Watch Out for Fireballs! 139: Super Mario Galaxy
Watch Out for Fireballs!
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🗓️ 29 September 2016
⏱️ 165 minutes
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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross cram-jam Super Mario Galaxy.
3D Mario is a tricky thing. Though Mario 64 forged a path, it arrived at a different feeling and flow than we were used to in our 2D Mario games. Over a couple of iterations, it feels like Nintendo finally arrived at the apotheosis of SM64-style play... and then they promptly abandoned it. So, let's take a close look at this weirdo entry in gaming's most established series.
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| 0:20.1 | return once again that is pat.com slash duck feed TV. |
| 0:24.0 | Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, every goombets you love, every |
| 0:38.1 | shy guy you know, every kupa you've ever heard of, every cheap, cheap who whoever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our |
| 0:45.8 | joy and suffering, thousands of competent one-up glitches, speedrun strats and secret exits, |
| 0:51.7 | every world within a dream or a storybook, every entrance pipe and exit pipe. |
| 0:57.0 | Each animated doll or new arrival princess were expected to care about. |
| 1:01.0 | The rivals warped by greed, the brothers twisted by fear. The companions |
| 1:05.8 | hastily ditched to close one last gap. Every superstar, every King Kupa, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived here on a moat of dust, suspended around an inconceivably angry sun. |
| 1:21.0 | The mushroom kingdom is a very small stage in a vast cosmic array. the so that in glory and triumph they could become momentary end bosses of a fraction of that dot. |
| 1:37.0 | Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one food-themed island of this pixel on the scarcely indistinguishable |
| 1:44.7 | inhabitants of some other island. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager |
| 1:49.7 | they are to stomp on one another, how fervent their desire for coins. Our posturings are |
| 1:55.0 | self-imagined importance. The delusion that we have some privileged position |
| 1:59.5 | in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light. |
| 2:03.0 | Our kingdom is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. |
| 2:07.0 | There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of a plumber's conceits |
| 2:11.0 | than this distant image of our tiny zone. To me, it underscores |
| 2:15.8 | our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and preserve and cherish the pale blue dot. The only home we've ever known and will ever Yeah, fuck. All right, scratch that. The Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh, oh, |
| 3:04.0 | Oh, oh, oh, |
| 3:05.0 | Oh, oh, oh, |
| 3:07.0 | Oh, oh, oh, |
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