22nd April 2010, 10:09 PM
What gets me is how everyone loves Link's Awakening, even if it's "just a dream", but for some reason in SMB2 everyone gets all upset about how it was "just a dream". I mean firstly you know GOING INTO SMB2 that it's all a dream. IT SAYS SO RIGHT THERE IN THE INTRODUCTION AND THE MANUAL! Further, in both cases, it's not really "just a dream", it's more like "dream LAND", as in a fictional WORLD of dreams shared by everyone. In Link's Awakening, it's an island dream world created by a giant whale god that Link gets stranded in. In SMB2, it's Subcon, the Land of Dreams (Subcon is short for Subconcious after all), and Wart took the whole thing over and cursed Mario to endless sleep (or something, he's apparently been cursed but they don't specify what the curse is). He's told all about this IN a dream, wakes up to find a staircase leading TO the world in his dream, and considering that curse comment, seems he did a "fake wake". His friends are with him, so they're caught in the dream curse too. Then when he saves Subcon, he wakes up. I honestly don't get why that upsets people. They knew it was coming!
Anyway, yeah...
Anyway, yeah...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)