They Made the Game Easier? (TTYD Remake Chapter 2)

[@PatJamma]

Not sure if this comment will be relevant in time or not, but the new battle tip Toad lets you practice action commands indefinitely. No FP costs, always your turn. Makes it easy and free to practice the new Power Bounce timings

[@ce7.0]

and it shows you the Stylish timings, which makes the Timing Tutor badge kinda useless

[@lukabloodraven7300]

The Battle Toad also tells you if your timing was to early or to late

[@aranavenger]

I have been using this so much! It is super convenient for the new timing and those like me who haven't played the original in long enough to forget certain timings anyway lol

[@Sqwivig]

I feel like they made power bounce REALLY hard in the remake! It was already hard enough in the original game. They REALLY don't want people to use that badge huh?

[@Shadox-yv8ms]

The 4th jump is frame perfect, always, if you use simplifier its 2 frames... yeah they dont want people to use it

[@jb31842]

@2:00 You know exactly why the changed it to press A instead of Down for entering pipes: It wasn't too many videos ago in the Pit where you were trying to walk off the closer-to-camera edge of the pipe and wound up entering instead, and skipped collecting something important that you were trying to grab!

[@LiarJudas666]

yeah that’s a change i quite like. i remember being often frustrated with the pipes as a kid

[@Flame_Blaziken]

I feel like pressing down on the dead when on a pipe would have worked better cause what if I wanted to attack an enemy with a jump off the pipe. Edit: I meant dpad but autocorrect screwed me over so now I gotta stand on business

[@LiarJudas666]

@@Flame_Blaziken i also support suppressing the dead but i’d like you to say something a human would

[@BubblingBrooke]

It is something to keep in mind that being more friendly for a player isn't necessarily hand holding. Having Punio show up earlier and not having to potentially waste time not knowing where to go for new people is helpful and it also implies Punio reaching out even further because he's so desperate to help his people! It's a nice little change when this game can have a lot of treading the same ground.

[@tinyclover3849]

i agree, i think small stuff like that removes the tedium of searching somewhat aimlessly because you don't know where to go. it's not as in-your-face as it could be, so i wouldn't even consider it handholding, just giving you a bit more of a lead than in the original.

[@BubblingBrooke]

@@tinyclover3849 Exactly!

[@OneFloofyBooper]

As someone who has never played the original game, I got very confused when I was told the pipe to Boggly Woods was under the town, and then got the email about the contact being in the shop. It lead me to believe that the pipe was under the now opened west side of town, so I spent a lot of time trying to find it there. It would have taken me longer if Punio didn't show up

[@raullicj]

I wouldn't even call it hand holding. Because ein most games, even games at the time, that had a big world had something much worse. A massive arrow or path that made it glaringly obvious this was the way to go. Having cute hints and characters that give a Suttle push is just good game play.

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

Marilyn's only actual words in the game is "The Three" that's crazy

[@WereDictionary]

Thats in the english version only, at least in the original. She can and does talk normally in the German and, if memory serves, in the French version.

[@teacup4561]

I feel like chanting the switch pattern between rooms on your way to the spin jump was a universal experience, Sun moon punie star is etched into my soul and I will never forget it

[@LiarJudas666]

lmaooo i was literally doing that just this morning and i think i did it as a kid too. never played the game more than once so it didn’t etch in my brain

[@pyrateraccoon8553]

Lol i forgot as soon as this ch was done back then 😂

[@Novarcharesk]

I was 9 when the original came out and I did this, and I did this yesterday 20 years later 😂

[@uneasycalls]

lol, playing through TTYD for the first time and I was doing that last night!

[@tristanpegnottga2002]

Literally at any time any day even in my sleep you can ask me the symbols for the paper mario puzzle and ill know it immediately

[@Petsinwinter2]

Since it was missed because the Yux can't aim, if you get hit with a projectile in the overworld, you just take damage. No more dragging you into a battle where you get first struck.

[@TheKabuto90]

That's really a pretty good change. Having to dodge projectiles just to avoid battles is super annoying.

[@vundesheart8835]

i genuinely got emotional when i saw how gorgeous boggly woods is. they made a place i already thought was beautiful so much more gorgeous than i could have ever imagined. nintendo did such a stellar job with this remake ❤ edit: also, from what ive personally noticed, with power bounce you have to tap the button AFTER you see the A button indicator being pressed. you cant time it *with* the indicator press, it has to be after. it took me a while to get used to it, and im still struggling lol

[@carsonsanderson9395]

you mean how boogly it was?

[@nataly_171]

"If only there was some way to get feedback on what I'm doing wrong with these action commands." "Oh hey there's the battle master! What a loser, I don't need him."

[@AnteroSaisa]

What I did as a kid to remember "sun moon punnie star" was : we get the sun & moon stones in chapter 1's fortress, then we encounter punnies in chapter 2, then get the 2nd star gem at the end of it. It felt like a logical sequence in my tiny brain.

[@sirshmango]

My go-to for anything like this is to make it phonetic. This one is SuMo PaSta.

[@HavikXIII]

I just noticed the statues in Frankley's house and just never forgot

[@darkuit585]

I invented a jingle to remember it, now I have completed this game so many times that jingle is etched into my soul.

[@wafflerman]

idk why but my favorite addition is that everyone reacts when you hammer smack them, like when i beat the crap outta don pinanta for trying to give me "unfortunate luck" and the fact they gave the security guards in the glitz pit reaction animations for this

[@whatevatheawesome]

Power bounce is DEFINITELY different and I THINK I have an inclination as to how...I went to the Battle Master toad and spent like, 10+ minutes just training Power bounce and it SEEMS like for anything above "Great" the timing is MUCH more sensitive. Almost like they dial in the frame window as a way to nerf it slightly. I have no way of verifying that for certain but, that's what it feels like to me. Glad I'm not the only one having issues with it though and even seasoned professionals are having a time as well lol. Great vid as always B)

[@Chaosmane95]

Makes sense, they probably didn't want us to just use power bounce and infinite jump attack the whole game this time 😆

[@TheKabuto90]

During my own playthrough I've just been having this feeling that bosses in particular have become much more resistant to power bounces. My only evidence for that is I've slowly been getting used to the timing and normal enemies haven't been so bad but I just keep struggling to get more than three or four bounces on bosses.

[@whatevatheawesome]

@@TheKabuto90 This feels possible. Question though, do you find that it's only been on bigger bosses? Like, first 3 chapter bosses are "big". And even in the OG game I found it tough to time my jumps on large enemies because of their heights. Totally not trying to imply "skill issue" or anything though lol. I'm definitely interested if the bosses DO have altered windows

[@TheKabuto90]

It's been a bit more difficult with bigger bosses but I was also having trouble with the shadow sirens who are very much not big.

[@whatevatheawesome]

@@TheKabuto90 yeah that’s fair then. We’ll just have to wait and see then when dataminers can get into it

[@Nicholas86753]

When I ran into The Shadow Sirens, ngl, spent a solid minute smacking Beldam with the hammer in the overworld.

[@demarlobascombe97]

Bro why does everyone hate the other shadow sirens now

[@Nicholas86753]

@@demarlobascombe97 I just don't like that she's mean to Vivian. She is still a great villain character. And honestly Marylin hasn't done anything to warrant any hatred lol. So idk about her, but Beldam has always been that kind of villain that you love to hate in my book.

[@trunguss]

I smacked them all 'cuz they tried to bruise my handsome Marty-o

[@demarlobascombe97]

@@Nicholas86753 yeah thats fair

[@Devin7Eleven]

@@demarlobascombe97 Beldam is the reason the story started since she gave Peach the map in the first place.

[@CommissarMitch]

Ok but WAIT. Since this world is made of paper. And a poster is made of paper. Does that mean the lifesized Peach poster is... you know.

[@starkeeper_youtube]

hello yes please cease this line of thought

[@CharityDiary]

It's the Paper Mario equivalent of lab-grown meat.

[@RamalhoRodrigo]

😟

[@MLmaster135]

the most interesting change about ch 2 is that in the original, if you let the bomb go off right as Lord Crump's about to turn the timer off it just pauses right there as the bomb goes off, makin it funny. but in the remake, Lord Crump very pleasantly, surprisingly actually gets an animation of flailing his arms around if you let the bomb go off while he's talking to Mario+partner, this's a very neat and unexpected change 🤲 another unexpected change is if you reload the save right before the ch 2 boss(ie in the room at the start of the great tree), you very strangely get a free super mushroom and fireflower. they just spawn there by the bushes, I don't know why that is but I deff know that deff wasn't in the original, but at least its free items 🤔

[@jameshuntington8644]

The extra items might be designed to spawn for anyone who loses the battle, as that same save point would be where you would restart if you saved and lost the battle! The way the game loads it may not distinguish a game over vs a manual reset so it's the same end result.

[@MLmaster135]

@@jameshuntington8644 that looks to be exactly what happened, as I purposefully lost the battle. thats a very interesting and much appreciated design 🤔 it'll deff benefit those who'd want to purposefully lose to get those free items

[@jameshuntington8644]

@@MLmaster135 true and more super shrooms for Zess T. for any 100% runs are always welcome

[@airlion1205]

To be fair to bowser, both peach and the peach in poster are made of paper, so they are probably basically the same thing in the paper mario world

[@Newbieguy5000]

That means that Koopa fan had the equivalent of a life-sized wax figure of Peach. No wonder Bowser got them mixed up...

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

He's always talked to posters lol

[@KSKY2012]

Part of me thinks the hand-holding going on is because this game isn't just for fans of the OG TYD, but also for new fans, especially kids, who experience the game for the first time. But a counter-argument is that any kid old enough to read and play this game wouldn't need all this hand-holding. Either way, as a person who only knows the basics of the story from watching TYD challenge videos (mostly Bringle's), this is a good first impression of the game's story for me, so I think it's doing great so far! :D

[@TheKabuto90]

You say that but during my own playthrough I spent like ten minutes wandering around the sewers looking for punio.

[@phantom-ri2tg]

@@TheKabuto90 This. just cause we can find where they went doesn't make it not annoying.

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

Question is, why add handholding when we didn't need it in the original?

[@phantom-ri2tg]

@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 You mean in the era where getting lost in video games do to lack of direction was the norm?

[@bluesky5384]

@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668I think 12 year old me in 2002 was a different kind of kid than 12 year olds today. Somehow kids have forgotten how to use resources and identify context clues. I'm not shocked Nintendo added more hand holding.

[@mymarcster]

You mustn't stop this playthrough. I shan't forgive you.

[@flatwoodscryptid]

I saw on Twitter from a speedrunner that apparently, the 4th bounce from Power Bounce specifically is 1 frame before returning to a more natural progression. And Simplifier doesn't even affect it. They really wanted to try and keep it from being the dominant strategy as much.

[@BaconNuke]

So they were well aware of Power Bounce being OP and actually did try to nerf it.. I kinda respect it..

[@logicaleman1122]

This explains why i felt i had to hit the 4th bounce earlier. I didn't play the original so I just thought that was how it was designed.

[@dustinburkhalter5479]

ive played the original countless times and now that ive reached chapter 2 on the remake "the shadows" is the only thing that makes my brain hurt trying to not call them sirens

[@mega-eevee7]

Ya ya that part is going to be hard to not read like the original!

[@DuchessEvie]

polychrome boggly woods goes hard

[@nik-xyz]

1.5x mult

[@Darakudemon]

The music is incredible in the remaster, the Pit has a banger for it's battle theme, Chapter 3's battle theme is a banger also. The game has been an incredible return to TTYD.

[@HiFolksImAdam]

It's been 20 years since I played the original, but the moment I got access to the Pit I had to go for it for the sweet double item storage. ...What a naïve fool I was. Did make it as far as floor 60 though, and have doomed myself to 1XP per fight for an age

[@Stario1Up]

Oh don't you worry pal, I fell for the same trap. At least the First Strike badge helps - unless you're next chapter is the Glitz Pit...

[@IJOLightningrod]

Got to 86 pre chapter 1 and was bummed that theres a Try Again from last battle option tbh. Hand holdy cuz the Pit is supposed to be an all or nothing challenge.

[@justaregulardude3195]

Bringle, can't get his multi jumps perfect, "there's no feedback" Ignores the action command tutor that could help him and give him feedback

[@snakaku]

He means animation/vibration wise, also known as indicators. If you play monster hunter, a good part of the gameplay loop is getting FEEDBACK from a monster. Are you using a weapon effective against flesh/armored parts? Is the monster flinching or ignoring it? Did the weapon bounce off? Going back to TTYD:RE, Im at ch.5 and i agree the feedback/sense of jump is very off with power bounce and multibounce. There's a bite thats missing and i cant quite put my finger on it. Playing the original and getting both moves perfectly timed [before getting capped/dmg limit] reinforces it.

[@slimjimoil93]

​@@snakakuworld really bothered me compared to the 3ds games solely because of the lack of blood. Idk if rise has blood but if it did that'd be great It was so satisfying to line up a charged hammer or gs swing on like a gore magala and have gallons of ketchup explode each hit lol

[@DarkBowser64]

My guess about the change from Shroom to Mushroom is most likely just that they have more space to write item/badge/key item names now since the item character limit is not as much of a thing anymore in more modern games. If you think about it, "Nostalgic Tunes" is a pretty long name, for example, compared to the names the other badges had in the original. Still remember how silly to read "S. Jump Chg" was in PM64.

[@Ramperdos]

Good thing the video is in 60fps so that we can see maximum amount of Bringle frames.

[@jobot0114]

An interesting note with the Badge Shop is that the ones in the box are more expensive than they would be if they were on the counter.

[@aarondotexe]

Power bounce and multibonk are indeed much harder. You can rack up more than 4 once you get the timing however. I’ve found the timing much quicker in the new game. Using the Battle Toad to practice helps a lot!

[@theburningbaron6417]

Nintendo trying to encourage the use of "expendable items as attacks" Gee... I wonder which two particular games did that before.

[@JoseViktor4099]

They must have a very well designed combat, for sure

[@iantaakalla8180]

Sticker Star - Designed for Vexation

[@TheKabuto90]

To be totally fair, the items are a part of the system that not many people seem to interact with and it's really a shame.

[@theburningbaron6417]

@@TheKabuto90 It's true, items kinda get overshadowed by badges.

[@0ceanking]

​​@@theburningbaron6417 I barely used items in the OG as a kid but now with the surplus of them and higher inventory cap I'm noticing myself using them a lot more often. At least the offensive items anyways. If that was their goal, then I think they succeeded.

[@gavinault3797]

This is really entertaining just hearing you talk about the changes as you play along. I've played the original ttyd but as a kid and I never beat it so hearing the things that have been changed and improved is really interesting. I'm currently playing through it aswell. I look forward to watching you play through the rest of the game!

[@PatJamma]

Goombella no longer calls Ms Mowz a floozy

[@sethaquauis]

Do kids today even know that's a word anymore

[@beezball38]

I did the same thing with SUN MOON PUNI STAR it'll never leave

[@DuskoftheTwilight]

It really does feel like they saw how nobody bothered using items in the original game and were like "What will it take? More money? more opportunities to buy? more inventory space?? Come on, use them!!"

[@sleeplessarcher]

“It just makes me really happy when you call me your sister, so…” My heart broke OH THIS POOR GIRL

[@iantaakalla8180]

Also, sirens are generally applied to female-presenting entities. The fact that they are just called the Shadows really makes it clear Beldam is willing to avoid any femme word to describe the Shadows because that implies recognizing Vivian as a trans female.

[@1lik3Fir33mbl3m]

@@iantaakalla8180 in German they are called Schattentrio -> Shadow Trio in English which was also the case for the Gamecube release

[@Thecoolgamer-cx9tj]

Same man 😢

[@autigaming1376]

@@iantaakalla8180 vivian isnt a trans tho vivian is a male character in japanese gamecube release and female in english release it was never about this stupid political bullshit of fake genders.

[@autigaming1376]

on top of that the english release did the right thing changing vivian to be female in the english release as there is absolutely no reason to be putting thoughts in a young childs head that they can be other genders when they cant.

[@neoishasaya4]

"Flurrie is the only partner with a theme" Is Ms. Mowz a joke to you?

[@OneFloofyBooper]

Yes

[@pedroH01]

Really, you think pressing down to enter a pipe is better? Personally, it's much easier to enter a pipe by accident if you press down instead of A. I think it's a good little change

[@betamixremix8944]

I’m going to say this now- cause I just learned this today- You CAN use the GameCube controller for the game. You don’t need the ZL button- and can use the L and R buttons from the GC controller.

[@xSuperFryx]

I’m thankful for all the added visual cue’s. It’s obvious for us veterans but as a kid I was stuck on some of this stuff for days lol

[@Jflaskam]

For like 10 mins I wasn’t a fan of the shiny floors all around. But then I thought “when we battle, we’re on a stage which naturally has shiny floors” and then it hit me. It’s called Mario story in Japan - it’s as if in exploring the world we’re on a stage telling the story to an audience Idk, that’s how I grew to like it quickly

[@Spicygoats]

Interesting. My first thought was laminated pages like in children's picture books or posters.

[@karooqueenstone3495]

Can't wait for the Remake Challanges

[@Robbie_Haruna]

The Magnus fists definitely had 2 HP in the original. Multibounce was always my go-to for dealing with them for that reason.

[@complainer406]

I bet it was "ultra shroom" etc. in the original because the engine had limits on how long names could be (due to limited storage, plus Japanese words tend to have less characters and original devs would've only cared about Japanese), same reason "spiky" in enemy names would become just "s." sometimes On a newer system they can make the strings longer and give stuff full names

[@DeathSabr3]

Honestly I think the partner ring would be ten times better if you could roll through it with the right stick while still walking with the left

[@niar1726]

I remember I couldn't play video game a lot when I got TTYD as a kid, and I think I started chapter 2 like 1 week or 2 after starting chapter 1, so having Punio appear more in the sewers is something I would have liked by then lmao

[@Smidgey]

You remembered the Super Boots puzzle the same why I did when I was a kid, and now that chant is burned into my memory for the rest of my life.

[@zaskta]

I can tell the toads have mustache in this one. I thought it was a open mouth in the original one

[@ahrifangirl]

34:05 took me 20 years to realize that the shape of the thing is a giant X as in X-naut

[@CommissarMitch]

... Oh my god.

[@Rokushi_ftw]

Beldam really got her *TRANSPHOBIA RESTORED* ala Dark Souls' Humanity

[@slayingking245theslayingki7]

There’s no transphobia🤦‍♂️ stop thinking Vivian is trans

[@beatziegraham6928]

@@slayingking245theslayingki7 chill out. It ain’t that deep. Wether she is or isn’t, she’s still a great character and Beldam is still a jerk.

[@ItsFlamin]

@@slayingking245theslayingki7 Lol. The dialogue makes it very obvious that she is, with her stating it "Took her a while to realize she was their sister, not brother", and the JP dialogue/description saying she "Has the body of a boy, but the heart of a cute girl".

[@chromaticroses]

@@slayingking245theslayingki7hey guys looks like beldams making comments on youtube now

[@Devin7Eleven]

@@chromaticroses I guess every single human since the dawn of time until this point must've been Beldam then since no major civilization was dumb enough to acknowledge a man wearing woman's clothes was a woman. You people are genuine clowns if you honestly think you can change your gender by dressing up as a caricature. Please seek a therapist.

[@spidermarkus]

I love that they made Merlon the main "guide" in the original PM64, give him the role of upping partner ranks in TTYD, and then give him the main guide role again in SPM.

[@noahpearl9877]

Not sure if i missed it, but you can hammer the bugs around rogueport and they give you a coin!

[@--Glory--]

He did it in the first episode I believe

[@lucariken2065]

Rewatch the first episode.

[@MirrorHall_Clay]

I'm honestly surprised they didn't make the secret entrance sign flashier. Would've elevated the original bit tbh.

[@dermegger7733]

Super random fun fact here: in the German version, Punio actually likes the Dry Shroom. Just noticed it now. Kinda weird...

[@superluig164]

So it took me a bit to re-learn the Power Bounce/Multibonk timings too - the way I did it was the same way I originally taught myself to do it in the original, by timing it to when Mario's feet hits the enemy. I think they changed the timing VERY slightly, and it's just enough that if you rely on your muscle memory from the original game, you'll only get like 3 or 4, but if you force yourself to re-learn it, you'll start getting consistent again. I wonder how that's gonna be for switching between the two games lmao, especially at first

[@sparrowflyaway]

I never knew Vivian was originally supposed to be trans(and was in the Japanese version) back in 2004, but I'm delighted that society has progressed enough for them to restore that in this remake. Hype for Vivian, we see you girl 💜

[@PsychoSpartan7]

Original Japanese explicitly calls Vivian a crossdressing male, and even says "actually a boy" in the pause menu. The idea of Vivian being trans is a modern injection that only exists in the English remake because of western politics.

[@flatwoodscryptid]

​@@PsychoSpartan7but does Vivian herself ever say she's anything other than a girl?

[@georgejames6902]

Pretty sure Viv is a crossdresser like birdo, at least in the original.

[@crazyfire9470]

🥴

[@Yoshisaur77]

honestly shocked he didnt mention that flurries theme has moaning in it 😭

[@gameyfirebro9645]

The og punies AI was early Pikmin AI, so im wondering if the remake uses the Pikmin 4 version of the AI?

[@GoLiveTMXbox]

It's so much more wholesome seeing someone who knows the game inside and out playing it than some KZbinr with a large audience who is playing it just to play it and get views. I first played it when I was 6 in 2004 and have finished it in its entirety about half a dozen times. The game gets better as you get older. All your criticisms are the EXACT same I had ever time I replay it it's hilarious!

[@jomeiisaboss]

i cant be the only one who thought dried mushrooms look like a dirt sock, i was always confused.

[@arthurwatson2555]

I thought they look like folded umbrellas

[@peternicholas3719]

Boggly Woods is so pretty, I kinda want to cry!

[@marshmallowmountains4636]

My brother and I came up with a little jingle for "Sun, Moon, Puni, Star". We could sing it even though we hadn't played for years lol

[@ZipplyZane]

I always took Flurrie's use of "shan't" and "mustn't" as an indication she's speaking in a British accent (or possibly a transatlantic one, like old movie stars). Those contractions I've heard a lot more in RP English.

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

Bri'ish!?!

[@AriaFlame37]

Fun fact, there’s an icon at the bottom right of the screen when going through loading zones which displays seven stars going from colored to gray. The last star becomes purple

[@GarfieldWithAHat]

Item drops got buffed in this game. They drop super commonly now. (Badges included, but slightly more rare)

[@lMrStickerStarl]

My great grandmother owns that shirt

[@GreenBro11]

Glad it’s not just me struggling with power bounces. It feels like the game made the timing harder the more bounces you do. A clever way of nerfing that badge if they actually made it harder to use. I had to practice with the battle toad and I still suck at it.

[@theEPICpotato3000]

I love your videos bringle! thank you for putting in the time to get these edited so we can watch!

[@thewritegrump]

As a trans person who grew up in the 90s and 00s, it does not feel real to see Vivian's story being uncensored and actually told to a Western audience in the way the creators intended. I can't quite put to words how meaningful this is to me, to be honest. I mean, we have an explicitly trans character, referred to in such a way that it's completely unambiguous, in a Nintendo game? In a MARIO game?! And not only that, but in my FAVORITE Mario game?! When I saw some of the screencaps from Chapter 4, I genuinely got choked up because it's just... I don't know. You don't see people like me represented very often, and not often in a positive light, where they're one of the main characters. This is such a minor thing to most people and it's honestly not a huge part of the game at all, but it's there and it means a lot to me because it's there.

[@PsychoSpartan7]

Vivian isn't trans in the original Japanese, and you aren't trans.

[@thewritegrump]

@@PsychoSpartan7 Nice try, bait. Lmao.

[@JoseViktor4099]

​Maybe the trans people were the friends we made along the way.

[@sethaquauis]

​@@PsychoSpartan7facts don't care about your feelings inbred, cope harder

[@super_dude00]

brother the magnus von grapple remix IS SO FUCKING GOOD

[@zLumiNeonz]

30:26 omg as a kid I made up a song to remember the order and I still remember it to this day. Sun, moon, punie, staaaaar.

[@RealKanii_]

I still wish the GameCube badge was like the gimmick in the Halo Collection which lets you switch between new graphics etc. and old graphics. It was great and I wish we had it here as well. Still, it’s great.

[@j-dub5163]

Heya Bringle! Just wanted to share that you're one of my new fave people to watch for here on KZbin, since I've been super excited to play this game again after years apart. I've also gotten my full experience in the original, so it's great to learn more stuff from another veteran player! Keep it up man!

[@starpower1598]

I’m newer to the channel, and the remake has been my first time playing the game (I’m in chapter 6). All of his “complaints” or just saying that he prefers the original kinda feel like him just saying “I think the old one that’s worse/I’m more familiar with is better,” with reasoning I just don’t get. Still, it’s a fun video to watch!

[@kevintomb6880]

They want you to use items so bad? You should do an items only challenge

[@chilly7932]

I agree with you about the decision of removing the goomba gang catcalling Goombella but keeping Flurrie actually physically sexually harassing Mario. If anything Flurrie is to leave more of an impression on kids cause she is seen as a heroine but the goomba gang… well is a gang

[@arthurwatson2555]

I like how the Punies' bulbs turn red when there's an enemy

[@kenanboswell1638]

You can actually meet the jabi friend punio talks about and he joins you for the chapter

[@xXTMoneyXx]

I cannot remember where I heard it, I swear I heard/read it somewhere, that power-bouce, starts off forgiving but then becomes almost frame perfect after 3 or 4 bounces. But with it being limited to 30fps, whatever the cap is, you'd think it'd possibly be easier to not mess up. But something along the lines of, it has like a 2x 6 frame window, a 5 or 4 frame, then 2. Or something like that. Repeatedly. I swore I heard that somewhere.. Unless I'm just making stuff up. I FEEL like I saw that somewhere..

[@BJRobison]

Wouldn't surprise me if they nerfed it, since it was so op in the original

[@xXTMoneyXx]

@@BJRobison that's my belief too.

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

While the timing is a little different, it's not nerfed that much when you consider in the original game there was a random fixed number of jumps you could make on bosses.

[@raferooo]

16:30 Go off king. Best take of the vid

[@tylerfwho]

absolutely loving your playthrough/insight/reactions, it's been a (sweet) treat. :) thanks for the content!

[@elijahkeay3906]

Honestly Nintendo is almost always the kind of company to maintain complete brand purity so it’s honestly AMAZING to me that the devs leaned in on the Vivian stuff. I love that. It also seems like, pretty well written too? It’s subtle but also still there in a meaningful way

[@Novarcharesk]

Western localisers are not Nintendo. Also, Vivian isn’t a tranny. Femboy at most.

[@PsychoSpartan7]

In the Japanese original and remake, Vivian is explicitly a cross dressing male. This is just the English localizers deciding to be westerners and add in their own politics.

[@boondoggle9427]

​@@PsychoSpartan7no lol. In the original its just the word for boy, as in everything except the words and actions of the character were misgendering her. "otokonoko" did not have that context in 04 lmao.

[@sethaquauis]

​@PsychoSpartan7 facts don't care about your feelings buddy, huff more copium. Official sources have proved you wrong for years

[@deavelasquez]

Honestly, I love this game and am honestly stoked to see these changes as you go through this playthrough! Love the content you’re putting out despite being in school, REAL 🐐

[@TyrantCVX]

There have always been action commands in the peach dance scene

[@brandonbranchaldo8079]

When I beat krump in two turns cuz of peril strats, I realized that maybe I played the original a tad too much for the past 20 years.

[@wilson_owen]

why does the grass in the shadow sirens fight kinda look like the chic-fill-a logo?

[@antehman2912]

holy fuck you’re right lmao

[@totokekedile]

It's foreshadowing Beldum's transphobia. /s

[@jrgreat86]

Not going to lie. I haven't played this game since 2006 I think. And when I got to the point of remembering the pattern, I actually chanted it to myself as I walked across a room with my phone next to me and my wife watching and chanting the same thing

[@lcp557]

This series really bringles my dingle

[@flatwoodscryptid]

It's fascinating (aka frustrating as hell) how it seems folks are only mad Vivian is trans now. Like it wasn't exactly secret. I feel like one of the biggest things I've known about her for the past 20 years is that she was trans in the original but that got taken out in the English translation. And I literally never saw anyone complaining about that until the remake came out. Hell, I remember seeing one person bring up Vivian as an example of a good trans character when complaining about Bridget from Guilty Gear, only for the same person to now say Vivian was never trans.

[@SalamanderBSC]

"it wasn't exactly secret" To add to that, I never played the original, nor had much real interest in Mario games at all until just the last year, and yet somehow I still knew about Vivian being trans in Japanese over ten years ago. It was the type of thing bored university students liked to tell each other for fun trivia, like Viggo Mortensen breaking his toe in Lord of the Rings.

[@CratthewF]

You can practice the power bounce/multibonk with the battle master btw, it’s actually really helpful

[@Gamebuilder2000]

23:01 if you got items you might as well use them maybe they just want people to use the items they programmed, or to prevent item hoarding which is what every RPG Player tends to do but i digress, that's just a theory, a THEORY ABOUT GAMES,

[@ZipplyZane]

Again the changes seem to primarily be more accurate to the Japanese. In Japanese, their name translates to the "Shadow Trio,." No mention of Sirens. And, of course, the stuff about Vivian liking to be called "sister" is also from the Japanese. And Vivian, of course, has always been trans in the Japanese version. The censorship was in the *original* English translation, not the new one.

[@notyourbusiness4169]

Nope. Crossdressing and transvestites are not trans. Japanese literally have a saying that says "man with a woman's heart" that almost always applies.

[@ZipplyZane]

@@notyourbusiness4169 She's not a crossdresser nor a transvestite. Both of those do not exclusively dress as female. Vivian is a person with a feminine name who dresses as female, refers to herself using female pronoun who wants to be a "sister" and who gets upset every time Beldam refers to her as male--and particularly hates being called "little brother." She clearly wants to be thought of as female, despite having been born male. So that makes her transgender. ------ Besides, I was talking about the lines we've seen so far. And all of them are in the original Japanese version. I am now aware there is something later in Chapter 4 which apparently comes from the Italian version--where she flat out says she used to be a boy but now wants to be referred to as a girl.

[@ianlawvoiceover1056]

​@@notyourbusiness4169 Seethe and cope

[@sethaquauis]

​@@notyourbusiness4169cope harder inbred, your feelings don't change the facts

[@MusicJunkie37]

16:46 1000% agreed about how the sound effects overall aren't as good as the original, I find it odd how they kept some of them but then replaced other ones They should have done it like the Mario RPG remake where they didn't really change any of the most memorable ones

[@cherrieevans3014]

Ok so I’ve always watched play throughs of this game but I decided to spend my money and so far I’m enjoying the game so much. You honestly make the game look so so fun and also I loved chapter 2. I’ve watched people complain about the Punies and honestly I didn’t have trouble at all. Sure they fell a few times but I didn’t find it frustrating. I actually really liked the puzzle and I also liked the lord Crump trap and escaping that. Overall I love your interaction to everything and I’m playing along. I’m excited for chapter 3!!!!

[@LazyGardenGamer]

Cleared this chapter earlier this morning, and I won't lie, I love the smooth movement of the Punies this time. I won't miss the jank, lol

[@Dragonpike]

35:30 Nah, as someone who couldn't consistently get it right, Earth Tremor is significantly easier in the remake, the only exception being sometimes I screw up early by trying to do it on button release instead of initial press (in the remake)

[@delvintodavo9419]

I liked the opera sound to flurries new theme. Nice fitting thematic touch I like the great tree and boggly woods new themes The new puny theme… no. I don’t like. It’s even twinier than the original

[@Pokemonika_]

15:50 thanks man, genuinely. not to get to emotional or cringe, but its always a bit scary worrying if any youtubers i watch are secretly transphobic and with characters like vivian being trans were gonna see more beldam vocalize their opinions, so its nice to very much hear a very direct "f you" to transphobes. thank u bringle brongle man

[@healthyminds9279]

Making power bounce hard is a VERY good change. Gameplay gets very repetitive when it's endless power bounces. This gives you a reason to do other stuff.

[@BringlesCan]

My only problem with the nerf is that they did it in a fairly clunky way. I learned about it after this specific episode, but power bounce and multibonk in the remake handle input windows strangely. The first few bounces have a huge window to press A, but then the 4th bounce is frame perfect, only for the next few bounces to go back to being fairly reasonable. This makes it difficult to ever get past the 4th bounce. I'm totally fine with precise difficult inputs (I mean, superguards lol), but the visual cue is not strong enough for a frame perfect input to be anything other than feel based after lots of practice.

[@healthyminds9279]

@@BringlesCan That's super interesting! Good to know! And yeah, there could be more visual feedback or something to make it feel less clunky.

[@marksammie830]

even though it's been made easier I have still seen people struggling with this game, one person not knowing where to go to start chapter 2 even seeing the puni wondering around for nearly an hour before caving in and reading chat and another one I yesterday in creepy steeple spent over an hour trying to find 'the third switch' to move the staircase before leaving thinking they shouldn't be there. got me thinking maybe its not easy enough or everyones lost some brain cells..

[@DaveReviewsThings]

I am loving watching your videos of this. Please keep posting these

[@koveltskiis8391]

Beldam is actually a W for trans rights because you can just post a picture of her whenever someone comments something transphobic

[@slayingking245theslayingki7]

Vivian isn’t trans, stop thinking she is

[@slayingking245theslayingki7]

Goofy

[@fbestfacts101]

And I will post the 41% Pepe meme

[@Devin7Eleven]

If acknowledging biological reality makes me transphobic, then so be it. Rather be insulted by clowns rather than lose my sanity in denying reality.

[@Devin7Eleven]

I can't believe we are in 2024 and people believe that dressing up as a stereotype of a girl and behaving like a stereotype caricature makes them a woman... I guess Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder is transracial then since he looked, acted, and sounded black.

[@suyoshi9969]

The timing randomly is slightly earlier for the wonderful then back to normal for the excellent. It is harder, I recommend the battle toad for powerbounce