Epic Superstar Saga Adventure Part 4

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I watched Pan's Labyrinth the other day, which turned out to be surprisingly violent and scary. My parents actually warned me about how dark it was and I was like "PFFFFF I'M SURE IT'S NOT THAT BAD," and then the next thing I know there's people getting their faces bashed in and their legs cut off and everyone's getting shot. It was a great movie and all, but I just wasn't really prepared for the gore so I was like JESUS CHRIST the whole way through. BUT DESPITE THAT I recommend seeing it if you can. Just brace yourself, is all.

so anyway i think it's time for more superstar saga what do you think

Past episodes.





When we last left off the Mario Bros. trekked up HooHoo Mountain, rescued Prince Peasley from his dragonyness, and hitched a ride from Blabhdfgabdon to HooHoo Village. WHAT WILL WE DO NEXT???



We'll visit the Hammerhead Bros., of course!








TADAHHHHH




SCORE



Hahahaha awwww. Old Nintendo slogan.










This will change later.









MANLY WHACK




MANLY WHACK



ow








MANLY WHACK. that's the strangest gravel I've ever seen



SIGN ME UP




I love the mine cart guy





...to the HooHoo Mountain base?





YOU'RE OKAY MINE CART GUY




I actually chose "Explain" here but I didn't get a shot. YES I CHOSE EXPLAIN. YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE THE TUTORIALS! HA HA HA HA




Hahaha I don't know, the thought of him sitting in a rocking chair while having his beandog pull him down mysterious mine tracks is amusing me way too much





WAIT I NEVER TOLD YOU MY NAME WHO ARE YOU




HI LUIGI



Way ahead of you.



IT'S ON LUIGI ALREADY JEEZ





woooooo it'd be cool if you could actually make mine carts do that at will






IF ONLY THE REAL WORLD WERE LIKE THIS




A DIAMOND



GET IT LUIGI OMG




Actually, aren't the only enemies here Thwomps? Or are there bats and stuff? NOW I CAN'T REMEMBER




OH GOD



AAAAAAAA



OH JESUS A THWOMP



JUMP HIGHER OH GOD



WATCH OUT OLD MAN OH GOD DON'T DIE DON'T DIE ON ME NOW OH JESUS CHRIST






Okay. Okay. I can do this. I GOT THIS.




oops lol. Before this he was like "that was plum awful" and I didn't get a shot



DUHHHH




WOO ALRIGHT



YEAH LET'S DO THIS WOOOOO



clackaclacka




LOL THAT WASN'T SO HARD OMG actually I just didn't take any shots





"I just warped on over here, yup."



hahaha unless you ride the carts again, of course






HI GUYS







Battle Rectangle: Battle Star is out to lunch so I'm taking over. Jerks



'tis a beautiful thing










psssst
manly whack




It's cool it's cool forget about it





I PRESS WHAT WHEN IT DOES WHAT I DIDN'T HEAR YOU







:B










Yes bonk that's the word





HUH WHAT DID YOU SAY SOMETHING






DO THEY REALLY DO TAKE YOUR HAMMERS AWAY???? WHO KNOWS!





ahahahahahaha







...PRINCESS
They like... walk away by doing this weird hammering motion. I CAN'T EVEN DESCRIBE IT



Anyway, onward to BeanBean Castle! Here's the BeanBean world map music that slowly drives you insane after a while



The bridge to BeanBean Village.



durrrrrrrr



AAAAAAAAAGH

















It's true, the Item Shop is the only place you can go.






I didn't buy anything. I ALREADY HAVE LIKE A BILLION MUSHROOMS ANYWAY I'M FINE



Sorry, it's actually the Equip Store. WHATEVER, SAME THING. I don't think you can even buy equips from her right now, anyway.





Anyway, on to BeanBean Castle.



TIME FOR SOME WACKY GUARDS














Hahahaha poor Luigi. It's so sad and hilarious at the same time.




I'LL PROVE IT ALRIGHT






ahahahahhaaha










Hahahahaaaaaa HOW DID YOU GUYS GET THIS JOB ANYWAY






SHAPOW





SURE, YEAH






Man, that scene never fails to make me start cracking up. AND I ALWAYS FORGET ABOUT IT SO IT'S A SURPRISE EVERYTIME IT HAPPENS



Anyway, inside the castle! Is the decor great or what. Castle theme.



GRR SNARL










BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING







asgfakdhgadfg





ASDLGKJAGLDFG








hey what's with the



HEY WAIT A SECOND



NOOOOOOOOO




haha their faces









Back in action!





To fix the plumbing, you basically just hunt down these leaks and hammer in the corks. Easy!



Pffffffhaahahahaha






wooooo next room




GEE THANKS



Sometimes you'll find these, which you can just Spin Jump next to to turn.




Then just go hammer in the corks again. If only real life plumbing was this simple.






Not baaaddd



Here's some cork-hammering mini game where you basically have four tries to hammer in all the corks without them popping back up. I think the order is top left, bottom left, top right, bottom right, but I can't remember for sure.



ANYWAY I GET WHERE I'M SUPPOSED TO GO AND SO ON






hey wait a minute SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT HERE













OH NO
THERE'S ONLY ONE PERSON WHO HAS THAT LAUGH







CACKLETTA!!!!!!!!!
Cackletta's Theme - I think that plays here, but I don't know for sure. WHATEVER, JUST TAKE IT.





Beanstar: sup









okay sure whatever



AAAAA OKAY







A large parrot died in this room










OSHI--





I DON'T GET IT







Battle Rectangle: Hey, guys. Or something. ugh god i don't even wanna be here right now





Queen Bean is pretty easy, but a little time-consuming. You'll see in a bit. Here she is slamming down her beefy fists to send out a nasty shockwave you have to jump over.




Here's the time-consuming part -- as she is, Queen Bean's defence is crazy. If you try and jump on her you'll get poked by her crown and take damage, and if you use a hammer she only takes a measly 1 damage. So to fix that, you have to jump on her arms and 'deflate' them, thus rendering her arm attacks useless.



Sometimes she'll try and bash you with one of her arms and you have to hammer it away. I never really got the timing right.




OKAY HERE. Once you deflate both arms her crown goes flying off, and instead of attacking with her arms she'll hack out some beans for you to jump over. If you jump at a certain time, however, you'll land on the bean and it'll roll over to Queen Bean's side and turn into those... bean monster things I forget the names of. I usually just go ahead and jump on 'em, since I think if you fight them then you get a little more exp. I think. But I might be wrong.

Also, when Queen Bean's arms are deflated, this significantly lowers her defence for... some reason, so now is a good time to pummel her with Bros. Attacks. Yes, I realize how completely bizarre this whole thing sounds. I DIDN'T MAKE THE GAME OKAY



Her arms don't stay deflated for long, though! Only a turn or two. So you have to deflate each arm again, which I think also takes a turn or two per arm. SEE HOW THIS CAN GET A LITTLE TEDIOUS




But eventually, she explodes.



You get a pretty sweet reward for beating her, though, so the arm-deflating ritual is worth it.










HOOAH




hahahaha

















TO CHUCKLEHUCK WOODS!







Well I'll do my-- HEY WAIT A MINUTE




I forgot to go in this room back in the sewers so I went back. durrr



Best floor ever.



Y HELO RANDOM WALL






WOO FREE EQUIPS















Simple enough.




poke poke









aww. DON'T WORRY LUIGI, I'LL BUY YOU A BADGE

WHAT AWAITS OUR HEROES IN CHUCKLEHUCK WOODS? OOOOOOONLY THE WIIIIIIND KNOOOOOOOWS

We're gonna see Pirates 3 tomorrow woooo or actually more like today since it's 2:28 AM and all. PFFFF DAY SCHEDULE

Comments

[melaniedavidson.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, I saw that! What did you think of the part where she's in the underground (?) hall and the fairies are telling her to pick one cubbyhole, but she says "No... this one," and picks a different one instead? I thought that was a really interesting bit--like maybe that was a hidden test, that she was supposed to be able to tell which one to pick, over just doing what she was told. Especially because of the last test where she was supposed to do the right thing instead of just following instructions, you know? And I have to wonder what was in the other cubbyholes... I heard it suggested that maybe there were different things in there, and the last test would depend on what she picked.


God, I love that little thing they do whenever they get an item. :D So cute! LOOK WHAT I GOT :D

Heh, even the dog's green. XD

Also love how EVERYTHING REQUIRES JUMPING. XD Haha at the first one, when they were talking to that person and they said something about how they were going to go out and jump, I thought it had kind of a, "Yeah... go out there and jump! And, um, whatever it is you do," feel to it, but no. Heeee.

woooooo it'd be cool if you could actually make mine carts do that at will
Haha YEAH you know actually there's this game... I have no idea what it's called or how widely known it is, but it's a PC game and you're in a tank and there's a bunch of other tanks and basically I think you're trying to collect flags and try to keep the others from taking your flags, and there was single player and multiplayer (it's been a while since I saw it, and it was just the once :O ) on this field that's flat and has pyramids on it and you can, I think mess with the physics of it. And you can turn gravity way down. And those tanks will HOP LIKE BUNNIES it's awesome, I swear. And they'll come floating slowly down. Drifting, one might say. It was great. I think they'd even do that if you didn't mess with the gravity, but not as much.

Man, he got kidnapped again?

Awwww nobody recognizes Luigi. Or at least they pretend not to. :( BUT WE THINK YOU'RE COOL with your jumping and stuff.

Wait what kind of security system depends on broken pumbing? :O

What why don't they want to give Luigi a badge too? WHY IS EVERYONE MEAN TO HIM

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

Oh yeeeah, that scene! When I watched it, I guess I wasn't paying that much attention or something (or I was more paranoid about the baby-eating hand-eye monster) and just assumed the key didn't fit or something, but now that you mention it, it WAS kinda weird :O Though actually, I read an interview with Del Toro the other day that sort of dealt with that... he basically said that the whole thing with the faun being like "we have to make sure your spirit is intact and that you've not become mortal" was sort of reflecting Del Toro's views on immortality, in that while someone can't literally become immortal by never dying, they can achieve a form of immortality in which dying becomes something unimportant to them. So the real purpose of the tests was for her to achieve that form of immortality, which is decided in the last one, while the others were just misdirection. Or something like that. Though maybe the other tests were used to have her work up to the last one? I dunno :O THIS MOVIE IS VERY MYSTERIOUS

I love that, too :D THEY'RE JUST SO ENTHUSIASTIC

IT DID, NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT

Hahahaha that game sounds awesome. WITNESS THE AMAZING GRAVITY-DEFYING TANKS. It sounds kind of familiar, too, and I can't place a finger on it.

A BEANBEAN KINGDOM SECURITY SYSTEM, THAT'S WHAT

I KNOW :< luigi is cool too guys amirite

[melaniedavidson.livejournal.com]

Ooooo, I hadn't heard that! That's interesting... I also had this idea that maybe she was meant to partially fail at the second one--you know, eat the grapes--so that he'd be stressing the importance of following instructions and make it harder for her not to. You know, the "This is your last chance and we're being generous to even give you another chance" thing. Which kind of fits with the misdirection.

XD

IT WAS YES. I wish I could remember what it was called... :O I think it was open-source, because we just burned a cd and took it home to play (except it turned out our computer wasn't fast enough for it). *does search* AHA I think it might have been this (http://www.bzflag.org/). It looks pretty different, but it's been at least a few years so it makes sense that they would have made the environments more complex. And the gravity thing was a specific flag you could get (or a cheat). Woot! I'm pretty sure that's it. :D Haha that wasn't too hard to find actually. It's the first result for game+tanks+flags. :B I just hadn't thought of it in ages. BOING

Jesus well hopefully they'll think of something better now. I mean if all you have to do is pretend to be a functionary and hire a plumber to fix it...

YEAH :O and in SMB2 he was actually a better jumper. :O CONSPIRACY

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I think Del Toro mentioned something about that in another interview! :O He said something like the tests weren't really about the tests themselves, but to see how she learns from her mistakes, and how she follows her own instincts while ignoring outside influences. Basically just her being her own little person. The cubby thing is a good example, and then I guess with the grapes she hadn't eaten in a few days so her instincts were like EAT THE GRAPES and so she did. SHE LEARNED FROM HER MISTAKES THERE, BOY, I TELL YOU WHAT

OH HEY NEAT that game looks as awesome as it sounds :D It kind of reminds me of the Star Fox SNES game for some reason. I just may have to give it a trrryyyy

Hahaha seriously. SILLY GUARDS AND BROKEN PLUMBING WHAT KIND OF SECURITY SYSTEM IS THIS >O ESPECIALLY FOR A CASTLE.

[melaniedavidson.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, I guess that would make sense, too. XD I'd just assumed the food was enchanted to be irresistible or something. I mean, people in these stories ALWAYS eat something. Or take something they shouldn't. And it always goes wrong. And she knows that's what happens in fairy tales--and that she was in one now--so she should have known better. :P So, enchanted.
But yeah. :O I wonder what the toad one was about, then? I mean, I guess it could just be about the key, but that seems a little... flat.

I KNOW expecially when they're guarding this big important magic whatsit. TRY HARDER, GUYS.

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

I actually thought the same thing about it being enchanted, but then Del Toro was like SHE'S HUNGRY so okay sure :B YOU'D THINK SHE WOULD KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE WHO EAT SOMETHING THEY SHOULDN'T IN FAIRY TALES, LIKE YOU SAID, BUT SURE
I haven't read anything about the frog having any real significance, actually :O Although I guess there was the whole thing about the frog keeping the tree from blooming and then there being the single flower on it at the end, but that's about the only thing that comes to mind. HMMM

[melaniedavidson.livejournal.com]

Hunger > sense! :B Oh, well. (And I mean, the way she completely ignored the fairies when they tried to warn her, because she was too focused on the grapes?)

I guess there's that :O but it still just... seems like something anyone could have done, you know?

[zarla.livejournal.com]

I DON'T REMEMBER IF I'VE EVER MENTIONED THIS BEFORE BUT I WAS CONVINCED FOR THE LONGEST TIME THE ITEM STORE PERSON WAS A GUY

LIKE A REALLY SWISHY GUY

HIS GOGGLES WERE HIS EYES AND HE HAD A MUSTACHE

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT I CAN TOTALLY SEE THAT

AND NOW I CAN'T UNSEE IT

[zarla.livejournal.com]

APPARENTLY I WAS NOT ALONE