At the weekend we brought you Nintendo of America's latest example of marketing for Luigi, with it's Parkour mockumentary in honour of "L-Man". Freerunning fun is naturally pretty popular on YouTube, and the relatively well-known Christian Russell and Ronnie Shalvis have starred in an extravaganza while dressed up as the Mario Bros.
There's an impressive array of moves, and nice touches to commemorate some of the most recent titles featuring the mascots. Expect to see blocks, fireballs, coins and the occasional enemy cameo, as both stuntmen also face that awkward challenge — keeping a hat on while doing a flip.
Comments about hats aside, this is pretty entertaining stuff, so check it out below.
[source kotaku.com]
Comments 26
Now, THAT was amazing!
Why do I keep focusing on their hats falling off at certain points?
That's fantastic! Not only are the free runners extremely skilled, but whoever's behind the camera knows what they're doing too.
Absolutely awesome!
Now that was a lot of fun to watch. The special effects complimented the stunts so nicely. The main theme remixes playing in chronological order as the video progressed was an excellent touch, too.
I enjoyed this more than the NOA video. I find it pretty cool and I'm glad they made it. Also, HATS GALORE!
Very nice
It would be awesome if they made a Mario game in this style... just think about it: realistic-looking Mario in a realistic-looking place, with ? blocks and coins and things like that thrown around... And give Mario some sweet parkour moves... it would be awesome, and take good advantage of the Wii U's graphics capabilities!
@SanderEvers I should have elaborated in my original comment, but I meant it as a spinoff game.
y'know if they have enough budget for cheesy special effects, how don't they have enough for a roll of duct tape to keep their hats on their heads
cool but that is not parkour.
when you do unnessecary backflips and stuff like that it is freerunning. not parkour.
Nice, that was fun to watch.
@6ch6ris6
That and Luigi ALWAYS had a HARD time climbing the walls...
This makes me want to go do parkour
@6ch6ris6 good call man, wouldn't expect anyone on this site to know that =)
I have two passions, parkour and Nintendo. As you can imagine I'm absolutely over the moon with all these virals!!!
Excuse me while I mutter profane utterances.
Great mash-up. High quality all around and entertaining.
I cry everytime ;c. Other than that it was really great to watch 9/10!
This was good. I like how they mixed the music of the most of the main series in this video.
There were so many hats flying, you'd think it was a graduation! But great video with great editing and great execution.
@Marakuto lol yeah same here. xD
Wow, that is amazing! I'd love to be able to do those things too, but I think I'm pretty old now to even try XD. And yeah, they are always dropping their hats, but it's normal, doing so many somersaults! But must be said that it would be outstanding if they were able to recover their hats in the air and put them on again when landing XD
Way better than the official one
yes, it's almost sad that this is SO much better than the official one. Buy this one, Nintendo, this is how to make a 'viral' video. It still has to be shot well; this one is awesome.
That was thoroughly entertaining!
Pretty cool!!
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