User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 53

IGIUL! (Part 5) (March 16th, 2008) [Runtime: 7:38. Total Runtime: 38:56]

Prelude:

We made it to the final part of this series! Released on the same day as part four (which is a bit impressive actually), this part wraps up our plotline with the fight between the Mario Bros and the Oiram Bros. Unfortunately, since Mario was an idiot throughout most of the previous parts and since I can’t take Oiram seriously as a main antagonist, I’m expecting for the Luigis to be pulling the weight of this video. So, who will emerge victorious? Luigi, or Igiul?

See this video first before reading on to get your own properly informed opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVOHfDJnV0U&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=53

The Main Video:

Not even a second into the video, we already have another awkward text face symbol, which doesn’t give me confidence in what we’re about to see.

We start with both the Mario Brothers and the Oiram Brothers waking up to partake in their battle, with each having slept the night before. It’s fortunate for both Mario and Luigi that the Oiram Brothers decided to be honorable and didn’t murder them in their sleep for some reason. Maybe it was the presence of MarySue54321 that scared them into not doing anything. Also, yes, Oiram's theme plays when he wakes up.

While Mario, Luigi and Oiram slept inside the castle, the chad Igiul decided to sleep right outside in the courtyard. And as a reminder, the courtyard houses a lot of ghosts, which means that Igiul was perfectly fine with sleeping in this sort of environment. (Also I’d like to remind you that this means the statue does not affect Igiul in any way, which means MM really is the only reason why Mario’s plan to call Luigi worked.) Not only that, but when he heads for the cannon, he decides to do this.

Yes, he actually jumps the entire castle just to get to the cannon. On his first attempt! And not only that, but he perfectly lands himself inside of the cannon at the end of his jump. Even when doing an action as simple as going into a cannon, Igiul has to flex on everyone else and do it better. I don’t exactly know how walking on lava is going to help him in this fight, but at the very least he’s styling on his enemies. And yes, I do believe that Igiul got that power even though the statue has a psychic connection with Luigi since there’s no evidence that the statue can just choose not to give out powers. Also, it’s a bit odd that everyone’s using the cannon to get to the sky castle instead of moon jumping, but I guess it’s to save energy for the match.

MarySue54321 was also sleeping outside, though it’s nowhere near as impressive as Igiul, and he decides to watch the match because he set this up from the beginning like the sadist that he is. Also, he makes some comments that are surely to age well.

Thus, we start the well-awaited battle between Luigi versus Igiul! Yeah Mario and Oiram are there too, but Mario honestly sucks too much for me to care and I know Oiram is getting his ass kicked. So the match begins, and already we’re going to see a large issue with this multi-man battle. Since Smash 64 pre-sets colors for characters on teams, MM54321 decided to put Mario on the red team and Luigi on the green team to preserve their colors while putting Oiram and Igiul both on the blue team. In other words, Mario and Luigi aren’t actually a team while the Oiram Bros are, which leads to Mario and Luigi attempting to kill each other during a match. I would have preferred it to where Mario and Luigi were also on a team. MM could easily explain in text why Mario has different colors, I think the integrity of teamwork is far more important than keeping their colors the same.

Unfortunately, I can definitely see Mario being stupid enough to try and murder Luigi during their match since their relationship isn’t exactly friendly. So in other words, Luigi has to overcome everyone else. The match proceeds with Luigi KO-ing Oiram, meaning that Mario really was only needed as moral support for this match and was as useless as always. Igiul then kills Mario, meaning that the fluff is pushed out of the way first so that the real fight can take place. I do appreciate that the take MM went with is the one that ends with Luigi v. Igiul since that’s where the tension lies, although of course, Luigi ends up winning against Igiul in the end.

Both of the Oiram Brothers end up getting flagpoled in the crotch upon defeat, meaning they’re dead. Flagpole Count: 6. Oiram also mentions how at least he’ll get peace in Hell. Considering all the misery he’s experienced so far in this series, I too think that’s probably a safer and better place for him than on the Earth. With both dead, the Mario Brothers and MarySue54321 celebrate through the most awkward way in which Windows Movie Maker can possibly put them on the same screen.

MarySue54321 decides to give the Mario Brothers a reward for their troubles just to rub it into the Oiram Brothers for dying, because he’s a real jerk like that. He gathers the hidden sum of money left over from the town, which equates to almost one trillion coins. It turns out that the town only cost one coin, which I am suspicious of. How does that town only cost one coin? Does this mean that the town is so worthless that a Super Mushroom somehow costs more than it? Or is the golden coin really just that valuable? Either way, how many megation lasers could Oiram have bought with those coins if only one could purchase that town? Hundreds, maybe even thousands? Hell he could have probably hired a Penguin Village mercenary with that amount of cash to ensure Mario and Luigi died, why did he waste one coin on this town instead? Oiram, you galactic idiot! I doubt Igiul would have made that mistake, his one mistake was probably trusting you with the treasure. Although in fairness, Marowak also trusted him, so I guess Oiram just has one of those really trustworthy faces unlike Mario.

Also, I have to point out that MM is just giving Mario and Luigi all these coins. He didn’t actually need to give it to them, he could easily just have kept it for himself to fund his videos. But he decided to give it to the Mario Bros. instead, which Luigi honestly deserves because of the crap that he went through. This is honestly the most selfless thing MM has done so far, and it would be a nice moment for him if he wasn’t…well you know.

And with the credits rolling, that was Igiul! I have to say that was the best series so far, as it finally did some things right. The best part of the series was obviously Igiul. He was competent, powerful, resourceful and somewhat sympathetic with his motivation. I do like him bringing back Oiram to life with his own soul, that adds a bit to his character. The only real flaws with him were his dialogue (although to be fair, that’s a general MM thing that plagues every character) and him giving Oiram too much control with his stupid decisions. Luigi was also a fairly inoffensive protagonist since he didn’t do anything horrible here that made me not want to root for him, although it’s super convenient that he just knew where Igiul was.

As for the bad, we have the usual culprits. Mario here is way too stupid to be likeable, I could not bring myself to care for him when he was being annihilated by Igiul. Hell, I was rooting for Igiul to win against him. MarySue54321 is an absolute jerk for just letting Mario die so many times and not helping him escape Igiul at all until it got to the point where Mario was totally screwed. Plus he ruined a potentially interesting plot by having Mary Sue powers, although thankfully it wasn’t as large of a detriment in this series as it was in Mario vs Oiram 3. And finally, Oiram as the main villain just doesn’t work at all. Not only does it steal the spotlight from Igiul, it’s also doing so for a villain that was beaten so pathetically three times before, zapping any tension from the story in the process. The build-up of the boss was fascinating, yes, but having it be Oiram is a disappointment since I can’t really see him as Igiul’s boss at all. It really seems like it should have been the other way around given the information in the series.

So, overall, I can only say that this is a decent series. This is probably the best we’re getting for a long while, however.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Superloser Mario - 5 lines [116] (Given your performance in this series, I just have to question why you're still the main character and not Luigi. You're honestly pretty useless and you probably deserved to stay dead.)

Superchad Igiul - 5 lines [80] (Rest in peace, my beloved chad. You will be remembered for your effort.)

MarySue54321 - 10 lines [27] (Honestly he can be written out of this entire movie and it would honestly be better as a result just from his absence.)

Lesserchad Oiram - 2 lines [42] (Even he's tired of having to be around Mario, he just wants his life over with.)

God? - 0 lines [3]

MIPS - 0 lines [5] (And thus, MIPS got away scot-free for his crimes of cooperation with Igiul.)

Luigi - 6 lines [36] (I'm fine with Luigi killing off Igiul, he's cool enough I guess.)

Yoshi - 0 lines [0] (Yoshi's probably wondering why the hell he was blamed for all of this.)

Lakitu - 0 lines [1] (Oh yeah Lakitu had to record all of this. I'm so sorry you had to witness Mario's stupidity, hopefully you got paid with some of that treasure. Oh who am I kidding, you probably didn't.)

Total Lines - 310 (Yes, this means we’ve finally surpassed “Secret of the Waterfall” for most lines in a series. IGIUL now reigns supreme!)

Part Biggest Chad: Igiul - My man did nothing but flex on everyone else in the beginning of this episode, it would be a crime for me not to award him this.

Part Biggest Loser: Oiram - Came back to life, only to not even get his ass kicked by Mario again, and also only spent one coin when he could have been spending all of them on megation lasers. For shame, Oiram.

Overall Biggest Chad: Superchad Igiul - Easily, easily, easily. The most badass character in the entire MM verse thus far due to actually being a competent villain and the most deserving thus far of the epic “Through the Fire and the Flames” theme song. Igiul is the standard that all MM villains from here on out are going to be compared to. And, spoilers, most of them are going to fall short, with only one that I can think of coming close.

Overall Biggest Loser: Superloser Mario - I so wanted to put MM as this. I really, really wanted to. But Mario died so many times, made so many stupid mistakes and was generally so ineffective in this entire story that he wins this by a landslide. I’m confident now that early MM54321 can’t write Mario well and that he’s way better at writing Luigi, given how often Mario’s landed here at this point.

Favorite Quote: “It’s time….. >:)” - The welcoming message for this video. (I don’t want it to be time for whatever’s being talked about here.)

Since we’re now done with IGIUL, next time we’ll be taking a break and looking at some one-shot videos based on SM64.