#zettel #gaming [[Super Paper Mario]] has a very deep story which can get very heavy at times, but also has a lot of moments of brightness to counter the really heavy plot. I'm keep track of all of these moments in particular. I'm not sure if the silly moments act as a bright spot for the serious bits or if it's the serious bits that stand out more because of the humor. I think it's the latter considering what takes place during Chapter 6. I was born in 98, was 9 when this game came out, I wasn't a "90s kid" The way that the memes make it out to be, *cut to yiik* my childhood wasn't full of games like Lucia and chrono trigger, they involved renting games from video universe. But why does it use humor? [[Super Paper Mario Uses Funny Moments to Make Serious Moments Hit MUCH Harder]] # The Humor - In General: - The absurdity of each of the pixls. They just get progressively more outlandish, which I think is really funny because like, what else are they supposed to be? - Slim being an absolute Bozo - Thudley's: I'm throwin' around a lot of Girth here - Carrie's takes on Francis - Prologue - "We're under attack!" in the opening amongst the cheers of Bowser's minions - You can reject the call from Merlon and Game Over in the first 10 minutes of the game and then be forced to watch everything again - Chapter 1 - Bestovius being a cheapskate and commenting about Merlon's mustache - Fracktail being a walking meta humor example - "I AM ERROR" - Wii Shop loading Menu - Falling asleep at the old person's story. - Chapter 2 - All the prisoners hitting on Peach throughout the chapters - Starting in a spooky haunted mansion and ending with a gameshow in the girl's bathroom in the basement maze - The 66th's Annual "Who's my Merlee" in 2-4 - the graffiti in said basement bathrooms - Also I kind of find it hilariously unnerving that they put a character like Mimi into this game in the first place, because it's such a ridiculously scary whiplash. It answers the question can horror be comedy with a resounding, "YES". - Chapter 3 - The Koopa getting the Invincibility Star to turn giant, and then Mario turns giant and just steps on him to kill him. That's comedy. - Literally all of Chapter 3-4, The Battle of Fort Francis - Chapter 4 - "A Paper Emergency" gets the bathroom humor in there - Guy buys a 7/11 in the middle of space, doesn't consider the consequences - Chapter 5 - Jasperoid asking you to say Please five times - Chapter 6 - Explicitly No funny business here - Chapter 7 - Luvbi as an angsty teen who hurls a ton of quippy insults in Shakespearean English is generally amusing to me - Doorguy 1 - Schmorange - Doorguy 3 and the fight vs. Underchomp as a deconstruction of common RPG tropes, building on the Swoon.exe segment. - Feeding Peach the Apples - Cloud 69 baby :] - Chapter 8