Man was Paper jam a ride or what? Anyway uh have fun and thank you for reading! If you do read of course. haha!
This day wasn't supposed to go down like this. It was just supposed to be a simple visit to help Peach clean up the castle, well according to Mario but that man makes up any excuse to go see the Princess I'm telling you.
But now thanks to the "valiant" efforts of Luigi a whole other dimension has spilled into ours, frankly I'm surprised he didn't end up getting rid of both somehow. But we might as well be as good as gone since now we're going to have to deal with an extra Bowser, a Bowser Jr., and who knows what else?!
Weirder still is that they're all flatter than Luigi's personality.
But that's not the point right now, the point is we've got two Marios now. And at first glance that may seem like a great thing. And I'd be the first to tell you you're probably right, but if you were in my position now, you'd probably be rethinking things just a little bit.
Making our way underneath Doop Doop Dunes, again. For the sole purpose of finding out if there was some way to get to Neo Bowser Castle from its old location. And of course it had been Both Marios that suggested this idea. "You're reading my mind other me!" Is what they both said. And since it was a tied vote on going or not going both Marios took lead and dragged us all out here.
"Bro you gotta trust me on this when am I ever wrong?"
"You want an alphabetized list or the numerical one?"
"Besides it's not like there's not going to be at least something there! That's not how these things work."
You'll never guess what was waiting for us when we got there.
A whole lotta nothing.
This wasn't even the first time something like this happened too. There was the whole incident with shopping with both Marios being huge cheapskates. Then there was the argument about whether it was worth traveling the desert with all the pokeys running around, both Marios hated Pokeys to the brink of preferring to avoid them all together. And now this. It was starting to look like having two Marios was more of a burden than a blessing. Though I guess its way more complicated than that.
Anyway back to the problem at hand, of course the logical thing to do was put the blame on Mario for making us walk all the way out here for a now pointless reason, it had been all his idea, twice even! Though one look, at both of them, proved that they already felt bad about leading Luigi and me here. Trust me you never want to see your hero looking this heartbroken, twice.
Before I could even get a quip in Luigi spoke up, "Hey um, at least it's a nice view right? And I mean it's not like this whole trip was useless, we got a lot of experience right, we're at pretty high levels but uh…"
There he goes Luigi pulling his signature Luigi charm as always. But, I guess it must have worked because whatever Luigi said after I tuned him out brought both Marios back to their happy, motivated, and very ambitious selves.
"Come on Luigi! If we hurry up we can make it to Gloomy Woods by dusk!"
"And if there's any more puzzles you can leave them to me!"
"Hey uh, little big bros, can we maybe rest a little? Me and Starlow are still pretty tired from all this walking."
I float but okay whatever excuse you need to make.
"How about a round of cards then? You can team up with Paper Mario this time!"
"Maybe we could play not next to a giant pool of lava this time?"
All this brotherly love almost made me hate pointing out we couldn't afford to waste any time since Bowser could attack Peach's castle with even more cannonballs. All three raced into action and began the long run back.
And to Mario's credit we did make it to Gloomy Woods by dusk.
It's just too bad I had to be the boring voice of reason again, oh well. And wouldn't you know it this place is supposed to be haunted, at least we don't have two Luigi's now that would be a handful.
But we have two Marios instead, which can get complicated, but at least our party has one Luigi to handle them.
And me of course, the great and beautiful Starlow, who really needs to know how much she's getting paid now.
Man it sure would suck if both Marios were just snatched away from Starlow and Luigi in the next ten minutes of gameplay.
...hoho.