Mario...and Rabbids...in the same game?
This doesn’t make sense.
The only thing that’d make things worse is if they included fidget spinners and dabbing
YOU’VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME
So.
I may have over reacted a lil bit.
I don’t know what it is with Luigi being a little shit in recent Mario games.
From dabbing in this new Mario Rabbids game to that death stare in Mario Kart 8.
Is Nintendo poising this Green Nimbly-Bimbily brobonzo bean for his own series of titles?
Who knows?
But adding these little subtleties to games doesn’t hurt.
Harmless tangents aside, last Mario video I did...you know, the one where I talked about
Mario being a parasitic mind-controlling fungus...I talked a little bit of garbage on this game.
Well, not really on the game itself, more the premise of smushing together Rabbids and
Mario into a single title.
My puny little brain just couldn’t grasp the innovativeness of this game.
Cuz let’s be honest, the premise is a wee-bit ridiculous.
But, admittedly, I hadn’t played the game yet.
And now that I have played it...well...I was wrong.
We have the same old group from the Mario franchise: Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Bowser
JR, Toad.
And then we got these Rabbids guys, who are like...rabbit creatures, who speak in gibberish
and somehow find a way to mess everything up.
But who are these Rabbid guys?
And where the hell did they come from?
And why would Nintendo want to make a game with them?
And is the game even good?
Well, let’s get to the bottom of it.
The rabbids are from the Rayman universe.
They were conceptualized to be zombie bunny enemies in Rayman 4 that Rayman would have
to beat his way through in order to to beat the stage.
But the one-dimensional mindless zombified enemies were quickly changed to the quirky,
crazed characters that we see today as Rayman 4 was scrapped in place of their own game...
BOOM: Rayman Raving Rabbids.
Out in 2006 for the PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, and some other stuff.
But I’m not gonna talk about that game cuz I didn’t play it.
Like at all.
But they had other games, like…
WA-CHAO...Rayman Raving Rabbids TWO.
It’s like the first one.
Except IT’S THE SECOND ONE.
And this one I actually played.
Across the board it was rated worse than it’s predecessor.
IGN wrote an article, shi--I mean pooping on the game.
Gotta start censoring myself people.
Can’t afford anymore of those yellow dollar signs fix your shit YouTube
But, yeah, the peoples over at IGN let’s just say they weren’t too fond of the game.
And same can be said for the people over at GameSpot.
But we all know that, uh, these video game reviewers don’t always represent gamers
as a whole.z
And this game is one of those times.
I mean as a standalone single-player game, the game itself was a little...meh.
Now that multi-player mode though.
Now that’s where it shines.
For me it’s the same sorta idea as Mario Party.
The fun doesn’t come from playing by yourself.
The fun comes from messing around with your friends.
I mean look at these mini-games!
They’re soooo..STUPID.
I can totally make a kickass burger.
And throw paper at the teacher like the best of them.
But as soon as the soda shaking game comes on.
It’s GAME OVER.
And then came Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle.
Okay.
Not right after.
There was a 10 year gap between the games.
Oh.
And like a dozen Rabbids games.
But, I didn’t play any of those either.
Soooooo….who cares about em.
So how do these Rabbids end up in a game with our short little height changing plumber?
So how do these Rabbids end up in a game with our short little height changing no-longer-a-plumber
plumber?
Well.
It all started in a bedroom.
Super Mario figurines, posters and other memorabilia are scattered around.
PSHH What a NERD.
Well our newfound friend is a super cool nerd chick who happens to be pretty darn smart.
So smart, in fact, that she created a device called the SupaMerge - which uses dark matter,
space-time manipulation and bladdy bladdy blah.
All that matters is that it works.
It takes item A, combines it with item B, and poops out item C. Well not literally poops.
More like Digivolution in the Digital World of Digimon.
You guys remember Digimon?
Kinda like Pokemon.
Except...semi-believeable?
Hey.
That’s a video topic right there.
Damnit Ryan!
Stop getting sidetracked!
We’ll cover that later!
Now where were we….
Ah yes.
A + B = C.
This SupaMerge device - spelled with an ‘A’ not an ‘er’ - could solve the energy crisis!
Just by combining…..a lamp and a flower?
Okay girl...you’re the smart one here...I’ll take your word on it
But then BIGGIDY BAM - we got a malfunction.
But no need to solve the issue right now.
Let’s just not turn off the goggles and set them down here while we conveniently leave
the room to go play video games and not notice any crazy sounds coming from from this room
while doing so.
That sounds like the best course of action, doesn’t it.
Everything’s going fine until...BIGGIDY BIGGIDY BAM BAM.
A washing machine manifests itself in the middle of the room.
OH SNAP WHO WOULDA THUNK IT.
SOMETHING WENT DOWN AS SOON AS SHE LEFT THE ROOM.
And who pops out of this space-time bending washing machine but some CRAZED RABBIDS.
One of ‘em runs to the googles and puts em on while the rest run around making noise
and wrecking the room...yet being just quiet enough to not disturb our super smart lady
friend in the other room.
Convenient.
Goggled-Rabbid Rabbit begins to mess with the goggles on his rabbit head.
Creating different Nintendo Rabbid combinations because, remember, A + B does in fact equal
C. And when you’ve got Rabbids lining the room and Super Mario memorabilia all around,
shit’s prone to combine.
After some good vibes and fun times, the goggles end up being used on the washing machine,
sucking all the Rabbids up into it along with some Super Mario gear laying around the room.
Meanwhile, at an award ceremony in the Mushroom Kingdom - t he one time in history where Peach
isn’t being dumb and Mario isn’t being whipped, the sky begins to open to obstruct
this celebration.
Long story short, everybody gets sucked into this wormhole except for Mario, who does his
Mario non-plumber thing and jumps in after his less-baller bretheren.
*LEEERROYYYY JENKINSSSSS*
This Portal and the washing machine send all of our favorite characters to a new world,
cuz remember people A + B = C. A new universe where Mario characters run around alongside
Rabbid creatures that are infused with random things like weird sticks and goggles.
Strange premise...yet it kinda works.
I mean considering there wasn’t really another way without breaking cannon to create a world
where Mario and the Rabbids are in the same place at the same time.
So sure, you all know I’m a fan of Mario games.
I mean, damn, you can see how often we cover Mario and other Nintendo stuff on the channel.
And I was a fan of Rabbids games in the past...well, not games plural.
I was a fan of that one Rabbids game.
10 years ago.
So I guess that makes me a fan?
Ah… whatever.
The point I’m trying to make is that just because I like a franchise doesn’t mean
that every game within that franchise is gonna be good.
Isn’t that right Sonic.
But yeah, even with the characters involved, there was still a lot of room to screw this
game up.
And while it did take me a little while to get into, that was pretty much because I viewed
the entire first “world” as a tutorial.
But after that the game really picked up and that’s when I got sucked in.
The battle system is very similar to X-Com, except simplified.
The accuracy likelihood is either 0, 50, or 100%, really making the game easier.
Each battle sequence is laid out like a complex board game with pipes and different ground
levels where you take turns controlling your characters and letting the enemies move.
Hiding behind walls and things will make it less likely for the enemy to hit you, and
getting higher ground gives you damage bonuses.
With the object of the game being to win the battles.
Simple enough.
Yet somehow the simplicity of this game is one of it’s most redeeming qualities.
You have opportunities to explore and solve mini-puzzles between each fight.
But these periods of exploration aren’t too long as to take away from the main seller
which are the battles.
But they give you additional hoops to jump through and things to accomplish, whether
you are just trying to complete as fast as possible or 100% the game.
Regardless, while the concept of Mario and Rabbids being thrust into the same world may
seem like a little bit of a stretch, I’d say they did aite.
But now if they try to keep this up for more than just this one game….it might be stretching
it a bit.
A huge part of the game is the novelty of Mario screwing around with the different Rabbids
- not only the enemies, but the different Rabbid forms of Nintendo characters.
Each one has a distinct set of skills and has kinda exaggerated personalities of their
Super Mario counterparts.
The freshness...the originality of this aspect of the characters…are a huge reason why
I’ve been playing so much.
Our little crazed rabbit buddies have come a long way from being an afterthought in the
Rayman franchise.
And now that they’re being paired with the likes of Mario and company, they are poised
to take a leap into the new echelon of video game characters.
But what do you all think?
Have you played the game?
Or just seen videos on it?
And what’s your takeaway?
Do the Rabbids suck?
Are they dope?
Does A + B actually equal C?
You know where I stand, but I wanna know what you guys think cuz...maybe metacritic was
right about the old Rabbid game, and maybe I’ve just turned into a stupid fanboy of
rabbids.
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We’re figuring it out.
But I’ve rambled on long enough.
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