Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

Previously on Matt1993...

TEENAGE MATT1993:
For more info about what I do most of the time, go to my profile page.

MARY O.:
My name's Mary O. Nice to meet you! I'm the Super Mario Maker Manual Guide!

MATT1993:
She's cute.

GAMEXPLAIN:
(indicating Nina)
Who on earth is this person right here?... But this is not Mary O. This is someone new.

MATT1993:
WHY???

MUSEUM OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
At age 26...

MATT1993:
...Matt1993 discovered the two mysterious lost episodes of Super Mario Maker Crash Course. ... Okay, okay, that last one's not on the list. But it SHOULD be! I have a story behind that. Stay tuned for when I write a full post about it!



Well, I've certainly set a new standard for procrastination.

Last year I discovered something that involves my biggest video-game-character crush AND is something that I had not seen acknowledged ANYWHERE on the Internet, and I promised to post the story behind my discovery of it. I thought it'd be an amazing feat that I would be the first one on the entire Internet (or at least English-speaking Internet?) to acknowledge the existence of what I found!

And yet... I didn't get around to posting it until now? It looks like I left you on a cliffhanger for so long that the cliff isn't even there anymore. It's now clear that the Super Mario Wiki has also found out about what I discovered before I got around to finishing writing it. But I still found it first, I swear!


Not sure how coherent all this is because ensuring that this entry makes sense would take too long. Hopefully it makes sense anyway...

( Cut for length. ***If you can read Japanese, I need your help with something!!*** )

If you're not into Super Smash Bros. or Super Mario Maker... and maybe even if you ARE into those games but aren't as obsessed with Mary O. as I am... then this entry will probably be of no interest to you and you should probably skip it unless you REALLY want to know what goes on inside my head. :P


Being the Nintendo nerd I am, ever since the first Super Smash Bros. I sometimes tried to imagine what it would be like if various characters (video game or otherwise) that weren't playable in any SSB games yet were.

But I don't think I've ever come up with a complete moveset for one until now. Usually all I think of is:
- "What would Kirby look like if he copied this character?"
- "What would this character's alternate costumes be?"
- (for characters who aren't from a series that's already in the game) "What would this character's series symbol be?"
- MAYBE a game mechanic that would be unique to that one character
- MAYBE taunts and MAYBE special moves and a Final Smash.

And usually I don't write about or draw any of these ideas either - just think about it.


But lately, due to my constantly being obsessed with Mary O. (who unfortunately is still obscure enough that I feel like I have to link to that article again), I've been thinking more and more about what it'd be like if she and Yamamura were playable in Super Smash Bros. as a 2-in-1 character similar to Duck Hunt.

In fact I first thought of this idea at some point before April Fools' Day 2017 (see the music tag for that entry), but lately I've been thinking more and more about how this could work, enough that I think I have ideas for their entire hypothetical moveset by now.

And I keep thinking about said moveset so much that writing an entry about it is probably the only way I'm ever going to stop being so distracted thinking about it, even though I doubt it'd be interesting to anyone here (none of you are as obsessed with Mary O. as I am, and a lot of you probably aren't even into Super Smash Bros. enough for this to be of interest to you). So I'll LJ-cut it so I won't bore you. :)


( Blah blah blah Mary O. moving sideways )

It feels so weird that I've put all this thought into making an entire moveset and such for Mary O. & Yamamura for literally no reason since I doubt I'd be making a Super Smash Bros. fangame or hack anytime soon... and it feels especially weird to actually be typing out this ridiculous idea after spending so much time only thinking about it...

Well, now you know what goes on inside my head! :P