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I like to think that the face that reflects on the Devil's Machine is not Ness', but rather Ninten's. Giygas is remembering his defeat at the hands of Ninten and company and is trying to not repeat his mistakes once more.

@ 5:16 Pressedyes isn't saying that there is no concrete meaning to Petscop. "I don't particularly want everyone to understand exactly what was in my head" implies that there was an idea in his head that he was working from. However, when you outright explain to the audience what the meaning of your story or art is, all discussion stops. The meaning that someone took from the work is now overwritten, written down, and the work is forgotten about. Art is far more meaningful when it *can* be interpreted differently by different people. Pressedyes isn't saying that there is no meaning to Petscop, rather he is saying that him explaining it would ruin the work, making it less meaningful for everyone involved. You should look up David Lynch "The Film is the Thing", where he speaks about this very topic. The video game, or the film, is the language which speaks to the audience. To simplify it back into easily digestible words is to take something away from the audience.

Im a bit late to the party but to say somethint about the fetus imagery. Imo its the same as people saying majoras mask has female reproductive parts. Its purely a coincidence of how the sprie was msde. From a technical standpoint Giygas is a warped spritr thing . Throughout the battle that sprite mutliplies in a grid format, warpa and shrinks. What im trying to say is that you can give me any image and eith enough warping and photo effects i can make it "resemble" anything. We humans try to find paterns to any and all places we can, so it doesnt seem weird to me that we saw that baby in giygas and decided to go with it because it fit thr abortion theory. I agree with what you said about what he is supposed yo represent and to build on top of that id like to add that thats why he looks the way he does. Even as a still imsge sprite the creators made it so you couldn't understand what you were looking at. Thats ehat makes it unsettling. Not being able to understand what you are looking at. Thsta why you can add thr warp, twist and thrn filters to make it even more confusing. Correct me if im wrong but, earthbound doesnt have any jump scares at that point in the game. Usually when you are seeing something unsettling you expect a jumps scare or a big release of some short. This lets the brain go back to functioning as normal. If that release is missing though thr unsettling feeling doesnt go away thus making the next scene even more impactful. Its a technique that is used by film and game makers. That's why in my opinion everything just keeps getting more and more unsettling. To make the player be aware to keep em on edge waiting for the big release. Making them hyper focused on everything so they pay better attention to your creation Edit: from a bit of research i did i think thr creator of the mother searies confirmed that the fetus imagery was jsut made by coincidence because of the way earthbound created its enemy backgrounds

If you flip the background upside down, when it resembles a fetus, it looks a LOT like Giygas from mother 1, which I think is what they might have been going for, but I don't know, I'm not Itoi.

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giygas is actually two bears high-fiving

Actually Piki, Poki and Russa were part of the Yumi Kojo family

If it weren't for Howard Philips rejecting The Lost Levels, Imajin and his family, as well as Doki Doki Panic would have faded into obscurity just like the festival did

Rectification about the story of Mario Bros 2, which a lot of people inaccurately think is a dream and is indeed interesting. The instruction booklet basically says that Mario has a strange dream where he climbs a big staircase with a door at the end. When he opens it, he finds himself in the land of Subcon. He hears a faint voice calling to him, explaining that Wart cursed the land. They ask for his help to save the land and they reveal Wart's weakness to vegetables. It's not really explained why that happens, but Wart must have understood what was going on, as a bolt of lightning strikes right in front of Mario. This causes him to fall back down the stairs and wake up. The next day, he talks about this strange dream to Peach, Luigi et Toad. They all decide to go to a picnic on a nearby mountain, where they look around the scenery and spot a small cave. Inside it is the exact staircase with the door from Mario's dream. They decide to cross it and before them is the land Mario saw in this dream, Subcon. This is where the instruction booklet stops and the game starts, as the door in question is most likely the one the characters come out of after the character selection screen. The land of Subcon is a real place, not a dream. It may be a place with a special connection to dreams, as its inhabitabts are able to contact Mario through his dreams, but Subcon is just as real as the Mushroom Kingdom. Maybe that at the end of the game, Mario relives his victory through his dream or something, or goes back there in his dream alongside the others for a proper celebration, since he did reach the place through his dreams the first time, according to the booklet.

Sans Is Ness, it’s canon, don’t deny it fr fr

Mother 1 isn't a prequel.

So Brother and Father are Mario and Toad respectively, but Toad’s sprite looks like Brother and Mario’s sprite looks like Father???

9:20 question, is abortion ok but pussy not?

Not this shit again...

This, Simon's Quest, and Link's Adventure form the triumvirate of FDS games that sounded better on NES

The themes sound the same to me, even with the one you played side by side. I could maybe notice a slight difference there, but I'd never notice the other ones were wrong.

"They can control dreams and the weather. You know, like our government" You just earned yourself a sub, Sir. Keep up the good work.

this is literally my favorite game by the way (smb2)

I still find it hilarious that Luigi was originally the mother character. They were onto the Mama Luigi meme way ahead of its time.

"Weak hamstring having b*tch!" 🤣🤣🤣

Buzz buzz death 😔

Cmon admit it, the turtle shell sprite swap was the entire reason you made this video :D

wtf? lost levels cam out after mario2. WTF!?!? this almost made me shut the video off... WTF man!?!?!?!? Do you mean the original mario2 in Japan?!?! wtf are you talking about!?!?!?

wasnt another change was to a boss battle? isnt clawgrip an american boss instead of like 3 mousers?? plus the fact that if memory serves they change yet again in the gba version for robo birdo instead of 2 mousers??

great vid dude i wish you brought up the fact the FDS has an entire synth audio channel though its why some songs like the intro and ending sound like that

You should have mentioned the beta underground theme for the SMB2 half. It’s a remix of the SMB1 underground theme that gets some seriously kickass drums added in, and goes even harder after it loops a few times

1:11 LMAOAOAO JRNGDIFHBF

While the sprite and tile animation in SMB2 is definitely a huge improvement I feel it's worth noting that the original NES game actually had an oversight in its code causing the game to skip the last frame of the animation circle, resulting in this weird stutter/jump. You can clearly see this in stuff like the waterfall where the animation does a sorta skip. The silly thing is that all it takes to actually fix this is changing one byte value in the game. Could probably be done easily with a game genie

game of the year every year

Another Louiji banger, as usual

Good video! Teehee! I creamed. But I didn’t like your dig at the platform known as X, that was really cruel and hurtful, I think.

genuinely thought this was a video made by a couple 100k subs really underrated

Still kind of wish got a direct sequel to this game, something about the mechanics are just, really fun. I guess the e-reader levels in Mario Advance 4 come close. But does anyone find it weird how ShyGuys never appeared as an enemy in a mario game, only really being the Yoshi Enemies, strange!

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Super Mario USA is basically a rom hack. 8:09 HELP?!

Nice video!

This video debunked the literal fetus theory, but the metaphorical version of the theory is still on the table. We have to consider that fetus final bosses are somewhat common and only a fraction of them are supposed to be true references to 'bortions, the fetus is used for a different metaphor and the act only happens because that's just the word for it.

anohter reason why, is maybe the baby was an mistake. if you turn around the grid giygas its his original form, since his mind has been destroyed, his ratonality i gone and he isnt actually concious hes an twisted shell of what he is.

Had to subscribe a long fan of mama luigi myself

people debating over the fetus theory is just a 'battle against a weird opponent"

I think the baby imagery in Gyigas is meant to repersent that all of humanity has some kind or at least potential of being evil. The whole "growing up" thing makes sense, but personally, I believe that "everyone has as equal potential to be evil, as they have potential to be good" is a better theme for EarthBound

32:00 Charlie Brown?

He’s not literally a fetus he manifested as one because he’s alone and wants his mom. He was ripped away from his only protector - like an aborted fetus