The Quiet Sadness of Mario Galaxy

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  • “Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
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  • @elid5090
    @elid5090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37477

    When I was a kid I used to wait for Mario to lay down on the bed in the observatory before quitting the game

    • @Bleagle
      @Bleagle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2254

      Does he do that on his own if you don't control him for some time?

    • @elid5090
      @elid5090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1491

      Bleagle yeah

    • @sirscratchy1230
      @sirscratchy1230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1045

      I used to do the exact same thing bruv

    • @TytoSwift
      @TytoSwift 4 ปีที่แล้ว +801

      I did that in Mario 64 in the room with the chair

    • @Ond3
      @Ond3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +531

      Aww :))

  • @commediaDollArte
    @commediaDollArte 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5018

    "Because... Because..."
    "She's sleeping under the tree on the hill!"
    When I was younger, I didn't understand that that was a euphemism for the fact that her mother is dead, and she's buried under that tree.
    Now, twelve years on, I just did. And now I'm crying.

    • @firenzarfrenzy4985
      @firenzarfrenzy4985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      I played this game 3 yrs ago and this video lengthened the depth at to which i understand it now. It seems alot more peaceful with such narrations.

    • @guyontheinternet3232
      @guyontheinternet3232 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I was in tears when I learned about what this euphemism meant

    • @leafyyay6190
      @leafyyay6190 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      i havent played the game in so long since my wii stopped reading discs, but i just realized that too and i was always so confused. the line shows so much innocence especially since little rosalina is saying it, but it hides the darker meaning of it and i find that so wonderful

    • @williammartin9585
      @williammartin9585 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The WubMeister same! All the more love for this game

    • @shokwaiv8790
      @shokwaiv8790 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I remembered i cried when i was a kid because of this game, and like you, i didnt understand thats what it was implying. Now im crying while i search on amazon how much a wii is, because i need one just so i can play this game again

  • @BRYTLYTS
    @BRYTLYTS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5023

    “We didn't realise we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.”
    -Winnie the Pooh

    • @kyriix8287
      @kyriix8287 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      😢😭😭😭😭😭😭

    • @catdownthestreet
      @catdownthestreet ปีที่แล้ว +66

      This quote summarizes everything I love about both Nintendo and Winnie the Pooh

    • @koalajones3053
      @koalajones3053 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Funky

    • @underground2691
      @underground2691 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@koalajones3053 what

    • @AfromanRants
      @AfromanRants ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@underground2691 FUNKY

  • @deltafrost8642
    @deltafrost8642 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3216

    I still can’t get through Rosalina’s full backstory without crying and feeling a wave of utter depression. This game…is a lot more than a game to me.

    • @johnpett1955
      @johnpett1955 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Rosalina's backstory feels like it's about how you can be lost in even the most vastness of space and time but even when lost or sad, you can still look for ways to be happy.

    • @goodbyeg7032
      @goodbyeg7032 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Mortablunt I feel you

    • @goodbyeg7032
      @goodbyeg7032 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Mortablunt as much as I don’t wanna die too early I don’t wanna see my mom dying

    • @EnderPanReigns
      @EnderPanReigns ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@Mortablunta tough guy who cries is a protector, a tough guy who doesn’t is just dangerous. Empathy and emotion are vital to be balanced and moral as a human being

    • @yuuuukiiiiii
      @yuuuukiiiiii ปีที่แล้ว

      @@goodbyeg7032 same 😢

  • @fool9711
    @fool9711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2660

    “When you only realize you’re smiling, because you feel it slowly fading from your face”
    W o a h

    • @Howwi
      @Howwi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Your* face UwU

    • @fool9711
      @fool9711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      thank you for catching that my guy

    • @ComputerGirlMae
      @ComputerGirlMae 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      This line is too true, its happened to me way too much.
      Theres also those moments that I only realize my mouth is hanging open in a really akward way until my mouth closes and I realize i've been doing it for 5 minutes straight

    • @squidlump
      @squidlump 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      UwU U_U O_O

    • @nintendogamer1926
      @nintendogamer1926 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sometimes at night I just realoze my eyes are open because it starts to hurt.

  • @java6177
    @java6177 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14844

    Mario Galaxy’s atmosphere is like knowing you can’t go home because it doesn’t exist anymore

    • @thehermit8618
      @thehermit8618 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1755

      ...But you eventually realize you can make a new home, somewhere else

    • @lenseofleni
      @lenseofleni 4 ปีที่แล้ว +820

      @@thehermit8618 and at some point you're realising that you can be home everywhere because yourself can be your home

    • @java6177
      @java6177 4 ปีที่แล้ว +575

      @@lenseofleni Yeah, this is basically what Rosalina’s story is about

    • @TheAbsol7448
      @TheAbsol7448 4 ปีที่แล้ว +294

      This statements feels like it's telling me you can't go back and experience it for the first time as a kid again because you can't erase your memory and you're a grown adult.

    • @java6177
      @java6177 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@TheAbsol7448 yeah, that too

  • @nothinghere8434
    @nothinghere8434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3692

    I want to share my perspective:
    I could talk about this game for way too long, so I'll only focus on the main aspect I see.
    Every single time space is mentioned in reality, it is either followed by scientific discovery or cosmic horror. Either it is cool but pragmatic stuff or full on nihilistic dread. But by combining it with the vital element of a childish, friendly platformer, something else emerges, something new. No longer do you need to worry about lack of atmosphere, cold, extreme radiation, tiny piercing high-speed pebbles or BOILING BLOOD. You can just explore and enjoy it to your hearts content without any real danger. And suddenly space no longer is like the inside of a volcano or the deep sea, deadly and scary, but rather vast, quiet, mysterious and beautiful. Space Junk Galaxy being the prime example. It is almost like making peace with and befriending a former enemy. It is not an empty hell, it is nature. It becomes its own special biome, like forests, deserts, mountains. The game even goes so far as to frame space not as a scary monster, but an innocent victim, tormented by Bowser's tyranny. A crying interstellar ecosystem. All those strange worlds are no longer real-life hazards, but friends in need. The universe becomes one giant family. A place where everyone is meant to be and to live peacefully with each other. After all, the ending and Mario/Luigi's final words before the credits did not come out of nowhere.
    Hardly anyone is gonna see this comment by now...
    Edit: Well, given the replies you see down there, I suppose my judgement above was premature.
    Edit-Edit: I'm going to get replies to this comment for the rest of my life, aren't I?😆

    • @abibeur
      @abibeur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Absolutely.

    • @Dark_Art41
      @Dark_Art41 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Well it’s 5 months later and u caught me attention, very interesting take

    • @nothinghere8434
      @nothinghere8434 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@abibeur
      The former or the latter part? :*)

    • @abibeur
      @abibeur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I don't knowwwww~ (the former)

    • @nothinghere8434
      @nothinghere8434 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Dark_Art41 Thank you!

  • @bradycox4873
    @bradycox4873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3855

    I feel like I’m growing up too fast, and I’ve been struggling with nostalgia and my past, and what’s in store for the future, and this video sums up my feelings. It just hits different. Thanks, man.

    • @okayokey
      @okayokey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Same.

    • @TheseHDGamers
      @TheseHDGamers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    • @ceebs7263
      @ceebs7263 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Same thing here, it’s crazy the kind of emotions a mario game can make you feel.

    • @spaghettiopizza8686
      @spaghettiopizza8686 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@ceebs7263 it really is. Gateway Galaxy makes me want to cry almost every time.

    • @dioghane2990
      @dioghane2990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same

  • @kristiandamaso1688
    @kristiandamaso1688 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14959

    "You know those times when you realize when you've been smiling, because you feel it slowly fade from your face?" - I've seen some good lines, but this has quickly become one of my favorite

    • @theoverseer393
      @theoverseer393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +444

      when I got my first kiss, I remember about 10 minutes after the smile started to fade and I realized that was the most natural smile I could have done

    • @ShannonBlake444
      @ShannonBlake444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      I literally went down to the comments as soon as I heard that line. I was like "Dang, that's a good one"

    • @YoutubePizzer
      @YoutubePizzer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      The way Jacob phrased “you feel it slowly fade from your face” instead of something like “you start consciously paying attention to your mouth”

    • @Chris.Batchelor
      @Chris.Batchelor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      This was me throughout my replay of Mario Odyssey. I forgot how good that game was.

    • @excessivereading9768
      @excessivereading9768 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This makes me depressed

  • @kaelanmarriner2871
    @kaelanmarriner2871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5255

    ”Super Mario Galaxy uses the coldness of the cosmos to make the space we do have that much warmer, that much more delicate.”

    • @Swinburned
      @Swinburned 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Wiseness 100+

    • @kaelanmarriner2871
      @kaelanmarriner2871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Swinburned indeed

    • @julienmauguin3214
      @julienmauguin3214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      I think that this beautiful sentence beautifully describes a beautiful game

    • @kaelanmarriner2871
      @kaelanmarriner2871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@julienmauguin3214 This sentence encaptulates the very reason I felt so close, nearly a part of the game while playing it, as well as describing why I want to feel so close to it even now...

    • @novustalks7525
      @novustalks7525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      🥲

  • @Gingster2max
    @Gingster2max 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1739

    I feel like Japanese media is really good at conveying these emotions. I always feel the same way after a Ghibli movie. I don't know how to describe it any way except for a happy sadness. It's been a wonderful story and adventure but it has to end no matter how much I want more of it. I don't know why this isn't done more in media in America, I think our collective culture is just really uncomfortable with endings

    • @shcdemolisher
      @shcdemolisher ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Yeah most western media (keyword, most) and culture don’t want endings and when they actually do they try to have it go out with a bang. I’m not saying that western is incapable, because it can do good powerful endings! But often times people don’t want things to end which sucks.

    • @shcdemolisher
      @shcdemolisher ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I do think the collective culture aspect is a negative when it comes to experiencing things like that. It causes a disconnect from empathy and emotions that make people feel from things like endings and music. I’m saying this as someone who does feel things from endings and music, so yes I do know people are different.

    • @dotsdot5608
      @dotsdot5608 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Japan is an island/ a couple of islands. i think there’s 4 major, with a bunch of tiny ones scattered across the sea.
      on one face of the coin theres loneliness in isolation, on the other theres snugness or homeliness.

    • @crylune
      @crylune ปีที่แล้ว +1

      America has no culture

    • @Jeremy-cd1wi
      @Jeremy-cd1wi ปีที่แล้ว

      true

  • @thatsleepybirb
    @thatsleepybirb ปีที่แล้ว +376

    This doesn’t even feel like a game anymore, it feels like it opens a door in your mind that you couldn’t find the key for

    • @stefanostsougkranis5851
      @stefanostsougkranis5851 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      What a great comment.

    • @motivationalspeaker7145
      @motivationalspeaker7145 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@stefanostsougkranis5851I was just about to comment that too. It really is a great comment ❤

    • @themockingdragon135
      @themockingdragon135 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And at least until I played it, I didn't really know the door was there.

  • @Midnight-Starfish
    @Midnight-Starfish 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5935

    I'm sorry but my mom didn't sign the permission slip for this feels trip.

    • @Kalieeee
      @Kalieeee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Underrated comment

    • @Odinsday
      @Odinsday 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      The nostalgia is fucking killing me right now

    • @HH-kl8ed
      @HH-kl8ed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I’m literally trying my hardest to hold back tears rn

    • @porksoda703
      @porksoda703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      she cant sign the slip bc she is sleeping under a tree on a hill

    • @ProtatoLlama
      @ProtatoLlama 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      ​@@porksoda703 you really went there didn't you XD

  • @Annihilasian
    @Annihilasian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13347

    "It's that sadness at the end of a birthday party or coming home after a vacation, there's a moment happiness leaves you"
    Damn. I felt that.

    • @MrGrass97
      @MrGrass97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      Annihilasian Me too. It was a beautiful way to phrase it.

    • @dontmindme5290
      @dontmindme5290 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      I literally left someone's birthday party 10 minutes ago

    • @felipealarcon4622
      @felipealarcon4622 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      I like my home, having the security to always have fun and never be bored, i will travel of course but nothing will be as relaxing for me to go to the same place i would rest, a rest from the world, from people, from constant movement, even if its just for a moment i will enjoy it, not because i hate the other places or going out but because it makes me feel like the time has stoped to take a little rest, like winning a fight with an extreamly difficult boss that you shouldnt be able to pass, and being able to rest after saving to think about the great things you did.

    • @BlueFlagAlpha
      @BlueFlagAlpha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Me everytime the clock ticks at 11pm Sunday

    • @Ruexia
      @Ruexia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That hit hard.

  • @epicgamner1139
    @epicgamner1139 2 ปีที่แล้ว +482

    videogames are really art and more people should recognize this

    • @waikeonglim7703
      @waikeonglim7703 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Amen

    • @StellarPone
      @StellarPone ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I believe all media has that potential. Many people fail to recognise the artistic value of cartoons for some reason. I think it's a shame that they miss out on so many emotions via so many cartoons, simply because they associate them with children. Their loss, I suppose.

    • @Speedster428
      @Speedster428 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed

    • @Kenyan-Karavan-Klub
      @Kenyan-Karavan-Klub 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Not all videogames are art, but all art is videoga... wait no that's not right...

  • @Zel-Veraan
    @Zel-Veraan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    I can never hear the Library's theme or Rosalina's story without utterly breaking down. I'm in tears writing this.
    This game does an inconceivably good job of delivering you a dose of totally gut wrenching emotion but with the most gentle, tender touch.

  • @fabi.6080
    @fabi.6080 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6401

    when I was a kid I never realized how good of a game this actually was. It was just so relaxing to play. I really wanna get my Wii now and play the game again just to escape everything

    • @APPPPPPPPPPPPP
      @APPPPPPPPPPPPP 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      My brother sold my wii and GameCube, along with many classic games that made my childhood. I really just need to buy everything I had just for the memories

    • @NikoSummers
      @NikoSummers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@APPPPPPPPPPPPP I mean if you've got a pc you can just emulate it. I've been playing it the past couple days with a 4k texture pack and mods, its actually so good

    • @yasu3d
      @yasu3d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@NikoSummers Dolphin Emulator and if you still have the games, dump them from the Discs. Theres plenty programs that can do it.

    • @xXxMashMallowxXx
      @xXxMashMallowxXx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@NikoSummers how do you do the controls? I can't seem to set it up properly :(

    • @NikoSummers
      @NikoSummers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@xXxMashMallowxXx send me your discord name, I can send you some screenshots and help you out :) or alternatively you can add me - NipSquishy#4963

  • @alivegman3155
    @alivegman3155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7215

    I remember this quote from a Guinness World record book
    “It’s a shame they don’t make games like this anymore, except at Nintendo, where they do”

    • @alessandrobozzi7085
      @alessandrobozzi7085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +649

      Nintendo kept platformers and generally good games afloat while the rest of the industry was reveling in samey shooters and loot boxes, before indies got shit back on track

    • @h56_mza
      @h56_mza 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      @@alessandrobozzi7085 shooters are still alive there are just not many good ones like call of duty is shit but doom is amazing also I’m not saying platforms are bad I just bought 3d all stars and I’m loving it

    • @georgetowle8903
      @georgetowle8903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@h56_mza cod is getting better but it’s for different people

    • @MrSkme
      @MrSkme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Damn thats actually so true

    • @dragonator1012
      @dragonator1012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@alessandrobozzi7085 guess you forgot about sonic. Oh wait you think every game is a sonic 06 or sonic forces

  • @Quintendo3ds
    @Quintendo3ds ปีที่แล้ว +119

    In mario galaxy 2, there’s this giant cave level i think about a lot. Right at the beginning, you fly into this giant, unending cave. You never see the beginning of the cave, so the thought of a giant, galaxy sized cavern has always unnerved me.

    • @Dylan_-tu7zk
      @Dylan_-tu7zk ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I believe that would be Slimy Spring Galaxy. I might be wrong however.

    • @Quintendo3ds
      @Quintendo3ds ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Dylan_-tu7zk it is

    • @yellowpowr8455
      @yellowpowr8455 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Super Mario Galaxy 1 is my favorite game out of the two but Slimy Spring Galaxy is my favorite galaxy between the two, I think because it perfects that Galaxy 1 feel, from the sombre cave to the hopeful, melancholy sunset.

  • @DimaPreo_
    @DimaPreo_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +276

    I one time played Gusty Garden galaxy in my high school band because it was one of my favorite songs on the last day of school. My teacher printed out all the sheet music for all the sections. We even brought the orchestra in for one last huzzah. And I didn’t know I would, but I started crying from how beautiful it was. How much nostalgia was placed in the sound track was stunning. Mario Galaxy, to this day, is my favorite work of art.

    • @petewuellner5403
      @petewuellner5403 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I couldn’t have described it any better. It doesn’t feel like just a game. It feels like art that captures every human emotion that I know, and it gives me faith in something larger than ourselves. I would also like to make this point:
      I respect everyone’s choice in how they approach religion. With that being said, I feel that both Super Mario Galaxy games have the power to turn any agnostic or athiest person into a deeply religious person. The creativity and beauty within these games feel like something beyond the mortality of humanity.

    • @dhans9662
      @dhans9662 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@petewuellner5403 As an atheist I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you there. While it does make you think about your existence and how vast the universe is, I don't quite see how it makes you convert to a religion. Though I am free to hear why you say that, no disrespect.

  • @TheMarioManiac
    @TheMarioManiac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5939

    A fun fact is Rosalina’s story was snuck in without Miyamoto knowing as well.

    • @jaguar4120
      @jaguar4120 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1219

      That is a great thing. Mario Galaxy wouldn't be the same. Rosalina and her backstory is simply amazing and great character development. 🤩

    • @PTp1ranha
      @PTp1ranha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +391

      That's not wholly accurate, I think he just didn't know about the one guy printing a personal copy.

    • @reddemon8802
      @reddemon8802 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      PTp1ranha what?

    • @Necktie3434
      @Necktie3434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Mario, you smell bad. 😡😡😡

    • @awesomness6775
      @awesomness6775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +596

      I think I heard it was added with full consent from the whole team, but it originally didn't exist at all and there was no plan for it to.
      Someone just showed up to work one day with a full story they had written and asked if they could put it in the game and it was an instant yes.

  • @delsinrowe2014
    @delsinrowe2014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2625

    ”Quiet Sadness”
    Me: remembers the incredibly sad music that plays during the Rosalina story time scenes

    • @darkmatter4555
      @darkmatter4555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      th-cam.com/video/zNxRNSCGvaY/w-d-xo.html sadness :(

    • @tsukarikaoru
      @tsukarikaoru 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I still cry every single time I reach chapter 7 and the music changes

    • @rithvikyagnamurthy6560
      @rithvikyagnamurthy6560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I cried when I read it as a child playing the game lol

    • @Bradyoup
      @Bradyoup 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tsukarikaoru I totally agree.

    • @daniidanboy
      @daniidanboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I cried on just listening to the music

  • @lara3540
    @lara3540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    Super Mario Galaxy is a game that feels so much like home to me. It breaks my heart knowing that we‘ll probably never get another part of it.

    • @sololeveling7390
      @sololeveling7390 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Never say never! (Let me keep inhaling my hopium😭)

  • @chuckleberry2142
    @chuckleberry2142 3 ปีที่แล้ว +332

    10:15 That's why I love Captain Toad and the toad brigade so much. As lonely as SMG is, it was nice to have a small rag tag team of mushroom men to explore the cosmos with you. Not to sideline the other npcs, like Rosalina and the Lumas, but I guess I like the toad brigade more because they were more of a comic relief. Relief in what was otherwise a lonely, solemn game. I'm glad that the team behind the 3d Mario games are giving Captain Toad so much spotlight. He even got his own game for some reason! And I know it sounds weird to like a toad npc, considering how overused they are (looking at you, Paper Mario), but I guess that's just my weird opinion.

    • @broncos435
      @broncos435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      wholeheartedly agree. the toad brigade is just a feeling of "space may be lonely, but _you_ don't have to be". i was always happy to run into them doing whatever goofy toad thing they happened to be doing

    • @swissadonis815
      @swissadonis815 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      For my Captain Toad is the real Toad, the one we play in Mario Kart, the sport games and so on. An old Common friend who travels the unknown universe with us...

  • @Sly_Maverick_19
    @Sly_Maverick_19 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1507

    It's like something Bob Ross said, "You can't know happiness without knowing a little bit of sorrow."
    EDIT: "If you have light on light, you have nothing. If you have dark on dark, you basically have nothing. Y'know, it's a lot like life, you have to have a little sadness in order to know when the good times roll. I'm waiting on the good times now."

    • @starlenestilltouringyoutub2116
      @starlenestilltouringyoutub2116 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ooof I remember that :(

    • @CryoKonk
      @CryoKonk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      That episode was filmed right after the death of his wife from what I know. Pretty incredible how he was able to relate his feelings to the audience

    • @AstraIVagabond
      @AstraIVagabond 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And vice versa? ... I think.

    • @stevenliang3213
      @stevenliang3213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Solomona Leiato : Inside out the movie describes this very well

    • @jaydenc367
      @jaydenc367 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      haven't I seen you on a smash bros comment section argument about melee and brawl?

  • @noahrobinson5952
    @noahrobinson5952 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4434

    “Mario has gotta save Princess Peach, and he’s going to. Don’t worry. But if it takes a little while, that’s okay.”
    I’ve felt like my life is going nowhere for a while now, and I think this is something I really needed to hear. Thank you so much.

    • @carlycrays2831
      @carlycrays2831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      You know, a year and a half ago, I lost my job. By that I mean I was fired because I was really, absurdly bad at it. And it really upset me. Losing that job traumatized me because it was my first "adult" job. It was the job that was going to send me places! It had good pay and benefits...and damn did I hate it. I hated helping people on the worst days of their lives and I hated how I had to be "on" constantly. And I hated how I just felt like I was waiting for something bigger to come along. But I also felt like I knew where I my life was headed. I could see exactly how my life was headed and it scared me to be so sure of something.
      I am not where I want to be now, and yet, I feel happier now. Like, actually happy. I don't know where my life is headed, I still feel depressed and unsure, and yet I am so much happier and that bit of uncertainty and challenge feels right.

    • @abbysheremeta7837
      @abbysheremeta7837 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Carly Crays wow, thank-you for sharing. It’s really reassuring to hear this as the unknown is very scary like we all know. I’m really happy that you’ve reached a place you were scared of but the outcome has surprised you!

    • @carlycrays2831
      @carlycrays2831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@abbysheremeta7837 I mean, you know, it surprises you sometimes, just what makes you happy. The important thing to remember is to remember that you can only do a job you hate for so long anyways.

    • @troubledpickle5986
      @troubledpickle5986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Noah Robinson that made me cry. I’m in math class

    • @JulioCesar-xr5vv
      @JulioCesar-xr5vv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I felt that

  • @EtropolisGhost
    @EtropolisGhost 2 ปีที่แล้ว +773

    When you said, "and the game just does this", and at 47 seconds it zoomed out and showed the tiny cheerful planet Mario was on and the dark, somber, expansive planet in the background, I got it.
    From another Mario video I watched, I'm sure the point of that scene was just what you also described: the Devs letting their young audience know that there is no need to fear the vastness of the task before them - the game will guide them and see them through, one step at a time.
    But of course this visual they used to communicate that can be taken in deeper, unintended ways.
    Parental Care:
    The imagery can remind the player of the care their parents gave them. When we were newcomers to this planet, we too needed guidance and protection and reassurance, and a safe place to go home to.
    Escapism and Nostalgia:
    We are growing up or have grown up into a potentially cold, empty, lonely world; certainly an adult world. The imagery in this scene mirrors our view of the game and its associated memories: a small, carefree, dreamy haven from the harsher realities we now face.
    Love in the midst of a dreadful expanse:
    Childhood memories and wonderful games might not be the only things we can hold on to to deal with reality. We can find love in family, friends, or romance. An ambitious man who never made it very far complains of the problems and strife in the world today, and bemoans the fact that he's too small and insignificant to make a difference. His wife reassures him, "But you mean the world to me."
    Alone
    An old, musty planet with weary people
    Marching incessantly about their business
    Trying to acquire more.
    At the store two people yelled at each other
    Because they were both so important.
    Above us, you tell me, the leaders are ruining everything.
    It's a funny thing that we will die before this hopeless world ends.
    But I love you softly.

    • @catdownthestreet
      @catdownthestreet ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Dang this comment hit like a train, well done

    • @pianoplayer2147
      @pianoplayer2147 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@catdownthestreet agreed. That was good to read

    • @sebbo8324
      @sebbo8324 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Top 5 comments of all time, I teared up

    • @EtropolisGhost
      @EtropolisGhost ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@sebbo8324 Thanks - one day I'd love to write a book, make a video game, or make a movie that some people can call their favorite, but I don't really know how to do those things. I'm more in my head than in reality. But if I made a TH-cam comment that some people consider one of the top 5, well, that's something like what I want.

    • @jbook4719
      @jbook4719 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You know, until I read this I wasn't really seeing the bigger planet on the background. I was like "They're talking about the star? I dunno, it's big and all, but doesn't really look THAT intimidating to me. It doesn't even look like a planet in fact, isn't it more like a constellation in the sk-".
      Saying I had an "oh" moment would be both completely true and nowhere close to capturing how hard it hit me to finally see it. Yeah, there were the two tones of blue, but I just thought it was a different region from space dust or something. Something so massive, so out of scale, so beyond my comprehension and so intimidating once you realize that's not just more space that only now, after having seen this moment so, so many times, I've been able to even register it. The impression makes the scene even more mesmerizing.
      So I guess I'm writing this to thank you both for your beautiful insight and for helping me to finally spot the colossal elephant in the boundless room. That and to help other not-so-observant travelers as myself, I guess.

  • @silver6380
    @silver6380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    I used to get a feeling while playing this game. I don't know how to describe it. It was a feeling of loneliness, but also openness and infinite possibility. It was associated most strongly with the background of so many galaxies, the one with a star rising over a huge blue planet. It's very much a "The Little Prince" feeling, which makes your video description fit very well. Occasionally, for a moment, I'll feel it again, and this video did that. Thank you

    • @danielsgarden9283
      @danielsgarden9283 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agreed, it’s strange. Nostalgia as well makes it even more strange

  • @starkeeper_youtube
    @starkeeper_youtube 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2895

    I remember the moment when I realized what Rosalina meant when she said her mom was asleep under the tree... I think that was the day I grew up.
    Super Mario Galaxy, in my opinion, is a game with one of the most masterful grasps of atmosphere in any game ever. Not just Mario. Any game.

    • @comradeofallcorvids5056
      @comradeofallcorvids5056 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      I’m sorry I’m to dumb, do you mean she’s dead or? Like buried under the tree?

    • @TheAngelboi17
      @TheAngelboi17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      @@comradeofallcorvids5056 yea

    • @EaZea
      @EaZea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      MarFinitor too*

    • @JTheMelon
      @JTheMelon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      It's kinda funny how Rosalina was established as a lonely princess; only having little lumas as company, living in the vastness of space, and having a sad backstory...
      And now she's that character from Super Mario Party lol

    • @sergiogarciagonzalez1391
      @sergiogarciagonzalez1391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@JTheMelon How do I sad react in TH-cam?

  • @DesignFrameCaseStudies
    @DesignFrameCaseStudies 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2738

    I think, if anything, this proves how powerful character development can be. Rosalina takes shape as an actual character. Not only that, but in such a powerful context, molded from the Galaxy's Quiet Sadness.

    • @isaaccook1890
      @isaaccook1890 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      It's a shame they tossed it all out the window the next game.

    • @plantinapot9169
      @plantinapot9169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Isaac Cook oof

    • @andresmarrero8666
      @andresmarrero8666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      It is like it is forbidden for a Mario game or character to have such lore, story, and character development, or the franchise at least has that heavy air around it. I remember one of the creators of Mario galaxy saying something along those lines.

    • @Sensiav703
      @Sensiav703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      I would say that Rosalina is the best character in the Mario universe, but that's not really a contest because she's pretty much the *only* character. The rest of Mario's cast are essentially actors filling a role for the game they're currently in, they have no real personality of their own that's consistent.

    • @bobisnotaperson
      @bobisnotaperson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @paula She was playable in 3d World

  • @mdgirish
    @mdgirish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +327

    It’s 3 years after you posted this, but I wanted you to know this is the first video I’ve seen that’s been able to express how I feel about this game. Thank you so much ❤️

    • @pianoplayer2147
      @pianoplayer2147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yes, agreed. This video captures what a lot of people think about Super Mario Galaxy. If I had to put it in one word I would say. “I can’t because this game is much more than one word”.

    • @Blue-Apple-fc9eo
      @Blue-Apple-fc9eo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pianoplayer2147 I know this is unrelated but what do you think of bowsers fury?

    • @pianoplayer2147
      @pianoplayer2147 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Blue-Apple-fc9eo I do like bowsers fury! The concept is pretty cool I think. It’s a mashup of linear levels in an open world 3D space. The music too… so amazing. The games pretty fun. It’s very cool as an expansion.

    • @pianoplayer2147
      @pianoplayer2147 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Blue-Apple-fc9eo what about you?

    • @Blue-Apple-fc9eo
      @Blue-Apple-fc9eo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pianoplayer2147 I hadn’t tried it yet, But I will in Christmas!

  • @fantasticbirdblue
    @fantasticbirdblue 2 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    This is the most beautiful mario video I've ever seen
    It's not a theory or a prediction
    It's not a rant addressing Nintendos copyright stakes
    It's not a review about how great it is
    It's not a review about how bad it is
    It's a nice and calm video that even got a little tears out of me.

  • @weirdchamp4601
    @weirdchamp4601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3478

    Did anyone else used to go to their favourite level even though it’s been completed, and just played through it slowly and for fun

    • @bethanylutty4622
      @bethanylutty4622 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Yup. ☺ To the Top of Topman's Tower in Galaxy 2

    • @weirdchamp4601
      @weirdchamp4601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      Bethany Lutty for me it was the bee level near the beginning of that game, I went and explored the whole thing from top to bottom, just having innocent fun, I must have spent like 5-7 hours total just on that one level for all the times I’ve played it , it was so wholesome

    • @amethyst_cat9532
      @amethyst_cat9532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      I still replay levels in the Beach Bowl Galaxy just for fun. It feels like I'm giving Mario a vacation

    • @jose_joestar4228
      @jose_joestar4228 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      It was the first level you get cloud Mario in the second game. I would just jump around and make clouds.

    • @Jereonn
      @Jereonn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Lapo In galaxy 2 there was a flying level with a vulture or something, I replayed that one too many times

  • @Savoryy
    @Savoryy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2571

    I feel like I wanna cry when people talk about super Mario galaxy. I wish I appreciated it more when I played it

    • @perttutunkkari3275
      @perttutunkkari3275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Yeah I didn't appreciate it that much when I first played it but now I understand the beaty of Mario Galaxy

    • @medeniofacaselnshs6163
      @medeniofacaselnshs6163 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Savory it was that game we all played but man how I’d kill to go back to coconut mall in Mario kart and the countless galaxies in this game, life seems so depressing nowadays

    • @perttutunkkari3275
      @perttutunkkari3275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@medeniofacaselnshs6163 Maybe someday we get Mario Galaxy 3
      www.deviantart.com/koopshikinggeoshi/journal/Super-Mario-Galaxy-3-still-possible-Why-I-want-it-766926084

    • @MpSniperM1911
      @MpSniperM1911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it's like spongebob, i since i was very young and i don't speak english as a native i can't remember what episodes i watched, i only know that i was there when i saw on the tv, and only now after watching some episodes i understand why my mother says it's a "boring cartoon", and why i just some people just started enjoying more squidward character

    • @rukifere
      @rukifere 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Super sad ending I cry every time i beat it

  • @wordsoflove8787
    @wordsoflove8787 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    WAHOO!

  • @mooparr
    @mooparr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    I love when Mario Galaxy's music gets all reflective and despite the fact you're literally only ever in space the entire game it still feels like this impossible to reach infinity in every direction. Space is right there but you're still standing on something. If there was a level that had no matter in it besides you at all and it's just moving through the void to find the star it would be called one of the greatest game moments ever.

  • @chefboyardee2072
    @chefboyardee2072 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1341

    “Give me a break, those levels had identical gravity”

    • @GOING_POSTAL666
      @GOING_POSTAL666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lol

    • @SsbPrime
      @SsbPrime 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Read thus comment as he said that

    • @xyannail4678
      @xyannail4678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Do you believe in gravity?

    • @finnvries7440
      @finnvries7440 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Xyan Nail no I don’t,gravity doesn’t exist.People who believe that the earth is round are crazy,the earth is flat and that is a fact.Don‘t believe NASA they are liars.

    • @chefboyardee2072
      @chefboyardee2072 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Finn Vries please tell me you’re joking

  • @robertcardosodefreitas7241
    @robertcardosodefreitas7241 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2360

    I feel like this is a Koizumi thing. Majora's Mask also has some beautiful melancholic but gentle moments. The kids on the Grassy Playfield inside the Moon really stuck with me.

    • @JacobGeller
      @JacobGeller  5 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      You're absolutely right, that moment is so similar to the ones in Galaxy. The man has a reverence for unexpected nature when you expect chaos.

    • @thelarkascend1ng
      @thelarkascend1ng 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@JacobGeller It's insane that Nintendo of all companies inserts these quality existentially-challenging-yet-profoundly-dreamlike moments in so many of their games. I don't know how you communicate this as a lead concept person in game development. I don't know how you get a team of people to rally on the weird and create, as you put it, these "exhales" in their games that are so ambiguous but also so necessary.

    • @thegrandberry4418
      @thegrandberry4418 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I don’t know who wrote the soundtrack for twilight princess, but the lost woods has a similar feeling to the garden in galaxy, if a lot more somber. Nintendo has some amazing composers that really need to get a lot more recognition

    • @Arkatox
      @Arkatox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thegrandberry I thought I recalled they were both done by legendary Nintendo composer Koji Kondo, but I looked it up and was mistaken. He only did Galaxy. Still, two wonderful Nintendo games from the same era. I’m sure they influenced each other to some degree.

    • @emblemblade9245
      @emblemblade9245 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wasn’t Koizumi the one who made Odyssey too?

  • @formula091
    @formula091 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    the quiet sadness of YAHOO WA WA WAHOO!!! YIPPEE!!! bwomp bing bing YAHAAA

    • @funninoriginal6054
      @funninoriginal6054 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      There are black holes...
      There are black people!

  • @dprototype6431
    @dprototype6431 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2870

    I feel like Galaxy 1 better captured the whole “sad spacey” feel compared to 2, even if 2’s really good.

    • @stevenliang3213
      @stevenliang3213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +453

      D Prototype : SmG2 is mainly for gameplay. More worlds, better level design, more variety of power ups, higher difficulty, etc.
      SMG1 has the story, atmosphere, and aura. It’s always my favorite among all Mario games

    • @bigpenisparker9930
      @bigpenisparker9930 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      D Prototype 2 is worse in my opinion

    • @Odinsday
      @Odinsday 4 ปีที่แล้ว +219

      2 is made as a gameplay extravaganza/greatest hits and it works very well. I have more fun with the overall gameplay of 2, but the atmosphere of 1 is just makes it an experience like no other.

    • @AndrewPRoberts
      @AndrewPRoberts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@Odinsday I just really loved exploring the Comet Observatory. Such a great place.

    • @Dash120z
      @Dash120z 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Galaxy 2 was more like an expansion of the first game.

  • @darkslide180
    @darkslide180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1151

    i guess thats why i loved marios, *deep breathe" "Yeah...." he says after each star in this game

    • @theladoflads7884
      @theladoflads7884 4 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      He's patting himself on the back
      It's important to take pride sometimes

    • @thechosenjuan8776
      @thechosenjuan8776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      darkslide180 Not gonna lie that moment made me and the boys cringe and fold like lawn chairs but I forgive the game for it.

    • @2mccue4u27
      @2mccue4u27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It's a contented sigh, a breather. I always loved that.

  • @sineadgaming69
    @sineadgaming69 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    the quiet sadness of hearing bing bing, wahoo, yippee! every 8 seconds

  • @Fomortiis100
    @Fomortiis100 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE

  • @NinjaPirateRabbit23
    @NinjaPirateRabbit23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +506

    I've always felt that Mario Galaxy was special. Even the fact that Rosalina refers to Peach as Mario's special one adds a smidge of emotion to the whole journey.

    • @Lousfw
      @Lousfw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It’s because Peach is apparently Rosalinas mother, from a different timeline.

    • @David-ro9cb
      @David-ro9cb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      N o

    • @i_teleported_bread7404
      @i_teleported_bread7404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Lousfw Well yeah, but that's from back in the day when Game Theory was actually good.

  • @Skrighk
    @Skrighk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6071

    Friend, I want you to know this made me tear up. This was one of the last games I played as a child, as both my parents became sick right after it's release, and died within a few years. I forgot how... Important this game is to me. I look at my general outlook on life and... Your description of this game, the message it sends is how I see the world we live in. I didn't have a way to put it into words until your video though. Thank you.

    • @kaizospeedrunsandgaming8280
      @kaizospeedrunsandgaming8280 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      Skrighk man that’s deep

    • @gabrielrubens4505
      @gabrielrubens4505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      I played this when I was 13 and mostly a jerk teenager, when I finished it I cried so much. It is fantastic in every conceivable way. It is tied with undertale for my favourite game ever made.

    • @jackhays5780
      @jackhays5780 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I’m sorry man

    • @nautilume7114
      @nautilume7114 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Man, I’m sorry to hear about that...

    • @mm3shadowman982
      @mm3shadowman982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Shiva R First 3D, huh? (*cough* Super Mario 64 *cough*)

  • @purl2303
    @purl2303 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    somehow im so connected to this game, remembering the shiny and smooth edges of the star, with the nubs on the end. I dont know why that memory was so significant, i mean the only memories i have of this game were watching my sister play as I tried using the unplugged controller. Its almost like I sub consciously chose to remember this piece of art.

    • @mr.sniffly5297
      @mr.sniffly5297 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bruh you don’t even need to plug in a wii remote

    • @isaiahvance9402
      @isaiahvance9402 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bro i always made my sister play the rocky road level 😔

  • @Poyostar
    @Poyostar ปีที่แล้ว +30

    To be honest, this is still one of my all time favorite Mario video essays. Like, ever.
    God, Super Mario Galaxy is such a masterpiece...

  • @philjoseph6748
    @philjoseph6748 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1749

    "It's not sadness. It's just the moment you realise happiness leaves you" I don't do this often, but if this video is just as good as all your others thats a sub from me

    • @lunchtiem
      @lunchtiem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Its pretty random content from this guy

    • @april5054
      @april5054 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Chaim Raphaelsohn random, sure, but I’ve watched most of the content he’s made similar to this, and it’s definitely always equal if not greater in quality to this video.

  • @jojogape
    @jojogape 4 ปีที่แล้ว +922

    The second game also has this at the end of one of the last levels. Right after a long time diving with a Koopa shell and fighting to get as many air bubbles as possible so you don't drown... you find a small garden. There's no music, just you, a Toad, and the sunset. I think this is the last regular level before the final fight against Bowser. It's like the calm before the storm.

    • @itzflamez6120
      @itzflamez6120 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Or another word for it, "respite"

    • @josetolentino3965
      @josetolentino3965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      Also the final galaxy, the Perfect Run. Once you defeat all the hammer and boomerang bros a final launch star appears, as if the game is gonna take you to one last, excruciating challenge. But its just rosalina waiting for you on a little planet.

    • @tsukarikaoru
      @tsukarikaoru 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      God I love slimy spring. Just the atmosphere, the music, the setting... it speaks to me. It gives that familiar feeling of sadness, and at the end you see the sun and are out of the cave. I sometimes play through that level just for the atmosphere itself

    • @comfy88338
      @comfy88338 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@josetolentino3965
      Ngl, I was kinda expecting an extremely hard Rosalina boss battle or something to test how much you've improved, the Blue toad even shows Distrust about her in the first game, I was kinda expecting her to be a twist villain because of that in my first playthrough tbh.

    • @logicaltips4107
      @logicaltips4107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Which level is this?

  • @ronch550
    @ronch550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I noticed this sadness too because I often think of the loneliness of the real universe myself. Just an endless, lonely, dark void. Christianity also talks about 'outer darkness', which supports this concept. That regardless of how joyful a place may be, once you step out, there's only loneliness and nothingness in all directions, and it just goes on and on forever.
    Yes we know the universe is a lonely place once you leave our bustling planet, but we've become so used to this idea that it no longer affects us. In contrast, SMG's worlds are so colorful, so ideal, so cheerful, that it much more sharply contrasts with the empty blue void of the game's universe. That all this color and cheerfulness sits in an endless sea of nothingness and loneliness. Having no one with you as you traverse through the game only helps instill the loneliness as well.

  • @smallertoast8806
    @smallertoast8806 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    You know, this video is oddly comforting. Like whenever I'm sad, I can watch this. And somehow, I feel better. It's weird, but I like it. It feels good.

  • @Jpq-2014
    @Jpq-2014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +639

    "but I know she's not there! I knew all along that she wasn't out there in the sky! Because...... Because.....
    She's sleeping under the tree on the hill....
    One of the saddest Mario stories I ever heard damn

    • @legna3407
      @legna3407 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      When I first read that. I just shrugged it off and moved on. Now that I'm older. I now realize that she dead.

    • @sirrbryan
      @sirrbryan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@legna3407 same

    • @okayokey
      @okayokey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gamer guy 9000 exactly

    • @3Guys1Video
      @3Guys1Video 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ;-;

  • @Devyno
    @Devyno 4 ปีที่แล้ว +428

    Looks like someone's listened to '90 Minutes of Relaxing Super Mario Galaxy Music'

  • @lightningrodstudios2441
    @lightningrodstudios2441 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    3:58 “You know those times when you only know you’ve been smiling because you feel it slowly fade from your face?” That is gonna stick with me

  • @maurin8117
    @maurin8117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    every 6 month or so, i come back to that video and cry when he talks about the garden and i really don't understand why. this video is a fucking masterpiece as is that game.

  • @rangopistacho6928
    @rangopistacho6928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1849

    after my grandad died when i read the whole rosalina story it somehow reminded me of him and the music combined just made me cry. whenever i hear the song luma i only think of one person: my grandad who i allways visited, he couldnt speak do to some brain damage in the area that lets him pronounce words but he could still whistle so if i can remember we used to whistle together and he showed me through his heart how to be a kind and happy soul. and that is why i love super mario galaxy, because its not only a piece of my childhood but it reminds me of grandad even when i have moved on after 9 years of his passing, as long as i remember my childhood ill remember my grandad. i dont care if this comment gets likes or not, i just wanted to express my feelings about this game and its true beauty: a link to ones inner child, to ones past

    • @julianavila4983
      @julianavila4983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It’s always good to remember those we’ve lost... even if they’re gone, you still have those beautiful memories, I know it hurts to lose a family member, but they live on in your memory.

    • @Josephhhhh2077
      @Josephhhhh2077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That looks like the battle pass

    • @ianparr9950
      @ianparr9950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I’m so sorry for your loss

    • @Unkown-il9oz
      @Unkown-il9oz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      U made me cry and sorry for the loss your grandad

    • @sansundertale9071
      @sansundertale9071 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My grandfather passed in january and this and only for dolphins by action bronson has been my coping music to get passed it. Idk why but everything but the gusting galaxy music is just soo theraputic and sort of sad to me. I hope you are doing well through life and even though i only know you through through these comments i care about you and i hope you are doing well.

  • @Kirbychu1
    @Kirbychu1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1501

    6:10 There's a Japanese term for this very feeling! "Mono no aware", the pathos of things. It's the acknowledgment of the impermanence of all things in life, and a sense of sensitivity towards it.

    • @jemoeder5701
      @jemoeder5701 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Ok weeb

    • @acedias12
      @acedias12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@jemoeder5701 Certainly have no idea what that term means, do you.

    • @williamwebb580
      @williamwebb580 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Jemoede R Alright, someone said something meaningful in Japanese, where’s the douche bag calling them a we- there he is!

    • @mennit4959
      @mennit4959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      for this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling this feeling NOT *very* feeling

    • @izivert
      @izivert 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jemoede R that reply was so fucking funny wow

  • @SZF123456
    @SZF123456 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    There are black people

    • @mariodude89
      @mariodude89 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      WAHOO

    • @Crowens
      @Crowens ปีที่แล้ว +7

      fuck's sake lol

    • @funninoriginal6054
      @funninoriginal6054 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Makes me catch my breath every time i cum in here...

  • @stevettebobbie1314
    @stevettebobbie1314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This will probably get buried in the comments somewhere, but Mario Galaxy means so much to me because of its theme of impermanence, kind of like what the video grazes over. It really helps me accept my nihilistic views that life is ultimately meaningless. Whenever I feel depressed I come back and I play the music from this game, because it reminds me that ultimately, nothing is permanent, and in a way that is really beautiful. The depression I'm dealing with will pass. It takes the pressure off of me when I feel like everything is hopeless and I cant shake the stress, because ultimately, none of it will matter in the wider scheme of things, so I can accept that I have no obligation to do anything for the time being except to just take in the world around me. Whatever I'm going through, it will get better. There will be more pain and more joy to come, but for right now, I can just remember a happier time, when I used to play this game with my brother, and I still had that childlike, wonder-filled view on the world. I love this game

  • @brooke8362
    @brooke8362 4 ปีที่แล้ว +976

    I just cried over a game I haven’t played since I was ten...

    • @Idk-ko7lf
      @Idk-ko7lf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Last time I played I was 7 but I remember everything so clearly like a rush of emotions came over me and that story about rosalina started playing and the tears just ran down my face lmao

    • @TheSuzelfruz
      @TheSuzelfruz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Glad I'm not the only one who shed some tears while watching this 😅

    • @caralambson
      @caralambson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Idk-ko7lf I come watch this for a good cry every few months

    • @hashly8521
      @hashly8521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I never played this game and always wanted too, and I’m crying, lmao

    • @hubert1154
      @hubert1154 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I know, right? This game gives me a lot of nostalgia as it's something I've been playing over and over again throughout a lot of my life. The soundtrack and the galaxies are something special that I cannot forget

  • @Leo-ez5vp
    @Leo-ez5vp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1790

    “Mario has gotta save Princess Peach, and he’s going to. Don’t worry. But if it takes a little while, that’s okay.”
    Thank you.
    So much for this one line.
    As someone who’s mental state is at a low, as it has been for a few years, this one line managed to make me tear up.
    It made me feel at peace, like I don’t have to endlessly push myself to be happy and that I don’t have to improve right away.
    It takes time.
    I don’t need to do that right now.
    It felt comfortable to hear this, so thank you.
    (Dear God I’m going on a tangent fjcndnd)

    • @medeniofacaselnshs6163
      @medeniofacaselnshs6163 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Squiddy T Hedgehog hey I think we all are a bit low now. With all we hear about climate change and pandemics it’s no surprise we are sad. But the Mario fandom, despite how different all just know that feeling that those games we grew up with give. The coconut mall theme or the mario and Luigi games like partners in time on the ds. We never thought much of it back then. But now I’d do anything to go back to those times.
      Things will get better though so keep your head held high :)

    • @chobbis3
      @chobbis3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It's alright to feel scared or sad, heck, i even breakdown at times, but just know,
      it will get better.

    • @mategido
      @mategido 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Take care man, hope you are doing well c:

    • @KatlsNalcrateo
      @KatlsNalcrateo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Waiting for an appointment with my therapist and feeling the same way. Take care, and hope you are doing well.

    • @skweeky12345
      @skweeky12345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There is a creator of video essays here on youtube who goes by Razbuten. He has a video called "You Can't Save The Galaxy In A Day" that I think might help you. I rewatch it every so often just to hear the message. Link below.
      th-cam.com/video/9zCevFE0fMs/w-d-xo.html

  • @israelmcclain8097
    @israelmcclain8097 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    This game took loneliness on a another level.....

  • @moss5356
    @moss5356 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    WHOO… WAHA… _UMPH_

  • @PB-ji5rb
    @PB-ji5rb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +585

    "She is sleeping under the tree on the hill"
    Wow. That... Hit me way harder than I expected. I am not the sentimental type, especially when it comes to films or books or games. But that pure, inherently childish innocence, confronting such a depressing event made me tear up a bit. Truly beatiful.

    • @iconx4167
      @iconx4167 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Phenomenal how hard this can hit someone. For a franchise all about getting sucked into black holes and dying gruesome deaths while carelessly killing helpless turtles, it’s amazing how such a basic death of someone you barely know can hit you so hard in your feelings.

    • @Jun-fm1kp
      @Jun-fm1kp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I never caught that as a child but now I know

    • @odisleftpaw5663
      @odisleftpaw5663 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Jun-fm1kp same, as a kid I didn't get it but now this hits me hard

    • @emceemunchapussy1891
      @emceemunchapussy1891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      THOSE KOOPAS HAVE FAMILIES TOO I DON'T SEE ANYONE CRYING OVER THEM

    • @orbic521
      @orbic521 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iconx4167 I love the message but grrr why does everyone insist Bowser's minions are helpless innocents and Mario is a monster. They're evil, working for Bowser and trying to attack you that's why you take damage when they touch you!

  • @joshuaalbrecht8191
    @joshuaalbrecht8191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4964

    This is one of the best opinion pieces I’ve ever seen. I never comment on TH-cam but I wanted to shout you out my dude because this is GOOD. I always wondered what about this game made it stand out among the others in the series and this is it. The melancholy is such a perfect counterpoint to the unbridled joy of every Mario game and the sadness in this game just makes it’s bright moments so much brighter.

    • @Thoomy
      @Thoomy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I completely agree. Many of the points are something that I never considered before, while this being my favorite game of all time. I believe this is one of the best games/series that Nintendo has ever made. The overall gimmick of the game is simple but used in such a way that if a player did not analyze it, it would just go over their head why they are feeling what they are feeling. That is in addition to the overall gameplay of course, but the music is amazing too. Nintendo really outdid themselves on this game, and I really hope they make a third Mario Galaxy that lives up to the previous two, or even surpasses it.

    • @silkworm2595
      @silkworm2595 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bob Ross

    • @StephenG994
      @StephenG994 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You never write comments so here’s a refresher: you’re gay lel git REKT

    • @jclkaytwo
      @jclkaytwo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@StephenG994 grow up.

    • @berttzz
      @berttzz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      JCL Kaytwo says a guy with a king boo profile picture... what a hypocrite.

  • @nighttimestalker
    @nighttimestalker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This is still the best in the series. I wish they would make something like this again
    The atmosphere, the music, the dark themes, bowsers rise in power, etc. Just such a masterpiece

    • @Professor_Wisteria_
      @Professor_Wisteria_ ปีที่แล้ว +3

      as much as i agree, i think we all know it would be almost impossible to to this again. it would never be the same

    • @nighttimestalker
      @nighttimestalker ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Professor_Wisteria_
      Unfortunately.

  • @TheNuts1225
    @TheNuts1225 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Quiet sadness? You mean while Mario is going, "wahoo, weehee, yahoo!" ALL THE TIME?

  • @prussianvati1489
    @prussianvati1489 4 ปีที่แล้ว +879

    I can't stop watching this video. As a kid, I grew up with Super Mario Galaxy and played it almost every night before bed. I remember asking my mom and dad if I could stay up late and play it because I didn't want to put it down. I was so in love with Galaxy as a child and I never understood why till I watched this. He takes what I love about the game and put it into words that are so descriptive and attention grabbing, just as the game is. I don't think there is any way to truly describe the feeling of how I felt playing this game though. Maybe there is no need to put it into words though, maybe just the feeling of thinking of those times and those moments is enough.

    • @2Garins
      @2Garins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      no, I can feel you on a spiritual level, you put those feelings into words in the best way possible... man this video really is powerful, couldn't be more thankful to youtubes algorithm, might be my favorite video of all time

    • @Alex26108
      @Alex26108 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I too feel you
      I used to play with my grandma every time she’d come at my house
      The Music was so relaxing and really described the galaxy I was on
      I used to go in 1st person mode and just looked around to see how endless and empty the sky and horizon
      This game was 70% of my childhood

  • @club_a_seal3037
    @club_a_seal3037 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2149

    You sound like a man with some sort of philosophical degree and some serious nostalgia

    • @tommyhvalberg
      @tommyhvalberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@jo-er3cv Damn dude, you're on the wrong side of youtube. Such negativity on such a great video.

    • @someweirdo
      @someweirdo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Chickentandoori87 How is what he said negativity?? Lol

    • @tommyhvalberg
      @tommyhvalberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      @@someweirdo Look who i actually replied to. Called OP gay or something, he deleted the comment.

    • @someweirdo
      @someweirdo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Chickentandoori87 Ohhhhh ok. I didn’t notice that. Sorry.

    • @tommyhvalberg
      @tommyhvalberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@someweirdo All gud

  • @rileywoolstenhulme4065
    @rileywoolstenhulme4065 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    change my mind, Mario galaxy is 80 times better than odyssey.

  • @anthonytamuzza591
    @anthonytamuzza591 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    "There are black people." - Alex YIIK

  • @alphakrab5022
    @alphakrab5022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1282

    My parents: Video game is not an art
    Me: *shows this game*

  • @Sidney_3
    @Sidney_3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3211

    When someone says “it’s just a video game”, no it’s not.
    It’s a work of art.

    • @UL71M4
      @UL71M4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Its just a video game lol

    • @thesnazzycomet
      @thesnazzycomet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      UL71M4 666 oof

    • @Guing1
      @Guing1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@UL71M4 haha funny

    • @UL71M4
      @UL71M4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @José del Carmen CRUZADO CASTILLO eh?

    • @fungling7982
      @fungling7982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      wait it's not a videogame?

  • @hazzard_destroyer
    @hazzard_destroyer ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Watching this 3 years later I feel the same about this game it’s literally the best Mario game ever. The music just makes everything a reality. I really want a Galaxy 3

    • @PantsaBear
      @PantsaBear ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If Galaxy 2 was more like 1, Id agree. But tbh theyre more likely to make a game like Odyssey (which is great in a more bombastic, celbratory way) vs. make a somber epic adventure like Mario Galaxy 1. Breath of the Wild was the closest thing we've gotten since then

  • @BloxxingDinosaurus
    @BloxxingDinosaurus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The ability to enjoy and appreciate the little things is a strong and valuable gift. I wish I were as skilled at doing that as you are.

  • @bacca4813
    @bacca4813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1747

    "Maybe Mario could use a power-up to fly outside the atmosphere of the ship. Maybe he could hop these small rocks and wonder out into the garden. But... why would he want to? We've got everything we need right here."
    Wow. Just... wow.

    • @ElionMars
      @ElionMars 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Hits real different after a year and a half of COVID, don't it?

    • @N12015
      @N12015 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Except Peach. That's why he's doing that adventure on the first place.

    • @AllToastersToastToast
      @AllToastersToastToast 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Reminds me of ‘But what should I wish for? I got everything I need right here!’ from Omori.
      In context, all the character needed was the friends who care about him, and I love that.

    • @TheBBCSlurpee
      @TheBBCSlurpee ปีที่แล้ว

      🔥🔥🔥

    • @Nami8302_OwO
      @Nami8302_OwO ปีที่แล้ว

      @MageBurger I guess the real friends were the mageburgers we ate along the way

  • @arlaxazure486
    @arlaxazure486 4 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    "You know those times when you realize when you've been smiling, because you feel it slowly fade from your face?"
    Man, I wish I used this as my senior yearbook quote instead of freaking Winnie the Pooh.

  • @youngkappakhan
    @youngkappakhan ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Woo! Woo! Woo! Woohoo! Weehee! Wee!

  • @Zel-Veraan
    @Zel-Veraan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This game feels like an on-going reminder to humanity as a whole that it is okay to morn the loss of love, but to also understand that it doesn't end there.

  • @hadookin47
    @hadookin47 4 ปีที่แล้ว +378

    "Man, isn't Super Mario Galaxy just pure joy all the way through?"
    "Well yes, but actually no."

    • @stt.9433
      @stt.9433 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      for me it was, nothing sad about the game. It's either joyful or peaceful. Zelda is another story.

  • @Nikoffee
    @Nikoffee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2673

    I... don't quite know how to describe what I just felt.
    This is not a just a video, it's an experience. A tragic, fun, nostalgic experience.
    It lets you look back at when you were an overexcited kid playing the game level after level, the good times, the bad times and the surprising or fun times.
    I cried over this video and the memories of this game and I'm proud of it.
    The use of the music is amazing, I smiled so much, sometimes you forget how often you don't smile truly, I've enjoyed this video and it is one of the best ones I've seen.
    Everyone should take a small break every now and then, just thinking or even simply taking a few deep breaths while sitting or laying down.
    I absolutely felt that rant about not being able to play tbh, it's just like that sometime.
    Lastly, Rosalina's story had me tearing up, as a kid I never truly understood the meaning of all of it. But now I understand and feel the pain for Rosalina. The garden is a big surprise, very strange at first but it's the first time when playing that game I stopped and took time to think about it all.
    If you took the time to read all this,
    Thank you.
    Have a nice day and enjoy yourself.
    Take time to reflect on yourself. And most importantly, never forget what is important to you.

    • @alexvint4375
      @alexvint4375 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      The Engi Man this is so wholesome, i cried reading this

    • @zachvela4837
      @zachvela4837 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thank you

    • @lourdeshernandez8509
      @lourdeshernandez8509 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      you’re an awesome person. don’t forget that.

    • @azophi
      @azophi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This man writes a dissertation

    • @zvincqnt4309
      @zvincqnt4309 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thank you. Reading this made me smile

  • @Professor_Wisteria_
    @Professor_Wisteria_ ปีที่แล้ว +15

    this is the first game is ever played on a console.
    safe to say this game changed my life, and when it got released on the Nintendo Switch i cried and ran to my mom to show her, and she cried with me. that's how much i love this game, how much it means to me.
    it's a masterpiece

  • @grnpyro5110
    @grnpyro5110 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    "There are black people"

  • @ruki4929
    @ruki4929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2223

    “Mario has gotta save Princess Peach, and he’s going to. Don’t worry. But if it takes a little while, that’s okay.”
    As someone struggling with ADHD, this line stuck with me more than anything else. Part of ADHD is executive dysfunction; a trouble with changing tasks, or getting them started. So when I'm sitting at my desk for an hour, frustrated to tears because I can't. get. to. work. or failing thanks to careless mistakes my brain is too distracted to pay attention to, It's pretty easy to start feeling like I shouldn't be trying to do things at all.
    Yet that small idea saves me quite often - I am going to get the work done, no worries. But if it takes a little while to do it, that's okay.
    I guess it's my own idea of perseverance; one where I am allowed to get frustrated, take breaks, and give it more than one go. Fall seven times, stand up eight - but it's okay if you need to stay on the floor for a little bit to catch your breath again.

    • @TheEntityRises
      @TheEntityRises 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      As someone that has ADHD, and being a teenager, this is extremely relatable. I hope that your strategy is helping, and I’m glad I read this!

    • @mellow_mallow
      @mellow_mallow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      I'm always struggling with this- I have ADHD and my meds don't always feel like they're helping. I really have a hard time with starting tasks, my room is a horrible mess that fills me with daily guilt, but there's a weird peace that comes from it? knowing that this mess is unique to me, it's not causes by anyone or anything else. even if I died suddenly, right now, a part of my self would remain here in the clutter and trash. i still know i need to clean up someday. but it's ok if i need to take my time. it's ok if I need help.

    • @waluigiw.8132
      @waluigiw.8132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You amazing.

    • @magicalnewsmaneditsbumpers4374
      @magicalnewsmaneditsbumpers4374 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As a teen with adhd, I feel this man. You’ll get through.

    • @gbs155
      @gbs155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're right. I also struggle with ADHD since my childhood, because of it I feel pretty much messed up thinkig about how my future is going to be. But thank you very much for sharing, it makes me at least feel that I'm not the only one who is struggling with this. This quote really is something we wouldn't want to forget^^

  • @mitroujk
    @mitroujk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +944

    I didn't realize what sleeping under a tree meant until now, god I thought she had runaway and her mother was back at earth just waiting for her :/

    • @papaya-4817
      @papaya-4817 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Same holy crap it puts a lot more meaning into the story for me. 💔

    • @hello_i_exist_uwu
      @hello_i_exist_uwu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      press f to pay respects

    • @lukez9721
      @lukez9721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Quite dark for Nintendo

    • @catdownthestreet
      @catdownthestreet ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Nintendo is really good at disguising dark themes under our favorite games- Majora’s Mask and Twilight Princess proved that

    • @atotalfiasco4213
      @atotalfiasco4213 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I always thought it was Rosalina clinging to the last memory she had of her mother before leaving for space, taking a nap under the tree. I don't know which is sadder tbh.

  • @marianafaguntes2762
    @marianafaguntes2762 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Super mario galaxy is such a contemplative game, I've never felt like this with any other videogame. The way all the scenaries are so beautiful and just waiting to have a story there. The lonely ones were my favorite, that shark cave, the space junk galaxy. I used to zoom in on the water or on the other textures and scenaries and just stay there, contemplating, listening to the soundtrack.

    • @UnknownUser_10
      @UnknownUser_10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      True. This game had something special. It had very exciting levels and very melancholic and quiet levels. The soundtrack is the best ever imo and perfectly fits the galaxy surrounding.
      As kid it felt like a big, exciting and fantastic journey even if it’s just a video game.

  • @xscaralienx9398
    @xscaralienx9398 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    YA! HA! WAHOO

  • @erd1525
    @erd1525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    When you first enter Mario galaxy at a young age, you think, “huh, another Mario game.” But when you grow up, you realize, it’s much more. The feeling when you go back to your wii after many years, you just wish, you could go back many years, forget about this whole game, and experience the whole thing, over, again. Not once, but many times. And when you look back, when this game came out, it was one of the best times of your life, it helped you get through tough times, like me.
    damn. i come back with 244 likes, tysm i’ve never had this much 🙂

    • @bird_gang_az9598
      @bird_gang_az9598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here, back when life wasn’t as stressful.

    • @thomaswilkinson1841
      @thomaswilkinson1841 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bird_gang_az9598 And now, we get to experience it anew, in a different way. Similar, still beautiful, yet not the same.

    • @bird_gang_az9598
      @bird_gang_az9598 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thomaswilkinson1841 wel said, I’m gonna get it that way I can just vibe and play those games while traveling

    • @banned2911
      @banned2911 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      shii :9 i recently started playing again completed both parts finally even the perfect run ye (with a little help) but still i felt so sad playing and also happy at the same time anyway it was just as much of a adventure as a decade ago

  • @galelululu
    @galelululu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    the garden always felt very weirdly solemn and beautiful to me because it’s filled with some of the hardest levels. I’d sit there, cold knuckles tight on the nunchuk, a fever in my head, fighting through the Dreadnought Galaxy whose scale, danger and name made me fear it more than just the set of platforming challenges would otherwise. I’d finally escape the horrible ship laying at the end of the universe, and be thrown back to safety, thrown back to.... a garden. A quiet garden that shelters you from the horrors beyond, like the sandbar before a dropoff, like the edge of your blanket before the cold air, like the sunset before the night.
    Maybe I’m just waxing poetic, but the garden never felt quite warm to me, just a little cold

    • @simplysupreme1030
      @simplysupreme1030 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      N3lag that’s actually pretty nice. You should of gotten more likes for this

    • @bellezuchowski6863
      @bellezuchowski6863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Please write a poem

  • @nullanma5134
    @nullanma5134 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    This was incredibly powerful. It’s honestly making me think about my perspective on life as a whole

  • @CIVstrike
    @CIVstrike 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Took me 8 years to save peach. I only did it recently. When I first played the game, I was just a little 6 year old. I loved the game but I never was good at it. One day I lost my wii in moving to a new home. A little after a year into this house, we got a wii U. I found out that you can use it as a wii so that is what I did. I redownloaded SMG after 6 years. But I still didn't beat it. After 2 years, I found this video. I thought to myself, I want to revisit something that mean't a lot to me. I played, and did not stop until the game was over. I had finally done it. I rescued peach.... It was my first time ever seeing the end of the game... I l love you.... So much Super Mario Galaxy...

    • @TotherKoala
      @TotherKoala ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here. The amount of closure I felt after finally beating it was incredible

  • @AintYourChannel
    @AintYourChannel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1800

    Normally I'd never post two comments in a row, but this is an exception. I can't stop thinking about the way you've been able to connect this game to my life experience, and although it makes me sad, it is as you say, it is sort of a good kind of sad. It's been so long since I've been able to feel something this deeply. I lost my mother right after this game came out, when I was quite young. I never really paid attention to the deeper aspects of it, but you have such a way with words, it brought everything back. Even the things about the game that I've repressed because they were too painful at the time, I can now recognize for how beautiful they are. Once again, thank you for making this video. It has unexpectedly helped me a lot, and for that I am forever grateful.

    • @dontlewdyourloli8182
      @dontlewdyourloli8182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      I lost my grandma around November. It was extremely sad for me because I am never able to see here again. I am sorry for your loss your mom probably meant a lot to you. After watching this video I think about how home isn’t we’re you’re house is, its where you family is

    • @weirdchamp4601
      @weirdchamp4601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Don’t lewd your Loli or where you feel safe I guess lol

    • @milliedinwoodie5264
      @milliedinwoodie5264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lapo what's funny about someone's mother dying?

    • @weirdchamp4601
      @weirdchamp4601 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Millie Dinwoodie 🤦

    • @milliedinwoodie5264
      @milliedinwoodie5264 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lapo sorry smh I'm so stupid I didn't read the comment properly

  • @suspiciousindividual2174
    @suspiciousindividual2174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1136

    Theres Mario 64: Lonely and dreamlike. Every room, every level looks like a liminal space. Almost unsettling. Definately a fun experience, no doubt, but the whole game has the weird, eerie vibe to it that I can't quite explain. Then on the opposite end of the spectrum, Mario Galaxy: Lighthearted, maximalist, and cinematic. Not afraid to zoom out and exhale, either. But then, theres the outlier.
    Mario Sunshine:
    "I'm a chuckster!"

    • @jump7holes
      @jump7holes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      With what you said about SM64 is true... The castle walls are empty.

    • @ChaoticMushy
      @ChaoticMushy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Sunshine is just so goofy out of the 3

    • @jrkanaan
      @jrkanaan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      MARIO HOW DARE YOU INTERUPT MY FAMILY VACATION *godzilla noise*

    • @Nepu_Nep
      @Nepu_Nep 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Hey hey hey, Sunshine is amazing in terms of gameplay! Storytelling. . . Not so much. . . But it has the best controls of any Mario game to date

    • @buzzytrombone4353
      @buzzytrombone4353 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      And there's the DS remake: It feels more open and more fun to explore, even if the walls are empty, you still have the minigames to keep you occupied for however long you want and you have someone to give you that wish.

  • @justoniascool9410
    @justoniascool9410 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As you grow up it can be hard to slow down and breathe. You can get so caught up in worrying about grades, romance, social shenanigans, and saving for college. But anytime I play games like this or look back at these games I used to play when I was younger it reminds me of when I didn't have any of the responsibilities or worries I have now. I was new and curious about this strange world, but that's what's so magical about growing up. It's like exploring a vast new unfamiliar galaxy. Sometimes it can be scary and at other times it's joyful. And throughout the journey, you will have hardships and shortcomings. But it's your journey to quite literally becoming your true self. Discovering your interests, forming your personality, and making your first friends. But in a way, I feel that this game is almost the essence of that feeling of exploring, discovering, curiosity, fear, and sadness that you have well growing up. Sometimes you may lament the past but this is what I have to say to you even if you don't or still aren't grown up yet. If your growing up whether you have already grown up or you haven't, I just want to say first, enjoy it but don't expect that joy to just come. The key to making the best memories really is just not trying to. It's just having raw fun and happiness. And no matter how far you are on that path right now just remember to slow down and enjoy it. And now for those who are grown up, you may long for the past again but instead of idolizing it I encourage you to think of it more as a past journey. It's done and in the past. You spent all of that time trying to get to the end of that path, and now your there. Being an adult is a journey that can be even more magical in its own way. Now how are you going to start a new one? You've learned so much and are prepared for so long now to use those resources, experiences, and memories to begin and help you on your next journey.
    Well thank you to those who read my long-winded speech. I hope this message helped brighten up your day a bit ( :

  • @namo5056
    @namo5056 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Came here from running shine’s klonoa video

  • @werl_01
    @werl_01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +977

    Melancholy: the happiness of being sad.

    • @GoIdheart
      @GoIdheart 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @10K subs With no videos challenge! Yeah like how you're a sarcastic bitch?

    • @jesusvilla5907
      @jesusvilla5907 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @10K subs With no videos challenge! Damn chill out man

    • @cantorlok2815
      @cantorlok2815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That's literally not the definition of melancholy.

    • @werl_01
      @werl_01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Cant Orlok I never said it was

    • @cantorlok2815
      @cantorlok2815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@werl_01 Yes, but melancholy is not "The happiness of being sad" it's just another word for sadness.

  • @s.s9908
    @s.s9908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +453

    I'm just... speechless.
    As a kid, this game felt like home and I never knew why
    But it's precisely this
    It was lonely and adventurous but so so *fucking* warm when it needed to be
    This cozy aura hits so hard in the middle of the big unknown nowhere it just makes you feel what's really important to look after--
    Just like the garden, the library and pretty much every single thing and detail in the observatory...
    This happy family longing to help you and to be helped so you can all be around your beloved ones
    What an interesting lonely trip I had so many years ago TuT
    I'm not crying you are crying
    Now if you allow me I need to play this game again, thank you sir

    • @jacks5463
      @jacks5463 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's weird. I've played so many games but SMG holds a very deep place in me like very little else. Thank you for explaining why I feel this.

  • @Bruh-nf7hx
    @Bruh-nf7hx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I think ima play Mario Galaxy when I get home from work now

  • @IanFraser420
    @IanFraser420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What gets me most are the giant star shapes on the underside of the planet next to the comet observatory. It’s so ambiguous what exactly they are. Are they cities? Massive superstructures? Some kind of luminescent scar on the surface of the planet? Whatever they are, they’re impossibly big, and intentionally placed. It’s surreal to just stand there and think that there’s some entity within the universe of the game capable of placing structures of that scale.

  • @aurimo_
    @aurimo_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +762

    "Its okay, breathe"
    *ad*