Mario is a Hero - A Super Mario Retrospective
In this video, we discuss the videogame Super Mario Brothers, and compare it with epic poems from across the world but mostly Europe. Like Nathan Drake, Super Mario is a globetrotting hero. Join me in this retrospective, as we discover that these videogames have only middling value as works of art.
This is a sort of sequel to the Uncharted video, which you can watch here:
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Here are some sources I used:
“Dasein and Seriously Playing Videogames”. Crystalline Wyvern, YouTube, 2021.
Kierkegaard, Søren. Fear and Trembling / The Sickness Unto Death. Princeton University Press, 2013.
Voth, Grant L., The History of World Literature, The Teaching Company, 2007.
Various Epic Poems, especially The Decent of Inanna, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Paradise Lost.
Nintendo’s Super Mario Videogames
Thank you to AYDU Music for allowing the use of their remix of the Gusty Garden Galaxy music, check out their channel here:
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I also used the TLB Orchestration cover of the Super Mario World Castle theme. Check out more of their work here:
• Super Mario World - Castle Theme Epic Orch...