Through the Years: Mario and Luigi Saga

  Hello, game fanatics. Here's another Through the Years post but on the topic of the Mario and Luigi Saga. I need to make a quick note that new blog posts will come out on Monday (only reason this one came out on Tuesday was because my internet was down.) I will try to keep the posts coming but I will start to get super busy because of school. Back to today's post:

  The first game was different from many Mario games played before which is probably why it caught so much attention. Though it can have some similarity to Paper Mario (which came out before this). The characters were especially on the creative side. Seriously, what made Nintendo think of Beans for people and monsters? And what about that guy telling jokes to a barrel of Chuckola Cola? But anyways, the beginning of the story tells about The Goodwill Ambassador from the Bean Kingdom giving a present from Queen Bean to Princess Peach. The entire ceremony was a hoax and turns out The Goodwill Ambassador and her assistant was the evil, Cakletta and Fawful trying to steal Peach's voice to awaken the Beanstar. Now onto the main bosses:

  Fawful, who is some genius bean who's famous for his "I HAVE FURY!" comment. He shows up a lot throughout the game, but meets his demise in Bowser's Castle.

  And Cackletta, the final boss. I'm not gonna lie, but I always thought she was a guy despite the name.. She shows up as a boss in the Hooniversity, goes inside Bowser and takes over his body, and once you get inhaled into Bowletta you fight her spirit.



  Popple and Bowser are another reoccurring boss. Bowser ends up losing his memory and teaming up with Popple.

  Off from the Bean people and onto Mushroom Aliens. Same style, but slightly changed story line with the same objective of saving the Mushroom Kingdom. Shroobs come to invade the Mushroom Kingdom in the past but Mario and Luigi, from the future, go to the past to fix it and end up meeting their baby selves and teaming up with them.

 The one who started this invasion was Princess Shroob. Maybe she got tired of Princess Peach looking similar to her. But she was only the beginning boss.

  Her sister, Elder Princess Shroob, was the one to worry about. Once defeated, she back but using Bowser's body as a host.

  Oh no! An epidemic has happened to the Mushroom Kingdom: Blorbs! Who could be the cause of this? The one and only Fawful. Fawful sells Blorb Mushrooms to the Toads and coaxes Bowser into eating a Vacuum Mushroom, which allows Bowser to inhale everything. Fawful sends Bowser back to Peach's meeting about the Blorbs and he inhales everyone.

  Fawful's plan from the start was to awaken the Dark Star and take over the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser only goes on this journey to take back his castle from Fawful, but having to use Mario and Luigi to help keep his insides clean. The Dark Star eventually enters Bowser's body as well and steals his DNA. Through that the Dark Star takes the form of Bowser.

  Fawful, or Dark Fawful, gets absorbed by the Dark Star and Bowser must inhale him so Mario and Luigi can fight him in the final battle.

  The new Mario & Luigi game coming out on August 11, 2013. I personally like the play the game before I start spilling out some made up story line. But I will for sure talk about this game when I obtain it.



What are your thoughts on the Mario & Luigi Saga?    - Dany

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Through the Years: Super Smash Bros.

  Well, hello to anyone who comes across this blog. Welcome to where I, Dany, and my Co-Owner will be uploading reviews and the latest game information.

  Today's post will be about Super Smash Bros. We'll be taking a look at the differences of the N64 version and the newest version coming out in 2014. I don't know about you, but I personally love taking a look in the past and seeing how much development went into games. But anyways, lets get started with the game that started it all:

Now, lets take a look at some of the main characters usually shown first in the opening videos:

  Well aren't they nice and boxy? But hey, this was pretty amazing back then. Even with the poor graphics Nintendo made these guys come to life nicely. Also, the speed in this game was significantly slower than the ones after. I don't know if you guys experienced this, but my game slightly glitched when someone went flying off the screen.

  Whoo, look at that improvement! The characters have become slightly more round and realistic, but they still have cartoonish looks. Even the logo had some adjustments made. The speed in this game is incredibly fast. I stopped playing Brawl for a bit to mess around on this game and I could barely stop myself from falling off the edge. This game introduced the side scrolling during the Classic Mode. Also, the opening movie for this game had me thinking, "Wait, we're playing as trophies?!" I thought that was such an amazing and creative idea!

  And the realism begins. Especially on Link, but poor Kirby. The changes are there, yet subtle. Most of their cartoonish features seen in the last game are gone. This game has "normal" speed. It's not too fast and not too slow. This game took a leap and made an actual story so that you could unlock all the characters called The Subspace Emissary. I think it made the game a little more entertaining, yet a little long to unlock all the characters (especially if you're a huge procrastinator like me).

  When I first saw the characters in this game I was in complete awe. The design is absolutely amazing and life-like. Little is known about the game so far, but I'll get into detail about this game in another post. 

Lets look at the stages improvement: 

  This stage, Battlefield, has been shown some love throughout the years. The design is a lot more detailed than I ever thought it would be considering the type of game this is. 

Even though there is a lot of improvement in the game, some things stay the same such as one of my favorite reoccurring bosses: 

  Master Hand and Crazy Hand. Unfortunately, neither were shown in the N64 version. Master Hand and his counterpart first showed up in the GameCube version, as most of you know. In Melee, you fight Master Hand as a normal boss at the end of the Classic Mode, but if you defeat him in just enough time you face his crazy partner. In Brawl, Master Hand shows in the Subspace Emissary being controlled by the final boss (wont say anymore because of a huge spoiler alert). I forget where Crazy Hand is, but I believe he's in the Boss Mode. Out of the two, Crazy Hand is my favorite. He's less composed and more destructive and wild.

  That concludes today's post. I hope it wasn't too long and was somewhat entertaining.

  How do you guys feel about the Super Smash Bros. series?   - Dany

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