User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 51

'''IGIUL! (Part 3) (March 15th, 2008) [Runtime: 8:39. Total Runtime: 22:34]'''

Prelude:

We’re now on the middle part of the Igiul series, and this part is an odd one. Early on in YouTube, when MM’s videos were flagged for copyright, the video’s audio wasn’t completely neutered like it is today. Instead, the audio for the entire video would be audio swapped, meaning the entire audio track would be swapped with another song. In this case, if you’re going to see this video, you’re going to be hearing 13th Parallel by Grass Roots for a majority of it. It’s a unique song, but since MM never intended to have this song in the video I can’t review it in the main section. Anyway, on to Part 3!

See this video first before reading on to get your own properly informed opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHPxsTLURCM&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=51

The Main Video:

We start with Igiul deciding to head up the stairs after Mario, and after running up for a bit, Igiul finds himself running up the stairs endlessly. This is because Igiul only has 50 stars, despite the star counter for him saying he had 121 previously. Honestly, it would have been a neat attention to detail if MM made him have only 50 stars throughout all of his scenes instead of artificially lowering them for this scene to work.

Seeing that he can’t get up the stairs, and since he has the gift of competency, he tests out freezing the camera on the bottom of the stairs and discovers that the stairs have a warp glitch that make them appear endless. Not knowing how to get past this warp glitch, which is honestly understandable since we don’t know how much knowledge he has, he decides to head back to his boss for more information.

After seeing that Igiul’s gone, Mario briefly considers running down the stairs, out of the one place where he’s safe. Thankfully he’s not stupid enough this time to go through with it and actually stays in the room. Meanwhile, Luigi has gone from an ice place to a beach, where he once again says he’s going back to the castle despite not actually going back. I can’t say much else since this is Mario Kart 64 footage, but I do appreciate at least seeing Luigi outside of the castle exploring to some capacity.

Back on the castle rooftop, Igiul asks his boss about the warp trap, to which it is explained that it can be bypassed with a backwards long jump. For those of you who don’t know, a backwards long jump is a speedrunning technique that exploits the lack of a backwards speed limit for long jumping, thus letting players pass through walls or the stairwell warp trap. Igiul ends up learning this technique from his boss, and with it he manages to succeed in getting to the top of the castle.

Wait, I have an explanation for this. Igiul clearly already all the stars required and knew about the top floor’s special property from his inside rabbit, MIPS. But since he didn’t know the backwards long jump, and he knew his boss wouldn’t explain it to him in any other scenario, he faked not having enough stars so that he would learn this technique on the side. And since he knew Mario wouldn’t be of any threat trapped on the top floor, he figured the short detour would be worth it. This would be much simpler if MM had actual skill, but since he doesn’t this is the best explanation I can give to explain the inconsistencies.

Since Mario got found out by Igiul, he has only one option left: to run around the courtyard statue 2401 times to instantly summon Luigi. Which makes Mario even stupider than he was before since why the hell didn’t he already try this while Igiul wasn’t chasing him? He would have saved himself a lot of hassle if he did this earlier and without suspicion. Then again, considering Igiul’s boss hides on the roof, I suppose Mario figured that he would be found out anyway, and decided that sending Igiul on a goose chase would at least give him a shot of Igiul not finding him. Then again, if that was his strategy, then why did he wait until his one good hiding spot was compromised before going through with it? Again Mario is the stupidest person alive, why am I supposed to be rooting for him again? Also, he says something of note here.

So if he took a long time to complete this running around, how didn’t Igiul wreck him immediately? Clearly if Igiul had the brains to question the warp trap, he’d have the brains to question Mario running around as well. And Igiul’s boss would probably know of this and tell Igiul of how many times Mario needs to run around, which gives Igiul plenty of time to annihilate Mario and send his ass back to heaven for the fourth time this series. Since Igiul seems competent, I’m just going to assume MarySue54321 saw how absolutely pathetic Mario was and finally stepped in against Igiul to keep whatever dignity Mario possibly had left. I would have assumed the statue itself since it’s inhabited by a spirit naturally warded off Igiul, but that’s contradicted later on in this episode, so once again the villain absolutely deserved to win here and only got screwed because of a Mary Sue.

Meanwhile, sensing the statue because of being psychically linked to the statue’s spirit I guess, Luigi decides to finally stop messing around and drives towards the castle so that the plot can continue. Igiul also is taken to the underwater city by his boss, who decided to purchase it with some of the cash, so I guess his Megation Laser plans are foiled. This is because Mario summoned Luigi with the statue, which Igiul already knew about because he’s actually competent. Also, Igiul didn’t even know Mario was in the courtyard until now, meaning that Igiul was one hundred percent held back by MarySue54321.

The current plan from Igiul’s boss is for Luigi to arrive, then when he can’t be found, Luigi would just assume Mario was lying and would decide to leave, which would make Mario vulnerable to Igiul again. I have to say this is a somewhat decent plan, having Luigi leave instead of facing him head-on, and it’s a level of cleverness that Mario clearly doesn’t have right now. I don’t know how well this plan will work with MarySue around, but let’s just hope he won’t do anything.

For the final part of this video, Luigi drives into the castle, with absolutely no dialogue spoken. And I’m 100% not a fan of this scene since come on, why couldn’t you at least give Luigi some lines. It would make the footage more interesting than him just driving in with complete silence.

And that’s the end of the video. Mario is just as stupid as before, which I clearly don’t like, and there’s quite a few scenes that MM could have done much better in my opinion. Really it’s a downgrade compared to the last two parts, mediocre at best.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Idiot Mario - 13 lines [77] (Please become more intelligent soon)

Superchad Igiul - 29 lines [66] (I’ll be honest, he’s kind of lost some of that intimidation factor thanks to the whole not going to the statue part.)

MarySue54321 - 0 lines [11] (Yay he didn’t appear in this part, it’s probably the part’s main saving grace)

Igiul’s Boss - 19 lines [30] (Who is he? Perhaps we’ll find out next part)

God? - 0 lines [3]

MIPS - 0 lines [5]

Luigi - 8 lines [12] (Well he got more to do than in the last two parts at least)

Yoshi - 0 lines [0]

Lakitu - 0 line [1]

Biggest Chad: Igiul - This should have been the point where Igiul completely and utterly won, but it wasn’t because of MarySue54321. A hard choice between him or his boss, though.

Biggest Loser: Mario - Oh come on can I please stop putting him here by default? Why does he have to be so stupid MM54321, give him some basic competency please.

Favorite Quote: “AND LEAVE. >:)” - Igiul’s Boss (It was either this or the wasted time line, but since that’s probably going to be a meme in the future I’ll highlight this quote instead. I can’t Igiul’s Boss seriously when he has dialogue like this to be honest)

Next time, we’ll finally find out who Igiul’s Boss is and possibly why he’s a chad.