Somewhere within the far reaches of YouTube, there is a Super Mario World/Game of Thrones mashup parody of GoT's opening credits, turning the land of Westeros into a Nintendo wonderland, and it is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
The animated video is a shot-for-shot 3D cartographic recreation, swapping out King's Landing and Winterfell for Yoshi's Island and the Donut Plains, all to the tune of a synthesized, Mario-esque GoT theme song.
Connecticut-based designer Steven Jase and composer Paul LeBlanc teamed up to create the mock main title sequence last winter, around the time GoT promos for season 5 were released. "There was just an 'ah-ha!' moment," Jase told Tech Times via e-mail. "I am a fan of classic video games and Game of Thrones, and thought I could maybe come up with something cool in my free time."
The things we do for love, as Jaime Lannister would say.
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