Mario: This time he's rated M for murder

by Candace Savino { Nov 14th 2007 at 9:45AM }

We can't decide whether this X-Play short is funny or disturbing. Satire is all well and good, but when it's turns someone that we love even more than the Canadian Prime Minister into a serial killer, it's just a little hard to swallow.

Anyone else having nightmares tonight?

Tags: Horror, Mario, Spoof, X-Play

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Craig @ Nov 14th 2007 10:38AM

I find it both funny and disturbing that X-Play puts more time into their goofy little shorts (pun) than actually reviewing games

raindog @ Nov 14th 2007 10:55AM

Nicely timed, considering most people who preordered Galaxy from Gamestop have gotten a voicemail telling us it was rated Mature and we had to be 17 to pick it up.

Pookieman @ Nov 14th 2007 10:56AM

LOL Nice!

Cyan09 @ Nov 14th 2007 11:31AM

Looks much better than Mario's first live action movie!

SpexFox @ Nov 14th 2007 11:40AM

To Raindog:

I received that message too. I think there are just so many m-rated games out these days they keep it as part of the message by default.

Also, Gamestop is already posting signs about trading in the game, not unlike they pressed with Zelda TP, only much sooner X.X

L @ Nov 14th 2007 12:35PM

If you're too pussy to decide, then let me do it for you: It's lame.

FX-1 @ Nov 14th 2007 3:25PM

It came from G4, it sucks, get over it. I'm sick of that station, they're killing themselves over there. On top of that, X-Play has to be the worst of their pitiful line of programs. Cheat is probably the only cool thing still on there save scattered episodes of Star Trek and Heroes (which they are a week behind on so it hardly matters).

Jonathan Tran @ Nov 14th 2007 7:37PM

It was funny except at the end a pirhanna plant shoudla got him

Ryan @ Nov 15th 2007 12:47AM

Hehe, yeah I got the "M for Mature" call from GameStop for my Mario Galaxy preorder as well. I thought "hmm, they really are cutting off a large target audience with this rating here. I guess since Nintendo is minting its own money now they don't really need to worry about that." Then I thought how sweet an M-rated Mario game might actually be...