Why Is New Donk City Uncanny? - SERIOUS LORE ANALYSIS

hi I'm heritance flimsy and welcome to serious lore analysis [ __ ] I had another topic prepared for this week's slash but something very pressing came up in the last minute that desperately needs addressing immediately you're no doubt aware of the announcements of super mario odyssey the trailer for which features everyone's second favorite Italian fascists journeying to new donc City a world that somewhat resembles our own populated by realistically proportioned people instead of other Mario type people the gameplay footage has an uncanny feel to it of a world with textures and architecture and design a wide margin less cartoony than Mario dwarfing him in size and complexity and the Internet correctly freaked the [ __ ] out about this oh no even the real world oh no this is nothing like a moral real good while in the real world the [ __ ] is this so this time apart from a certain other popular franchise mascot oh I'll get to you where you [ __ ] turn mate I thought I'd interrogate precisely why this move would elicit this sort of response I'm trying to understand why Nintendo would even consider doing this horrible horrible thing Kutta that we seemingly naturally understand this choice of the grotesque weird thing Nintendo are horrific ly distorting the visual reality of their games universe like they did with the Ashley named weird mushrooms in Mario maker oh Jesus Christ you can call me pretentious and believe me many have tried but when people describe things like this as like the magic being stolen and so on these are codes for feeling uncomfortable in a way that's hard to explain and as a man I love lecturing people on what their feelings actually mean so let's try to figure out these feelings why exactly is this so traumatizing for children and adults who film themselves watching advertising well it really goes back to the inherent appeal in the design of mascot characters like Mario or Sonic in the third place I mean you can break the visual design of these characters down to their DNA we can talk about roundness softness and acutely large or innocent looking eyes or interplay of base colors like blue and red with a soft orange with skin tones but we have to go deeper I can't be bothered to Google the inception horn sound effect just pretend I made that joke eeeh because it's easy to list specific things people find cute or visually appealing the question is why and that means delving into the psychology aspect of these characters and stories which is more than just visual design it's also to deal with pregnant personality let's look at what Mario does what contributes to the appeal of this character equally as much as his design is his attitude and behavior in games he's perpetually in a good mood he's happy-go-lucky energetic easily amused and easy to please look how happy years to have gotta shine he probably doesn't even know what those are and be still happy to have one you might have noticed that all these characteristics are also characteristics of those cute animals we all know and love puppies are also perpetually amused endlessly energetic and happy and don't have to think about real problems yes actual real puppies go to the bathroom but when we think of these animals our brain ignores those bits and 6/8 on all this cute stuff just like it does playing a merrier game Mario also lives in a world that permits cuteness he'd never comics for being optimistic he can save the day when he puts his mind to it and the world of mario has been weirdly scrubbed at certain real-world problems and questions that it would be uncomfortable to actually have to deal with in a cartoon universe there are certain questions the Mario universe doesn't let you think about for example what a boos the ghost of see that question probably just weirded you out just a little bit didn't it it's because you suddenly have to take into account that in this happy silly world people die this is why boos are so vague and scrubs of identity because otherwise if it looks like the ghost of a dead person that invites a lot of like weirdness that kind of gets in the way of the of the idea of being in this fun cartoon you know after death the other main thing in Tendo works to remove reminders of in their games is well kind of obviously sex because you see sex is a kind of scary and complicated thing to a lot of people and it's not something we ever really quite understand but it's inherent to the real world sadly there's no way we can stop it from happening yet Nintendo have worked very hard to remove sex from their ideological universe up to and including the part where Bowser has lots of kids but you never see the mother and she's never ever mentioned in Mario Sunshine is briefly brought up that Bowser jr. thinks peaches his mother but when it's revealed that she is because of course she isn't oh they immediately move past the idea of raising the question of his mother's identity in Tendo doesn't want people to think about this because oh Jesus yeah the images in my head and not I'm not happy about this children just emerge fully formed into the Mario universe heck in Super Mario World to hashtag Yoshi's Island it turns out that not even Mario is the product of like natural processes a [ __ ] stalk carries him into the world storks exist entirely in folklore their parents could avoid telling kids about what sex and childbirth were so now and here's the million-dollar question why are we so attracted as audiences to creatures that don't have a care in the world and story universes where the people never have to think about complicated problems like sex death or having to stick to a diet of more than mushrooms you magically find in blocks and where cholesterol is real and it's probably going to be distinguished unity well we always say Mario are you [ __ ] that's my picture you see it all goes back to everyone's favorite depressing Frenchman jean-paul Sartre Sartre argue that life is so scary burdensome and full of bizarreness and doubt that humans encounter on Greece it's a living nightmare of being that's anguish if you speak a real language where screaming tubes of meat and we're all going to die and on a deep level we know this and we don't like being reminded about that this is white for example many people are squeamish about seeing blood or injuries it's a reminder of our mortality so according to society true we live our lives in ways that avoid encountering reminders like this we emphasize with dogs because we idolize their state of being we wish we could go through life perpetually amused always happy without having to stop and think about debt or mortgages or how the switch is inevitably going to be ruined by Nintendo's usual [ __ ] like I said before there are certain questions the Mario universe doesn't want you to ask of it and the important point I want to make here is that that's why people like it everyone likes a joke you know all peach keeps inviting Mario over for some cake could could cake be a euphemism for something I would like you to stop making that joke and then have a good reason why though first of all it's just a bit crude you know but secondly in the words of Sigmund Freud sometimes a cake is just a cake that's kind of the core appeal of Mario if you think about it a few seconds Mario is satisfied by just the idea of going to hanging out with someone and eating cake with them like that would be that would be a good day for him and that would be enough he doesn't need to like look for a romantic sexual partner he's just this guy he's happy all the time he says woohoo all day for no reason does when he jumps he's a happy man and that's precisely why people like him it's basic escapism Mario world's like a puppy YouTube compilation is a place you can visit and briefly forget that you have real problems in the words of Sam wheel once on he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man we enjoy putting ourselves in the minds of people like Mario and idolize real world creatures of simple mindsets because we're all trying to escape the pain and suffering of being human and this immediately explains the revulsion people feel seeing footage of new dog city in sending Mario to a realistic place with people who look like they have real problems the ideological spell the magic if you will of Mario is broken and this understandably makes people uncomfortable the comparisons the sonic adventure in Sonic oh six are very apt to they create the exact same cognitive dissonance in Sonic Oh six sonic has a relationship with romantic elements with a human ass human girl woman and in a moment of passion she sonic loves chili dogs too much to ever need to touch a woman and maybe just maybe that's why nerds like him have Nintendo pulled a sonic 2006 and just forgotten the core appeal of their most important mascot yeah sure it's what I've been tender made horrible decisions with core franchises oh [ __ ] Oh far interestingly enough the games literally named after the Odyssey The Odyssey was a story by Homer some pretentious guy who just went by his first name it came out in the mid 1940s it's about a guy who after losing all his friends at wasting a bunch of his life on a war the government sent him on spends about ten years trying to get home going on all kinds of scary and philosophically intriguing adventures in weird places on the way it's a classic educational fantasy journey very clearly inspired by Doctor Who or the Magic School Bus in every chapter Odysseus goes to a new place and learns an important lesson like how [ __ ] it would be if he got eaten by a giant or how confusing it would be if his name was nobody overall Homer's Odyssey is a solid eight out of ten story about getting accustomed to alien surroundings a testing of a person's characteristics and ultimately the story asks if you can ever really return home when the journey inherently changes what you even are so what does a reference to this historic work say about Mario's journey his new donk city diss another place Mario can visit and then leave unscathed like the ice world the fire world or the an Sonic at the Olympic Games or is it a journey that will forever change him and teach him horrifying lessons about the obscene cruelty of this world of Hugh man now I'm just kidding life in New York City probably isn't that complicated heck the villain probably lives in a giant golden tower with his name written on it thanks for watching don't forget to Like rate subscribe rate give me the thumbs tumble my dumb ball and check me out on live stream dot links in torg subscribe and subscribe and now because without our corporate overlords I will surely starve is a commercial for loot rate go to Luke rate.com slash they didn't accept my affiliate to collect this weekly crate contains happiness there is however a trace a bubblehead in here that's nice hey that reminds me of someone else whose purpose 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Published: Fri Jan 27 2017