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The Kong That Time Forgot
Delving into the mysteries held within even the earliest appearances of Mario and Donkey Kong - including a mysterious Kong that time (and I) forgot! The latest revelation in the Kong-tinuity is here, and seemingly, even Nintendo doesn't know the answers.
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Mystery Dungeon & The Meaning Of Life
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What does Mystery Dungeon mean to you? In this video, I retrospect on the series' often-overlooked debut: Torneko's Great Adventure, a Super Famicom classic that's not only fun - but just might hold the answers to some of life's biggest questions.
Mario Map 2 - To The Edge Of The Marioverse
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This time, we expand the Mario Map in pursuit of uncovering the mysteries lying in wait at its furthest edges, and stumble into a potential connection to Pikmin that could permanently alter our understanding of the Mario universe. Do not try this at home.
Celeste's Secret Predecessor
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An extensive deep-dive into the lesser-known Celeste predecessor you might not know about. While it may not have the accolades of Maddy Thorson's later games, Jumper is a series should definitely play - as it helped pave the way for many indie games to come. Thank you to MaddyMakesGames / ExtremelyOKGames for the games over the years - check them out here: www.maddymakesgames.com/
Pikmin 4 Analysis | The Good, The Bad & The Oatchi
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MultiVersus Is Even Worse Than I Thought
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The Kong Family Tree - A Danger To The Space-Time Continuum
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Ideal Roster
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The Potential of Ganbare Goemon in Smash Bros.
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Umihara Kawase - The Best Platformer on Super Famicom
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Why WALUIGI Shouldn't Be In Smash Bros.
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The Potential of Puyo Puyo in Smash Bros.
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The Potential of Puyo Puyo in Smash Bros.
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18:15 never knew my post was here lol
couldn’t the first paper Mario still happen in the book explanation since the guy wrote about the first game?
I think that Jumpman is the father of Mario and he died in Donkey kong Jr. Where we see another Jumpman who is called "Mario", so Jumpman was with the Donkey Kong Cage and Mario reunited with Luigi in New Donk
I feel like her moveset will be heavily based on Madō Monogatari. (Fire, Icestorm, Thunder, Diacute, Braindumbed, Hedon, Bayohihihi, Bayoeen, Judgm, and other magic based attacks) And puyo would simply be a stage hazard
That would be cool! I would be a tad disappointed if Puyo stuff wasn't incorporated into her moves at all, but either way - still my most wanted character!
@backseatsakurai Maybe the final smash via Owanimo spell (the spell that the rule of puyo puyo is based on) before Arle uses Holy beam/light (I don't remember the name)
Nabbit was in the first video and never uncovered but then he’s was uncovered and ignored in the second video. Waited the whole video for it to be mentioned and it never was
Good catch. Nabbit is an enigma and it's been a while - I probably meant to mention him in relation to the Broodals and other rabbit-adjacent oddities if I had to guess what my frame of mind was at the time.
In my opinion paper jam says everything, the mario and the paper mario worlds are 2 difderent worlds where different stuff happen Paper mario is just in a book inside the "mario" peach castle
The pairings were created by Bowser. Bowser HAS magic.
Waluigi isn’t Wario’s brother, they’re friends.
The main characters are star children. You forgot to mention
Ironically despite omitting smash you've made the case that Nintendo canon is just the overactive imagination of child playing with all thier toys
If punchout exisits in the mario universe then wouldn't the real life countries the fighters come from also have to exist?
Like you said DK and Cranky could be the same through time displacement and Funky could be DK jr and that explains the tank top
In not mario map in game map
Ok I think there all cannon what about paper mario I think its a book based on the real events of the game
I think the nostalgia block was referring to the past adventures in a real world meta sense, not as in continuity. As in "hey, player! Here's a bunch of other mario games we made in the past!"
I actually thought of a solution to this. Modern DK is DK Jr, but Cranky is so senile he thinks DK is his GRANDSON, instead of his son. This has happened so much, and because DK isn't the brightest, DK has literally forgotten what their relationship was.
So, what I basically got out of the end of the video is that Donkey Kong and or Cranky Kong are like Homestuck-style paradox clones. (Either that or, like the top comment said, it's just Gorillas having shorter lifespans.)
Thank you for the video! I needed a clue on some of these puzzles.
If the sims series is canon, that means that plants vs zombies is canon because of that one crossover. (also if plants vs zombies is canon, that means cheetos and aquafina are canon because of the garden warfare crossovers lol)
In my mind, the first three PM games are canon to mainline Mario, but the later 3 are the “world within the book.” The paper mechanics in TTTD and SPM are, in-universe, insanely grotesque disfigurations and body horror, hence why they’re treated as “curses.” It looks harmless to us because of the paper art style, but Mario is in immense agony whenever he turns into a plane or a boat or what have you. That way, it doesn’t contradict the possibility of the real Mario going through the exact same events, and it’s also just kinda funny in a horrifically over the top way.
calling it now multi will die before 2025
this aged beautifully
also don't forget that the very same UFO on the cover art of one of the sims games appears at the end of spore when you make it to the center of the galaxy. So spore is canon too and I LOVE SPORE GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
just because paper mario was one of superstar saga mario's past adventures doesn't mean it was one of his REAL past adventures but I'll say I never thought about the original paper mario not using the paper theme much. My default is that mario RPG and the mario and luigi series are canon, but all paper mario is simply a fictional book written about mario in universe. It'd be kinda weird if that was true, but the original paper mario WAS canon to non paper mario
lol do you not not have fried eggs in starmix in the US they are loved in the uk
8:05 how do you not know and love the rings also where are supermix and tangfastics and giant strawberries and the mini giant strawberries
Haribo are highly regional. I've considered doing a part 2 to cover all the ones I missed...
If there is enough flavours and variety you definitely should I would definitely watch that
you know, the fact that almost the entire smash bros roster is in some way "canon" to the mario series just tells you how far this rabbit hole goes. (i think there's like, under 5 characters who aren't canon in some way, unless there is EVEN MORE that you missed that somehow brings them in)
Psycho waluigi goes hard
I thought your channel was ending lol
Never that lol
Me too lol
finally backseat sakurai gets to backseat the real sakurai
was eating a few haribo berries and wondered if there was a haribo tier list, thank you for your work 🫡
Actually The paper universe is like an interpretation of mario's true adventures. It contains The "What happened AND What DIDN'T happened.
Thx for noticing! 😁
congratulations, you've creatd the unified fictional universe.
there's parts of this theory I want to adopt and parts I'd rather interpret differently
I think Mario lived the same adventures that Paper Mario did with its differences obviously and the blocks of nostalgia are just something the gamer can see, for the protagonists is something “nerdie” from a fan
I agree roulette is S tier, and I agree twin snakes are mid tier and that berries are F tier - so i was surprised you had cola and big frogs so slow on your list when they are both S+ for me. Also they fkd up the sour sgheti in the past few years. They changed it or something, it used to be better. Great vid. Haribo gang up
7:19 “ in addition to your hp which gradually refills itself if you do safe actions such as moving” goodness bros safest action is just walking I feel so bad
Especially no bitches
Wasn't it said in the manual of Super Mario Bros that Bowser is also a sorcerer? And there are other cases like Mario 64 or Galaxy where he is the one doing magic with no magikoopas around. He may still be a creation of magikoopas but it feels less like a figurehead and more like a true artificial ruler, combining the strongest aspects of every koopa subspecies and amplifying it. In short Bowser is God-Emperor of Koopa-kind
We know canonically that super mario 3 is a stage play recreating events that actually happened, so its entirely possible Donkey Kong Country actually isnt in the future - its in the present, with some mario events being in the past and games like Mario 3 are retellings of an old adventure. We also have reason to believe Mario isn't Jumpman, but his son instead in the same way that Donkey Kong is actually DK the 3rd, with Junior being his father and Cranky being his grandfather (and the original DK), so it's entirely possible that the "super" era is a different Mario than the OG era of mario when he/his father was running around doing all kinds of odd jobs.
Watermelons should be A-S tier
The perfect Pikmin game in my opinion would have the graphics from 4, the story progression and multitasking from 3, the atmosphere, combat and difficulty from 1, the musical vibe from 1 and 2. And the creativity of pikmin 2.
If racing games are seen as canonical, there are some interesting connections that could be drawn from there. For example, through the events of Mario Kart Tour and the Booster Course Pass, we can see Mario and his friends driving along the Berlin Wall, meaning that the defeat of Nazi Germany by the allies, the subsequent occupation of Germany by the allies, the Cold War and Seperation of Germany into East and West and by extension the Fall of the Berlin Wall (as the Innergerman Border at the Brandenburg Gate can be freely passed by regular traffic) are all canon to the Mario Universe. This isn't even the interesting part. The interesting part is that the Berlin Wall incorporates Whomps. This hints at the exchange of species and technology between the Koopa and Mushroom Kingdoms and earth. As Mario's home city is stated to be Brooklyn in some media like the Super Mario Super Show and the two Mario Movies, this theory could hold some weight - after all, if two plumbers can travel from earth to the Mushroom Kingdom, things from the Mushroom Kingdom can travel back to earth. Which means that in the Mario Universe, real-world states like the German Democratic Republic have enlisted the help of Bowser's henchmen in the oppression of their peoples.
Speaking of city tracks, it's also very interesting how the Twin Towers don't appear on New York Minute.
Who wants a fight
Didn't Cranky Kong kidnap Pauline as revenge for Mario laughing at him during his circus performance? I remember reading that somewhere
No, he did it to get a rise out of Mario as a type of prank.
you can connect the Mii's to the universe as well because in the Wii version of Tetris Mii's can be spotted in the levels connecting the Mii's to tetris. And you can also connect Fortnite because Darthvader is in fortnite and that connects other stuff like family guy, stranger things AMONG US and with among us you can connect FNF Because of the FNF vs impostor mod being somewhat cannon to the among us timeline and that can connect to fall guys and that can connect with doom
The fact kirby was the MAIN reason the universe was so large is so funny to me like a pink sphere indirectly kept expanding another game franchises universe
I find your criticism to be not just the most salient I've heard of Pikmin 4 but probably 95% agreeable if not more so. The only disagreement I have is trusting the Sage Leaf to not be beaten into the ground if implimented as a major character. I thought that Glow Pikmin do indeed use their light, as the ectoplasm blob attack, which I understood to be a "strobe flash" attack, but this seems to be termanology I invented and was never refered to as such, it's called the "glowmob" attack. On the subject of the sage leaf and leaflings, I found it rather odd that you respected the sage leaf's whims of keeping him as is when no other leafling bar Olimar showed the slightest ounce of consent to coming back to the ship with you and being cured. All other leaflings wanted to play or test dandori with you and passed out after the challenge, yet you and your crew chose to bring them back after they were unconscious, but they never actually gave you permission to do this. Why was the sage leaf handled differently? An easy speculative explanation is that the leaves are parasites infecting the hosts in the same manner Bulbmin are converted, and the Sage Leaf being alive as long as he had may have just given the parasite enough time to master control and mature its brain enough to appear sentient and cognizant unlike the others. One could argue the host is probably long gone and the leaf has occupied the body for long enough that it's acheived some paralell to squatter's rights, but that subjective call never seems to have factored into the desicion making when opting to leave the sage alone after his trials. I agree 100% that as neat as the night missions were they were too underwhelming to feel like anything more than an afterthought and a blight on the canon of Pikmin. While glow pikmin's application in caves as an emergency temporary force was neat they still felt too underutilized. I also agree that the 3 type limit (along with the flarlic-induced pikmin cap feeling too stifiling, I have many more issues with that than appreciation) and only was there for accessibility to ease the player into learning the pikmin gameplay style. Fact is so many QoL improvements alone gives this game an insane amount of accessibility, such as Pikmin pathfinding and object carrying physics not glitching out and eating your pikmin or keeping them held down for nothing. In fact other jank like throwing glitches or enemy hitbox registration fixes alone make the gameplay feel significantly better than 1 and 2's neutral combat moments. The fact that P3 and 4 polished the physics so much that despite the games being significanlty easier than 1/2 it felt like a more than acceptable trade off at the time. Firestarters kicked ass. It's like refining the Bomb Rock/ yellow pikmin concept of P1 in a much more fair and balanced way. Blues need a function like this more than reds do imo, but I won't complain that I have a reason to carry reds around after getting purples, rocks, and ice for all my combat needs. Your critisms is much appreciated as you chose to talk a lot on details I haven't heard much talked about regarding this game. Everyone's discussed how slow and uneeded the crew dialog is, so I understand why you only mentioned it as a contrast to Olimar's Shipwreck Tale.
I saw a video where someone speculated that the Baby DK in Yoshi Island is a baby Cranky Kong, which is why he’s a baby at the came time as Mario.