Game Theory: Rosalina UNMASKED pt. 2 (Super Mario Galaxy)

Looks like someone finally got a piece of the pie, if you know what I'm saying. *Horn* Blowne Blowne Girl Blowne (ongoing jokes about Mario and Peach's "pairing") But how can Peach be here...and here? All will be revealed... today. Hello internet, welcome to Game Theory. The show that finally is! Concluding a two-part series! (sings) *HALLELUJAH* Now, if only I'd do that episode of Watch_Dogs... Anyway! Last time we used a bit of Mario Galaxy decoy and a lot of genetics to conclude that Rosalina has an unusually high chance of being Peach's daughter... but. There were some sticking points in that

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In particular, that "Rosalina's mother is dead" AAY Peach mmm doesn't seem to be. There are also other issues like the relative lack of age difference between Peach and Rosalina, but this episode will answer all of those concerns, AND MORE! Not only does it solve the mystery of Rosalina's origin and the eternal question about the multiple lives of Mario "Jumpman" Mario, but it also completely reverses everything you thought you knew about Miyamoto's beloved franchise. If you thought Mario being a sociopath was devastating, wait until you see the end of this one. So let's start with the elephant in the room.

Peach is dead. As we concluded last episode, Rosalina's mother is buried under a tree on her favorite stargazing hill. How can that happen when uhhh... Yeah, uhh breathing, kidnapped by Bowser, asking for help, promise of future cake? Yeah! Peach appears to be at least somewhat alive in Super Mario Galaxy. Well, that's actually the entire premise of the

game

! The end of the

game

... Do I need a spoiler alert for the ending of a Mario game? They are always one step above congratulations. Uhhh, so here. SPOILER ALERT! In practically every Mario game, Peach is saved and Bowser falls into the lava.

I'd say it's probably around 87 percent of the games. We're clearly not playing these games for an epic conclusion, folks. But Galaxy is part of the 13 percent and sports one of the most strangely cryptic endings to happen since Enslaved on Xbox. Bowser, Mario and Peach are sucked into a catastrophic black hole and everything is destroyed. Look at the way it decimates Bowser's ship. Then, a group of young stars sacrifice themselves, creating something similar to the Big Bang. Which gives life to a whole new

galaxy

. Rosalina then talks to Mario about the cycle of rebirth. How dust from dying stars eventually transforms into a new star and the cycle continues, but with small changes each time.

It's like an astronomical version of Groundhog Day; No two laps are exactly the same. She then tells Mario that "He will see." Mario wakes up and is back in the Mushroom Kingdom, but things are a little different. Now you have all the intergalactic characters in the game living on the same planet. Mario welcomes you to the new Galaxy, move around, discover Peach's funeral tree on the hill and get the credits. So what exactly happened? That black hole seemed to destroy everything, now everyone is on the same planet and Rosalina's final speech is vague at best. Well, her cryptic dialogue actually explains it all.

Mario, Peach, Bowser and everyone else have just been reborn in a new Galaxy cycle. At the beginning of the game we were playing in a

galaxy

where all the characters were separated on different planets, but in this new remixed version of the galaxy that was just created by the black hole and the baby Lumas, they all exist on the same planet . . The cycle has restarted, but with the small difference that we all share the planet. You see? Let me put it another way. True loyal theorists who watch this show will remember a long, long time ago when I covered the Zelda timeline.

There you had a parallel series of multiverses, each with a small change. Link survives in this timeline, dies in this one, and never exists in the third. It would seem that Mario's world believes in something similar. Think of it like hitting the reset button on his old NES. Is that a reference that anyone understands right now? Anyway, the old NES had a reset button. Just come with me here. So you want to start a Super Mario Brothers game on your NES. You press the power button, the screen flashes, you have to eject the cartridge, blow on it, reinsert it, press down, press the power button again and that's where the game begins.

Now imagine that you press the reset button and start the game again, but this time the blocks are arranged in a different way and the goombas and koopas appear in strange places. Press the reset button again and again you'll get a new arrangement of the same center pieces. Mario Galaxy basically works under the philosophy of Galaxy rebooting itself. Remixing every time. As Rosalina said, the cycle never repeats itself in the same way. In fact, this idea explains Mario's multiple lives. How can Mario fall into a well, die, but then have to try three more times to get it right?

They are new iterations of the Galaxy every time. It's also an explanation for Mario and Bowser being mortal enemies 90 percent of the time and stroller buddies the other 10 percent, OR the intermittent appearance of the Koopa Kids, OR where Gino and Mallow went. Please let there be a Galaxy iteration where they return. That game was VERY good. Ok, but how does all this explain Peach being dead? Easy! Rosalina is Peach's daughter from a previous Galaxy cycle. Peach had a daughter, he raised her, and then he died. Rosalina, devastated, flew away only to return and check on her home every hundred years.

Or each new cycle of the Galaxy. It just so happens that the particular cycle presented in this game is one in which she finds herself involved in the action. Does this seem too metaphysical or too profound? It shouldn't because it's the core belief of the game. Anyone who has played the game beyond Mario's missions and played it with Luigi has seen the proof for themselves. With Mario you have Luigi's Rescue Missions, where your clumsy brother gets trapped and you must save him. Great, nothing unusual there. But when you play Luigi and go back to those missions, you expect to save Mario only to find out that no, you're still saving Luigi.

It is uncomfortable. The explanation given for this is: I suppose there are enough people in the universe for one person to look like me. Except what's really happening here is that you meet a version of Luigi from a different cycle of the Galaxy. If nothing else, this encounter shows that Super Mario Galaxy is a title that breaks metaphysical rules. Ok, if Rosalina and Luigi 2 are from previous cycles of the Galaxy, how are they so young? How can Rosalina look the same age as Peach if they are mother and daughter? And how can Rosalina revisit her home planet every hundred years, or more, if she is a normal human with a normal lifespan?

Hey, come on. You don't have to be Einstein to realize that. Well, actually that's how it is, or at least that's how it was... In 1905 Albert Einstein proposed a

theory

, a Scientific Theory, called special relativity. Do you know that E is equal to M C squared? Energy is equal to mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. Yeah, that's part of it. It's incredibly complicated stuff, but suffice it to say that he completely changed the course of physics and answered many lingering questions of scientists about time, space, and light. Also, believe it or not, it answers how Rosalina and Peach can be practically the same age.

One of the consequences of his theory was the concept of Time Dilation or the fact that time slows down with movement. The faster you move, the more difference is made, and at speeds close to the speed of light, time practically stops. It seems crazy, but it's proven. Two synchronized atomic clocks were tested. One watch stayed on Earth, while another got on a high-speed plane and flew for a while. When the plane returned, the clock was slow by exactly the amount Einstein's equations predicted. But when they resynchronized Earth's clocks, they still ran at exactly the same rate.

In other words, time had passed more slowly on the plane because of how fast it was traveling. Time had dilated or expanded. In other words, time travel has been proven to be a real thing. Now look at Rosalina's ship, it travels between Galaxies at speeds close to the speed of light. So for her time moves much more slowly relative to time on Earth. In fact, using an online time dilation calculator, I was able to conclude that 1 year aboard her ship traveling slightly below the speed of light would actually be the equivalent of 100 years of Earth time.

So let's say Rosalina is 20 years old, that's 2000 years of Earth time. And that's a conservative estimate. Einstein, you have truly given the world many great gifts, but none compare to your most recent contribution to society. PROVE that the fictional characters are related. But enough of the science, let's get back to the story. Did you ever notice that Rosalina never refers to Peach by her name? She always calls her Mario's "special one." Probably because she feels uncomfortable calling her mother by her real name. Or maybe that was the nickname Mario would use for her when they were together.

Sure it's not as compelling evidence as relativistic physics, but hey, it's something! Now if you STILL don't believe me, MAN! You really have serious trust issues because I have demonstrated this in every way to Sundae. Knowledge, genetics, physics, I mean, seriously, cut me some slack here. But I'm sure there are still some of you who will say oh you're overthinking the game oh the designers didn't plan this, well to refute every last doubting Wario, Yoshiaki Koizumi, that's so good. As I go about pronouncing that name, the writer of the Rosalina storybook said during an interview that Rosalina was originally intended to be related to Princess Peach.

There it is BOOM done. Of course, he didn't say HOW, leading the internet to assume they were sisters, but now WE know better. And finally, since I won't leave any stone unturned here. There is one last HUGE piece of evidence hidden in the French version of the game. That's right, we're going international here. Watch the epilogue of Rosalina's story in English. She dedicates her life to the Luma, promises to revisit Earth every hundred years, and flies away. But the French version of the story has a little extra detail. Everything is more or less the same except the penultimate page.

It has a little more text embedded. Uh em, let me brush up on my French as best I can (mumbling made up French sounding words). My French teacher is going to see this and be really embarrassed. Here we go, I'm going to make this

super

sexy. (Reads the above lines in a ~sexy~ French accent) That was hot. French, language of love. So if you didn't spend 7 years learning the difference between a Mr. Criminal and a Mrs. Criminal, you could probably figure out the following. My dad uhh... something something... stroking his mustache but luckily I was there for a couple of years, butchering the language and coupling that with the power of Google Translate, he says the following "I would like to go back once every hundred years Back to my blue planet, and doze on my father's knees, stroking the mustache that was his pride." And what you have there, loyal theorists, removed from the English version for some reason is our last incredibly strong piece of evidence that Mario is Rosalina's father. (laughs) I mean, I guess by that logic the father could also be Luigi, but that would be... (whistles) No...

I couldn't... The same ears attached, the same blue eyes and he's left-handed. , meaning the chances of Peach and Luigi having a left-handed child like Rosalina would be double. Luigi is much taller than Mario and Rosalina is an imposing figure in the Mario Universe and in the storybook, when Rosalina describes playing with her brother, her brother wears a green hat. It's subtle, sure, but if you look closely enough, he's definitely included there on purpose. Then there is the telescope that belonged to Rosalina's father, with which she undertakes her intergalactic journey and which appears on the last page of her storybook.

Mario is never depicted with a telescope in the entire series, but we know for a fact that Luigi has one. He inherited it as part of his mansion, and doesn't it seem like a coincidence that when you beat Super Mario Galaxy with Luigi and the 120 stars, and then collect the last secret star at the end, you're rewarded with a picture? of Luigi and Rosalina? Father and daughter? You know, when it was referenced in the game that Rosalina and Peach were related, it was Miamoto himself who pulled the plug. Insist that the reference be removed. For years we've been led to believe that Peach and Mario are the games' IT couple, but this whole cover-up would make a lot of sense if Nintendo had known all along that Luigi is who Peach ultimately ends up with.

It would also explain Peach's complete lack of affection for Mario in all the games. But if that were to come to light, it would throw out everythingHave we ever thought about this franchise to total chaos! Nahhh it can't be... Or can it? But hey! That's JUST a THEORY! A game theory! Thanks for watching! Hey, you should probably Super Smash that subscribe button. Seriously, I think I earned it with this one. I'm actually talking about relativity, genetics, multi-game lore, and a pretty solid theory to boot? If it's not worth subscribing to, then your standards are too high.

Welcome back to the Super Amazing End Card Tournament! It was a close match last time, but Link's uppercut pulled ahead of the competition by 6,000 votes. This week I wanted to try something different. I wanted to take this moment to introduce you to two channels that I really like and I think you will too. The first is This Exists. It's a criminally under-watched show that unearths some of the strangest things in film, music, and video games. It's fascinating some of the things they unearth. From A History of the Most Famous and Offensive Mario ROM Hacks for the 1994 Prince Video Game?

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Simply click on the annotations or description, mobile users, to check them out. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an episode of Watch_Dogs to finish recording. Well, I guess there are enough people in the Universe for one person to look like me... Wooow... that was a terrible Luigi impression. Note to self: Don't ever make prints again. Unless it's PewDiePie. I feel like my impression of PieDiePie is pretty good.