February 27, 2004

The Passion of Pixels
Lately, you can't turn on the news without hearing about the new profound, dramatic reimagining of the savage murder (and possible hinted resurrection?) of the one true saviour. I'm talking, of course, about Luigi and Phantasmagoria Crow's flash animated Super Mario Bros. Saga. Parts 2 and 3. It's better than Cats. via penny arcade
posted by forksclovetofu 20 years ago
  • Fantastic link, forks. Part 4 better come soon (And the music from Requiem For A Dream gets everywhere, doesn't it? Clint Mansell must be a bloody billionaire by now)
  • Quality.
  • I cried like a baby and then wet my pants. What am I going to do?!? I'm at work! I can't get up from my desk like this! I think the guy next to me is starting to notice the smell...
  • Saw this on metafilter this morning. It's really fabulous, although part 3 is slow. The scene in part 2, however, where Bowser and his army attack the castle, is the best thing I've seen in ages. I'm looking forward to part 4 too. It better not be a sad ending!
  • [this is bananas] part three went on too long. However, I now understand the angst that's been lurking beneath the surface of the Plumber.
  • Surely, nothing can be better than Cats all your bananas are belong to monkeys
  • but this is wicked awesome
  • Moving. Now I know why I was helping Mario kill all those turtles. It'd be very interesting if everyone shrunk to a smaller size and became temporarily intangible when hurt. "I shot 'im, and then 'e made this dew-dew-dew noise and ran right through me legs. Look out chum, 'ere comes one of those turtles."
  • *sniff*
  • [banana] This guy should be directing or movies.
  • One excellent comic clash was the interruptions of the heavily dramatic background music by *fwoop* *beep* a mushroom grab.
  • Part IV has been posted: http://www.deviantart.com/view/6843431/ or newgrounds, but that appears to have been "wanged" by Penny-Arcade. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/164810
  • GRRR... i thought there were only gonna be 4 parts... but he seems to be needing a 5th one now... grrrr... If this was the end it was rather.... anticlimactic considering the strong open.
  • Nah, I'm positive this isn't the end. I too thought there would only be 4 parts, but oh well, nonetheless it was a good part (thought nothing tops part 2 YET). Hopefully the final battle will be grand. I wait on the edge of my seat.
  • Part 3 was already getting a bit slow and stale, I thought. I haven't had time to watch Part 4 but I'm sort of "meh" about it.
  • does anybody have active links to parts 1 & 2? i searched around, but can't find... me so sad.
  • Part 4 is better than Part 3 because we have a short battle with the mushroom people, it's not too bad. Still waiting for a good amount of action in the finale.