User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 44

'''Mario Party 3 Bloopers: The Wrath of Willy (Part 2) (March 2nd, 2008) [Runtime: 5:01. Total Runtime: 13:48]'''

Prelude:

This is the second and final part of the inappropriately named Wrath of Willy, aka “MM54321 plays a board of Woody Woods briefly in Mario Party 3”. And that’s about as exciting of a title as it sounds. This part is about the same level of quality as the first, although it’s shorter so it’s slightly more tolerable as a result. Anyways, it’s time that we get out of these woods by finishing this review.

See this video first before reading on to get your own properly informed opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwktGTInLJo&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=44

The Main Video:

I completely forgot to mention this the last time, but the theme that MM uses for the board is a remix of “Rawest Forest” from Super Mario RPG. You know, the most famous song from that game that I’m sure a lot of people are happy to hear again. Besides that, we’re back in the dreaded Willy Woods. Thanks to Waluigi now having a reverse mushroom, Mario forces Peach to get rid of her cellular phone since Peach isn’t allowed to be helpful in these videos. As a consolation, though, she gets to be kidnapped by Game Guy and forced to play his minigames.

Ah yes, Game Guy. The dreaded evil of Mario Party 3 that absolutely no one wants to see. For some context, this guy takes all your coins and forces you to gamble for them in one of his minigames. It’s up to luck if you win one, and usually you’ll end up losing all of your coins in the process. In other words it’s perhaps the worst space you could land on. Peach, however, gets extremely lucky and wins eight times her previous amount of coins in the process. On one hand, at least something went right for her for once. But on the other hand, this Game Guy is clearly a pawn of Willy Woods designed to keep Peach in the woods. And I don’t want to know what those reasons are.

Also, Mario is very much not happy that Peach has more coins than him.



Okay, seriously, do you always have to be this petty Mario? You have the star lead anyway! Just let her have this one victory and get on with your plan to save Luigi. NO Screen Counter: 12.

Meanwhile, we have Waluigi’s body being hijacked by Mario to make him use the reverse mushroom before the next minigame begins. It’s nothing too eventful, with Mario winning because the others keep jumping into the fiery parts of the conveyor belt since they’re dumb CPUs. After that, Mario reverses into the dark section of the woods and finally confronts Willy Woods face to face.

Mario confronts the tree about Luigi, but Willy just ignores him in order to give him deadly fruit. The fruit that Mario is forced to eat only makes him go into reverse, but considering the name of this place I think that there’s far more diabolical side effects than Willy is letting on. Actually, yeah, if Mario can control people in this place then it wouldn’t shock me to learn that Willy was using that same power on Mario. Give Wario that power and we’d have a trifecta of the worst possible users of this ability.

Willy’s plan forces Mario to land on an item minigame space, where he has to hit a baseball at an item. And yes, “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” plays in the background. Needless to say, it’s fitting.

NO Screen Counter: 13. After Mario fails to hit the ball, Willy decides he doesn’t want to continue this any longer and tells Mario that he didn’t even kidnap Luigi in the first place. Oh thank MM, Luigi didn’t have diabolical things done to him. Willy then states that he invited Mario out of revenge for insulting his brother Woody for not having any minigames. Incidentally, we move to Mario Party 2 as this is happening since that’s the game where Woody was the minigame guy.

So let me get this straight: “Willy Woods” invited Mario over towards his own forest in revenge for insulting his brother…and his revenge consisted of giving Mario a reverse fruit. That was it? Okay taking this plan at face-value this is a very, very dumb plan. First off, you targeted a plumber well-known for being a psychopathic murderer who will kill if his ice cream gets ruined. Sure, Mario’s been showing some self-restraint in that aspect in these past few videos, but he’d probably still injure the hell out of you. Secondly, why pretend like you kidnapped Luigi? That’s only going to make your situation worse. Plus, Luigi could just come back and foil your plans anyways, so you’re relying on luck. And third, why on earth would your revenge be giving Mario fruit? That’s insanely inconsequential, and you might as well have just written him a demand for an apology for insulting Woody Woods instead.

Granted, for the second part Willy then says that he’s been with Woody Woods waiting to play a game with Mario, so that checks out. But for the rest of the plan, Willy couldn’t possibly come up with something that anticlimactic. He just couldn’t. Which is why I think he had other plans hidden from Mario. He, Luigi and the Wario Brothers (since they know Willy isn’t his real name) forced Mario to embarrassingly lose at a simple baseball swing to forever shame him in the eyes of the Mushroom Kingdom. That would be way more consequential than a one-turn reverse fruit. And not only that, but Luigi’s “kidnapping” was also a ploy by Willy to kidnap Peach and rig her to win a Game Guy game so that she would forever stay in the woods to get rich. In other words, Peach is now addicted to the woods and Willy can do whatever diabolical things he has in mind for her, thus giving him control of the Mushroom Kingdom with his mind-controlling powers.

Alright, I’ve convinced myself that Willy Woods is a manipulative mastermind in the world of my logic. There hasn’t been anyone as devious as him since…um…


 * Not Oiram, he was the main protagonist.
 * Not the Monkey, literally everyone wanted him dead.
 * Bowser? Pfff as if Bowser is a cunning mastermind.
 * MarySue54321 doesn’t count because that’s just unfair.
 * Marowak was an idiot.
 * Luigi, Wario and Waluigi all failed hard on Waluigi’s Island.
 * The Big Twhomp wasn’t even technically the mastermind, and he only got as far as he did because Mario was an idiot.

Okay, you’re the first mastermind antagonist then Mr. Willy Woods. Anyways, Luigi plays along with the rest in a minigame on Woody and the video ends once the Mario Bros win. I’m amazed that Mario actually said that he deserved Willy’s revenge though, that’s more progress.

And that’s Wrath of Willy. Well I will say it was more fun thinking about this one than the last time, but if we’re talking about the content alone it was a bit of a disappointment. Willy’s revenge ended up being rather lackluster overall, and the majority of this video was just more Mario Party footage. Just about the only thing I appreciate is Mario’s character being more reconstructed back to how it should be. Honestly I’m super ready to go back to Mario 64 at this point.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Evil Mario - 14 [30]

Yoshi - [0]

MarySue54321 - [5]

“Willy” Woods - 10 [11]

Diabolical Fat Guy Wario - 1 [2]

Peach - 1 [1] (She’s trapped in Willy Woods now, and I’m going to use that as an explanation for why she never appears in these latter episodes)

Nuclear Terrorist Waluigi - 3 [7] (Yes I’m nicknaming him as a nuclear terrorist because why else does he have a bomb planted on his island)

Millenium Star - [0]

Tumble - [0]

Battle Goomba - [0]

Woody Woods - [0]

Toad - [0]

Bowser Baby - [0]

Luigi - [0] (Willy Wood’s co-conspirator probably)

Total Lines - 56

Part Biggest Chad: Willy Woods - He both survived getting revenge on Mario and probably convinced the Princess to forever stay in the forest, thus giving him control of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Part Biggest Loser: Mario - The only reason Peach isn’t here is because she got some cash at the end of the day and because even though she’s Willy Wood’s property, losing control of her kingdom is absolutely nothing new to her. All Mario got was himself being embarrassed at a baseball game, his princess stolen by a tree and his time wasted by said tree as well.

Overall Biggest Chad: Waluigi - Willy Woods getting called Willy automatically puts him out of contention, so it was either Waluigi or Luigi. And since Luigi was probably tricked by Willy, Waluigi gets this by default for his pro gamer move in Part 1.

Overall Biggest Loser: Wario - Not once in this entire series did Wario get to do one diabolical thing. For shame.

Next time, it’s time for a meme song, some cotton, a man named Joe who we’re not going to see for a while and an eye of his.