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RZXgamer
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2004-12-31 03:35:49 pm
Why is the morph ball called the 'Maru Mari' in the first Metroid?
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Izo
2004-12-31 03:39:59 pm
soaking through
It's Japanese.  Nate described it, but I can't be arsed to find the quote.  It went something like "to be processed into becoming round."
RZXgamer
(user is banned)
2004-12-31 03:41:03 pm
Hmm, I knew it was something in Japanese...
GreenMamba
2004-12-31 04:30:51 pm
What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.
Same deal with the Varia suit, really.  Varia is the mistranslation of "Barrier."  So, really, it's the Barrier Suit.  But everyone loved the name Varia, so the mistranslated name stuck.  Maru Mari, did not.
arkarian
2004-12-31 04:33:51 pm
red chamber dream
I knew about the Maru Mari, but not about the Varia/Barrier thing. Cool.
mangadood
2004-12-31 06:50:06 pm
Too many fangirls to count
Quote from Nate:
It can't be translated. The only way to translate it would be in another language which you wouldn't understand anyways.
It's something like that. I don't know though.
Snytbaggen
2005-01-01 03:38:32 am
Quote from GreenMamba:
Same deal with the Varia suit, really.  Varia is the mistranslation of "Barrier."  So, really, it's the Barrier Suit.  But everyone loved the name Varia, so the mistranslated name stuck.  Maru Mari, did not.


I always thought that it stood for "Variation Suit" or something like that...  Rolling Eyes
Eruditious
2005-01-01 03:50:33 am
I think some serious drugs were involved for someone to say:

"Hey! Lets make a game in space with a female bounty hunter in a cool suit who has to fight space pirates that look like bugs... Hold on!  Something else just came to me... her suit can get upgrades by picking up items... and one of the upgrades can be the ability to roll into a ball... Roll into a ball!  Can you imagine that?  And then we will have strange alien parasite jellyfish with tusks that suck the life out of you... literally!  And at the end of this she will have to fight a brain... no... a HUGE brain!  MUAHAHAHAHAHA! It's brilliant!"

Yeah... that's how it all happened.
Laney
(user is banned)
2005-01-01 07:11:14 am
Magnificant  Shocked

Hm, why use drugs? If you are screwed up in your head like me something like this comes without drugs.
When we come to this subject of developing, my question is:
Who and why did one made this absolutely terrifying and evil appearing Ing-Skytemple-Holder? These flying things which one can only be attacked with the Dark Visor.
But this is the wrong forums so...
Mr. Aran
2005-01-01 12:50:23 pm
everybody knows it's true
Quote from Eruditious:
I think some serious drugs were involved for someone to say:

"Hey! Lets make a game in space with a female bounty hunter in a cool suit who has to fight space pirates that look like bugs... Hold on!  Something else just came to me... her suit can get upgrades by picking up items... and one of the upgrades can be the ability to roll into a ball... Roll into a ball!  Can you imagine that?  And then we will have strange alien parasite jellyfish with tusks that suck the life out of you... literally!  And at the end of this she will have to fight a brain... no... a HUGE brain!  MUAHAHAHAHAHA! It's brilliant!"

Yeah... that's how it all happened.


It sounds druggish if you say it in that mood
Shockna
2005-01-02 10:13:44 pm
mari mari means, "to be morphen into a ball"