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So, as it turns out, I was maybe wrong on the reasoning behind why this feat is a thing. Apparently, in this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment in between the intro cutscene and gameplay, we actually see the False Millennium Star
create a hole!
But did he make what was in it? That's the important part. If he punched down the Castle Wall, and within it was a whole galaxy, would we assume he made that too?
We need to know if he made what was in it, not just the entryway.
To retread old ground, this is
the same hole that they use star lifts (which he also created) to get to other locations with, and of course
the same hole you fight him in. Since this hole contains that starry area consistently, with the destination being the only thing that changes, it’s probably safe to say this is the hole’s interior, so what we see him create on-screen (as in it sure wasn’t there before he did that). Granted, I’m aware that if we saw him create something and loads of stars started appearing, that would be way more convincing than just seeing him bash into the floor and leave what’s basically a crater, but… perhaps this has some more merit to it? (I’m really out here arguing “
Multi-Solar System level (Made a hole in the ground)”...)
Unfortunately, none of this is relevant. At best it'd be "possibly", and a very generous one at that. We still in the issue of we're
assuming he did, not knowing if he actually did.
Like all this is true, it just doesn't tell us it was there before, or if he himself created it, just that he made the hole to get there.
As for the idea that they’re real stars, I guess going off the game alone, the fact that a battle within this area is referred to as Stardust Battle, with a full-on star aesthetic to it, helps the cause, but I appreciate that’s kind of vague.
That's actually the worst possible way to go about it, because said battle has Mario yeeting tiny 0.5m stars at him, the actual battle implies they ain't all that big.
Real stars do appear in the game with a similar appearance, however, so I think there is merit to the idea that these were intended to be stars.
Hmm, mixed bag honestly. The hole has the lil white stars, in conjunction with big ass yellow cartoon stars (something evidently not an actual star as shown in the uni cutscene). The lil white stars seem the same as the stars in the uni cutscene,
but in the fight white stars fall like comets and ya throw them at him.
There's a lot of evidence that they're not real either. I'm not saying they aren't btw, it's just vague and ultimately doesn't matter, we need to know he created that space first. From there, we need to figure out what the space even is. If we 100% know he made it, I'd be willing to handwave all the fuckys with how stars are depicted.
For any direct statements, I have noticed there’s
a Prima Guide and a Shogakukan Guide for Mario Party 3 (both publishers do tend to give extra lore in their guides), but those don’t seem to be available online, nor do I own either…
Prima is probably a bust given it's an older prima guide and they kinda just do like, whatever the **** they want, legit would prefer Nintendo Power given at east that gets fact checked and they usually get handed shit from the VAULT. The latter would be nice tho and might be usable if ya can find it,
idk what that is tho, I'm assuming it's like Nintendo Dream?
To not entirely abandon the prior the previous arguments though, I’ll go over some stuff you said:
Whilst sure, this confirms FMS has teleportation powers, I don’t think it necessarily contradicts the idea he could have created the world. You can create a world and then teleport to it to access it. Sure, I guess at this point whether he made the world or not doesn’t matter as much due to the new argument I’ve come across, but I thought it helps to consider that.
This is true, he could have both.
The issue is that since we know he has teleportation powers, that becomes the default assumption given we know he has that, but we don't know if he can like, make whole ass nebulae without a statement.
This, still holds true btw, especially if the lands they go to are pre-existing without hard evidence he conjured them.
As for it taking place in a toy box, I don’t see the contention here when it comes to the Mario series, which has explored crazy sorts of concepts like this. Big Boo’s Haunt is a world accessed
through a cage (what do you mean
it’s a carousel?) in Super Mario 64 prior to Mario Party 3 (and I don’t think the metal bars indicate it’s a shrunk down world in a cage considering
they only go so high),
Big Boo's haunt is 100% meant to be a shrunk-down world, and even if it wasn't, it'd still be tiny, as we see Mario himself actively shrink in real-time, down to a minuscule size (ike a few mm), ie, while in Big Boo's Haunt, Mario himself is but a few mm tall, as we see him literally get that small while entering while still in the normal world.
and later games also explore a similar concept (And so that that’s not just an empty claim, let’s say
the bottle in Noki Bay or the Purple Mystery Boxes in
3D Land and
3D World, which can
then have entire night skies in them, with
3D Land’s manual section 5-8 addressing you are inside them, alongside
the animation just
showing you that, considering you exit it after).
The Noki Bay bottle is just ******* weird ngl, but he shrinks there too so either way.
The 3D game boxes, sure (Maybe? It could be teleportation given you enter boxes inside said boxes, yet exit the initial one instead of the box they just entered?).
But, none of this matters, we're talking about the Millennium Star, and even if Mario has cases to support your side, the opposite is also true.
Which kinda just leaves us at "yeah idk, might be, might not".
I don’t think this world pre-existed, either, since it just seems to be
a chest to store a
board game and a dice.
Mario and DK literally whip out a sign and dice bigger than said box.
Having a whole world in there,
complete with an accessible/explorable castle, sounds kind of counterintuitive and would get in the way of things you’d want to store in it…
Why not? Extra space?
In some of your examples above, you've shown that minuscule locations, such as a uh, whatever the **** Big Boo's haunt is (is it actually not a cage? that's messed up and pisses me off), can shrink and store thing or have wacky TARDIS logic, and we see plain as day that Mario and DK retrieve objects from it, that physically can not fit within said box otherwise.
Could be a bag of holding trope, but, I'm confident in saying the dice and game bigger than the box, fitting in the box, ain't a good look for it being just a normal 0.3x0.3m box that was magic'd into being wacky. Especially when stuff like this ain't new, gets shown again like Noki Bay Bottle, and even in Mario Party like 4 (there's a few minigames where they randomly get sucked into boxes and have to fight for their life).
Like I'm not saying it's impossible, atm tho, we have a box that can fit stuff bigger than it, in a verse filled wit items and boxes that can contain suff bigger than it, have whole landscapes inside, can shrink stuff to store, and everything inbetween.
It does seem that board game is what the cast wanted to play, rather than a full on walkable boards that Mario Party 1 and 2 established as the norm, for some reason,
with them even seeming pretty lost and confused on being teleported inside, furthering the idea that this wasn’t how the box usually is,
I mean, see above, but they'd be confused either way given, well they didn't do anything to enter it even if it was like that?
or at least they weren’t planning on hopping in, at which point, why would the chest have a whole world in it if that wasn’t their intention? So, sure, they don’t explicitly say he created it, but it was context that led me to this conclusion (show don’t tell narrative, I guess).
Ngl dog, you've kinda convinced me that it acting like it does, is 100% feasible without him.
This is what we know.
1. He made a hole.
And against.
1. This hole leads to pre-existing worlds.
2. He has Teleportation, which would explain the former, but also cast doubt on the feat as a whole.
3. Mario has established the concept of pocket storage-like mediums, and objects that run on "bigger within than they appear", including in Mario 64.
4. Mario, and even the Party line of games, have random ass boxes that can shrink stuff down, be entered, or have TARDIS logic, multiple minigames happening within such things, all unrelated to this lad.
5. They can enter such things, when doing so, they shrink down, as seen with Big Boo's haunt and Noki Bay Bottle.
6. The stars in question, are vague, with the battle even focusing on throwing tiny 0.5m stars at him as they fall from the sky, and said background, while having white dots that resemble stars, it's also true said white dots could be the very stars you use in battle, coupled with brighter cartoon stars, this locale itself is a tad vague (tho if proven he made it I'm not gonna be a stickler about this).
Yeah, I was just saying this to show he had control over this world enough to even bring things to life in it, but it’s maybe a bit of a weird point.
That's just Life Manip/RW.
I feel like you misunderstood what I was saying here, but I see what you were trying to say. Also tehepero on the extrapolation, I was trying to figure out a way to explain something.
Hopefully this response has some better arguments than last time, but if not, I at least gave it a go, I suppose, considering how little context I had to go off of from the initial post here! And sorry for the wait!
It does, but, probably not what you were aiming for.
I do appreciate actual scans and citations, holy **** do I wish more dudes did that, you're probably one of the most pleasing dudes I've talked with in awhile. Unfortnately, I'm not sold on this, and while not intentional, a lot of your evidence has had the opposite effect.
I say all this, but really, just hand a statement saying he made it, or even just "made the world inside the box", or something akin to that, and I'd say it's fine. Might be best to check the guides, if they have extra lore. Atm, I'm just seeing a very, very, generous "possibly".
And I'm well aware ya'll want to segue this into an upgrade, but if this ends up as just "possibly", it ain't gonna fly as support for an upgrade given the feat itself is unconfirmed and vague.