{"id":5790,"date":"2007-11-16T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T20:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/5790\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T20:42:54","slug":"22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5790","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I’m watching the opening of Super Mario Galaxy<\/a>, and it’s like watching the Hindenburg disaster.<\/p>\n

You start visiting the Castle in the mushroom kingdom, and it’s like going to Disneyland. The villagers are having a quaint little festival, and everything is cute and pretty.<\/p>\n

Anyway, remember the flying wooden galleons Bowser had in Super Mario 3<\/a>? Well basically they show up in a giant armada and blow the SHIT out of the castle. It’s like the commercial the Smurfs did for UNICEF<\/a>. Everything is on fire, mushroom people are running around screaming in terror.<\/p>\n

Bowser’s navy has some kind of weapon that encases you in a crystal. The only thing that would have made this cutscene any more traumatizing would be if they showed a small screaming mushroom child watch helplessly as his own mother is encased in crystal.<\/p>\n

\"Super<\/a>Japanese cultural reference: there actually is a “star festival,” it’s called tanabata<\/em><\/a>, and it’s basically a party for your village in the summer. The story goes that there are these two lovers who live across the Milky Way from each other, and only meet once a year… it’s all star-themed. When we have our Tanabata Party we have cakes from Bewitching Elegance<\/a> decorated with stars and traditional wagashi<\/em><\/a> with star shapes on them.<\/p>\n

Another cultural reference: the little star characters turn into rabbits, referring to the “rabbit in the moon” who pounds mochi<\/em><\/a> in Japanese folklore.Mmmm, Rosalina.<\/p>\n

ROSALINA: Hello. I’m Rosalina. I’ll help you rescue your friend Peach.<\/p>\n

MARIO: Peach who?<\/p>\n

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The downside is I think Rosalina might only have one eye, like Odin, but that’s okay, she’s got that hot flip-over hairstyle. Something my brother pointed out: Rosalina is a star princess. I was noticing even her hair is shaped like a star… but he said wait a second, Peach is the mushroom princess. Doesn’t that mean that there must be a flower princess around here somewhere?<\/p>\n

I was thinking maybe they could make Daisy the flower princess, because of her name. She is the one you save in the Super Mario from the old GameBoy game. In a very weird bug, or maybe an inside joke, her model in Super Smash Brothers is unlockable, which isn’t so weird in itself, but she has a third eye in the back of her head, under her hair…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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