The Final Chapter of Mario Brothers Flash Series

It’s finally out! Posted both on my old blog and recently, it turns out it’s finally released. To give you an idea of how long it’s been, chapter 4 was released on 4/27/2004. Chapter 5 was released on 6/30/2006. Looking at my blog entry, I had actually checked for this in mid-April and think I finally gave up on the final chapter.

You can visit Alexander Leon’s Official Mario Brothers Flash series website and watch the 5th chapter there. It’s also mirrored on Newgrounds.

Though this episode was great and the ending being completely unexpected (unless you rewatch the beginning of Chapter 1), I think I still liked Chapter 2 the most. It’s the same reasoning I like The Two Towers better than The Return of the King. Having a big pack of enemy charge into a fortress is always awesome. The soundtrack on that chapter was also better.

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So as I mentioned, the ending was completely unexpected (unless you remember the beginning of chapter 1). It wasn’t bad, just unexpected. In fact it felt fresh that it didn’t follow the good guys always win and you knew he had planned this all out since the beginning (refer back to beginning of chapter 1 if you don’t remember).

When Mario remembered about the secret garden, I had thought he’d find the star for invincibility, but the flower?!?! Guess I just don’t see how powerful the flower is. And why did he just take one? He could’ve used one and kept another as spare.

When the princess dies, I couldn’t see why she didn’t say anything. She just sort of reached out her hand. I was expecting either “Save me Mario.” or “Mario, you need to live, for those of us who have died.” BUt nope, just slowly sink into the lava.