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Hello and welcome to Seriously Casual Gaming. This is your host, Shane Delbon and I'm going
to be playing Super Mario 64. -Peach reading the letter- This is the first-ever video game
I've ever played and thus I'm the most familiar with this title. Uhm... I got this back in...
Well actually it was a gift for my older brother but it was a "family" console. So I ended
up starting playing this around '97 or '98, back when I was about two or three. Got into
it really quick, uhm... since I was younger, I hadn't played 2D gaming before, hadn't had
that experience, uh, 3D wasn't that big of a problem for me as it was for my older brother
and dad, who started off with, you know, original Super Mario Bros. Anyway! Here we off starting
out with -- first message was your typical instructions: move, A is a Jump, B is attack...--
Stupid Lakitu. That Lakitu is actually gonna be our cameraman. We have a message from Bowser!
-reading on screen text- God I hate that laugh. Still scares me to this day. Uhm this is well
at least from (I meant at) the very beginning, scuse me, implied that we uh... This Mario
game is a staged production similar to Super Mario World 3... Er, not Super Mario World,
Super Mario BROS. 3. In Super Mario Bros. 3 it was stage and this looks like to be a
live drama set? Of some sort? I'm not entirely sure but it's an interesting theory. Uhm I'm
commentating this in post because I don't have a microphone and that's just kinda the
way it has to be for right now. Uhhhhh. Here I'm going up the mountain, taking the shortcuts.
The flowers back there and... this little bit up here are great shortcuts for moving
around the level really quickly. If you're doing speed runs or... TAS or whatever. Uhm....
I'm the Big Bob Omb, Lord of all blasting matter. Uh How dare you... ***. Okay. I'm
not doing voices for this. What do you think I am? I'm not Lucahjin, I'm not Jirard, I'm
not anyone! I'm not even the Game Grumps. I'm Shane Delbon, and I am *** fantastic.
Okay so for this fight you want to get around his back side and uh grab him with the B button.
After the first one you can't just run around behind him and grab him. You have to jump
over him. That's me making sure that I'm not going to throw him off the edge there. Because
that is terrible if you do because it starts the fight over, effectively and... I dunno.
It's fun for a laugh or two if you wanna watch him Superman all the way up the *** mountain.
So he's gonna give us his Power Star. Telling us, giving a little hint on how to beat Bowser.
BLOOD AND GORE EVERYWHERE... at least for the N64. And here's our first Power Star.
You're gonna need these to open doors and all kinds of fun stuff later in the game.
And there's a number amount for each Bowser level. -reading text- Now you can open doors
with a quantity of one. Which is like two of them at the moment! We're going back to
Bob Omb Battlefield. Because... this is where we're gonna be. For the first episode. I don't
care whatchu say. So... this Koopa Troopa is a lot larger than the ones that we fought
in the past. Uhm, unless of course, you know, considering Super Mario Bros. 3, Giant Island.
That *** just tried to start before us. Uhm! Funny little thing about this race: is
if you use these teleporters the flower and the hole-in-the-wall teleporters he doesn't
consider it "cheating"... Not gonna learn from that ball. I'm just not gonna learn.
He doens't consider using the teleporters cheating, I don't know WHY, but if you use
one of the canons, he'll consider that race forfeit. Just won't count it at all. But if
you use the teleporters, I guess he doesn't know about the teleporters? And he can't fit,
so whatever? I dunno. And yeah, so easy way to beat it. The "Serious" part of this I know
a lot of the game, I know really well the games that I'm gonna play really well. And
hopefully that's gonna be a recurring theme that I don't *** up too much. Still not learning
from the balls. Those little hearts, there in a few levels, don't expect them to be in
every level. I think that there's two or three that they're in, honestly. You enter them,
they heal you. Ihope that the games that I'm gonna be playing are pretty well-done but
the CASUAL end is that I'm no where near MLG. I'm not gonna lie to you: MLG is just not
a thing that I can do. It is not at all a thing that I can do. So I'm gonna be playing
casual games. I'm not gonna be playing against anyone for the most part. Unless I can get
a couple of friends over. In which case we'll co-commentate the episodes that I can have
them in. But don't expect that for quite some time. Pardon me. Talking for a large amount
of time is a little bit wearing on my voice. Probably should have gotten some water. Pink
Bob Ombs, after you beat the King Bob Omb you talk to these guys on any stage after
that and they'll open up canons on I think all stages. But don't quote me on that. This
game has a chapter-like interface but it only applies to the first couple of levels, which
is really disappointing because I wish they had gone with that mechanic a little bit more
than what they did. This, no not Tall-Tall Mountain, first Ice world, Whomp's Fortress,
and... yeah I think that's it! That's it that uses that mechanic that I can remember off
the top of my head. And with that uhhh... Do I do one more? Yes I do. -Coughing lungs
out- Pardon me! We're gonna do a little bit of sequence breaking. If you noticed on the
Star-Select Screen they give you a little hint about each of the little, the star that's
up next. Although this game did really promote a little bit of sequence breaking. So you
can do them in almost any order given what you had passage to. Chain Chomp dancin' round~!
Because he's free ***! Run! And he was NEVER seen again. Whoo! All righty. So that
is to be that. This has been Shane Delbon and as always: stay beautiful, stay healthy,
and dance-kick out!