Thesis: in the Mario universe, the characters can hear the background music
I firmly believe that the background music in the Mario games is diegetic, meaning that the characters can hear it. Here are four examples that support this.
EXAMPLE THE FIRST: in Mario x Rabbids Kingdom Battle, when you’re on the overworld as opposed to the tactical encounters, there are various musical things scattered around the world that appear to be playing the music. If you interact with them, you can turn them off and make them stop playing the music… and this causes the music heard by the player to be quieter.
EXAMPLE THE SECOND: in the New Super Mario Bros series, the Koopa Troopas, Goombas, and similar enemies famously dance, jump, or otherwise react to the little “ba-baaah!” musical cues, strongly implying that they can hear it. (And since this affects how they move, a player who doesn’t take this into account will misjudge where the enemies will be at any given moment, possibly causing Mario to get hurt or killed, and that’s somehow hilarious to me.)
EXAMPLE THE THIRD: this one is my favorite. In Super Mario RPG, in the special suite at the Marrymore inn, Mario can go into the bathroom and take a shower. While he does this, he loudly whistles the ground theme from Super Mario Bros. Now I ask you, reader, where could he have heard that song before? Exactly. It’s diegetic, I tell you.
EXAMPLE THE FOURTH: much like the third example, in Luigi’s Mansion, Luigi nervously hums along with the main theme. Where’d he learn the song? Why is he so on-beat? The music being audible in-universe is the simplest explanation.
This simply makes me happy in a geeky way.
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Take the lyrics of the Rawest Forst Remake and highlight any text used in Homestuck.
Hey, have you heard about that Mario guy?
Him? You mean?
Yea, the one with the mushrooms
Yea!
You know, the one jumping around in the forest
Yea, yea, I know him, I know him
Yes? Okay, hey check it out!
Super Mario-oh RPG
It is the only one just for me
When I play the game, I get lost in a phase
Then I find out I'm stuck in Geno's Maze
Gimme Frog Coins!
Gimme Mario!
Gimme Frog Coins!
Gimme Mallow!
Gimme See Ya!
Gimme Geno!
Gimme Cookies!
Of course, we will get you that Mario
We need to mute that stupid voice
I need to get those dang frog coins to pay off all my credit cards!
There are many secrets in this game!
Many of which drive some peeps insane!
Why we try to cheat in a really good game?
Just sounds like crap and it makes you look lame!
Exiting the forest is super simple:
All you do is follow these path turns
For the rest of your gaming life
Gimme Star Egg, Gimme Cookies, Gimme See Ya
Gimme Great Guy's Casino, Gimme everything I need
Wait...wait...WAIT, WHO ARE YOU!?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...
My name is Exor, I'm the rappers angel
Travelling Blade with the Axem Rangers
Why should lamers like Mario with his Party go
running with these starless joes
Fix Star Road, I don't think so
Geno Whirl!
I don't blink slow
Let's do this!
Cause every time I try to rhyme a rhyme
I'm hitting my right eye more than nine times ninety nine
Lately's been a boredom and lack of interest
Little cats call us mad and in distress
Italian guy, gotta buy some time to blast right past
Rescue the captive princess next
Koopas and Goombas, them I laugh at
keep on pressing "A" to raise the level of attacks
Don't fight the poverty, know that the Kids that are lonely
can Drop it and play my game to get their bodies to act glad
My name is Croco
Gimme, gimme
Wallet
Gimme
Wallet
Oh Hello!
Gimme, gimme
Man, it's really creepy up here
In the end of the game
Yeah, it is
Gimme
I'm a little low on hit points
Items
Gimme, gimme
O-Okay?
You have any refreshments?
Something rare
Yea, you can take this mushroom
BUT IT'S ROTTEN!!
I am just a princess, please help me!
Let me escape, Booster is scary
I've heard rumours he's taking me to Marrymore
But I don't wanna marry more I wanna marry Mario
Gimme Frog Coins!
Gimme Mario!
Gimme Frog Coins!
Gimme Mallow!
Gimme See Ya!
Gimme Geno!
Gimme my frying pan and parasol
There are many secrets in this game!
Many of which drive some peeps insane!
Why we try to cheat in a really good game?
Just sounds like crap and it makes you look lame!
Exiting the forest is super simple:
All you do is follow these path turns
For the rest of your gaming life
🏠Four hundred and eighty-four of these words are in Homestuck!🏠
(I used the transcript on the pinned comment under the YouTube video, I fixed a couple of spelling errors but other than that it's unchanged.)
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