The finale of this Moviebob series: I finish reading Bob’s book, and despite expurgating the crap out of it, it’s still by far the longest video I’ve ever done.

Fun fact: about halfway through you can officially hear where I stop giving a shit about this finale.

From the original NES game manual: “The Mushroom Kingdom has been a peaceful place thanks to the brave deeds of Mario and Luigi. The Mushroom Kingdom forms an entrance to the Mushroom World where all is not well. Bowser has sent his 7 children to make mischief as they please in the normally peaceful Mushroom World. They stole the magic wands from each country in the Mushroom World and used them to turn their kings into animals. Mario and Luigi must recover the royal magic wands from Bowser’s 7 kids to return the kings to their true forms. ‘Goodbye and good luck!,’ said The Princess and Toad as Mario and Luigi set off on their journey deep into the Mushroom World.”

“War & Peace” it isn’t, but just-the-basics storylines were par for the course in this era of gaming. Even still, it provides a bigger picture of the Mario universe than had previously been established: this is the first mention that the Mushroom Kingdom is only one part of a larger world, primarily, but it also establishes that the starting point this time around has not quite settled into the “Peach always gets kidnapped” groove it would in subsequent games – while the Princess does indeed wind up abducted at the beginning of World 8, the main story of the game has her in the role of commander, dispatching the Mario Bros. to the Seven Kingdoms to deal with Bowser’s assault. In fact, given that both sides of the conflict are delegating the war-fighting to subordinates this time around, SMB3 marks the first clear delineation of the Troopa/Mushroom conflict as a long-term military conflict rather than mere isolated attacks by Bowser. Left unmentioned in the written story but implicit in the game itself is that Bowser has amassed a mechanized military force for this particular engagement, outfitting his children with heavily-armed Airships and protecting his own Kingdom with tanks, jets, and battleships.

Music:

L’Entracte by Georges Bizet
Omphales Spinning Wheel by Camille Saint-Saens
Faust Symphony by Franz Liszt
Sonata in E Major by Domenico Scarlatti
String Quartet in C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
9th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven

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