Of Metaphors and Mario RPGs
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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I am a bit upset with his focus on Bowser being the main villain. If I may enter some spoiler territories.
You go 5 hours without Bowser being so much as mentioned. The bad guy is Amatsu, the Bat King. The game could have gone perfectly fine without Bowser at all, but right as you're about to have the big fight with cheesy villain Amatsu, Bowser shows up. But instead of fighting cheesy villain Bowser, Amatsu basically goes "Want ultimate power?" to which he says yes, and you fight a super powered Bowser right out of the gate. Bowser is not the big bad, it is a partnership of two big bads, thus doing something mostly new. It's almost the same thing as what happened towards the end of Mario and Luigi: SuperStar Saga, but not exactly.
This game where Bowser is supposedly the main villain remains the only game in the series where you don't just fight Bowser, he's super powered the whole way through.
You go 5 hours without Bowser being so much as mentioned. The bad guy is Amatsu, the Bat King. The game could have gone perfectly fine without Bowser at all, but right as you're about to have the big fight with cheesy villain Amatsu, Bowser shows up. But instead of fighting cheesy villain Bowser, Amatsu basically goes "Want ultimate power?" to which he says yes, and you fight a super powered Bowser right out of the gate. Bowser is not the big bad, it is a partnership of two big bads, thus doing something mostly new. It's almost the same thing as what happened towards the end of Mario and Luigi: SuperStar Saga, but not exactly.
This game where Bowser is supposedly the main villain remains the only game in the series where you don't just fight Bowser, he's super powered the whole way through.
...or they just ran out of jokes to make about the Mario franchise at large, and decided to just fall back this time for now.
In two mindsets here...
1: This sounds like something beautiful unearthed, showing artistic, secret honesty on nintendo's part. The seed has now been planting and our thoughts will continue to look for more evidence of any possible metaphors. Intentional or not.
2:The expected results of combining THC with an intelligent, critcical mind (and a back-catalogue of hefty gaming)
1: This sounds like something beautiful unearthed, showing artistic, secret honesty on nintendo's part. The seed has now been planting and our thoughts will continue to look for more evidence of any possible metaphors. Intentional or not.
2:The expected results of combining THC with an intelligent, critcical mind (and a back-catalogue of hefty gaming)