Seeing how the fight ended, the entity (forgot their name) realized that he went too far with that last attack. Another thing I noticed is that, the entity here seems a lot more "Fun and games" then actually inflicting pain onto others. Seems to me like, at the very beginning, it's intentions were actually to have fun. That's actually rather sad, especially since the person who's mind was transported into Mario didn't even flinch at the thought, he just went for it, unburdened by what just happened to them. The entity literally had the perfect person to play with, but since he went too far with the Final Hour attack, it's likely that person perished. Maybe that's the reason things get out of control later on.
Since these were from much earlier times, I believe Buggy stuck to the script a lot more and didn't aggressively invade levels with his influence so much. His punishment for people cheating in his game was much less harsh, there were no instant-death situations the player couldn't have escaped from and things definitely felt more restrained on his part. But this also means at some point Buggy stopped caring about the loss of life his "games" caused.
I find it interesting how whatever entity is in control here doesn’t want to kill our protagonists, but instead play with them for all eternity. Because they are from a video game, it makes sense that they would want to play with the player, as that is their primary purpose, to entertain and challenge the player. This is also probably why the boss fights are fair. It’s no fun if the player has no chance and the entity wins every time.
Yeah that's how I see it. But at some point he stopped caring about the loss of life he caused seeing that 31 other people died to him after the the first.
whoever was the one playing was an absolute chad he got digitalized and unlike a certain other guy,doesn't stand down or cry,he's goes all in againts the boss immediatly
This entire series is one of the best peices of Mario horror related media that I've ever seen it's neck and neck with Super Mario 64 Classified and even better than Mario '85
Mario games are not known for being boss-heavy, they have always prioritized the platforming itself. So in terms of bosses, it's easy to see why this would be more entertaining to watch.
@@Nanabebe-m2r But some of his soul does remain in Episode 5, as Mario shows signs of anger after dropping into the castle for some reason...and also looks directly at Andrew.
Huge props for the way you made Buggy to be. It's a malevolent and cruel entity that pulls it's victims inside the game and tortures them till their death, like many other creepypasta/horror antagonists do, but it's only because it doesn't know any better, and from it's perspective it's playing and is having fun with players and sees nothing wrong, not knowing what it puts them through (i assume), it makes it look kinda like a child in a way I feel so much loathing, but at the same time i can't help but just kinda feel bad for it
I don't believe Buggy is capable of performing MD (mental digitisation) on the players, I feel like that's either Scorched Peach (dark haired + armed peach) or the game itself doing this.
I am so obsessed with the concept of an entity that isn’t bent on ending humanity or whatever, but instead just wants to play with its victims. Forcing them to play quite literally to death, even if that’s not its intention, really turns this trope on its head. Horrifying, amazing to look at and listen to, and I’m desperate to see the next instalment. Thanks for putting this out there.
So, from what i understand here: Buggy is not a malicious spirit (demon or anything like that) as he doesnt really tries to inflict pain to the player or torture them, he really just wants to play and accidentally killed the player whose was getting along with buggy and played his games. My guess is that buggy is an AI also created by the Power Star Project. Another thing that shows that buggy isnt a demon is the ending as Buggy shows empathy to the player he accidentally killed, and shows a sign of remorse and genuine regret of killing the player, as he screams "NOO" at seeing what he did to them and saying "This wasnt supposed to happen" again and again.
I think he regrets not being able to play with them anymore rather then the actual life loss remembered he torcher Andrew and possibly executed him for disobeying his ordered so I think he fully aware of what he does.
We're back. o) If Buggy (the one-eyed entity) had taken its first human soul in the form of whoever was playing Mario, this means he always had a bit of a mean streak in him from the beginning. He always took things a little too far and resulted in many people dying from his "games" but things got progressively worse over time. What we can get from this video is that Buggy wasn't always such a stickler for the rules and wouldn't straight up torture characters to punish them. Even with someone who literally cheated (by using Peach to suppress his abilities, interestingly enough...) and rendered him unable to fight back, he played relatively fair and didn't trap the character in any instant-loss situations. This player death felt very unintended to the point that Buggy paused the game and went into some sort of despair. Also note that while he still has influence over the levels, they're much less aggressive. It's like... he's sticking to the script a lot more. Additionally Peach, or Scorched Peach as I'll call her (burnt dark arms + hair), seems to have something to do with human souls getting pulled into the game. I'm uncertain whether she tried to prevent or cause it but for me it seems like she caused it. The description at the beginning refers to a "rogue AI", I think she's as rogue as it gets concerning this game, Buggy is obviously supposed to be here but she's not. Ultimately I feel like all this means several things. Mental Digitisation happens (or at least happened) outside of Buggy's control and is result of the game itself doing this, Scorched Peach was never properly deleted and only suppressed, with Buggy's version of peach likely being a different entity he calls on, and at some point Buggy grew dulled to the deaths he caused as the result of MD. Well that's my 50 cents on all this.
@@Eljuador526 I'm sorry I don't know what you mean. Are you talking about the cases prior to Andrew where people immediately died or the people that were mentally digitalised after Andrew?
Wow ok, that was just an Incredible episode. The fact this is all made in god damn SMBX is a testament to how good that engine is. Oh my goodness can it do some incredible things. I will be doing an Analysis of it another time, but even without going into full detail, this just tops every other episode. Yeah, I said it, new favorite episode.
This is one of the best pieces of Fake game media I've ever seen. This entry has actually reached Petscop levels of wishing I could play the game myself. If you ever actually made a game for real I would totally play it man.
i dont ever comment on videos but the fact that this series has gotten so good is insane. theres so much polish and effort in it, hope this boosts the video so more people see it
What I love is that the bosses still have fair patterns that you can dodge, with them being telegraphed beforehand. I can actually see a skilled player being able to beat the boss fights without getting hit. They follow crucial gaming rules to ensure fairness, and _that's_ why this is so immersive: Everyone seems to be given a fair fight all the same
the fact that the player/ mario had no remorse of literally killing his mind-controlled friends, he even went to go knock out his beloved brother. this proves mario ain't (beep)ing around anymore
Buggy isn’t malicious. He’s an ai made for a video game that doesn’t know whether it’s a horror game or fan game. Thus Buggy doesn’t know how to respond to either, and tries to give boss fights and challenges while being a horror character. He just wants to continue his role as a ringleader, have fun with his players, let them have fun experiences, and he decided that he should bring it even further. My point is literally proved when Buggy reloads files because he killed the guy. He doesn’t want that. He even gets scared when he sees Mario dead.
@@lorrainehatton1235nope, he's the trope of "Child like entity with too much power" he's innocent but not weak,but he is naive. Hence his desperation at the end,he was just playing,he didn't want it to end that way. So he loads the save state so he can be less harsh.
Something really interesting to note is that before this Mario got hit each time, a save state 0 would be saved and then loaded. This happens each and every time, presumably being done by Buggy. This shows that he really was just trying to have fun, coupled with his despair at the end. Its worth noting Buggy saves every time until until the final area. To chalk it up, it seems Buggy forgot to save and lost his playmate data. Edit: Buggy not Billy :)
Either that or Final Hour was so powerful that it prevented Buggy from resurrecting the unnamed player. Buggy could use the Save State from long distances as shown when he helped Andrew in episode 7.
So, this is the person Buggy mentioned in the previous episode after digitizing Andrew into Luigi (Episode 7, Sentence), that after this victim (Mario) cheated, he said he “went into a fit of rage, and somehow managed to transport their very essence into the game”, although it seems Peach knew about Buggy’s ability to do this and judging by her appearance on the MD segment, was trying to stop or prevent Buggy from fully digitizing this player. He mentioned their time together did not last very long, which is shown here at the end with whoever’s soul inhabited Mario died *in the game*. Meaning their very soul was now reduced to nothing. After this, Buggy then went on to digitize Andrew. I think this concept of Buggy actually destroying the avatar/soul itself (at least that’s how im interpreting it) isn’t new and it does look he eventually did this to Andrew in Episode 4 (Execution) which chronologically takes place in June 2022 after 7 & 8 (both January 2022), when after he tries cheating again, Buggy goes into a rage and literally incinerates Andrew, which I believe was him destroying the avatar/soul. So now both of these people are permanently dead because of Buggy.
You're a bit wrong there, Andrew is still alive just a puppet to Buggy, Zachary eventually plays the game and finds Andrew who tells him to input a cheat code to get Zach to Peach but Buggy soon catches on to the plan and disables cheat codes, which Andrew then begs Zachary to quickly turn off the game before he gets got, unfortunately it was too late and Zach was sucked into the game, however it seems at somepoint he was able to get the Cheat Code(I think?) before Buggy can stop him, he then comes across Peach's remains which was after Wario tricked Andrew into defeating her, Zachary then proceeds to absorb her remains to gain all of her power, but by the looks of video before this Zach was sent somewhere by Buggy unable to move.
I matured over time and shit and this project you've been working on still never dissapoints on improving and being more entertaining, this shit is creative and fun as hell watching like the previous latest videos, and it is worth for everyone being patient. Take your time on everything because you can still do awsom shit like this that I can't even learn how to lmao. 0]
The fact that someone made a fucking BEAST of a song for a ARG is INSANE to me. Not just this, but there are BOSS FIGHTS??! this is too good of a concept to just be an arg, you GOTTA make this a game. the concepts to these fights are so good! i love how the music goes along with the theme as well!
You finally uploaded!! I missed this series, thought it was over from Episode 7 but nope, it wasn't over, this episode was an absolute beast, incredible work man. All I just can say is bravo, wow. This video was absolute perfection. Excited to see Episode 9!!
I think i have an idea on how the mental digitization (md) might work. The random assortment of colors flashing on screen and the weird sounds (or what i believe to be the md process) can somehow mess with ones brain and maybe hypnotize them so they will see themselves in the game rather then real life. This process will eventually kill the victim and lock their consciousness in the game.
Looking at how this mario seems to have a lot of experience & Andrew locked in for his first being digitized in the game and did pretty well against buggy, if they ever team up they would be unstoppable
Holy moly, a new episode?! After like an entire year?! Count me in! 0D At 6:51 - 11:46, unironically, this can be made as an official Mario boss for the final fight. It's so good and damn well made. Keep up the good work Greenlight! 0)
Yk, seeing as Luigi (Andrew) tries looking for Mario in the previous entries really makes me wonder if Mario and whoever he was is truly dead. Seeing how well he managed I feel like if he did survive he's a key asset in whatever is happening, like if he comes back he will actually be a threat to buggy or the peach ai. It is stated that he's likely dead but it never is confirmed even if the ending makes it seem to be.
Player 122(Mario) is probably dead, Buggy tried to get him up and he didn't and by this time Buggy was unfamiliar with digitalizing and souls, so Buggy couldn't have revived 122.
Okay, discussion time. To the people that aren’t caught up on the timeline, if you look in the description of the video, you will see that this apparent arrangement of gameplay clips all play footage of Version 122.38A of The Power Star Project, which is the same version of the project from Episode 5, the previously earliest episode in the timeline. Furthermore, the beginning of the video states that the clips uploaded on the website they found them on were recorded from January 12th to January 17th of 2022, meaning this episode is now our new earliest point in the timeline. The video’s ending also confirms this as it’s the same scenery from the beginning of Episode 5, where Mario hopped up into action, only at the end of this episode, he was knocked out cold by Buggy, which upset the AI in question and caused him to have a tantrum within the game, leaving Mario to wake up entirely on his own at the beginning of Episode 5. Don’t exactly know what the deal is with that one edited portion of the video where PEACH_AI pops in is all about, but I’m all ears to see what you guys think. Just wanted to clear things up because this episode’s actually the first in the timeline, meaning Andrew or Zach haven’t gotten into contact with the game just yet.
Now, chronologically speaking, this could be located before Andrew's playthrough and way before Ross's playthrough, this is definitely player 122 who was digitalized into the game possibly after not sending the download link in 3 days, and on "Sentence" Wario says that he was incredibly mad because "He cheated!" Entity calls any kind of rule breaking cheating even if it is not, im assuming that 122 did not send the download link to anyone, got a extended playthrough, Entity got mad and he digitalized him into the game but we do not have a clear date of recording so this is just a theory. All we know is that it cannot be Andrew or Ross, this is probably the 122th player of Project Star. Edit: Looking at other videos, the version matches with player 122 of Project Star and also the date of video 1/12/2022-1/17/2022 matches with the last video of 122(Project Star 5-Wario apparition) so this happens right after this video and 122 gets digitalized.
The Player has had enough with the Wario's Apparation's BS & the player is defying him by simply saying "No" It's time to fight back! Man it's been SO long since I've last watched this series & I'm glad it's back. :)
To think I just watched this entire series a few days ago and a new episode just got uploaded now, with an upcoming one next year. I have to say, it is insanely high quality.
This video appears to be a direct sequel of episode 5. Here we see Buggy at his absolute prime, before the Peach incident, toying with its victims while there is nothing the player can to to escape the game. Interesting, as evil as Buggy already was, he seemed somewhat more civil before the Peach incident. Here he simply gets angry at the player for cheating, while in episode 4 Andrew in Luigi’s body got burned alive for cheating.
13:10 This is my favorite part of this whole episode seriously How are they going to do this kind of gameplay IT'S SO AMAZING AND PERFECT Seriously man after 1 year of the last episode it came back. Happy Halloween This episode It's one of the best now we have to wait until next year for episode 9 I can't wait any longer 0D
Here's what I've noticed. Buggy is a hypocrite. He gets mad at players for cheating in his game, but then in all his bossfights, he cheats. He makes himself invincible, has attacks no normal player can dodge, and still has the circuits to get mad when a player tries to even the playing field
@@Nanabebe-m2rI kind of think the way he would die is if your a program speedrunner, you could go to the area which has buggy’s code, delete all of it, delete the spritesheets, and then he’s gone.
Dude really got digitalized, thrown into the video game and didn’t think twice before throwing down with the ai instead of running away Mad props to him honestly.
One thing to note. That this is a SNES, The Boss fights DAMN THEY WERE COOKING WITH THE BOSSES. this has bangers, 15:19 I felt like i was actually gonna get killed, it sent chills to my spine. I couldn't forget what i saw in this video. Also thanks for the nighmares!
I just finished watching the entire series and it was amazing people should cover this more to be honest it is very good and I love the character and concept of buggy as well
I find it interesting that the entity truly wants to play and have fun with his guests, but goes too far. Especially here, he finds someone who wants to have fun as much as him and doesn’t bat an eye at his games, but the entity goes too far and presumably kills him.
You know, hearing the Wario Land 4 voice clips makes me think of a video i saw analyzing the sound design of the game. When discussing Wario's voice clips, he mentioned how inhuman and artificial Wario sounded. Like someone having fun with edits and filters. The abnormal uncanniness is especially fitting when applied to Buggy Wario.
I hope the entity finds a player that likes the idea of playing for eternity. Mabye then the entity would stop being as scary and would make the game a nice place to live
So the entity just wants to play i guess...now i kinda feel bad. But also. It seems like he killed Mario with the Final Hour by accident but like, "Yeah a giant energy ball ive been charging for 10 straight seconds wont hurt him. Yeah thats right".
I want to point out that there's a difference between the soul that inhabits mario in this video and the one from the first few, This one acts more like how Mario actually would, pushing on with no hesitation or fear, meanwhile the other player soul in Mario from the older videos, was more...a bit of a coward, probably more fitting to have a Luigi vessel than a mario one. Edit: Welp I rewatched the series and realized the person playing Mario aka Player 123 was Andrew.
True but this soul feels less human with how its been characterised like a literal NPC. It makes sense since GreenLight planned to kill off this unnamed player by the end of the episode.
@@FluppietheRockruffFan You could be right, they are unfazed by being mentally digitalised but at the same time they should have been included in more episodes if that is the case. We don't even know their name
Also Mario/Player 122 was basically the only one who got closest to beating buggy at his own game, whoever was connected to Andrew might be the only person who could possibly kill Buggy now
Hold on a minute... 1:31 That's the same cheat code the player from episode 6 tried to input! Up, Left, Right, Left, Down, Down, Up, Right This seems relevant. Am I the only person who noticed this?
I just realised something else. The game's version number corresponds to the current player playing on it. This episode obviously features the previously unknown cheater Buggy referred to in Episodes 5 AND 7, RIREEATR, aka player no. 122, and he's on version 122.38A. Andrew came right afterwards, being no. 123, and while he started playing on the version 122 played on during Episode 5, his subsequent playthrough on Episodes 1, 3, and 7 was on version 123.38A. Furthermore, when Zachary played the game in Episodes 2 and 4, this was 5 months after Andrew underwent MD, and Zachary's version was 208.2X, meaning he was player no. 208, or the 85th player after Andrew. Finally, the unknown player from Episode 6 played on a similar game to Zachary, except that if you paid close attention to that episode's description, that unknown player was on version 212.2X, a different game from what Zachary played on, making this unknown player the 212th one to be involved with the Power Star Project, and, yes, Mentally Digitised. In conclusion, at the most recent episode in the timeline, 212 people played some version of the Power Star Project, Wario Apparition Corrupted Data, etc... 31 of them, including Andrew, were Mentally Digitised, and were confirmed to be physically dead. RIREEATR's was the first MD case to be recorded, and likely died physically as well. But considering the number of players and versions to exist are already in the triple digits, I shudder to imagine there were many, MANY more to suffer this fate.
I mean, the person digitized into Mario's body could've very easily been killed by Buggy's last attack, with some other poor Schaub picking up where the left off, especially with how Buggy freaks out like he killed him at the end.
GET UP GETTTT UPPPP NO. this wasn’t supposed to happen this wasn’t supposed to happen this wasn’t supposed to happen this wasn’t supposed to happen this wasn’t supposed to happen
Gotta give it to Buggy. It may be a childish, manipulative, soul-stealing AI, but damn, does he know how to make awesome boss fights with awesome music!
I’m so curious which parts of this were achieved with editing and which parts were just flat out in-game, since I know the capabilities of the SMBX engine have skyrocketed since I last touched the game. Incredible stuff
This was amazing, love the boss fight, the music, everything!! The one thing I realized after watching this and rewatching episode 7 “Sentence”, that the player who got sucked into the game as Mario was the “Cheater”, Buggy was referring to previously. He was the first person to be mentally digitized into the game before Andrew until he perished. The other thing I realized when the “Cheater” was mentally digitized was that Peach appeared during it, making me think she has something to do with this since Buggy believed he was able to bring the players into the game. But that is just my theory for this.
Seeing how the fight ended, the entity (forgot their name) realized that he went too far with that last attack.
Another thing I noticed is that, the entity here seems a lot more "Fun and games" then actually inflicting pain onto others.
Seems to me like, at the very beginning, it's intentions were actually to have fun.
That's actually rather sad, especially since the person who's mind was transported into Mario didn't even flinch at the thought, he just went for it, unburdened by what just happened to them.
The entity literally had the perfect person to play with, but since he went too far with the Final Hour attack, it's likely that person perished. Maybe that's the reason things get out of control later on.
the entity is Buggy btw
@@lorrainehatton1235 Thank you, I had forgotten it's name.
@@GuidingLightAngel I believe it got out of control because of Andrew trying to usurp Buggy. Obviously Andrew was justified in what he did.
Since these were from much earlier times, I believe Buggy stuck to the script a lot more and didn't aggressively invade levels with his influence so much. His punishment for people cheating in his game was much less harsh, there were no instant-death situations the player couldn't have escaped from and things definitely felt more restrained on his part. But this also means at some point Buggy stopped caring about the loss of life his "games" caused.
It's like a cat playing with a mouse until the mouse has a heart attack.
I find it interesting how whatever entity is in control here doesn’t want to kill our protagonists, but instead play with them for all eternity.
Because they are from a video game, it makes sense that they would want to play with the player, as that is their primary purpose, to entertain and challenge the player.
This is also probably why the boss fights are fair. It’s no fun if the player has no chance and the entity wins every time.
Yeah that's how I see it. But at some point he stopped caring about the loss of life he caused seeing that 31 other people died to him after the the first.
whoever was the one playing was an absolute chad
he got digitalized and unlike a certain other guy,doesn't stand down or cry,he's goes all in againts the boss immediatly
probably someone who was testing it or the owner of the game themselves
What if Mario is N°122?
This entire series is one of the best peices of Mario horror related media that I've ever seen it's neck and neck with Super Mario 64 Classified and even better than Mario '85
Yeah, but imagine if you got chased by someone who was built like kingpin... in real life.
Mario’85 isn’t scary tbh
@@stephenbeatty9856 hey there champ
@@based980 thanks for coming
It's shocking that so few people have covered this series, truly shocking.
Why is this gameplay more engaging than actual mario
Also, this man gets digitalised, goes "huh" and fights a boss
What a chad
"Fuck it, we ball"
They wanted him to be Mario so he BECAME Mario
Mario games are not known for being boss-heavy, they have always prioritized the platforming itself. So in terms of bosses, it's easy to see why this would be more entertaining to watch.
Player becomes mario, doesnt break into tears, is filled with willpower and doesn't mess around.
This guy is ONLY about that business!
Probably the Best character so far, he is the only one that managed to piss off buggy in the end. Props to that guy!
Not only that, but for the first player to ever be mentally digitized, he played pretty freakin good!
when did that happen?
@Cuentaaltern4 I doubt it. I believe Buggy killed him by mistake.
@@Nanabebe-m2r But some of his soul does remain in Episode 5, as Mario shows signs of anger after dropping into the castle for some reason...and also looks directly at Andrew.
Huge props for the way you made Buggy to be. It's a malevolent and cruel entity that pulls it's victims inside the game and tortures them till their death, like many other creepypasta/horror antagonists do, but it's only because it doesn't know any better, and from it's perspective it's playing and is having fun with players and sees nothing wrong, not knowing what it puts them through (i assume), it makes it look kinda like a child in a way
I feel so much loathing, but at the same time i can't help but just kinda feel bad for it
I don't believe Buggy is capable of performing MD (mental digitisation) on the players, I feel like that's either Scorched Peach (dark haired + armed peach) or the game itself doing this.
Yeah and from what i understand here he's not a demon or anything like that, as he shows genuine regret in the ending
@@Chris-jl6vpDid you watch Sentence?
Reminds me of "its a good life"
@@Chris-jl6vphad you watched the episode “Sentence”?
I am so obsessed with the concept of an entity that isn’t bent on ending humanity or whatever, but instead just wants to play with its victims. Forcing them to play quite literally to death, even if that’s not its intention, really turns this trope on its head. Horrifying, amazing to look at and listen to, and I’m desperate to see the next instalment. Thanks for putting this out there.
So, from what i understand here: Buggy is not a malicious spirit (demon or anything like that) as he doesnt really tries to inflict pain to the player or torture them, he really just wants to play and accidentally killed the player whose was getting along with buggy and played his games. My guess is that buggy is an AI also created by the Power Star Project.
Another thing that shows that buggy isnt a demon is the ending as Buggy shows empathy to the player he accidentally killed, and shows a sign of remorse and genuine regret of killing the player, as he screams "NOO" at seeing what he did to them and saying "This wasnt supposed to happen" again and again.
I think he regrets not being able to play with them anymore rather then the actual life loss remembered he torcher Andrew and possibly executed him for disobeying his ordered so I think he fully aware of what he does.
@cmineawesome1007 fair point, but i still dont think buggy is a demon
We're back. o)
If Buggy (the one-eyed entity) had taken its first human soul in the form of whoever was playing Mario, this means he always had a bit of a mean streak in him from the beginning. He always took things a little too far and resulted in many people dying from his "games" but things got progressively worse over time.
What we can get from this video is that Buggy wasn't always such a stickler for the rules and wouldn't straight up torture characters to punish them. Even with someone who literally cheated (by using Peach to suppress his abilities, interestingly enough...) and rendered him unable to fight back, he played relatively fair and didn't trap the character in any instant-loss situations. This player death felt very unintended to the point that Buggy paused the game and went into some sort of despair. Also note that while he still has influence over the levels, they're much less aggressive. It's like... he's sticking to the script a lot more.
Additionally Peach, or Scorched Peach as I'll call her (burnt dark arms + hair), seems to have something to do with human souls getting pulled into the game. I'm uncertain whether she tried to prevent or cause it but for me it seems like she caused it. The description at the beginning refers to a "rogue AI", I think she's as rogue as it gets concerning this game, Buggy is obviously supposed to be here but she's not.
Ultimately I feel like all this means several things. Mental Digitisation happens (or at least happened) outside of Buggy's control and is result of the game itself doing this, Scorched Peach was never properly deleted and only suppressed, with Buggy's version of peach likely being a different entity he calls on, and at some point Buggy grew dulled to the deaths he caused as the result of MD. Well that's my 50 cents on all this.
Interesting theory. I believe Mental Digitalisation is in Buggy's control but it is interesting on how he could only use it once the player cheated
@@Nanabebe-m2r31 victims of mental digitalization
@@Eljuador526 I'm sorry I don't know what you mean. Are you talking about the cases prior to Andrew where people immediately died or the people that were mentally digitalised after Andrew?
@@Nanabebe-m2rThe vhs indicates that 31 victims were digitized before the player 122
Wow ok, that was just an Incredible episode.
The fact this is all made in god damn SMBX is a testament to how good that engine is. Oh my goodness can it do some incredible things.
I will be doing an Analysis of it another time, but even without going into full detail, this just tops every other episode. Yeah, I said it, new favorite episode.
the crazy thing is is that it could be recreated 1-1 with greenlight’s permission.
I like the detail of the eyes being different to indicate when someone has transformed into a character
No? It when the other characters are “killed” by Buggy
@@sboy2044He's talking about the victims
Which BTW uhhh Mario's eyes don't seem to change at all
@@FluppietheRockruffFan ik
@@FluppietheRockruffFan yeah because he's just gangster like that
i love how this is a mix between a mario game, an undertale fangame, an earthbound fangame and a wario apparition fangame
mario has had enough of the evil doer’s business and wants them dead
Mario is here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and he's all outta bubblegum.
Mario wins this time now
Is he still alive tho
You continue to prove time and time again that you're one of the best horrorbrew creators that I know
This is one of the best pieces of Fake game media I've ever seen. This entry has actually reached Petscop levels of wishing I could play the game myself. If you ever actually made a game for real I would totally play it man.
i dont ever comment on videos but the fact that this series has gotten so good is insane. theres so much polish and effort in it, hope this boosts the video so more people see it
What I love is that the bosses still have fair patterns that you can dodge, with them being telegraphed beforehand. I can actually see a skilled player being able to beat the boss fights without getting hit. They follow crucial gaming rules to ensure fairness, and _that's_ why this is so immersive: Everyone seems to be given a fair fight all the same
He even made an actual game Although I don't know if you can still get it You probably should look at his older videos
You put why I loved this series into words
the fact that the player/ mario had no remorse of literally killing his mind-controlled friends, he even went to go knock out his beloved brother. this proves mario ain't (beep)ing around anymore
It’s not Mario lol, it’s someone who got trapped into Mario’s body.
Buggy isn’t malicious.
He’s an ai made for a video game that doesn’t know whether it’s a horror game or fan game.
Thus Buggy doesn’t know how to respond to either, and tries to give boss fights and challenges while being a horror character.
He just wants to continue his role as a ringleader, have fun with his players, let them have fun experiences, and he decided that he should bring it even further.
My point is literally proved when Buggy reloads files because he killed the guy. He doesn’t want that.
He even gets scared when he sees Mario dead.
So essentially Buggy was born innocent but got corrupted as time went on and their situation got worse?
@@lorrainehatton1235nope, he's the trope of "Child like entity with too much power" he's innocent but not weak,but he is naive. Hence his desperation at the end,he was just playing,he didn't want it to end that way. So he loads the save state so he can be less harsh.
*When the world needed him*
*most he returned*
Buggy sounds a lot more devious when he threatened to possess Mario's body in episode 5. So much for wanting a playmate
Something really interesting to note is that before this Mario got hit each time, a save state 0 would be saved and then loaded. This happens each and every time, presumably being done by Buggy. This shows that he really was just trying to have fun, coupled with his despair at the end. Its worth noting Buggy saves every time until until the final area. To chalk it up, it seems Buggy forgot to save and lost his playmate data.
Edit: Buggy not Billy :)
Either that or Final Hour was so powerful that it prevented Buggy from resurrecting the unnamed player.
Buggy could use the Save State from long distances as shown when he helped Andrew in episode 7.
Interesting, how do you know this player’s name is Billy?
@SprainedSentinel They misspelled Buggy. We don't know what the player is called
@@Nanabebe-m2r Oh.
@@Nanabebe-m2r Thanks for the heads up!
this is so good.....
THE GHOSTLY MANNNNNNNN
So, this is the person Buggy mentioned in the previous episode after digitizing Andrew into Luigi (Episode 7, Sentence), that after this victim (Mario) cheated, he said he “went into a fit of rage, and somehow managed to transport their very essence into the game”, although it seems Peach knew about Buggy’s ability to do this and judging by her appearance on the MD segment, was trying to stop or prevent Buggy from fully digitizing this player. He mentioned their time together did not last very long, which is shown here at the end with whoever’s soul inhabited Mario died *in the game*. Meaning their very soul was now reduced to nothing. After this, Buggy then went on to digitize Andrew.
I think this concept of Buggy actually destroying the avatar/soul itself (at least that’s how im interpreting it) isn’t new and it does look he eventually did this to Andrew in Episode 4 (Execution) which chronologically takes place in June 2022 after 7 & 8 (both January 2022), when after he tries cheating again, Buggy goes into a rage and literally incinerates Andrew, which I believe was him destroying the avatar/soul. So now both of these people are permanently dead because of Buggy.
You're a bit wrong there, Andrew is still alive just a puppet to Buggy, Zachary eventually plays the game and finds Andrew who tells him to input a cheat code to get Zach to Peach but Buggy soon catches on to the plan and disables cheat codes, which Andrew then begs Zachary to quickly turn off the game before he gets got, unfortunately it was too late and Zach was sucked into the game, however it seems at somepoint he was able to get the Cheat Code(I think?) before Buggy can stop him, he then comes across Peach's remains which was after Wario tricked Andrew into defeating her, Zachary then proceeds to absorb her remains to gain all of her power, but by the looks of video before this Zach was sent somewhere by Buggy unable to move.
Someone can explain me all The History ? [All, please, i want know all]
you can see him get better and better at animation in every installment of this series
I matured over time and shit and this project you've been working on still never dissapoints on improving and being more entertaining, this shit is creative and fun as hell watching like the previous latest videos, and it is worth for everyone being patient. Take your time on everything because you can still do awsom shit like this that I can't even learn how to lmao. 0]
I’ve been waiting for this for so long and I gotta say that every single minute was worth it. Great job man I love your work! :D
The whole bossfight was *INSANE*
Cool video, cool animation...
I hope we could have more *fun* oD
The fact that someone made a fucking BEAST of a song for a ARG is INSANE to me.
Not just this, but there are BOSS FIGHTS??! this is too good of a concept to just be an arg, you GOTTA make this a game. the concepts to these fights are so good! i love how the music goes along with the theme as well!
You finally uploaded!! I missed this series, thought it was over from Episode 7 but nope, it wasn't over, this episode was an absolute beast, incredible work man.
All I just can say is bravo, wow. This video was absolute perfection.
Excited to see Episode 9!!
I think i have an idea on how the mental digitization (md) might work. The random assortment of colors flashing on screen and the weird sounds (or what i believe to be the md process) can somehow mess with ones brain and maybe hypnotize them so they will see themselves in the game rather then real life. This process will eventually kill the victim and lock their consciousness in the game.
Thanks for playing my game 0)
Looking at how this mario seems to have a lot of experience & Andrew locked in for his first being digitized in the game and did pretty well against buggy, if they ever team up they would be unstoppable
Holy moly, a new episode?! After like an entire year?! Count me in! 0D
At 6:51 - 11:46, unironically, this can be made as an official Mario boss for the final fight. It's so good and damn well made.
Keep up the good work Greenlight! 0)
i guess we're getting episodes yearly now
Buggy did a little too much trolling
Fired off his Kamehameha to much
Yk, seeing as Luigi (Andrew) tries looking for Mario in the previous entries really makes me wonder if Mario and whoever he was is truly dead. Seeing how well he managed I feel like if he did survive he's a key asset in whatever is happening, like if he comes back he will actually be a threat to buggy or the peach ai. It is stated that he's likely dead but it never is confirmed even if the ending makes it seem to be.
Player 122(Mario) is probably dead, Buggy tried to get him up and he didn't and by this time Buggy was unfamiliar with digitalizing and souls, so Buggy couldn't have revived 122.
Okay, discussion time.
To the people that aren’t caught up on the timeline, if you look in the description of the video, you will see that this apparent arrangement of gameplay clips all play footage of Version 122.38A of The Power Star Project, which is the same version of the project from Episode 5, the previously earliest episode in the timeline. Furthermore, the beginning of the video states that the clips uploaded on the website they found them on were recorded from January 12th to January 17th of 2022, meaning this episode is now our new earliest point in the timeline. The video’s ending also confirms this as it’s the same scenery from the beginning of Episode 5, where Mario hopped up into action, only at the end of this episode, he was knocked out cold by Buggy, which upset the AI in question and caused him to have a tantrum within the game, leaving Mario to wake up entirely on his own at the beginning of Episode 5.
Don’t exactly know what the deal is with that one edited portion of the video where PEACH_AI pops in is all about, but I’m all ears to see what you guys think. Just wanted to clear things up because this episode’s actually the first in the timeline, meaning Andrew or Zach haven’t gotten into contact with the game just yet.
Man i think the same thing about this be a "presequel" to the episode 5 because of the ending
@@StickmanGamer131it doesn't exactly make sense because buggy goes in and attacks mario anyway
Now, chronologically speaking, this could be located before Andrew's playthrough and way before Ross's playthrough, this is definitely player 122 who was digitalized into the game possibly after not sending the download link in 3 days, and on "Sentence" Wario says that he was incredibly mad because "He cheated!" Entity calls any kind of rule breaking cheating even if it is not, im assuming that 122 did not send the download link to anyone, got a extended playthrough, Entity got mad and he digitalized him into the game but we do not have a clear date of recording so this is just a theory.
All we know is that it cannot be Andrew or Ross, this is probably the 122th player of Project Star.
Edit: Looking at other videos, the version matches with player 122 of Project Star and also the date of video 1/12/2022-1/17/2022 matches with the last video of 122(Project Star 5-Wario apparition) so this happens right after this video and 122 gets digitalized.
The Player has had enough with the Wario's Apparation's BS & the player is defying him by simply saying "No"
It's time to fight back!
Man it's been SO long since I've last watched this series & I'm glad it's back. :)
To think I just watched this entire series a few days ago and a new episode just got uploaded now, with an upcoming one next year.
I have to say, it is insanely high quality.
This video appears to be a direct sequel of episode 5. Here we see Buggy at his absolute prime, before the Peach incident, toying with its victims while there is nothing the player can to to escape the game. Interesting, as evil as Buggy already was, he seemed somewhat more civil before the Peach incident. Here he simply gets angry at the player for cheating, while in episode 4 Andrew in Luigi’s body got burned alive for cheating.
I think this is before powerstar archives 5
13:10 This is my favorite part of this whole episode seriously How are they going to do this kind of gameplay IT'S SO AMAZING AND PERFECT Seriously man after 1 year of the last episode it came back.
Happy Halloween This episode It's one of the best now we have to wait until next year for episode 9 I can't wait any longer 0D
it was the first of November when this was made, this was NOT Halloween
Here's what I've noticed.
Buggy is a hypocrite.
He gets mad at players for cheating in his game, but then in all his bossfights, he cheats. He makes himself invincible, has attacks no normal player can dodge, and still has the circuits to get mad when a player tries to even the playing field
Nice observation. He is probably scared that if his opponent is equal to him in power, he could actually die.
@@Nanabebe-m2rI kind of think the way he would die is if your a program speedrunner, you could go to the area which has buggy’s code, delete all of it, delete the spritesheets, and then he’s gone.
12:05 Love Sign "Master Spark"! I know it isn't Touhou reference, but c'mon
Dude really got digitalized, thrown into the video game and didn’t think twice before throwing down with the ai instead of running away
Mad props to him honestly.
One thing to note.
That this is a SNES,
The Boss fights
DAMN THEY WERE COOKING WITH THE BOSSES.
this has bangers,
15:19
I felt like i was actually gonna get killed, it sent chills to my spine.
I couldn't forget what i saw in this video.
Also thanks for the nighmares!
These guys: digitizing and tormenting poor souls
Bowser: 🍿🍿
XD
XD
AAAAAHHHHH!! FINALLY SOMETHING FUN TO WATCH THANK YOU GREENLIGHT 0()D
8:42 "Don't you recognize your own girlfriend?" Ahh moment 💀
Buggy thinks he is in Mario's Madness V2 😭🙏
I just finished watching the entire series and it was amazing people should cover this more to be honest it is very good and I love the character and concept of buggy as well
Bro... WHAT THE ENGINE YOU USED TO CREATE THIS PERFECTION!!!!!???
To know that it's been 1 whole year since episode 7 came out. It honestly felt longer than a year. Time truly is an illusion.
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I find it interesting that the entity truly wants to play and have fun with his guests, but goes too far. Especially here, he finds someone who wants to have fun as much as him and doesn’t bat an eye at his games, but the entity goes too far and presumably kills him.
That is why he sounds angry at himself
I like how buggy's literally makes a masterpiece of music
The difference between Buggy when he first appeared and this episode is insane. Buggy actually feels like a god in here
I cannot wait for the full series to come out so I can binge it.
You know, hearing the Wario Land 4 voice clips makes me think of a video i saw analyzing the sound design of the game. When discussing Wario's voice clips, he mentioned how inhuman and artificial Wario sounded. Like someone having fun with edits and filters. The abnormal uncanniness is especially fitting when applied to Buggy Wario.
You know, what if this player was number 122 from power star archives 5? That would explain the name "Genesis".
I hope the entity finds a player that likes the idea of playing for eternity. Mabye then the entity would stop being as scary and would make the game a nice place to live
I'm still confused about the lore but this mario analog horror is peak :D
If i was the entity i would just load a save state or something, or maybe be like “nuh uh uh you have 3 lives!” just for shits n giggles
16:06 this takes place in power star 5
Yes
Before Power Star 5. This in the same version as Power Star 5 though but there were different players on the same version
16:10 this take all the way back to power star archives 5
It just keeps getting even better oh my GOD
I was just thinking about this series and was sad I forgot it’s name I am so glad that it came out now
So the entity just wants to play i guess...now i kinda feel bad. But also. It seems like he killed Mario with the Final Hour by accident but like, "Yeah a giant energy ball ive been charging for 10 straight seconds wont hurt him. Yeah thats right".
The way I see it, Buggy is pretty much like a child, doesn't understand what's right or wrong
5:28 mario is sad?
I want to point out that there's a difference between the soul that inhabits mario in this video and the one from the first few, This one acts more like how Mario actually would, pushing on with no hesitation or fear, meanwhile the other player soul in Mario from the older videos, was more...a bit of a coward, probably more fitting to have a Luigi vessel than a mario one.
Edit: Welp I rewatched the series and realized the person playing Mario aka Player 123 was Andrew.
True but this soul feels less human with how its been characterised like a literal NPC. It makes sense since GreenLight planned to kill off this unnamed player by the end of the episode.
@@Nanabebe-m2r It's more like they knew what was going on and cut straight to business.
@@FluppietheRockruffFan You could be right, they are unfazed by being mentally digitalised but at the same time they should have been included in more episodes if that is the case. We don't even know their name
13:38 what a COOL LEVEL THANKS! 0D
This was an amazing video. The best episode of the series yet
Also Mario/Player 122 was basically the only one who got closest to beating buggy at his own game, whoever was connected to Andrew might be the only person who could possibly kill Buggy now
Not 122, the version game is 122.38a not 121.38a
@@Eljuador526 Player 122 was the player who got into the vessel of mario
@@Eljuador526I was not talking about the game version
@@FluppietheRockruffFanok
9:52 storyshift chara referenc lol
babe wake up new power star archive episode
I missed the power star achives
THE KING HAS RETURNED!
DAMN THE MUSIC IS SO VERY COOL FIRE !!!
Hold on a minute...
1:31 That's the same cheat code the player from episode 6 tried to input!
Up, Left, Right, Left, Down, Down, Up, Right
This seems relevant. Am I the only person who noticed this?
The secret code
this would make sense because buggy got mad and would prob consinder it a cheat, which it is, being why it has “cheat code” in it.
I just realised something else.
The game's version number corresponds to the current player playing on it.
This episode obviously features the previously unknown cheater Buggy referred to in Episodes 5 AND 7, RIREEATR, aka player no. 122, and he's on version 122.38A.
Andrew came right afterwards, being no. 123, and while he started playing on the version 122 played on during Episode 5, his subsequent playthrough on Episodes 1, 3, and 7 was on version 123.38A.
Furthermore, when Zachary played the game in Episodes 2 and 4, this was 5 months after Andrew underwent MD, and Zachary's version was 208.2X, meaning he was player no. 208, or the 85th player after Andrew.
Finally, the unknown player from Episode 6 played on a similar game to Zachary, except that if you paid close attention to that episode's description, that unknown player was on version 212.2X, a different game from what Zachary played on, making this unknown player the 212th one to be involved with the Power Star Project, and, yes, Mentally Digitised.
In conclusion, at the most recent episode in the timeline, 212 people played some version of the Power Star Project, Wario Apparition Corrupted Data, etc... 31 of them, including Andrew, were Mentally Digitised, and were confirmed to be physically dead. RIREEATR's was the first MD case to be recorded, and likely died physically as well.
But considering the number of players and versions to exist are already in the triple digits, I shudder to imagine there were many, MANY more to suffer this fate.
Just realized the Mario player isn’t dead by this point, ep 5 confirms this
I mean, the person digitized into Mario's body could've very easily been killed by Buggy's last attack, with some other poor Schaub picking up where the left off, especially with how Buggy freaks out like he killed him at the end.
@@lolrus5555good point, mario also appeared angry in ep 5, but that could just simply be the character and not the person themselves
I also noticed buggy said they’re not player 122
(16:40) POV: Your mother telling you to get up on a Monday.
16:47
you saw that amazing boss fight right?, now remember, out there somewhere in the world there is a maniac that could pass that in no-hit
GET UP
GETTTT UPPPP
NO.
this wasn’t supposed to happen
this wasn’t supposed to happen
this wasn’t supposed to happen
this wasn’t supposed to happen
this wasn’t supposed to happen
Gotta give it to Buggy. It may be a childish, manipulative, soul-stealing AI, but damn, does he know how to make awesome boss fights with awesome music!
Oh my god, that's gonna happen to Mario, I've been watched two days ago. Thanks Green! Let's see what it goes next time...
"GET UP"
Mario:no
Dude… I WANNA PLAY THIS SO BADDD!!! THIS LOOKS AMAZING!!!!!
This man is going to fight God.Or become him He is truly *determined* Yet he can only stall He may not have power But he hasn't Lost yet
I love how this entire episode was just some huge boss rush. God i wish i could play this so badly.
HONEY WAKE UP THERES A NEW ADDITION TO THE PSA SERIES 🗣️🗣️
I really wish there was a fangame that recreates the boss fight, it looks so much fun!
if it makes you feel any better, there’s a sonic mix version known as Metal Sonic Apparition.
Glad to have you back pal!
I love the Undertale-style boss battles in this series.
Didnt know Buggy was the theater kid lmao
Finally He Returned
I wonder what they mean with "departure" at 0:35. Does it imply that buggy moved to a different game or that he was deleted / disposed of?
Your creativity is great
PEAK DROPPED
Let's fucking gooo
It revived.
I’m so curious which parts of this were achieved with editing and which parts were just flat out in-game, since I know the capabilities of the SMBX engine have skyrocketed since I last touched the game. Incredible stuff
This was amazing, love the boss fight, the music, everything!!
The one thing I realized after watching this and rewatching episode 7 “Sentence”, that the player who got sucked into the game as Mario was the “Cheater”, Buggy was referring to previously. He was the first person to be mentally digitized into the game before Andrew until he perished. The other thing I realized when the “Cheater” was mentally digitized was that Peach appeared during it, making me think she has something to do with this since Buggy believed he was able to bring the players into the game. But that is just my theory for this.
16:53 Did The Entity(buggy i think) Say no or was that the player saying no?