Dark Aspects of Paper Mario: Color Splash | A Complete Analysis
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Oh, scrap...it's a remake of my Dark Aspects of Paper Mario: Color Splash analysis! I tackle the toxic, parasitic black paint that posesses Bowser, the horror of a paper person being drained of their essence, and a certain very special existential Shy Guy among other topics.
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Music used (in order):
♫ Indigo Underground
♫ Rumble with Wendy - Color Splash
♫ White Letter Opening
♫ Straw of Doom
♫ Fortune Island (Parallel)
♫ Straw of Doom (Reprise)
♫ A Fearsome Foe
♫ Bowser's Theme
♫ Get the Boat Back
♫ Paint Star Memories
♫ Bowser Attacks Port Prisma
♫ Bowser's Fury - Super Mario 3D World (Switch)
♫ ROYal Rumble - Color Splash
♫ ROYal Rumble (Black)
♫ Thing Claw Hammer
♫ Black Bowser's Castle
♫ Bowser Battle
♫ Blackout
♫ Iggy Battle
♫ Farewell
♫ The Grand Finale - Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
♫ Cherry Lake - Color Splash
♫ Shy Bandit's Theme
♫ Excess Express at Dusk
♫ General Guy's March
♫ Emerald Circus
♫ Paranormal Accommodations
♫ Tangerino Grill
♫ Snifit or Whiffit Theme
♫ The Golden Coliseum
♫ Thrills at Night - The Origami King
Sources & further reading
Additional video clips:
⍟ Luigi's Mansion beta game over clip uploaded by Depressed Luigi 92 (ARCHIVE)
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⍟ Iggy crushing Mario with Thwomp footage by Mario Party Legacy
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⍟ Mario refuses to get on Luigi's kart footage by Gaming Reinvented
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⍟ Rainbow flag footage by BackStageProd
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Articles referenced:
⍟ Donkey Kong Country instruction manual
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⍟ Prisma Times - Super Mario Wiki
www.mariowiki.com/Prisma_Times
Sound effects:
⍟ EarthBound "Wow!" from intro uploaded by Starmen dot net
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⍟ Donkey Kong voice (Mario Party 1) uploaded by NintendoTV64
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⍟ Toad voice (Mario Party 9) uploaded by 🐇EvilnissanGTR🐇
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⍟ Super Paper Mario voice clips uploaded by Michael
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⍟ Mario says "So long-a, Bowser!" (Super Mario 64) uploaded by TMK
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⍟ Shy Guy voice clips (Mario Party 9) uplaoded by 🐇EvilnissanGTR🐇
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⍟ Mario screams "hot" (Super Mario Sunshine) uploaded by TMK
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⍟ Crowd Aww Sound Effect by S Media3
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0:00 - Introduction
0:50 - Body horror
3:38 - Black Paint & Posession
13:17 - Non-standard game overs
14:10 - Character sacrifice
15:30 - More Black Paint
16:28 - Shy Guys
17:40 - Existentialism
21:08 - Adult humor
23:51 - Patrons
23:59 - End card
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Warning: in addition to Color Splash, there are a couple of spoilers for The Origami King featured in this video. I forgot to mention it in the disclaimer...sorry about that! ALSO, Dark Aspects of Paper Mario: The Origami King AND Sticker Star are out now: kzread.info/head/PLK37aGUr9BMWmBCq49u-_-KmuOIHKdzMk&si=MZOUCnAseU7lqclh 👀 Correction: (2:33) - commenter "Skypatroller_BenCD" informed me that fire is not the *only* way to defeat a Shunned Guy. They can also be defeated with Ice Flowers or Thing cards!
@Skypatroller_BenCD
Ай бұрын
Thanks for the mention ✌🏿🥕
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
@@Skypatroller_BenCD You're welcome, I'm glad you said something! I am currently working on a Dark Aspects of Sticker Star, with the plan of combining all of these episodes into one compilation. It gives me the chance to fix any errors, so I'll correct in the actual video!
@BobKirbyman-kz1fo
Ай бұрын
Did you get the mother 3 plushies
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
@@BobKirbyman-kz1fo Not yet! I got a notification that they shipped out yesterday so I haven't recieved them yet. I'm very excited and will do a small photo shoot with them. I'll share the pictures in a community post here on YT!
@quede8794
17 күн бұрын
I love how freaking strange is the paper mario lore. First game: Mario has to destroy Bowser's plans! Second game: Mario needs to find a millinery hidden treasure which is tried to be obtained by a group divided by classes which kidnapped princes Peach, who is trying to help Mario with the help of a computer which is trying to learn what love means! Third game: Mario has to save the universe because of a obscure future-knowing book which is being handled by a dark guy who was the lover of Mario's butterfly partner in the past with the help of Peach, Luigi and Bowser while solving problems related to slavery, mental control and other dark activities! Fourth game: Stickerzzz!!!111!1 Fifth game: Mario has to solve a massacre problem made by a Venom-like entity which is controlling Bowser, who only wanted to make true a childish fantasy of having a cute rainbow shell! It's freaking incredible
Ok but i love how Bowser, in his confusion on why Mario's there, asks if they have a kart race scheduled for that day, showing that they arent just hero and villain, but enjoy other hobbies too
@petrblaha8806
Ай бұрын
It makes mario cart essentialy canon
@iantaakalla8180
Ай бұрын
To the Color Splash universe
@sonarchy5158
Ай бұрын
Paper Mario Kart when?
@javiere2154
15 күн бұрын
@@sonarchy5158give me Doopliss in a Honda Civic
@LoraLoibu
9 күн бұрын
@@javiere2154you mean doo_liss?
I love my Paper Mario games with blood and lifeless bodies
@globingoblin
Ай бұрын
I like to think Huey dumped the black paint into outer space itself, which is already black, in order to neutralize it. This game's artstyle shows the sky as a flat backdrop, so it makes sense that you can paint it too. And yeah, I agree that having a few possessed enemies through the game would've been really fun
@NotsilYmerej
Ай бұрын
Yeah, all three of them were good games
@Bald_Frisk_Undertale
Ай бұрын
Me too!
@benlee822
Ай бұрын
Me too
@xxsuperproductionsxx138
Ай бұрын
yep.
I laughed so hard I cried when I first saw the toad say "My wife left me!", the idea that it could be the last thing Mario hears before he dies made me laugh even more... i love paper mario
@AndyToons64
Ай бұрын
i miss my wife Mario i miss her a lot
@doctorwormcat
Ай бұрын
@@AndyToons64 mario she took the kids mario i just want to see my son mario
@mobgabriel1767
Ай бұрын
Also "Luigi wouldnt do this to us"
@trevorragan2464
Ай бұрын
@@AndyToons64I’ll be back
18:50 fun fact related to a personal experience of mine: After i defeated that Shy Guy i got a Red Shy Guy card as a reward so to me he's still alive in some way
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
That's the best outcome for sure! If only he were summanable during boss fights so that he could land the finishing blow on Bowser and take a much needed vacation...
@allpremier
Ай бұрын
And let’s have a sad fact to balance the scale! When you go back to the train to trigger the cutscene again, every other character is there, except for the Red Shy Guy. Fly high, RSG, you will be missed.
@ayo.2022
Ай бұрын
Same here, I really hope they did that on purpose so that you could paint him back to life and let him run free to do his own thing in life later on
I can't believe "Mario the war criminal" is a real line
@3DSCarnaje
Ай бұрын
I do have to wonder if they were referencing matpat with the line. Not sure on the time line but it seems possible.
The black paint factory blowing up is nightmare fuel no cap. These guys are just working their job and Mario blows up the deadly super acid tank and now the room is rapidly filling up with flesh melting liquid. Those minions had families. Wives, Husbands, kids, siblings. How many families did you just ruin?
@mobgabriel1767
Ай бұрын
"its a massacre! A paintbath! Mario the War criminal emerges victorious"
@ayo.2022
Ай бұрын
I wonder if Mario himself ever considered this typa stuff. If not in this game, then surely after the Bobby incident...
@the_last_ballad
12 күн бұрын
To be fair, their job was making the flesh melting super acid that was to be used on the rest of the world. You don't get to shake your fist and shout "you monster!" when that's exactly what you've been working to enable.
I think the creepiest/weirdest moment is the black paint bowser’s final attack. Imagine just chilling, being possessed, and the creature possessing you decides to take itself, and all of YOUR life essence to kill some guy with a moustache that you don’t like.
@GALAXY_THE_SILLY_PAL
16 күн бұрын
NAH I WOULDNT LET A DARK PAINT CONSUME ME BECAUSE I MIXED EVERY COLOR
My theory about where Huey took the black paint is that he used it to paint space. We know our universe is still expanding, so that means he’s still out there, using the black paint to color the night sky.
@pedroivog.s.6870
Ай бұрын
I thought it was him painting the sky a little more black as night arrises
@Tabby_CatMeow
12 күн бұрын
That’s so wholesome ☺️
15:00 I’ve interpreted it that all of the black paint coloured the night sky in that instant. It doesn’t make a lot of sense if you think about it for like… ten seconds, but that was my immediate thought, and I can’t change it.
@whichcache2517
Ай бұрын
My headcanon is that there's "okay" black paint, and "not okay" Black Paint. The "okay" black paint is any instance where the color black is utilized, whether it's an outline, a character's pupils, a Fuzzy, etc. The "not okay" Black Paint is whenever the sacriligeous slurry fromed from mixing the Big Paint Stars's paint together is propagated. Huey sending the Black Paint towards the black-painted night sky is his way of safely disposing of it, since the infinite vastness of black paint outweighs the Bowser's Castle's worth of Black Paint. If the Black Paint is synonymous to a symbiote, it would be like defeating it by stretching its waning consciousness across the universe, making it so that it's completely ineffectual and rendered inert (like that Adventure Time episode where Jake tries to solve a labyrinth by literally stretching himself thin).
@user-ye1ed7gq4n
Ай бұрын
I think it went to bowsers furys
@whichcache2517
Ай бұрын
@@user-ye1ed7gq4n Nah, Junior explained in that game that he was the one who painted Bowser that way… Meaning… Bowser Junior’s Magic Paintbrush is Big Paint Star-level, confirmed.
@Mar-zw3eu
13 күн бұрын
You sure do make alot of comments
I like the comical horror elements in both Color Splash and Origami King. I haven't beaten Color Splash yet just because I've been busy, but the amount of humor in that game, and Origami King is just cute fun! And even without too many unique characters, I think they did add real humanity to the ordinary Mario NPCs and Enemies that can make you laugh...and even cry. (Rest in Peace Shy Guy I met on the train.) :( And for the few unique characters, like Huey, and later Bobby and Olivia in Origami King...it still has that beautiful children's media kind of sacrifice at the end of the story.
@uroskesic6117
Ай бұрын
Right on man … right on
The manual for color splash is actually so good. My favourite part is when they talk about the meat boss, they mention how they actually went out and bought actual meat using company money and had a cook-out, even showing and comparing the meat they cooked to the one in game. I love it
Remember when Mario was watching Toad’s color getting drained and did nothing? 3:04 Mario gets his color drained, but no one is there to help him
@avery1205finatic
Ай бұрын
Karma tracks you down, even in a world made of paper
@lorenzoantonio3630
Ай бұрын
How you react if you see one of your friend getting their paint dry as they slowly die how you see it that also have a nice day
@Mr.Morton127
22 күн бұрын
...But nobody came
i genuinely wish colour splash was more loved in the fandom sure it's not the gameplay return to form with a deep and interesting story people wanted after sticker star but the game still oozes so much charm i still hold it towards the upper edges of my favourite games even all these years later
@Dat1star
Ай бұрын
yeah I kinda want it on the switch more than the thousand year door
@renomiz2373
Ай бұрын
It's such a shame too, there is so many great concepts piled into terrible ones. If they honestly had stopped the card based battles and requiring a specific item to kill a boss it wouldn't be a easily be considered another classic in the series. SS was terrible but at least you could beat bosses without things. Kinda wish the map wasn't locked too so you could go after any big paint star but it was still cool there was a legitimate story reason why you couldn't get in some places till you got em. Definitely underrated thanks to SS though and honestly a better game than Origami king.
18:44 After you defeat him, if you go to the train again, there's just an empty seat.
@Real_Moon-Moon
14 күн бұрын
This makes me cry. Imagine if this ShyGuy just was weaker than the others on purpose, making sure to lose so Mario can continue. (He's definitely a psychopath based on his preferred killing method being the stomp.)
@theartist1256
14 күн бұрын
@@Real_Moon-Moon yeah you're right
7:21 I am so glad somebody acknowledge that because they literally did color splash again in Bowser's Fury
I personally love Color Splash, and despite all its flaws (I’m looking at your Sniffit or Whiffit) it has a special place in my heart. Especially just how unapologetically morbid it is.
The fact bowser got possessed by black paint twice is funny
@I_love_eating_plutonium
Ай бұрын
The funny thing is, the 2nd time he did isn’t even in the same universe as the 1st time
I don’t mind this game having a Basic story because it’s not trying to have a grand story. It’s just trying to be a funny Mario adventure and I’m fine with that. My only problem with the story is that it’s heavily implied and then revealed that Bowser was possessed by the black paint the entire game, but they never do anything with that and then at the end of the game everyone acts like he was the bad guy the whole time even though he was doing everything against his will. It’s just so weird. I also don’t buy that Kamek didn’t know bowser was possessed. He’s smarter than that. The game also could have made the black paints plan be a lot more interesting just by using what’s already in the game. In the game black paint is extremely toxic and can kill you and it can also possess you. The paint possessing Bowser wanted to cover the entire world in black paint, so why not reveal that the reason he wants to do that is because he would kill everybody on the Earth, and then the black paint would possess their dead bodies creating a new world of paint folk that he would be the ruler of. All of the pieces are there it’s just that the game doesn’t use any of them
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
Well said! I agree that all of the pieces are there, so it's a great idea, but it isn't executed as well as it could have been. I did find it weird that Peach says something along the lines of "I hope Bowser's learned his lesson this time" during the ending...dude accidentally caused trouble because he wanted a cool shell. The fact that Mario says nothing (off-screen of course, I know he doesn't normally have lines) makes me think that he's unaware his archnemesis was possessed at all, despite Bowser's dialogue and attitude making it very obvious he didn't know what was going on. I like your point about Kamek, you're spot-on about that. I get that they wanted to save the reveal of the Black Paint puppeting Bowser for the final memory, but Kamek could have at least alluded to it (like Peach early on saying that Bowser's not himself). I like the idea of Black Paint being this primordial evil that simply wants to spread itself across Earth (and yours about it wanting to revive color-drained folk with black paint so that it can rule over them), but sadly any motives for it are headcanon because the game doesn't offer any :/
@ajenethedrawer3718
Ай бұрын
@@ThaneGaming what if color splash does come to switch? That's what I'm hoping for?
@gavinarad2288
Ай бұрын
@@ajenethedrawer3718 I have a strange idea, but what if, probably on the next console after the Switch, they do a paper mario collection similar to all stars, but with all the paper mario games possibly excluding origami king. Definitely a stretch of an idea, but it’d be fun.
@StoryTeller796
Ай бұрын
@ThaneGaming Even when I was a big Modern Paper Fan (Nowadays, I want nothing to really do with the Nintendo Switch anymore) this was a big criticism I was thinking in the back of my head and I believe I made (Or was thinking about making but I just didn't for whatever reason) a Paper Mario Color Splash post about it.
15:10 I’m 90% sure that the sky turning black after the explosion is implying that Huey painted the night sky. So that’s a cool
I love color splash. It gets more hate that it deserves. At least its not sticker star.
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
I've played through Color Splash twice, 100%. I really like it, but not Sticker Star. I know the battle system isn't much of an improvment (and is even admittedly a bit slower), but I enjoyed the paint managment aspect and Hammer Scraps "leveling up" your total paint capacity. Everything else about CS is brimming with charm & personality (which I felt was lacking with SS). The main plot is simple, but the idea of parasitic Black Paint posessing Bowser is really cool. I think Color Splash & TOK proved to me that Intelligent Systems did the best they could with their odd creative limitations. I love these games
@Wilmadiamond
Ай бұрын
The sad part about sticker star is that it has some potential. The sticker management is a good idea imo, sure you can carry around a bunch of overpowered thing cards but you have limited inventory space. The game also has some nice moments. Mostly in the later half though. The shy guy/snifit game show trend started here. The mansion level where you need to find a bunch of boos as well as the ski lift level are cool as well. Also seeing the festival square being rebuilt as you progress through the game is very nice. However, because all the characters are toads you don’t really remember any of them. TLDR: The game, while flawed, had potential.
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
@@Wilmadiamond The levels that you mentioned are my favorite parts about the game. The Snifit gameshow & Enigmansion are genuinly fun, and I remember having a better time with the ice levels in general. I think Mizzter Blizzard was a good idea for a boss, with a bit more of a story than "found a Royal Sticker, put sticker on and went mad". It is funny how that's all post chapter 3, the longest one by far! I do agree that sticker management itself is a good idea, it's just tough to base an entire battle system around that concept. I think the ring system in The Origami King is really clever and the bosses are pretty great, but it had a similar problem where the late game starts feeling tedious. The little bit of incentive Color Splash provided w/ its Hammer Scraps helped, so if Sticker Star had something like it and more interesting earlier chapters I would've enjoyed it so much more. You're right, it did have potential.
@gay4sswhovian
Ай бұрын
Colour Splash Writting is as good as super paper mario and thousand year door change my mind
@projectz358
Ай бұрын
Sticker star bar is so low that anything that does a slight opposite of it is better by default.
...I do not remember this game calling Mario a war criminal.
The black paint probably would've had a personality similar to venom, but MUCH more aggressive
This is why Color Splash is an underrated gem.
That “so long gay bowser” part was good lol
Laughed so hard at the fact that you could possibly die because of a toad screaming “my wife left me” 20:15
3:22 Paper mario, the game where you can care more about a paper flying paint bucket, more than a sentient crown sticker
@MC_CN
22 күн бұрын
that also flies
wait, so does this mean paper bowser has cannonicaly used chemichal warfare as a tactic
“This is the 3rd time a companion sacrificed themselves in a paper Mario game… let’s hope origami king doesn’t follow” I’ve got bad news and even badder news…
It's really nice to see some Color Splash love in the comments. I understand how the modern PM games have issues like the battle systems, but I've gotten REALLY tired over the past several years of any and all praise towards the modern games always being undercut by someone bringing up those issues. It's perfectly valid to dislike the modern games for those reasons, don't get me wrong. But there's still a lot to like about them and I wish more people would be able to see past the "old games good, modern games bad" filter.
@ayo.2022
Ай бұрын
I don't like to be _that_ kinda guy, but honestly I think that most people that do this likely haven't even played the game and just like to jump on a hatewagon for the sake of it, because you'd think they'd have at least some knowledge about the game beyond "this game is bad because the internet told me it was 8 years ago". Francis's words still hold true to this day.
@Nibiri3304
6 күн бұрын
@@ayo.2022ironically there are plenty of people who hate super paper mario simply because a. no turn bases system and b. the Internet told them to do so
My favorite paper Mario game is color splash, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
I'm happy I've seen more Color Splash love lately, the game deserves it. What's your favorite part?
@TheRealAlbinosquirrel444
Ай бұрын
@@ThaneGaming To be honest, it’s been a really long time since I’ve played it. I should really replay it sometime. I don’t really remember much about the game.
It’s great knowing that a funny game that I played when I was younger actually had that much more thought put into it. Honestly great video and now I’m willing to play the other paper Mario games, I’m that is if I can reasonably pay for them.
The black paint went to the cat kingdom (bowser's fury) and anger may have caused it to transforn into what it is in the game. (This is a headcannon)
I love Color Splash, and I am excited to see this overhaul video.
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
I love Color Splash too, I was especially excited to share this one because I think the game's really underrated (and not a lot of people have actually played it)!
@CocatGaming
Ай бұрын
@@ThaneGaming it’s just so nice to see people talk about this game. This game has just so many interesting details to it.
I love the fact in the paper Mario universe, bowser is just a big dummy which I enjoy
About where all of the black paint from Huey disappeared. As I was young, when played PMCS, I had the same question, but later, I revisited the game and got the theory: the sky. The night sky, as we can partially see at the Starlight’s Cape and above the Bowser castle, is dark-blue, with a bit of a purple, but most of all - it is paper too, like everything in this world. Slurp Guys are known for sucking the paint from not only just toads and nature, but from even a freaking ocean and sky itself, as we see, when we first time arrive to the bridge of the Scarlet Tower. The Big Paint stars have enough power fix it, so, as Huey is connected to the Paint Fountain, he has a bit of such power too. Connecting everything, I say that Huey simply painted the sky to a darker tone ( plus the sound and sparks going after the Huey’s ascension indicates, that something was PAINTED COMPLETELY ), making nights in this world… well, nights-nights. That’s my crazy theory, but it looks kinda persuasive, so, this is how I think this happens.
Venom Symbiotes are canon in the Paper Mario universe.
@mobgabriel1767
Ай бұрын
And War crimes too
"ik color splash isnt a popular paper mario game" meanwhile sticker star in the void:why am i still here...just to suffer...
@UltraPlasmaMan
25 күн бұрын
Sticker Star is underrated
@Exsaviourthefurryguy
24 күн бұрын
@@UltraPlasmaMan ikr
color splash has always been one of my favourites, even if it isn’t really considered ‘good’ by a lot of people, i love the whole concept of paint being used. seeing this video’s really opened my eyes more, considering it has been a long, long while since i’ve seen anything on the game. love the video!!
Huey took the black paint to a the Giga bell lmao
This game is actually one of my favorite games of all time
My favourite game over is the Toads lining up to beat up Mario
@Eterna_B0i
Ай бұрын
The best one is when he dies to “MY WIFE LEFT ME”
Man when I was younger I remember being bummed that I couldnt play this game cuz i didnt have a WiiU. For years I only ever heard crap things about this one tho mostly due to the battle system, however tbh I would love to get a chance to play this game someday if they ever decided to somehow port it to the switch. I love how dark this game technically is especially compared to Origami King. Thank you so much for making this video! I got to see and enjoy for the first time said dark aspects of it because of this!
The biggest pro Id give Color Splash and have been giving it since its release is that opening cutscene and the whole premise. The whole draining characters of their paint, leaving them basically lifeless immediately hooked me when I first got the game and, while the rest of the game isn’t that good, it doesn’t change the fact that this is a killer premise
I didn't know people were still talking about this game great to see it still getting attention :)
Finally, someone talked about my since years favorite game! Heck yea! And awesome video!
Can you imagine if Mario could not recover any Toad that was painted over? Adding to the factor that losing your paint meant the end of your very paper life, and the only way to save everyone would be to use the power of the Big/Grand Paint Stars to just restore everyone who has ever been drained of their color.
Paper Mario Color Splash fans deserve a Re-release on switch 2 (me being one of those diehard fans even though I’ve never played the game, I love the aesthetic and story so much) Who’s with me 👇
I think color splash is by far the funniest Mario game ever made
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
I would agree with that. The Origami King has some moments that come close, but I think Color Splash inches past because of the sheer amount of genuinely funny dialogue. You can bet Color Splash will be at the forefront in threads about examples of suprising writing in Mario games
@MatthewWeinberg-lr6kv
Ай бұрын
It’s either Color Splash or Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Personally, I think Kingdom Battle has some lines that are just a little wittier. Speaking of which, Thane, do you think you’ll ever do a Dark Aspects on the Mario+Rabbids games? Because I bet you could find a few gems in those games.
@bunsmasterbunny
Ай бұрын
Old games are way funnier.
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
@@MatthewWeinberg-lr6kv probably! The games have always interested me but I've admittedly only played the first world of the original, despite having owned it for a few years now. I just put it down for whatever reason and haven't gone back yet...I really need to cover the Mario & Luigi series too, I've played a couple of them but the ones I haven't are big gaps in my Mario RPG knowledge!
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
@@bunsmasterbunny I can see a case for maybe TTYD being funnier, but I can't for the original Paper Mario (which is my personal favorite overall). The N64 original has lots of humorous moments for sure, but really funny NPC dialogue isn't as prevalent as it is in Color Splash. Anyway, what do you think of TTYD remake being closer to the Japanese script? I love the examples I've seen so far.
I will allways love this game . Moments like these are what make this game one of the most memorable mario games ever in my opinion .
i used to be obsessed with this game when i was a child and still, the art style and everything is so pretty (nothing to do with the video just had to put it out there)
I’m glad the Wii U and paper Mario color splash is getting more attention now I’m so happy Also but FR this is the best PM game
It’s things like this that makes me believe that at least some of the people working in modern paper Mario actually care, at least a bit about the world the games take place in. Even though there are still many many issues and problems with color splash and the other modern paper Mario games, I feel that after sticker star they at least TRIED to make a interesting world while still sticking to “only use established characters” rule. The dialogue in both color splash and origami king is done with as much care as the dumb restrictions allow for. It’s sad that we can’t see the alternative timeline where color splash (sticker star and origami king as well) would have been created in a similar way as the first two games. You can still keep the paint mechanic. And if you did it right a card/deck builder would actually work pretty well and it could be simple yet complex enough for both casual and hardcore players. Even sticker star could have at least been labeled decent if it’s story and characters were less two dimensional. At least TTYD is getting a remake so if that sells well we might get at least some of the old paper Mario in the next new game. Even if it’s just some interesting characters or party members that would be enough for me to be satisfied.
Say what you will about the battle system in the recent Paper Mario games. But the writing in Color Splash and Origami King is both funny and occasionally deep at the same time. I like when you’re given the chance to talk and interact with Bowser’s minions in both games since you’re able to get a glimpse of how they see things from their perspective. Whether that be what it’s like working under Bowser or learning about their own aspirations. Showing that the minions are more than just two dimensional characters. (Despite all the characters literally being two dimensional in the Paper Mario series.) Color Splash and Origami King may have far more restrictions put on them compared to their older counterparts, but they still have tons of charm and world building in my opinion. And it’s a shame they aren’t looked upon as fondly as their older counterparts. Though I suppose it’s to be expected with how much Nintendo had sterilized the franchise. At least with Origami King, it seems that might be changing since we got to see more visually interesting places and some characters did have unique designs and personalities. Maybe with the TTYD remake, it will do well and we can see Nintendo start to lift more of the restrictions on the series with future releases.
This kinda make me question if the black paint in Bowser's Fury is actually the same paint from Color Splash who want to takes revenge after Mario ruined his plan. I know that this one was summoned by Bowser's Jr. brush and the one one in Color Splash was summoned from the Prism Fountain which can bring explanations that they could be different because of that but tbh I like to think they are both the same black paint and it has the capacity to be summoned by any tools. Also geat analysis btw!
@aidanhammans9337
Ай бұрын
Being these are two different worlds, I have my doubts they are the same. They are likely counterparts though, due to similar M.Os and powers. Fury Goop is what it says on the tin, toxic goop that can influence someone’s fury, while also turning them giant. It likely has something to do with the fact this is the magic paintbrush that could make literal creatures and Powerups. Black Paint is different. It’s actually sentient, with actual planning capacity, and can be crafted with paint from anywhere. Thinking about it, Fury Goop and Black Paint are equally as dangerous. Fury Goop has more inherent power, but is the result of magic paint. Black Paint is easier to make, all you need is the primary colors and a mixer, but at its maximum, it’s less powerful.
@francisslider64
Ай бұрын
@@aidanhammans9337 Yeah I completely forgot the fact they are from different worlds which contradict some of my argument but I definitely see them being counterparts to each others!
@elias0240
Ай бұрын
@@francisslider64While the two black paints may not be the same entity lore-wise, I do think unused elements form colour splash were considered in the making of bowsers fury. One of the paint-bowser concept arts shown in this video even has the same colour scheme as fury bowser!
@larrykoopa64dshacker64
Ай бұрын
@@aidanhammans9337 Two different worlds doesn't make a difference because Paper Jam also established that the events in both worlds are mostly the same, Paper Bowser with Paper Kamek even unknowingly having the same conversation that 3D Bowser had with 3D Kamek at the same time when they separated briefly. Also, if Paper Mario didn't happen for the 3D Mario, then how did Goomboss return in Super Mario 64 DS? The explanation for his existence at all was in Paper Mario. Other than that, I do see your point since the Magic Paint Brush has been shown to be able to bring drawings to life.
Color Splash reminds me of the Pokemon anime, in which there are many comparisons between the XY(Z) anime and Sun and Moon anime. It's like TTYD vs. CS. While the former is more epic and adventurous, the latter is laid back and has funny gags and dialogue. Both also having different artstyles. Also like CS, Sun and Moon weren't shy of touching various darker topics like possession and death.
New day, new Dark Aspects video. It's going to be a great day! :)
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
I hope you enjoy it! I've been really excited for this one in particular, I think Color Splash is underrated and it was chock-full of stuff to talk about
15:00 I think the black paint he took is the paint that covers fury bowser
@hi-rv1ey
29 күн бұрын
It's the same paint
I love how this game uses paint as a substitute for blood at every point they can (vampires drinking paint, bloodbath > paintbath, that scene where the shy guys are popped)
I felt only joy watching the toad having his color sucked out of him
@Croshau
Ай бұрын
That's understandable after sticker star
i literally watched the og the other day LMFAO, this is very good timing
17:25 I just noticed that the Shy Bandit does a sort of "Calling Card" to the spot where it is attacking, just like the Phantom Thieves in Persona 5/Persona 5 Royale.
Ngl this game made me cry at the end of the train level cuz for some reason cuz the whole music and atmosphere hit me just right
I think I'm gonna get around to finishing this game finally.
Dumb headcannon: Huey took the black paint out of the paper world and it wound up in lake lapcat
If Paper Mario 7 follows closer to the structure of 64 and TTYD, I really hope the writing style stays the same. It’s genuinely really good stuff.
Colour splash my beloved
Paper mario Color splash is my childhood game. Mh yes, blood.
However, the darkest aspect of Paper Mario: Color Splash has to do with the fact that throughout the game, there isn't a single snowy area within Prism Island. Paper Mario games (and Mario games in general) are know to have vibrant worlds that somehow have a vast range of environments. So the decision for Nintendo to not have any snowy areas in Paper Mario: Color Splash baffled me, until I started thinking deeper. Maybe, Nintendo was warning about something. That Prism Island had already started to be ravaged by climate change, and all the ice and snow in the island had already melted away. It's a warning from Nintendo about an issue that we shall deny no longer, and if humanity continues on this path of polluting the planet we live in, we will all be doomed. And not only that, in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, we see a tree in Twilight Town with crows perched onto it, discussing about how fossil fuels are being depleted, and people's environmental issues can't just go away, cementing the fact that climate change is canonical within the universe of Paper Mario.
@GMDGeojumper2011-bl8sx
Ай бұрын
That means the black paint is fossil fuels
I think its basically assumed that the dark paint was used to become the night sky, as huey explodes as the sky turn the sky black to nighttime.
Imagine he travels back to Super Paper Mario to dump it into the VOID so it CEACES TO EXIST 💜🕳️
color splash is a great game, its really a shame that it gets hated that much
I love color splash
So, how did you die? "I was slurped to death"
Im scared that while I'm sleeping the shy guys will come to suck me dry..its my biggest fear!
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
It's so silly to read or see in the game but actually envisioning that is frightening 😅 imagine a group of masked men dressed in red robes standing in the corner of your room ready to drain your blood
@loopsjam4713
Ай бұрын
@@ThaneGamingwith dollar store bendy straws
19:42 One of the cleverest jokes of the game.
15:11 It goes into space. I'd like to think that, before releasing the black paint into space, people could go to space and be just fine, but now it's the black paint that causes you to die in space
Most underrated game of all time.
Loved your earthbound vids happy i subbed keep up great work 😊
I played through every paper mario game and I love watching your videos and seeing all the dark but true aspects of these games and the lore is so good which you describe perfectly
Never realised how dark/creepy black bowser castle probaly because i was staying at my granny's house when i first beat it with the sound low because everybody else was sleeping so i couldnt really hear the music and the sound effects.
Didn’t expect a Toad to watch DougDoug
I love this game. S tier game imo, it’s such a shame more people don’t play it.
Maybe Huey sent the black paint to those islands from browser's fury.
I LOVED this game back when it came out
I love this game's writing
I loved color splash so much as a younger kid that I beat it 100% 3 times
shy bandit was just trying to steal hearts bro
18:44 The sad thing is bowser does let them leave but I don't think many realize they can
@ThaneGaming
18 күн бұрын
You've got a good point there, I remember that line from Super Mario RPG. Maybe the Shy-Guy is referring tp Black Paint Bowser in this instance
Nice video!
I wish stick star was more like this plot wise and comedy wise. I still will forever Love that game despite being the worst paper mario game
@ThaneGaming
Ай бұрын
I am working on a Sticker Star video now! While I'm not a fan of SS overall, I do think there's enough to talk about & some things I did enjoy about it in hindsight. Color Splash greatly improved upon it with the aspects you mentioned imo, so I retroactively wish the same!
There is a theory that Huey took the black paint and dumped it into where bowser’s fury happens, thus corrupting the 3d bowser instead of the paper bowser
@Justyourpersonalhuman
12 күн бұрын
The black paint didn't get sent to the cat island after the events of color splash tho. Instead an fury goop Is on the outskirts of the cat Island making ofc bowser transforms into fury bowser. Instead huey used the black paint to make the night sky color black. End of the explanations.
It's Bowser wanting a rainbow shell which makes me wonder why there isn't a hippie koopa who has painted their shell tie-dye lmao
Awesome!
I am just so confused- what did I see at 21:35???? is that an official Mario cartoon Mario getting waterboarded because I have many feelings about that fsfjsfgsfvbhs >~ amazing video, might subscribe :)
@ThaneGaming
17 күн бұрын
Yes it surprisingly is! That clip's from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode "Count Koopula". Mario is waterboarded, Toad gets a stretch rack, and Luigi is tickle tortured 😳 it's not a particularly good show, but it sure is wild lol
I had no idea this game had so many interesting moments. I just chalked it up as Sticker Star 2 and left it at that.
Honestly, Dark Bloo Inn is my favorite stage.
@UltraPlasmaMan
25 күн бұрын
It was stressful for 10yo me, having to solve the puzzle before the clock.
I lost my copy of this game and wanted to revisit it. i still think why this game is supposed too close to a horror game sometimes. I hope huey comes back eventually.
Honestly, I hope Nintendo makes a color splash remake or port. I played and have yet to finish, but my wii U gameplay joystick is broken.
your analysis vids on the paper mario series has opened my eyes to the fact that nintendo is SUPER BASED. I LOVE IT!! Japan is the only culture promoting actual diversity rather than mixing everyone together