Here you have it, kids; the official Super Paper Mario television ad. Once again, it features the door-to-door video game dispensing Japanese gentlemen of previous ads, only this time, they seem a bit more melancholy than before.
Whereas this Wii commercial shows these two gentlemen (unnamed, but known as Lenny and Squiggy to those of us with pictures of them taped up in our lockers) enjoying an afternoon of fun with a number of multi-generational families much to the delight of everyone involved, this latest commercial has them appearing at the doorstep of two twenty-somethings, who do their best to utterly ignore our two heroes. The post-teens quickly take the new copies of Super Paper Mario, but upon playing, they utterly ignore their Japanese benefactors.
Nintendo has laced its advertisement with a striking commentary on the current American's gluttony and ego-driven lifestyle. Instead of cooperating with our foreign brethren, for all too long now, we have used them to fulfill our own needs, and once we've had our fill, we inevitably kick them to the curb, or worse.
I believe Thomas Paine said it best; "You are all a bunch of fat whores, and I think I just got Face-AIDS from talking to you."
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7:48 AM on 04.09.2007
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PS: It's spelled Thomas Paine. It wasn't until 3-4 generations ago that it was changed to a Y.
"kicks an eagle in the junk" reminds me of air fighting parts in GoW 2. I just beat it last night (in about 13 hrs) so everything reminds me of that shit. gotta say the story was disappointing... some of the sheen on the game wears off by the end. Having the titans climbing up to destroy mt. olympus and not seeing anything happen left me feeling violated. you have to GIVE the gamer something for defeating a game, story-wise (obviously not talking about cod of war which is lol) or else you feel like they're just whoring out the next episode. and it's not just like a tv show where it will be back next week (or for heroes, next month) we've got to wait TWO FUCKING YEARS for the next game? that teaser should have been a hint AFTER the credits or something, AFTER there is some big CGI payoff. the whole thing just seemed shoddy and lazy to me
That's why I hold off on trilogy games if I can help it until part 3 comes out.
Halo felt like a decent complete story, and I felt seriously gypped after H2 enough to where if H3 doesn't have a complete story, I'm not wasting my time on it.
And Master Chief diving through open space into a Covenant ship that's flaming down towards earth with 50 Halo rings looming over head is NOT an ending...
If Gears of War 2 can have a more solid conclusion like GOW1 did, then I'll be happy with picking it up, even if the ending is fairly simple and uncomplicated. At least I wasn't left hanging for 24 months.
I like how the camera in the commercial mimics the 2d to 3d swap. Nintendo's commercials are simple yet effective. We have a new game. And then they show it off.
No damn babies bawling or Rubik's cube bs.
and nex, yawn?
Kinda contradicts the point you were trying to make, I think. Better luck next time. :-P
Also, cocks.