hallelujah – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Sun, 29 Oct 2023 04:28:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png hallelujah – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 Sundry Sunday: Elegy for Waluigi https://setsideb.com/sundry-sunday-elegy-for-waluigi/ Sun, 12 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=3799 Continue reading "Sundry Sunday: Elegy for Waluigi"]]> Let’s explore further the Youtube archives of Matthew Taranto, a.k.a. BitFinity, a.k.a. the Brawl in the Family guy. Last time we met Eario, Janitor of the Mushroom Kingdom. Now we meet his supposed son Waluigi, who Nintendo themselves have never quite known what to do with, and sort of the breakout character of BitF.

Waluigi has long been excluded from the Smash Bros. games as a playable character, at beast appearing as an assist trophy. This video is his lament at his perpetual status as outsider, set to Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, which scans precisely with “Waluigi”:

In a way though, this video is an echo of an earlier song, a closer tribute to Hallelujah featuring Waluigi, which has sadly seems to have been taken off of Youtube, but lives on in a number of imitators that are easily searchable.

There’s quite a few other Waluigi videos, lying around Youtube like broken dreams. We’ll get to those in due time.

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