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1Upsmanship - Braid

1Upsmanship

CHAPTER

The Brilliance of Mario Odyssey

The game is scripted in such a way that you watch the basic Mario Bowser trope of some big lugs stealing your princess and running away. Then when you play that dialogue in reverse, it reads as if she consensually left you for someone else. The books that you read at the end suggested that actually this woman herself has a metaphor for a different thing. And that different thing is an atomic bomb.

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