Super Paper Mario: How to Love When You're Going to Die

Super Paper Mario is about love, death, legacy, control, and sacrifice. It is an unusually ambitious story for a Mario game and, while not without flaws, produces a remarkably unique experience. What does it say about the contradictions of living when you have little control, or loving when you're going to die?

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Super Paper Mario: How to Love When You're Going to Die
Reconstructed # 11

Sources:
Club Nintendo poll quote (https://web.archive.org/web/201603091...)
Portland Leaf Day map (https://www.portland.gov/transportati...)
Portland Neighborhood Income Map (https://bestneighborhood.org/househol...)

All music from the OST of Super Paper Mario (feel free to ask if you'd like to know a particular song)

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The End of an Era - A Super Paper Mario Retrospective by @ZillennialRosa    • The End of an Era - A Super Paper Mar...  
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the unusual legacy of super paper mario by @madsengland    • the unusual legacy of super paper mario  
Modern Paper Mario is Insulting by @doggifu    • Modern Paper Mario is Insulting  
Paper Luigi's Bizarre Adventure by @GCVazquez    • Paper Luigi's Bizarre Adventure  

00:00 - Intro
02:55 - Part 1: Prognostication
20:19 - Part 2: Mr. L
30:31 - Part 3: Cragnons, Pixls, and People as Tools
39:29 - Part 4: The Dying Part
49:09 - Part 5: Blumiere & Timpani
58:44 - Part 6: What's Left
1:02:44 - Outro

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