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Run time: |
9:47 |
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1 |
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Episode: |
8 |
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Original air date: |
August 7, 2007 |
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Super Mario Bros 2 is the eighth epsiode of the first season of The Irate Gamer. It was originally uploaded to the Youtube on 7 August 2007.
The long list of doublethink commited by The Irate Gamer can be seen here
Summary[]
Chris reviews Super Mario Bros 2.
High detail Plot summary[]
| Spoiler warning! This article contains plot details. |
After the newly added Irate Gamer intro complete with a theme song (Blindpass from Stacktraxx of Digital Juice), Irate Gamer begins the review by stating, “Mario’s perhaps one of the most recognizable video game icons of all time.” Irate Gamer states that, “It [the game] quickly became popular and spawned sequels,”
Irate Gamer then says, “But if you line up all the Super Mario games in order one of them sticks out like a sore thumb,”
Irate Gamer states that the game that is a sore thumb is Super Mario Bros 2.
Irate Gamer states, “First of all, there’s nothing remotely familiar in this game that was included in the previous ones," by stating that coin blocks, Goombas, Koopa-Troopas and King Koopa (Bowser) are absent from the game. Irate Gamer says that, “And the real shitshocker is that the villain of the previous game has been replaced by a fat frog named Wart. This makes no sense whatsoever!" Irate Gamer explains that all the other characters have abilities while 'Toadstool', whose actual name is Toad, is the weakest character.
Irate Gamer complains that he must pick up and throw enemies which makes his job harder. Irate Gamer then says that the game is single-player only, demonstrating that he is extremely clever in his analysis of the game as it is a legitimate complaint that there is no turn-based two player mode. A clone of Irate Gamer shows up and asks if he could play the game but the clone cannot. Irate Gamer makes another complaint saying that the game starts characters of with two hearts for a health meter and that he has to kill enemies to get health and increase his max health. He notes that the Starmen power-up was "fucked up" in this game because it's too difficult to collect 5 cheries to get the star to become invinicible.
Irate Gamer positions his character to receive the star, but the footage suddenly slows down as Irate Gamer complains that it takes forever for the star to rise high enough to be grabbed (because he is holding the slow function button on his SNES9X emulator). Irate Gamer notes that he could take a shit in the time it takes to get the star. Irate Gamer complains that the game needs more power-ups and that there are too many enemies for him to run into. Irate Gamer has his character [Luigi] hump a cactus until he dies from being hit by a Pokey and quits while making yells out of frustation. Irate Gamer then discusses the stage boss (whom is called Birdo, but Chris calls it a "dopey pink bird"), and complains that Birdo becomes stronger each time you fight her. Irate Gamer grabs the Birdo sprite from the TV screen, shouts, "get over here," and beats up the transvestite bird. Irate Gamer suddenly skips 20 levels worth of content and confronts Wart with Mario. Irate Gamer then kills Wart by having Mario throw vegtables at him while his mouth is open and Irate Gamer says, "Giving kids another reason not to eat their vegetables,"
Irate Gamer shares his final thoughts on the game: “You know I wish I was dreaming up this game because it fucking sucks! Compared to the other Mario games this one if the worst of the bunch,” Irate Gamer states, “Now if you think this review is over, then think again!” and mentions Super Mario Brothers the Lost Levels, one of the four titles available on the SNES game, Super Mario All-Stars. Chris asks where these levels can be found and how they became lost in the first place (it should be noted that, during this part, Irate Gamer is using an NES controller to play a SNES game, a mistake that he couldn't bother to fix). He then says, “Well, the title’s misleading. Because after doing some research, I learned that this game is in fact the real Super Mario Bros. 2!”. He says that the game is alot more similar to the first Super Mario Brothers game and even contains similar powerups (like Poison Mushroom which clearly are not in the first Super Mario Brothers game). He says that SMB2 was based off of Doki Doki panic, a game that was released one year prior to Super Mario Brothers 2 [USA]. Irate Gamer states that Nintendo stole from themselves by stating that SMB2 stole everything from Doki Doki Panic and demonstrate this by matching up the characters from both games based on their powers. Irate Gamer suggest that Nintendo did not release the game because it was too similar. It should be noted that Nintendo did not release the game because they believed it would be too hard for North American audiences and because of the fatc that it was too similar. It's also a known, official fact that Nintendo did not want to release SMB2 in Lost Levels form.
Irate Gamer sits with his clone and says (with a bit of irony), “I guess that’s understandable since having two of the same thing can get stale and repetitive.” and his clone says “Yep, stale and repetitive.” Irate Gamer then states that SMB2 on the GBA is better because it has better looking graphics and he likes things that have color and brightness.
Irate Gamer states that he will now destroy the NES version of Super Mario Brothers 2 when he is suddenly interupted by the relevation that his clone is Evil Gamer. Evil says he is sick and tired of Irate Gamer and, having just been armed with a zapper, is going to kill Irate Gamer and take over his show. Irate Gamer picks up a blue flower which gives him fire powers and uses a fire ball to kill Evil Gamer.
Notable Flubs[]
- Admits that he doesn't find Super Mario Bros. 2 a bad game but yet contradicts this by saying it's the "worst one of the bunch" and that Super Mario Advance (A port/remake of SMB2) felt more like a Mario game although it's the same game but with larger enemies, vegetables and better access to hearts.
- This is not true as games such as Mario is Missing, Hotel Mario and Mario's Time Machine have had negative reception compared to Super Mario Bros. 2 which is the fifth-best selling game for NES.
- In Chris' lineup, he singles out Super Mario Bros. 2 as being the sore thumb over Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island where the game has a more cartoonish-style to it and you play as several Yoshi who carry Baby Mario on their back throughout the levels.
- 6:10 - "[Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan] is the perfect predecessor to the first Mario game."
- Mentions that Doki Doki Panic was released a few years before Super Mario Bros 2. when it was really only released a year before.
- Chris mixes up Mario and Toad's Doki Doki Panic counterparts as Papa, the moustached character, is Toad's counterpart and Imajin, the character he refers to as "the worthless Toad", is Mario's counterpart.
Trivia[]
- In the description for the video, it is slated that over 5 video games were reviewed. Only 4 games; Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario Bros The Lost Levels, Doki Doki Panic, and Super Mario Advance were discussed many of them glossed over and roughly 7 seconds of Super Mario Bros was shown. This is clearly not over 5 video games.
- "After doing some research..." Became a famous Irate Gamer quote.
- This is the first appearence of Evil Gamer.
- Super Mario Bros 2 is actually a great NES classic and is well loved by the Nintendo Gamers. The game became a staple of the Mario Franchise and was not regulated to discontinuity. Chris later revisited Super Mario Bros 2 in an episode of his new series, CHRIS NEO, where he corrected his mistakes from this review, admitting that he finds Super Mario Bros 2 iconic but that when compared to the first game, it didn't make sense due to how different the concept was.
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