100 lives, the maximum amount you can get in SM64. And this 1-up Mushroom didn’t give him an extra life, so I guess it really is expired. Neat little detail there I’ll admit.

So Mario panics because people on YouTube have been making videos of him having hallucinations due to expired Mushrooms. To help soothe his problems...wait a minute...um…

Mario, did you just say YouTube? Well I mean I should have expected this considering MM posts these videos somewhere, but name dropping YouTube officially means the fourth wall is practically non-existent. Also I’ve never seen hallucinogen Mario videos in Super Mario 64 from 2007 backwards so I don’t know what you’re talking about. Anyways MM tells Mario to not fall asleep until he fully digests, to which Mario declares that he won’t fall asleep. Which means that Mario has made an omen that he’s going to fall asleep because he hasn’t learned to keep his mouth shut yet.

MM deduces that Mario played video games all night...add that to the ‘Morally Awful Mario Era’ list of crimes… to which Mario falls asleep immediately. Also how did  he fall asleep so fast, because shouldn’t it take like 30 seconds to fall asleep instead of 5-10? Was there a cheat code for this or something? Anyways Mario falls asleep and begins to dream about the title of this video. It’s a pixelated landscape looking eerily similar to a world in Super Paper Mario. Which, yes, that’s where the idea came from. Heck Mario even mentions what he did in that world in the second line, so it’s quite apparent. Prepare to hear a lot from the Mario RPGs in these videos from now on, though.

So Mario decides to explore this place and outright says that nothing can go wrong. You deserve what’s coming to you later, Mario, it’s your own fault you prophesied your own doom. So he notices that everything besides the water is pixelated...which isn’t true since the sky isn’t and the fences aren’t either, which makes another one of Mario’s claims false. In his dream is he just a really, really big liar or something? Anyways while jumping around Lakitu ends up getting his camera stuck, which somehow makes Mario lose control and fall to the ground. And he also apparently can’t control his jumping either.

Wait a minute, since when did Lakitu’s camera affect Mario’s body? Eh this is dream logic so I guess we’ll just have to accept it. So more bad things happen, including the DK Rap playing. Okay normally Mario would instantly lose sympathy points for hating on the DK Rap, but since it’s the neutered Smash version I’m going to let his hatred slide. He ends up going to the top of the castle and plans to flagpole himself so that Lakitu can get free. Which...well I mean it would be nice of him if Lakitu being trapped didn’t trap Mario in hell as well, so I just think he’s looking out for himself.

Mario declares he’ll be fine as long as no one turns off the infinite health code...not even going to comment on that one. Dream logic, I don’t have to point out Mario being self-aware he’s in a video game. Nope, I don’t. So anyways the thing he doesn’t want to happen happens and he ends up dying in the process, but midway through his painful death decides that death would be better than being in a world that so far has only mildly inconvenienced him. I guess Mario lost his sense of patience from MM as well. So in the end, he ends of flagpoling himself to death. Flagpole Counter: 2.

Once Mario gets out, he decides to dance to Scatman Music. Only this time, it’s Scatman’s World instead of ‘I’m a Scatman!’. It’s good to see some variety in our music selections at least. Scatman Counter: 5. Too bad that YouTube copyright claimed the audio so that the music doesn’t end up playing though, shame. And that’s the video. It was short, simple, and didn’t do too much for me so we’ll just be getting to the next section right now.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Mario - 38 lines [84%] (Hey it’s his nightmare, of course he gets the most lines)

MarioMario54321 - 4 lines [9%] (What a friend for not waking up Mario at any point during his nightmare hallucinations...and by friend I mean terrible friend. Hope you’re satisfied with watching Mario be tortured by his own dreams for views.)

Lakitu - 3 lines [7%] (Even in Mario’s nightmares he makes Lakitu suffer, poor guy)

Total Lines: 45 lines

Biggest Chad: MarioMario54321 - Hey he got a free video out of all of this, so he’s technically the biggest winner.

Biggest Loser: Mario - To no one’s surprise. Granted he deserved that nightmare but he said so much that bit him on later that ultimately it just proved my theory of Mario being a speaker of omens with even more hard evidence.

Favorite Quote: "Until the mushroom goes from your stomach out of your 'other end'." - MarioMario54321. (Just for the censored 'other end' part, this line is the most memorable.)

Next time we’ll also have a short one, one featuring music other than Scatman! But what artist will MM pick? We’ll get to know which one next time!