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So, recently I saw some really crazy claims about dreams in Mario and what it meant for character strenght, so I decided to look into the size of Subcon from Super Mario Bros 2, or "Doki Doki Panic: Mario edition", as some may call it. Back then, Nintendo made some fun game manuals full of information, so I thought that would be a good place to look. I noticed Mouser had a particularly interesting description in the Japanese manual.
As you can see, I translated the relevant parts of it (the bit highlighted in green is just used to describe Mouser), and it essentially states that he destroys, demolishes, breaks, etc, dreams, good dreams to be precise (as opposed to nightmares, which the first two kanji spell at the beginning of the sentence). I also gave sources to my translations, because... sources are good. It should also be noted that this was translated in the same way for the English manual .
Why would destroying dreams matter? Well, when you look at the profile for those affiliated with the Dream Stone (an artifact from the same franchise) on this wiki, it reads "The Dream Stone is composed of several dreams and each dream is an entire world of it's own", and then on Dimentio's profile, it mentions "the Dream Depot, where the dreams of the citizens are turning into entire universes", you start to think that destroying dreams could be a big thing. Whilst I personally disagree with Subcon itself being universe-sized, this doesn't really make a mention of Subcon, instead just dreams, so yeah, it could be somthing. Some may argue flowery language, but... for it to be continued on into the English version...
Well, anyway, just thought I'd post this here to see what everyone thought. My threads aren't too popular, but worth a shot all the same.
tl;dr: Mouser stated to destroy/demolish/break dreams in JPN manual for SMB2, English manual agrees, interesting in light of "The Dream Stone is composed of several dreams and each dream is an entire world of it's own" and "the Dream Depot, where the dreams of the citizens are turning into entire universes", which are quotes form this very wiki.
As you can see, I translated the relevant parts of it (the bit highlighted in green is just used to describe Mouser), and it essentially states that he destroys, demolishes, breaks, etc, dreams, good dreams to be precise (as opposed to nightmares, which the first two kanji spell at the beginning of the sentence). I also gave sources to my translations, because... sources are good. It should also be noted that this was translated in the same way for the English manual .
Why would destroying dreams matter? Well, when you look at the profile for those affiliated with the Dream Stone (an artifact from the same franchise) on this wiki, it reads "The Dream Stone is composed of several dreams and each dream is an entire world of it's own", and then on Dimentio's profile, it mentions "the Dream Depot, where the dreams of the citizens are turning into entire universes", you start to think that destroying dreams could be a big thing. Whilst I personally disagree with Subcon itself being universe-sized, this doesn't really make a mention of Subcon, instead just dreams, so yeah, it could be somthing. Some may argue flowery language, but... for it to be continued on into the English version...
Well, anyway, just thought I'd post this here to see what everyone thought. My threads aren't too popular, but worth a shot all the same.
tl;dr: Mouser stated to destroy/demolish/break dreams in JPN manual for SMB2, English manual agrees, interesting in light of "The Dream Stone is composed of several dreams and each dream is an entire world of it's own" and "the Dream Depot, where the dreams of the citizens are turning into entire universes", which are quotes form this very wiki.
