User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 52

'''IGIUL! (Part 4) (March 16th, 2008) [Runtime: 8:44. Total Runtime: 31:18]'''

Prelude:

Last time, we saw Mario continuing to be an idiot and Igiul being the most competent of every single MM character thus far. We also got the promise that Luigi was arriving, but that Igiul’s boss also had a plan to stop him. It’s a rather interesting cliffhanger that I’m looking forward to getting resolved in this part. Speaking of which, this is the first of the major canon MM stuff that actually has a fourth part! No Mario’s Raceway Takeover doesn’t count, three of those videos could have been attached together as a singular part, and the deleted scene could have just been added to the third part. This is a bonafide fourth part in a series that has parts lasting more than five minutes. It also means this is our first MM story going past the half hour mark. Let’s get right into it, then!

Oh, and for the record, I forgot to mention we started a new era with Igiul. I call this “The Brief Return to SM64 Era” since we’re done with the extraneous stuff for a brief while. We’ll be back later, however.

See this video first before reading on to get your own properly informed opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL8tKN4w5AE&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=52

The Main Video:

We start with MarySue54321 telling Mario right away that he saw Igiul hide in Wet Dry World’s underwater city and that Luigi is coming. And he knows this because he supposedly “monitors everything” according to Mario. Oh, fuck off!

If this had been said by anyone else other than MarySue54321, I would have complimented them for their intelligence. Because buying anything is going to leave behind a record, it would have made sense for someone to find out that an entire town was bought since that sort of payment wouldn’t go unnoticed. I actually don’t know what Igiul’s boss was thinking by buying that town instead of just using it. But it’s MarySue54321, so I know he only figured it out because of his bullshit Mary Sue powers.

Well, I guess we’re not getting that interesting plotline where Mario has to find Igiul before Luigi thinks that Mario is lying to him. It’s all gone now thanks to the existence of a Mary Sue who quite frankly shouldn’t be in this story at all. Now finding Igiul is going to be absolutely no issue at all, making whatever’s coming up filler. So, now that all the tension is completely gone, we see Luigi arrive and Mario telling him about Igiul’s appearance. Except Mario telling Luigi is somehow so deliberately dragged out that it takes Mario about five lines to actually say anything, with Luigi interrupting to say he’ll be fine with any news that Mario throws at him. I see MM54321’s trying another “tempting fate” scene here, but it’s been done so many times before that it doesn’t really have any charm anymore.

As expected, Luigi doesn’t react rather well when hearing Igiul’s name.

He also knocks Mario out of the way (well the text says he knocked Mario out of the way, because you couldn’t do multiple Marios interacting at once in Windows Movie Maker) and heads towards Wet, Dry World. He also starts yelling rather furiously, as the red explosion text screen can indicate.

Somehow, Luigi manages to track Igiul down to Wet, Dry World’s town, which is extremely coincidental and lucky of him. How the hell did he know Igiul was there? Neither Mario nor MM said anything to him. Can Luigi just sense Igiul whenever he hears his name, is that why he immediately knew where to find Igiul? If that’s the case, then Luigi is even more of a chad than I thought he was. No wonder Igiul seemed competent, he was based off of this guy. And yes it’s not that good that Luigi found Igiul based on contrived equivalence, but I’m actually fine with this. I’m fine with it because it made MarySue54321’s involvement obsolete, and the less involvement he has over the plot, the better.

Igiul is then caught and promptly murdered by Luigi, which is to be expected since Oiram was completely helpless against Mario all those times before. However, we later learn that Igiul actually survived that encounter, albeit only because Mario and Luigi are trying to extort who his boss is. I imagine that this was Luigi’s idea and not Mario’s since Mario would have tried to kill Igiul by this point. Also, as competent as Igiul was, anyone commanding him seems far more interesting since they’re the one who made the plans. So, who is Igiul’s boss and the true villain of this story?

Okay I’m not going to lie, this scene was a good addition. I’m glad that MM noticed Yoshi’s coincidental appearance in Part 2 and decided to make a scene based off of that, because it’s a pretty interesting red herring. But for real, Igiul’s boss is actually…wait, what’s that music?

Yep, Oiram has cheated death and was behind the plot of this entire series. Oh I’m not really sure how to feel about this plot twist. On one hand, I’m glad to see Oiram back and actually having gained some intelligence. Clearly he’s still progressing in becoming a threat to Mario after the bullcrap that happened to him last time, and using Igiul to get his revenge is a rather clever idea. Also, his design is way more intimidating than his previous one, he actually looks somewhat cool with the pale face and the black eyes.

On the other hand, I take issue with this because it makes Igiul seem more like he’s playing second-fiddle to Oiram than his own villain, which leans more towards MM’s complete bias towards Mario over Luigi. Sure Igiul was still strong as hell and competently tracked down Mario up to this point, but having him be the subordinate of Oiram kind of makes him feel super weak. I can’t take Oiram seriously as a threat since I know MM can just run back in time and make certain Mario and Luigi win. Having Igiul as less than him with MM around means Igiul was never going to win, which really really sucks. Also I never got the impression that Oiram was particularly a good planner beforehand, although to be fair training to kill Mario was an impressive idea. Also he bought that city instead of stealing it, not really a master plan move.

So, Oiram explains that he was brought back from the grave by Igiul when Igiul shared his soul with him, and that’s why his face looks like a skull. He also explains that if Igiul goes down, he goes down as well, and that Oiram can’t physically be killed otherwise since he’s undead. At least, until the next morning where he’ll be completely alive since MM can’t change face textures in Smash Bros 64. Wait, then what was that line about you owning Igiul’s soul in Part 2? If Igiul’s the one sharing, and since you die if he dies, then technically doesn’t that mean Igiul has absolute authority over you?

Dang, all this hype around you and you end up turning out to be Igiul’s lackey after all. What a shame, Oiram. I’m betting Igiul probably let you think that you were the boss to make you feel better while he came up with the plans himself. That’s pretty sweet of him to be honest, and him raising you from the dead is also rather sweet too. With Igiul’s status as the true villain being established, the Mario Bros and Oiram Bros decide to fight in the Castle in the Sky yet again. Which is a horrendously dumb idea since they should know Mario and possibly Luigi have the field advantage on that stage, which means the Oiram Bros are probably getting murdered next part.

I know Oiram coming back is fine enough since it allows for both Mario Bros to have that 2v2 battle and I wouldn’t have bought anyone else being Igiul’s boss, but in that case I would have just made it to where Igiul didn’t have a boss in the first place. Just make Igiul’s plan his own, then have him use the trillion coins to buy a device that allows him to share his soul with Oiram to bring him back to life or something. And keep Oiram undead instead of making him alive for some reason for a Smash Bros fight, that would have been a more interesting idea to use rather than what we got here.

To end off the video, we switch to something completely different that doesn’t relate to the series at all.

I don’t know why MM decided to make the roof into a grass texture with trees, but the hole textures are a neat addition I guess. Anyway, Mario falls down the castle accidentally and kills himself after running around a bit. End of the part.

So that was the fourth part of IGIUL. I must say, this wasn’t really a good part. MarySue54321 killed an interesting plotline because he sucks, Luigi knew something that he frankly shouldn’t have known, and Igiul’s boss turns out to be Oiram, who I can’t buy as Igiul’s boss. Just about the only good things that happened were that MM wasn’t consequential to the plot and that Igiul’s chad status as the true threat of the series wasn’t diminished by Oiram’s inclusion. Also he could have just made that tree roof section its own video, it had no place in this series at all. I wouldn’t call it bad, just slightly less than decent.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Idiot Mario - 34 lines [111] (Still got the most lines because he’s Mario, and also because of that fluff section at the end)

Superchad Igiul - 9 lines [75] (Still the best villain)

MarySue54321 - 6 lines [17] (Hah, get wrecked you scrub, we didn’t need you in this plot)

Lesserchad Oiram - 10 lines [40] (I can’t buy that you know the backwards long jump, sorry. I’m going to assume you didn’t properly teach it to Igiul, and Igiul just faked understanding.)

God? - 0 lines [3]

MIPS - 0 lines [5]

Luigi - 18 lines [30] (Yes he got more lines here!)

Yoshi - 0 lines [0]

Lakitu - 0 line [1]

Biggest Chad: Luigi - Immediately sensed where Igiul was with no prior information, immediately gets this status in the process.

Biggest Loser: MarySue54321 - Hah, finally, I get to put him here again! He doesn’t quite get the medal of dishonor since his Mary Sue moment here wasn’t as outrageous as his one in Mario v. Oiram 3, but he still belongs here since he was completely irrelevant to the plot. Thanks, Luigi!

Favorite Quote: “Igiul went away to hide. And I know where he hiding. And what he did.” - MarySue54321 Claus (Seriously this is terrifying, I never want to live in the MM54321 universe after hearing this. Also grammar mistake, good job.)

Next time, we’ll witness the battle between Oiram Brothers and Mario Brothers to finish off this series!