Woah woah now, I think you may be over-reacting just a little bit. 

I agree the message is now redundant. They should have made this back in 2008 when Wii Music was shown, or, even better, during the days of the late GC, where the only new Mario game was the poor, kiddy Super Mario Sunshine, Wind waker was released, and many had doubts that Twilight Princess would ever be released. This gen we've had 2 3D mario games, Mario Kart, 2D mario, Mario Party, 2 Mario Sports games (with another to come), all highly critically acclaimed. Hardly poor when you think about it!

Then there's Metroid, Zelda, Donkey Kong...but I won't get into that

However, criticising the video for what it is isn't truly fair. Is it outdated? Yes. Is it cliched? Perhaps. And the message is most certainly wrong. However, I personally felt that, like many others here, the video was atmospheric and was of good quality for a one-man team. You can't expect the big-budget cinema from 7 minutes of a you-tube clip made by one man. If you forget about the message it's trying to bring out, then you could quite easily say that it was scary to see Mario in this dystopian light. 

More than anything, I think the key thing is to calm down. We'll never know when this was made. We'll never know if it's supposed to be a joke, or an ironic treatment of Nintendo's IPs being over-used (hence why Mario looks old and battered? Who knows...), because there's no description. The maker could be the biggest Nintendo fan ever, and is trying to release this video to produce the reaction of mine and yours.

Yes, the message is wrong, outdated, but there's no denying that it provoked a reaction. Perhaps that's the most important thing  

Woah woah now, I think you may be over-reacting just a little bit. 

I agree the message is now redundant. They should have made this back in 2008 when Wii Music was shown, or, even better, during the days of the late GC, where the only new Mario game was the poor, kiddy Super Mario Sunshine, Wind waker was released, and many had doubts that Twilight Princess would ever be released. This gen we've had 2 3D mario games, Mario Kart, 2D mario, Mario Party, 2 Mario Sports games (with another to come), all highly critically acclaimed. Hardly poor when you think about it!

Then there's Metroid, Zelda, Donkey Kong...but I won't get into that

However, criticising the video for what it is isn't truly fair. Is it outdated? Yes. Is it cliched? Perhaps. And the message is most certainly wrong. However, I personally felt that, like many others here, the video was atmospheric and was of good quality for a one-man team. You can't expect the big-budget cinema from 7 minutes of a you-tube clip made by one man. If you forget about the message it's trying to bring out, then you could quite easily say that it was scary to see Mario in this dystopian light. 

More than anything, I think the key thing is to calm down. We'll never know when this was made. We'll never know if it's supposed to be a joke, or an ironic treatment of Nintendo's IPs being over-used (hence why Mario looks old and battered? Who knows...), because there's no description. The maker could be the biggest Nintendo fan ever, and is trying to release this video to produce the reaction of mine and yours.

Yes, the message is wrong, outdated, but there's no denying that it provoked a reaction. Perhaps that's the most important thing  

Sorry if I came off as snapping or something haha it was my brutally honest opinion of the video, I've seen one man teams do a lot more... with a lot more creativity...  I really didn't feel the moody bit some people seem to have unless you count the Silent Hill music... but like I said the best part of the video was the music and he didn't make that, honestly I get better moodiness from just popping in my Silent Hill sound track lol

Destructoid posted a news article the video for whatever reason and it's gotten a lot of hits since then.  I don't really see a point behind it other than a redundant message, I wouldn't want to be remembered for that haha