User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 37

'''Mario’s Raceway Takeover! (Episode 1) (February 21st, 2008) [Runtime: 4:01]'''

Prelude:

Well, the good news is that for a while we don’t have to deal with any more Mario Party stuff. Also good news, we have a short and sweet series next to review. Mario’s Raceway Takeover is one of those videos much like Secret of the Waterfall and Mario Jumps the Castle that has an interesting premise based on a simple idea. The premise is that Mario takes over other kart tracks from Mario Kart 64 and claims them as his own, which is a fairly original idea. It’s one of the more clever ideas he’s had for Mario Kart 64 as well, as it doesn’t involve the characters driving around the same course numerous times. I have one really fond memory of this one, but that’s not this part so we’ll just start right about now.

See this video first before reading on to get your own properly informed opinion:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkxLflXthAs&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=37

The Main Video:

We start off with the introduction, where the emphasis is completely placed on the wrong thing.

We start with Mario driving through his course, enjoying the day and commenting on the new graphics of the course. Given he’s using the word graphics, I’m starting to think this world is some sort of matrix that Mario’s aware that he’s in.

Mario also goes through a pipe and somehow doesn’t warp all the way to the jungle, which means he must have gotten that thing fixed in-between videos. He stops before finishing his lap, with him being depressed about only owning one course and racing in it every single day. In other words, Mario’s feeling exactly how I feel just about every time someone races in the jungle course during one of these videos. Although actually this course has been used a ton as well, so I kind of get Mario’s feelings.

Although, I don’t get why Mario’s upset over only having one course. Just because he owns a course doesn’t mean that he’s the only one who has to race in it, doesn’t it? He’s raced in literally every other course beforehand and I don’t think he’s needed to ask permission to race in them. So, if he’s sick of racing in his own course, he could just not do that and race somewhere else. Based on the vagueness of this all, I have to conclude there was a banishment system implemented in between videos and that Mario’s barred from racing in all other courses because of that reason. It’s the only reason as to why his ‘tired of the same course’ excuse would stick and why he needs to own more than one course.

However, he has some hesitation because everyone else owns a course, and it would be unfair if he had more. I really like this, actually, since it’s showing that Mario is actually feeling conflicted about this and isn’t just jumping the gun unlike previous videos. But eventually, since this is MM54321 Mario we’re talking about, Mario decides to go ahead and take more courses for himself regardless.

And he plans to get more than one course by expanding his own. Which…still means he only has one course. Um, Mario, did you think that sentence through? He then adjusts himself by saying he’ll go into other people’s courses and redesigning them, which is basically the same as stealing them. Wait, which is it? Are you going to expand your course, or are you going to take other people’s courses for yourselves? Considering MM doesn’t have a degree in 3D modeling I’m going to go with the latter. Also, because galaxy music is playing right now, Galaxy Counter: 10.

Yep, this sounds like MM54321 Mario alright. Granted one that hesitated a bit, but it’s still him. Also, aren't there courses that aren’t owned by other people? Like the boardwalk or Rainbow Road? Or are you not allowed to take the property of anything under the government, and you’re going for more personal courses because they would be less of a hassle to steal from? Actually yeah, that later reasoning makes sense.

Also, I don’t know how this plan is going to work. If you paint the other courses in the colors of your own course, that’s just vandalism isn’t it? Technically you don’t have the legal deed to the property, and thus you’ll get into legal trouble with whoever actually owns it. I thought Mario would have known this because he owns a course, but I guess either Peach never bothered to explain how it works to him or MM deleted that part of his memory somewhere along the line. Either way this isn’t going to be so much of a raceway takeover as it is “Mario Vandalizes Other Courses”, the series.

He decides to start with Luigi, because for some reason his brother is the one who has to suffer first. Why is it always your brother and not literally anyone else, Mario? Okay granted given all the terrible stuff you’ve done to each other you might as well be rivals at this point, but still. And he plans to distract Luigi from his own course by saying that there’s falling stars in Rainbow Road, despite such a thing not happening ever in the history of that course. And he knows it will work because it’s a very rare event that barely happens, which is another word for saying it never ever happens once and Mario is full of baloney. But for some reason it always works on Luigi, which means he has his own ‘gold at the end of a turnpike’ excuse that can be exploited.

Mario then declares that he’s going to need to redump the textures of his course into others, which means that he’s in more control of the matrix than I thought. He can just change the landscape of the world around him as he desires? That’s not just breaking physics, that’s changing reality itself! Mario then breaks physics, floats high in the sky and declares that he’s going to conquer Mario Kart 64. Ah, so you’re showing your true colors. Yeah, that whole part at the beginning was just a sob story to make you seem sympathetic, wasn’t it? We know you’re just a power-hungry villain, Evil Mario.

Then, MarioMario54321 from the heavens puts a stop by saying that Evil Mario can’t do his texture plan without his permission. Which means that MarioMario54321 has control over reality and that Evil Mario can’t even change it without his master giving him permission, which is not surprising since he is a complete Mary Sue. Fortunately for Evil Mario, this is precisely the type of conflict that a video series needs so MM goes along with it anyways. And that’s just about the end of the first part.

It was a pretty good set-up for what’s to come next, but I do wish Mario was more sympathetic like he was hinted at instead of the beginning. Because it was too vague to begin with, and by the end he just sort of became a villain.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Evil Mario - 34 lines [34] (I think I’m going to call him evil Mario permanently from now on, because why not)

MarySue54321 - 3 lines [3] (Oh yeah you’re a character that exists, and that I wish didn’t exist. Okay in fairness it’s extremely hard not to glorify yourself in your own videos, but if I made a character like this about myself I would hate that character too)

Biggest Chad: MarioMario54321 - By default because Mario’s plans couldn’t even get off the ground without this guy giving him permission.

Biggest Loser: Mario - The guy can’t just be satisfied with one course and has to claim every other Mario Kart course for himself, I guess he just sucks that much at Mario Kart 64.

Favorite Quote: “Why should I only own one course … WHEN I CAN EXPAND MINE!!” - Mario (Taking over other people’s courses and getting more than one course = expanding his own course and remaining with only one course apparently)

If you’re waiting for the next part, we’re not going to get that. We’re instead going to get the first instance of a YouTuber being in SM64 (besides MarioMario54321) next time!