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beebfreeb · 8 months ago

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One of the most heart-wrenching things that've ever happened to me occurred while trying to research the Super Paper Mario art style.

"Ohh what a beautiful and interesting art style! It is very distinctive! I wonder if anyone else has tried or wanted to try breaking it down and replicating it?" Obliviously, I typed in Super Paper Mario Art Style into my search bar... only to find many people calling it ugly and saying they hate it.

This simply could not be... permanent damage was done to my artistic soul.

No joy? No whimsy in this world? No love of computer graphics? Of a certain era of clipart? Of the art that was born from the computer and is difficult to replicate without one? Of the art made when this was something new and fascinating? No love for something unique?

Super Paper Mario don't listen to all those haters I love your geometric art style influenced by what shapes are easily drawn on a computer and the smooth mechanical interpolation within your animations. I love you. Also the music is banger.

#funny talking tag #I cannot understand why anyone would truly hate the art... it looks so cool it's so interesting to me.#However I realize that I'm not a Mario fan. SPM is quite literally the only Mario game I know anything about (beyond cultural osmosis).#(Well I know a little bit about Luigi's Mansion but mostly because I was obsessed with gameplay videos of it when I was 9)#(and whatever information that Lorraine feeds me because of his PHD in Mario autism)#SPM's only flaw is that you have to play it with the sideways Wiimote which is the worst control scheme that has ever been thought up.#(I did watch Lorraine play PM64 as well but as silly and charming as the game was... SPM has cooler art and a story. I like it a lot.)

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