Man, this takes me back. The massive reaction and everyone freaking out and then the game came out and new donk city was quickly regarded as the best world.
i really loved super mario odyssey in general (even though i played it 4 years late) but i like never had a problem with the idea of new donk city and mario interacting with normal looking humans. maybe its just because i immediately found it really funny.
First time I saw footage of New Donk City, it was accompanied by "Jump Up, Super Star!" as sung by Pauline (who in English is voiced by the stellar Kate Higgins). It's an upbeat, jazzy number about going on a carefree, whirlwind adventure with the support of people you love behind you. ...yeah, I wasn't too worried about Mario's idealism being shattered in the 'real world'.
@@beaubryant4534 Wait, was that the Myanmar one or the US one? Even within the month, coup isn't specific enough to tell which one you're talking about. That's kinda horrifying in retrospect.
It’s funny watching these reactions now after the game received nearly unanimous praise with the New Donk City segment being universally considered one of if not the highlight of the game.
JonTron is livestreaming with Sargon of Akkad as I type this. I've never needed a new Hbomberguy video more in my life. Please, Hbomber-senpai, never leave us.
Yeah, he was on Sargon's channel as a guest and a friend and he has also been tweeting #freesargon charl x, Markiplier had been a little bit oddly douchey lately but it's mostly a personal taste thing, he hadn't done anything offensive to my knowledge.
4:14 jumping reveals that costume seems to be awfully short...which makes me believe and ask: hbomberguy, are you wearing a "sexy video-game plumber" costume for women?
Dresses and skirts were originally designed for men, it doesn't make much sense to squish your external genitals into pants; the Greeks knew what was up. 😎
So in retrospect I actually really enjoyed New Donk City. Actually playing through it and seeing how it was executed made me realize that it was calling attention to how silly and one-dimensional Mario worlds always are by design. You have a mushroom world populated by mushroom-shaped people, a bomb world populated by bomb-shaped people, a food world populated by flatware-shaped people. New Donk is like turning that same hyper-simplifying lens on a "real" city. Everyone dresses the same, the whole area is fairly small, people and cars are just wandering about with no purpose. They're gameplay elements, not real people. Just like all of the other fantastical "people" in the Mario universe. It's a funny joke when you think about it.
Is it bad if I think seeing Mario in the "real world" looks super cute actually? It's like watching parkour, except I'm less worried that a human is going to get hurt. Y'know, even if anyone thinks it is weird that I like the look of this, I don't care. The little attack names are cute too. The hat one, lol.
"You can call me pretentious, and believe me, many have tried." That really implies they tried and failed. "You're so presumptuous!" "You predacious git!" "What a precautious buffoon!"
@@Big_Dai Or you misunderstood the question. It's not about it being impossible to go home, it's that you aren't the you that started the journey, so in a way, that you never returned home.
@@Big_Dai that's literally the whole premise of the hero's journey, one of the most well known and established literary devices there is. the point of it isn't that you literally can't return to your home, or even that it's not truly "home" anymore. the point is that the experiences that you have on your journey have fundamentally changed you and how you view the world around you, and because of that, you can never truly go back to the way you lived before you left. you can go back home and maybe even be happy there again, but you'll never see things the same way or be able to go back to the person you were before. not everything is literal and sometimes things do actually have a deeper meaning my guy.
Everything here makes a lot of sense, but I also can't help but feel like you're missing the point a bit. In Sonic 2006, Sonic is intimately involved with the "human" world, even to the point of being... involved... with one such character. It's not a place he's visiting, or some one-off oddity; it's his world, except inexplicably transmogrified from a goofy cartoon video game world into a place with realistic-looking cities and realistically-proportioned humans. Sonic exists in a human-esque world, and that's freaking bizarre. In Super Mario Odyssey, New Donk City is just one world out of many the player visits. Each world seems to have its own style to it, and New Donk City's strange realism seems like a self-aware joke on part of Nintendo. It's less "Mario exists in a realistic world now" and more "Hey, you know how Mario winds up in bizarre themed worlds fairly regularly? What if one of those themes was just straight-up 1920s New York?" New Donk City's just another wacky place Mario visits, except this time, the wackiness is that it has the trappings of a realistic setting. It comes off, at least to me, like it's supposed to be a little weird, goofy, and comedic, as opposed to when Sonic's world simply became that as a whole, in earnest, without a hint of irony to it. Mario being in a world that is incongruously realistic is just as jarring as when Sonic does it, but in one case, it's a one-off experience for the sake of silliness, and in the other, it's an unwelcome change to the entirety of the character's universe and we're expected to believe the characters actually belong there. Maybe the problem here is that New Donk City was the first area shown in the trailer, and thus is the most prominently known part of the game, accidentally misleading people into believing that's just what Mario's world *is* now. Look any closer and that doesn't really seem to be the case at all, and every other level in the game looks just as cartoonish as ever. So yeah, New Donk City is weird. It's uncanny. The thing you're missing here is that, in this case, that's the joke and the game is in on it.
Okay sorry but I just have to. Where is the problem with sonic is a realistic setting he never was all that cartoony in his setting to begin with yes there were semi wacky places like Green hill but even in this is the background always rather real not to mention things like the Big City level that exist since Sonic 1 like Star light zone or spring yard zone. There is there of cause that the ancient tempest looks a lot more real especially in its traps than every thing in Mario. And most of Eggmans Machine levels and all Bad futures in CD are also played completely straight. The only time sonic ever got all wack if in the spezial stages but there are literally in a separate dimension so there are so different because of this. Even most of Sonic's media out side of the games showed more realistic worlds with the Archie Comic series introducing a shit ton of human-esk characters with the overlanders even before SA1, Sonic SatAm also did go for a more real art style, the OVA directly implies that this plays in a post apocalyptic earth with Sonic and Tails directly running into the remains of what looks like a destroyed New York and the President of the World even being a Human. SO I have to ask Why is it such a big deal that we have a realistic looking world in 06 when sonic always was more down to earth in since the praised and beloved Adventure games also presented a human filled world with a very realistic ton? Because I don't get all this its out of place comments when its no different from what we had before just in better graphics. Really my only explanation is that this all comes form Nostalgic "classic" fans that only expect Adventures of Sonic the hedgehog and Green hill zones as sonic's assents and Nintendo fans that can't grapes the concept of a cartoony animal being tacken serious and thing Sonic should be more like Mario and Kirby. Also Speaking of Nintendo Star Fox since day 1 was pretty much star wars with anthropomorphen characters so why is it Okay to take Star fox serous but not Sonic???
0:35 Mario is fascist? Please, he's obviously based on Stalin, just look at his mustache. Also, why would he wear red and dress in overalls if he wasn't a leader of the working class?
I think a lot of it has do with world-building and the visual language of the universe. Everything within the Mario and Sonic universe has a structure and rules they abide by. Even Eggman is a cartoony character. When Mario and Sonic are thrusted into our own world, it breaks the constructed world they live in. This is also why people don't like art shifts in their cartoons as well. People got angry at the Batman animated redeigns.
I generally assume the Boos are not ghosts. I just assumed they were creatures with seemingly supernatural powers/metabolisms that resemble what we would call a ghost.
They're that sort of hyper-moderate "not part of the manosphere" that makes a lot of people uncomfortable though, where they make fun of progressives and minorities as well. Like South Park, and that's not meant as a flattering comparison.
The first thing I thought about when I saw the trailer was, "Another data point for Game Theory to finally settle how tall Mario is." Shortly followed by, "Mario is shorter than I thought he was." Then, "This looks kind of cool." I was never horrified or upset, because I'm a rational adult, who wasn't filming themself hoping to create a viral video or get likes on Twitter.
I didn't like New Donk City when I first saw it, but it's grown on me. It's just as carefree as any other Mario stage, just with an NYC backdrop and realistically proportioned NPCs. The streamer highlights were funny imo, and kind of awesome that people reacted so strongly. Mario means a lot to millions of people. It's COOL that adults are getting a little worked up over a cartoon character in a setting that doesn't feel *quite right*. Does that not show off how accessible and widely adored Mario is as a character?
This is why Elmo in Grouchland freaked me out as a kid. Elmo going to some dirty place that looked like it was an hour drive away from the Mario Movie city.
I really laughed at the stuff about Mario not knowing what a shine sprite is but being really happy to get one, and "he says wahoo all day for no reason, just when he jumps"
I love your smug style, the ridiculously and somewhat unexpectedly well grounded commentary and the fact that you didn't enjoy Fallout 3. Yes, that is now one of your stronger traits.
i kinda love it, honestly. Makes me think that a world with real ass humans like us is just a kingdom away from a cartoony mushroom turtles world. Its fun in a kids movie type of way.
I'm usually too dumb to tell when people choose background music and stuff for effect but having the Dire Dire Docks theme play at the exact moment the concept of Mario game as womb is buttoned up: I see you
I wasn't looking when the cake eating noises started to assault me through the earphones. Almost hurled. This happened last time I watched this. I'll never learn.
The thing about the cake is true. Mario just really loves food. In Mario Sunshine, the thing he fantasizes about is all the delicious food he is going to eat.
Yeah, I think from the newer trailer where the charm is suppose to be. Mario can iterally take over real people and real objects, Mario-fying them in the process. Its kinda like bringing the magic TO the real world.
If you told me years ago that there would be a HBomb/BDG crossover, and it wouldn't be Harris Mario and Brian Waluigi playing tennis, I'd be pretty disappointed.
1:37 Sonic 2 has been waiting its fucking turn for 3½ years now, probably making it the most patient video game in the world, second only to Star Fox 2.
Insert deeply uncomfortable footage of Mario inexplicably eating cake alone in a challengingly sensual manner here... What??? There isn't ANY in existence??? Well I'll fucking make it myself then!!!!!
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"We are screaming tubes of meat, and we are all going to die someday." That pretty much sums it up in a rather humorous, albeit blunt, manner.
"We're screaming tubes of meat, and we're all going to die". Why do I take this statement on board with a sense of calm acceptance when it's presented in the dulcet tones of Hareton Splimby?
If you have a constant depression, well, just be aware that he will make you sick. Be prepared, and be mindful to do some light reading inbetween chapters to break the mood.
Finding this video 2.5 years later and discovering that there's no sonic sequal was simply heart breaking. Not sure if it's more or less than the skyrim video last week
>couldn't be bothered to google the inception horn >could be bothered to google inception poster, transparent vuvuzela png, and edit it all together HMMMMM
These are absolutely terrifying because they show quite how good he'd be at making these sorts of dreadful brain-dead video essays if he used his powers for evil. Like this is genuinely well-made trash. A terrifying glimpse into the dark timeline etc.
This is missing something. New Donk City... is Donkey Kongs city. This is where Mario STARTED, where he was Jumpman, before he was even Mario. This isn't him going into a new place. This is him returning to where he was from. And yes it looks like New York, Mario is a Italian American Plumber. Of course he's from a city that looks New York.
IDK if I'm taking this too seriously, but it bugs the christ out of me that the Mario RPGs, particularly the Thousand Year Door and Super Paper Mario, never come up in this; given that they address a bunch of darker shit within Mario's universe, including the existential ennui of Count Bleck, and yet they're loved by the fanbase far more than even Nintendo seems to notice. Like, I could go into detail about my salt at how and why people keep ignoring the Mario RPGs as a "real" part of the Mario universe, despite the depth they actually bring that every New Games Journalist keeps fucking ignoring if you wanted me to...
I dig anyone who reminds people of the fact that the Mario RPG's exist, buuuut... you gotta see that the audience for those games is WAY smaller than the audience for the mainline Mario platformer games, who are exactly what hbomberguy describes- happy smiley fluff. Platformer Mario games sell way better, because they're much easier to access. The rpg's are cool and they do have a passionate fanbase, but they don't have the broad, all-inclusive appeal of the platformers. Which may also coincidentially be why Nintendo themselves don't seem so chummy with those plots. They kinda just appeal ro Mario fans who are grown up enough to want an actual story from a game featuring beloved mascot characters, whereas the platformers appeal to fans of the characters and people who just wants to jump right into an adventure without anything getting in the way of playhouse fun. So since he's talking about the Mario platformers here, I'd say he's spot on in his analysis, the Mario rpgs are just a whole different beast, outliers who can't really be counted in this context, so to speak.
Its interesting that New Donk City was uncanny in the trailer but NOT in the game. Its very well executed. The real humans just feel like another species, along with all the other weird things that exist in Mario. Honestly, playing as a T-Rex is probably more uncanny and weird than the humans.
"Can you ever really return home when the journey inherently changes what 'you' even are?" - Something about that proposition really freaks me out on a deeply existential level... and I've never even fucked off to Thailand or wherever to "find myself". Might message that line to some friends who are getting wasted in hostels in the far East just to fuck with them.
Actually, the Koopalings aren't Bowser's kids. In one interview I found, Miyamoto described them as being taken by Bowser as part of an attempt to create a new generation of Koopa leaders that gave incredibly disturbing vibes of the Hitler Youth program.
I'm not sure the problem runs THAT deep. I mean I'm sure it does for some people, although I thought most were disturbed by the sight of Mario next to normal people because it immediately suggests there's something wrong with him. Suddenly he's not a cartoon Italian but rather a weirdly proportioned, other-dimensional being only capable of communicating in happy noises. It's just disturbing to think of him that way.
Can we just take a minute with the implication that Bowser told Bowser Jr. that Peach, the woman he's been stalking for a decade, was his mom? Do therapists exist in this universe because that kid is gonna need one.
Man, this takes me back. The massive reaction and everyone freaking out and then the game came out and new donk city was quickly regarded as the best world.
lol, I was gonna say the same thing. Everyone freaked out, then everyone got the game, and everyone loved it.
Meanwhile on Joseph Andersons Twitch page...
i really loved super mario odyssey in general (even though i played it 4 years late) but i like never had a problem with the idea of new donk city and mario interacting with normal looking humans. maybe its just because i immediately found it really funny.
wooded kingdom was the best world, but they also included a clip of someone freaking out about that for some reason
its verticality was amazing
#1 Most Beloved Italian Fascist: Luigi
No, he's our third favourite. JonTron is the most beloved.
Isn't Jontron of Iranian ancestry or am i wrong?
ᖇOSS Tᕼᕮ Sᗩᑌᑕᕮ ᗷOSS I thought he was part Iranian
Mussoliniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
( not particularly... well liked in the end)
Please, Luigi was a communist partisan fighter during the second world war. Don't believe the western imperialist propaganda.
You know what still horrifies my about this video and the cake eating sequence? That cake looks REALLY dry and shitty. That is deeply upsetting to me.
For a moment I thought it was a piece of decorative foam food, like the plastic grapes old women keep on their kitchen windows.
That is surely why not one piece of it wasn't immediately rejected
At least it mean he didnt waste a good cake
From two years in the future, that scene was probably the cake meme before it's time.
was eating cake while watching that right now, had to pause it.
First time I saw footage of New Donk City, it was accompanied by "Jump Up, Super Star!" as sung by Pauline (who in English is voiced by the stellar Kate Higgins). It's an upbeat, jazzy number about going on a carefree, whirlwind adventure with the support of people you love behind you.
...yeah, I wasn't too worried about Mario's idealism being shattered in the 'real world'.
is that a parody haircut?
did you use your hair for parody?
Would it be a hairody then?
How does this only have one reply
@@archivedylsaccmovedtonewch1345 You should really get that checked out
He used his hair to express himself!
Ooh! The Hairmanity!
"As a man I love lecturing people on what their feelings actually mean"
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Toxic masculinity in a nutshell.
@@frocco7125 shut the fuck up with your weakass self
@@IoiniEversonWhy should awareness of societal problems lead to self-hate or "emasculation"? There's no need to feel so threatened.
@@IoiniEverson huh
"Heck, the villan probably lives in a giant golden tower with its name written on it."
I lost it
This is hitting different in 2020
@@PlentyofLingon yesu
There was a coup today
@@beaubryant4534 oh, das coo
@@beaubryant4534 Wait, was that the Myanmar one or the US one? Even within the month, coup isn't specific enough to tell which one you're talking about. That's kinda horrifying in retrospect.
It’s funny watching these reactions now after the game received nearly unanimous praise with the New Donk City segment being universally considered one of if not the highlight of the game.
might want to take a look at joseph anderson's video on the game
"Tumble my dumble"
Oh, I will.
perfect pro pic for that comment
"Everyone's second favourite Italian fascist"
80 years too soon, man...
Edmund Barker ?
Rose Child Benito Mussolini you troglodyte
Amarsbar - I thought they were talking about the Flying Spaghetti Monster ya lipid
Personally neither of those 2 men can outperform Silvio Berlusconi, the true genius of our time.
Have you noticed that most of youtube comments are people misunderstanding humor or sarcasm in other comments
JonTron is livestreaming with Sargon of Akkad as I type this.
I've never needed a new Hbomberguy video more in my life.
Please, Hbomber-senpai, never leave us.
Okay, this was finally enough to make me unsubscribe from his channel.
Wait really?? In a friendly sort of way?
jon no
at least markiplier is still a nice person right? please at least dont take that youtuber away from me
Yeah, he was on Sargon's channel as a guest and a friend and he has also been tweeting #freesargon
charl x, Markiplier had been a little bit oddly douchey lately but it's mostly a personal taste thing, he hadn't done anything offensive to my knowledge.
4:14 jumping reveals that costume seems to be awfully short...which makes me believe and ask:
hbomberguy, are you wearing a "sexy video-game plumber" costume for women?
FireOps
No wonder it looked so hot.
i noticed this because of the low cut overalls, somehow not the jumping
little tiny baby tee underneath kind of gives it away too. he was rockin' it.
Dresses and skirts were originally designed for men, it doesn't make much sense to squish your external genitals into pants; the Greeks knew what was up. 😎
@@RemixedVoiceoriginally designed for men, yes. but for .... italian plumbers? 😯
So in retrospect I actually really enjoyed New Donk City. Actually playing through it and seeing how it was executed made me realize that it was calling attention to how silly and one-dimensional Mario worlds always are by design. You have a mushroom world populated by mushroom-shaped people, a bomb world populated by bomb-shaped people, a food world populated by flatware-shaped people. New Donk is like turning that same hyper-simplifying lens on a "real" city. Everyone dresses the same, the whole area is fairly small, people and cars are just wandering about with no purpose. They're gameplay elements, not real people. Just like all of the other fantastical "people" in the Mario universe. It's a funny joke when you think about it.
Damn that sonic 2 video is gonna be insane, he's been preparing for 6 years and counting
It's going to end up being a 11 hour analysis on the Sonic fandom exposing all the disturbing stuff
@@gacd2104that’s not nearly enough time to do that.
hbomberguy is becoming more insane everyday
Good.
Insanity loves company
aren't we all
At first it used to disturb me, but now more and more I've come to expect and be amused by it.
+IamSalvatore
That summarizes how I feel when I watch HowToBasic.
Is it bad if I think seeing Mario in the "real world" looks super cute actually? It's like watching parkour, except I'm less worried that a human is going to get hurt.
Y'know, even if anyone thinks it is weird that I like the look of this, I don't care. The little attack names are cute too. The hat one, lol.
*"We're all screaming tubes of meat, and we're all going to die."*
"You can call me pretentious, and believe me, many have tried."
That really implies they tried and failed.
"You're so presumptuous!"
"You predacious git!"
"What a precautious buffoon!"
I always took it as him implying he killed them lmao
Would pay cash actual dollars to hear Hareton Splimby just say the names of philosophers.
"Can you ever really return home when the journey inherently changes what you even are?"
Thats some beautiful shit right there
If you live there.. yes, it is still home. So no, it isn't deep, it's just made to seem like it is.
@@Big_Dai Or you misunderstood the question. It's not about it being impossible to go home, it's that you aren't the you that started the journey, so in a way, that you never returned home.
All I got out of Homer’s Odessey was that servants that get romantic with the guests need to be tortured then hanged.
@@Big_Dai that's literally the whole premise of the hero's journey, one of the most well known and established literary devices there is. the point of it isn't that you literally can't return to your home, or even that it's not truly "home" anymore. the point is that the experiences that you have on your journey have fundamentally changed you and how you view the world around you, and because of that, you can never truly go back to the way you lived before you left. you can go back home and maybe even be happy there again, but you'll never see things the same way or be able to go back to the person you were before. not everything is literal and sometimes things do actually have a deeper meaning my guy.
@@sillyd0g hmmmmm nah i think that guy just destroyed humanity's most famous style of storytelling with facts and logic 🤨
Storks actually exist.
@indicaobscure But then who delivers the storks' babies? Really makes you think. :/
Duh! Other storks, obviously. The real question is who delivered the first stork.
Babies don't exist though. So what the hell is up with that??
I do. I deliver the ones I don't stir fry.
It's storks all the way down!
Everything here makes a lot of sense, but I also can't help but feel like you're missing the point a bit.
In Sonic 2006, Sonic is intimately involved with the "human" world, even to the point of being... involved... with one such character. It's not a place he's visiting, or some one-off oddity; it's his world, except inexplicably transmogrified from a goofy cartoon video game world into a place with realistic-looking cities and realistically-proportioned humans. Sonic exists in a human-esque world, and that's freaking bizarre.
In Super Mario Odyssey, New Donk City is just one world out of many the player visits. Each world seems to have its own style to it, and New Donk City's strange realism seems like a self-aware joke on part of Nintendo. It's less "Mario exists in a realistic world now" and more "Hey, you know how Mario winds up in bizarre themed worlds fairly regularly? What if one of those themes was just straight-up 1920s New York?" New Donk City's just another wacky place Mario visits, except this time, the wackiness is that it has the trappings of a realistic setting.
It comes off, at least to me, like it's supposed to be a little weird, goofy, and comedic, as opposed to when Sonic's world simply became that as a whole, in earnest, without a hint of irony to it. Mario being in a world that is incongruously realistic is just as jarring as when Sonic does it, but in one case, it's a one-off experience for the sake of silliness, and in the other, it's an unwelcome change to the entirety of the character's universe and we're expected to believe the characters actually belong there.
Maybe the problem here is that New Donk City was the first area shown in the trailer, and thus is the most prominently known part of the game, accidentally misleading people into believing that's just what Mario's world *is* now. Look any closer and that doesn't really seem to be the case at all, and every other level in the game looks just as cartoonish as ever.
So yeah, New Donk City is weird. It's uncanny. The thing you're missing here is that, in this case, that's the joke and the game is in on it.
Okay sorry but I just have to.
Where is the problem with sonic is a realistic setting he never was all that cartoony in his setting to begin with yes there were semi wacky places like Green hill but even in this is the background always rather real not to mention things like the Big City level that exist since Sonic 1 like Star light zone or spring yard zone. There is there of cause that the ancient tempest looks a lot more real especially in its traps than every thing in Mario. And most of Eggmans Machine levels and all Bad futures in CD are also played completely straight. The only time sonic ever got all wack if in the spezial stages but there are literally in a separate dimension so there are so different because of this. Even most of Sonic's media out side of the games showed more realistic worlds with the Archie Comic series introducing a shit ton of human-esk characters with the overlanders even before SA1, Sonic SatAm also did go for a more real art style, the OVA directly implies that this plays in a post apocalyptic earth with Sonic and Tails directly running into the remains of what looks like a destroyed New York and the President of the World even being a Human.
SO I have to ask Why is it such a big deal that we have a realistic looking world in 06 when sonic always was more down to earth in since the praised and beloved Adventure games also presented a human filled world with a very realistic ton?
Because I don't get all this its out of place comments when its no different from what we had before just in better graphics.
Really my only explanation is that this all comes form Nostalgic "classic" fans that only expect Adventures of Sonic the hedgehog and Green hill zones as sonic's assents and Nintendo fans that can't grapes the concept of a cartoony animal being tacken serious and thing Sonic should be more like Mario and Kirby.
Also Speaking of Nintendo Star Fox since day 1 was pretty much star wars with anthropomorphen characters so why is it Okay to take Star fox serous but not Sonic???
Sonic 06 was just a general mess, but honestly, I felt the Sonic Adventure games were totally fine taking place in the human world.
Sonic 06 was poorly received for other reasons, mainly the glitches and contrived plot.
tits
oh shit this isnt searchbar
After watching Hbomb's latest video, that Sonic 2 foreshadowing seriously disturbed me.
I'm at a *Loss* for words
Local hero gets head caught in lawnmower, continues videogame analysis despite it.
I hope he never does sonic 2, but keeps doing the thing where reviewers ha e dumb stories in there videos that implies which thing they'll review next
you're gonna love the next one
This episode was hysterical. Keep up the great work, brother!
Knowing you, you'll watch it anyway and leave dozens of comments.
hbomberguy with the new possibility of dislike rising for Jontron could you do a video on why he is a hack game reviewer.
@@hbomberguy I forgot to come back to this after SLA, but I feel proud of this called shot and thanks for the teaser
0:35 Mario is fascist? Please, he's obviously based on Stalin, just look at his mustache. Also, why would he wear red and dress in overalls if he wasn't a leader of the working class?
Bill Fluffenstein doesn't stalin count as a fascist
Just because you're a totalitarian dictator doesn't make you a fascist.
Stalin's a communist, which is the complete opposite. Commies hate facists
Mario is a lumpen-proletariat his only concern is to protect and defend the interests of the bourgeoisie
Long live comrade Bowser in his struggle against Mushroom kingdom's imperialism !
I'm not freaked out by New Donk City in the least bit
I think it looks really cool.
But I liked the world of the SMB movie, so maybe Nintendo shouldn't cater to me.
Redem10 same i like the realistic change tbh
I thought it looked kind of odd for a moment and then got used to it and it seemed cool.
The gameplay look really fun
I think a lot of it has do with world-building and the visual language of the universe. Everything within the Mario and Sonic universe has a structure and rules they abide by. Even Eggman is a cartoony character. When Mario and Sonic are thrusted into our own world, it breaks the constructed world they live in. This is also why people don't like art shifts in their cartoons as well. People got angry at the Batman animated redeigns.
I found the footage of you eating that cake at least as distributing as watching Mario run around a real city.
The Bamboozler the disgusting cake eating noises haunt me
Contrapoints made ribs hot hbomberguy makes cake disgusting beyond belief.
New Donk City: SCREAMING TUBES OF MEAT
New York City
King Kong
Empire State Building
Donkey Kong levels
Donkey Kong
New Donk City
*charlie conspiracy meme*
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I generally assume the Boos are not ghosts. I just assumed they were creatures with seemingly supernatural powers/metabolisms that resemble what we would call a ghost.
With Luigi's Mansion, ghosts and boos are absolutely separate things now... which just begs more questions.
I think Boos are ghosts in the same way that the Cap Kingdom people are hats.
@Diogenes TheDog dorkly stinks and should not be referenced.. ever
I always assumed they were dead shy guys. If I recall, in Yoshi's Island they hide their faces behind their hands when you look at them.
@@ceruchi2084 that somehow makes a ton of sense
I like your hair.
Also, destroy capitalism.
Weirdfishhes hot
YURI PEREZ Cuba (I assume that's where you're from) is actually not that horrible.
YUIR PEREZ
There are socio-economic policies outside of communism and capitalism, do you know that??
Anyways, destroy capitalism.
Vincent Eldridge What for example?
Dip Shit
Socialism, and then a mixture of any three you want. It isn't that hard to look this stuff up dude
Harris, you forgot. Miyamoto himself confirmed that HE is Bowser Jr.'s mother. MIYAMOTO FUCKED BOWSER, HARRIS.
Mario is the first man ever to shave his mustache with a cake
hbomberguy: just fuck my shit up
fam
New Donk looks awesome.
We need more weird shit in our lives
4:50 There are "ghosts of dead people" in Mario though, that's what Luigi's Mansion is.Also there's Dry Bones, which are clearly undead koopas.
Not to mention MagiKoopa reviving a skeleton version of Bowser.
"is an alive Bowser, Wet Bowser?"
I think Nintendo is playing up the contrast for humor, whereas the sonic games played it completely serious
hbomber and RLM shitting on Loot Crate on two days consecutive, dayum
Huw How? There both two great content creators that are tired of trends
Isn't RLM part of the manosphere? I've only seen like two videos but they were awful.
Why do you think RLM are twats? I like them.
No, they are not part of the Manosphere in any way.
They're that sort of hyper-moderate "not part of the manosphere" that makes a lot of people uncomfortable though, where they make fun of progressives and minorities as well. Like South Park, and that's not meant as a flattering comparison.
when you said the odyssey came out in the 1940's i fucking lost it. and then saying it was inspired by doctor who was the end of me.
The first thing I thought about when I saw the trailer was, "Another data point for Game Theory to finally settle how tall Mario is." Shortly followed by, "Mario is shorter than I thought he was." Then, "This looks kind of cool."
I was never horrified or upset, because I'm a rational adult, who wasn't filming themself hoping to create a viral video or get likes on Twitter.
I didn't like New Donk City when I first saw it, but it's grown on me. It's just as carefree as any other Mario stage, just with an NYC backdrop and realistically proportioned NPCs.
The streamer highlights were funny imo, and kind of awesome that people reacted so strongly. Mario means a lot to millions of people. It's COOL that adults are getting a little worked up over a cartoon character in a setting that doesn't feel *quite right*. Does that not show off how accessible and widely adored Mario is as a character?
Funny thing is I think they finally settled on him being about 5 foot and now he's like half the height of the humans in the game. Poor Mat
Oh man, this video is classic Splimby!
This is why Elmo in Grouchland freaked me out as a kid. Elmo going to some dirty place that looked like it was an hour drive away from the Mario Movie city.
I really laughed at the stuff about Mario not knowing what a shine sprite is but being really happy to get one, and "he says wahoo all day for no reason, just when he jumps"
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR LUXURIOUS MANE?
I love your smug style, the ridiculously and somewhat unexpectedly well grounded commentary and the fact that you didn't enjoy Fallout 3. Yes, that is now one of your stronger traits.
I like your hair. I want a lore analysis about it.
Justin Kroboth his hair is actually lesbian
A joke being "just a bit crude" juxtaposed with Hbomb disgustingly eating a cake. Beautiful.
i kinda love it, honestly. Makes me think that a world with real ass humans like us is just a kingdom away from a cartoony mushroom turtles world. Its fun in a kids movie type of way.
I'm usually too dumb to tell when people choose background music and stuff for effect but having the Dire Dire Docks theme play at the exact moment the concept of Mario game as womb is buttoned up: I see you
"(the odyssey) came out in the mid 1940s" made me laugh harder than I care to admit
I wasn't looking when the cake eating noises started to assault me through the earphones. Almost hurled. This happened last time I watched this. I'll never learn.
Ahhh, Herbert Bomberman can make every day better.
Harold Explodeyperson really knows how to make good videos.
Herman Bandersnatch really knows his stuff
it's harriston blumblie
The thing about the cake is true. Mario just really loves food. In Mario Sunshine, the thing he fantasizes about is all the delicious food he is going to eat.
2:28 IT'S A CARTOON MAN EXPLORING THE MANY WONDERS OF THE REAL WORLD.
THERE IS *NOTHING* MORE MAGICAL THAN THAT
Yeah, I think from the newer trailer where the charm is suppose to be. Mario can iterally take over real people and real objects, Mario-fying them in the process. Its kinda like bringing the magic TO the real world.
If you told me years ago that there would be a HBomb/BDG crossover, and it wouldn't be Harris Mario and Brian Waluigi playing tennis, I'd be pretty disappointed.
1:37 Sonic 2 has been waiting its fucking turn for 3½ years now, probably making it the most patient video game in the world, second only to Star Fox 2.
7 years and counting...
sla ended with cadburry chocolate
Insert deeply uncomfortable footage of Mario inexplicably eating cake alone in a challengingly sensual manner here... What??? There isn't ANY in existence??? Well I'll fucking make it myself then!!!!!
"We are screaming tubes of meat, and we are all going to die someday." That pretty much sums it up in a rather humorous, albeit blunt, manner.
"We're screaming tubes of meat, and we're all going to die". Why do I take this statement on board with a sense of calm acceptance when it's presented in the dulcet tones of Hareton Splimby?
It's been 4 years Hareton Splimby, IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME, and I'm still waiting for my Sonic 2 SLA!
7:32 that foresight though
@2:35 "as a man I love lecturing people on what they actually feel"
*hbomberguysplainin'* the video
You bought (or made?) a cake so you could grossly eat part of it and then throw the rest onto a pile of packing peanuts in slow motion.
10/10
I love you and your sense of humor. You're easily one of my favorite TH-camrs these days.
Small tip: never ever ever read Sartre when you are going through a depression.
Hubris M so I should never read him at all:'U?
If you have a constant depression, well, just be aware that he will make you sick.
Be prepared, and be mindful to do some light reading inbetween chapters to break the mood.
I am glad that you followed up on your masterpiece
Finding this video 2.5 years later and discovering that there's no sonic sequal was simply heart breaking.
Not sure if it's more or less than the skyrim video last week
"we are all screaming tubes of meat, and we are all going to die" hbomberguy 2017
This is so weird in 2021 when Mario Odyssey is pretty beloved.
By idiots...
>couldn't be bothered to google the inception horn
>could be bothered to google inception poster, transparent vuvuzela png, and edit it all together
HMMMMM
Hey, who doesn't have a transparent vuvuzela PNG on hand
I love how you said The Odyssey was written in 1946 and never explained it was a joke. I bet some viewers will think it is true. I weep for humanity.
"we're all screaming tubes of meat, and we're all going to die" is my new favourite quote from anything
thank god you had that image of a vuvuzela on a transparent background laying around
These are absolutely terrifying because they show quite how good he'd be at making these sorts of dreadful brain-dead video essays if he used his powers for evil. Like this is genuinely well-made trash. A terrifying glimpse into the dark timeline etc.
Legend has it that sonic 2 analysis is waiting to this day.
That trailer wasn't weird to me. Maybe bacause i played a lot of smash and i was accostumed to Mario being near to say solid Snake?
This is missing something. New Donk City... is Donkey Kongs city. This is where Mario STARTED, where he was Jumpman, before he was even Mario. This isn't him going into a new place. This is him returning to where he was from. And yes it looks like New York, Mario is a Italian American Plumber. Of course he's from a city that looks New York.
Mario isn't the King, he's a regular Ace who just likes Cake.
I think it’s funny that people don’t know what the A in LGBTQIA is for. It’s the button that makes Mario jump! Obviously
i want to believe mario says "hey you slob, that's my pizza" but the ears dont always hear what they want to hear....
Hareton, we're still waiting on that Sonic 2 stuff
We got lied to with the sonic 2 sla that turned out to be about losd
I've been thinking of the "wait your turn mate"' bit since this video came out.
I never knew Mario's brain was fucking sideways. Thank you hbomberguy, everything is so clear to me now.
3:24
Homer does have a last name, its Simpson. Glad to have helped out, I think I deserve my name to be read out now too ;)
IDK if I'm taking this too seriously, but it bugs the christ out of me that the Mario RPGs, particularly the Thousand Year Door and Super Paper Mario, never come up in this; given that they address a bunch of darker shit within Mario's universe, including the existential ennui of Count Bleck, and yet they're loved by the fanbase far more than even Nintendo seems to notice.
Like, I could go into detail about my salt at how and why people keep ignoring the Mario RPGs as a "real" part of the Mario universe, despite the depth they actually bring that every New Games Journalist keeps fucking ignoring if you wanted me to...
I would love to hear about your salt.
I dig anyone who reminds people of the fact that the Mario RPG's exist, buuuut... you gotta see that the audience for those games is WAY smaller than the audience for the mainline Mario platformer games, who are exactly what hbomberguy describes- happy smiley fluff. Platformer Mario games sell way better, because they're much easier to access. The rpg's are cool and they do have a passionate fanbase, but they don't have the broad, all-inclusive appeal of the platformers.
Which may also coincidentially be why Nintendo themselves don't seem so chummy with those plots. They kinda just appeal ro Mario fans who are grown up enough to want an actual story from a game featuring beloved mascot characters, whereas the platformers appeal to fans of the characters and people who just wants to jump right into an adventure without anything getting in the way of playhouse fun. So since he's talking about the Mario platformers here, I'd say he's spot on in his analysis, the Mario rpgs are just a whole different beast, outliers who can't really be counted in this context, so to speak.
Its interesting that New Donk City was uncanny in the trailer but NOT in the game. Its very well executed. The real humans just feel like another species, along with all the other weird things that exist in Mario. Honestly, playing as a T-Rex is probably more uncanny and weird than the humans.
Could've used Dr. Mario performing realistic surgery.
"Can you ever really return home when the journey inherently changes what 'you' even are?" - Something about that proposition really freaks me out on a deeply existential level... and I've never even fucked off to Thailand or wherever to "find myself".
Might message that line to some friends who are getting wasted in hostels in the far East just to fuck with them.
But he never did make a Sonic 2 video.
Actually, the Koopalings aren't Bowser's kids. In one interview I found, Miyamoto described them as being taken by Bowser as part of an attempt to create a new generation of Koopa leaders that gave incredibly disturbing vibes of the Hitler Youth program.
We're never getting the Sonic 2 video, we live in the worst timeline
its crazy that the game is 6 years old now, i see six year old videos all the time but im never thinking about when that really was
wild to think that this was before we knew you get to possess the humans lol
I'm not sure the problem runs THAT deep. I mean I'm sure it does for some people, although I thought most were disturbed by the sight of Mario next to normal people because it immediately suggests there's something wrong with him. Suddenly he's not a cartoon Italian but rather a weirdly proportioned, other-dimensional being only capable of communicating in happy noises. It's just disturbing to think of him that way.
“We’re screaming tubes of meat, and we’re all going to die”
For the longest time I thought the title was SERIOUS DONK ANALYSIS
You dressed up like Mario but couldn't bother to get the Inception sound effect!!?!?!
Can we just take a minute with the implication that Bowser told Bowser Jr. that Peach, the woman he's been stalking for a decade, was his mom? Do therapists exist in this universe because that kid is gonna need one.
Sometimes we don't shrink from gore because it reminds us of our mortality. Sometimes it reminds us of when it happened to us.
"We're screaming tubes of meat, and we're all going to die." -- Hbomberguy, in a video about Mario Odyssey