Recent content by winstein

I thought it's interesting that Super Mario Run and Mario Kart Tour both have a sort of mutual acknowledgement between the console games and their mobile offerings. Like for example, Mario Kart Tour offers courses in the wider Mario Kart series on consoles, and at the same time Mario Kart 8...

In terms of Mario dream teams, I personally would like to see one featuring Mario, Wario, and Waluigi. Is this an unpopular opinion? It most certainly is, because I don't think anybody would clamour for it (except me, as you can tell). Why do I like to see this? Partly, of the four plumber...

Even though Dr. Mario is relegated to either a digital-only release or a compilation part, there is still a surprising lack of suggestion for it, even as a digital title. Certain other puzzle games did get new releases in the mean time, like Puzzle Bobble Everybubble (of the Puzzle Bobble...

I wonder if the lack of a new Dr. Mario game suggestions is damning to the series' diminished popularity. It used to be a very high-selling series where its original NES and GB versions are the Top 10 best selling games on their respective consoles, but now it seems like Dr. Mario is best known...

What I like about the image above is the embracement of the tactile paper artstyle of the newer Paper Mario games. There might have been a loud opinion on the tactile-looking paper as blasphemy from classic games, but either way this is refreshing to see. Thank you for reading.

I once asked about if Mario actually stole the Princess Peach statue in the Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 article, because the context of the game (between manual and the ending) indicates that Mario isn't a thief. One person responded that he in fact did, even though the game's actions didn't...

It's interesting how despite Bowser being the villain, he's only really a villain for Mario. Yoshi only gets the baby version of him, while the others their own villains. It seems that even Yoshi isn't interested in Bowser himself. One "drawback" with this is that it doesn't afford Mario a...

One of the comic strip characters would be a dream come true (but not sure for other people. After all, comic strips is not a popular medium). - Popeye is one character I would like seeing, because of his historical ties with Nintendo. - Garfield is another character. Certainly that Nickelodeon...

I just noticed that the Mini Mario parts were changed in the remake. In the original, the Mini Marios' heads were not complete, so basically their head and cap form one unit, like below: What about the remake? You see the background there? The Mini Marios heads are complete, which means that...

I think that segregating characters to "mainline" and "spinoffs" would be too limiting, especially for a series that doesn't have a "canon" like Mario. It's part of why I am reticent on saying "mainline games", and would prefer to say Super Mario platformers because it is clear that this is what...

I find the "Oh you m-monkey, you sonuva-blariarato" (or something like that) the unfortunate exclusion, even if I understand its exclusion since they would basically admit that Mario is foulmouthed. Unfortunately the people who can hear "They're forty dollars!" can't interpret this line in a...

That is correct: technically Daisy is not in the same group as RPG characters, but there is a vibe by many people who thinks that she is a spinoff character because of how frequently she appears there. A bit similar to Wario to an extent: he's introduced in a Super Mario platformer but he's more...

The reasoning that there is no downside in adding the RPG characters and locations to the other games would be my similar feeling on how adding Daisy and Waluigi to other more "respected series" (Super Mario platformers, character-centered games like Wario or Yoshi, the Mario RPGs) have no...

Would you say that Toad being in this game makes it convenient to mod in Toadette (or Baby Luigi, I guess) if you got around to mod this game? Thank you for reading.

I like to think that Toad is probably the best choice for a second player compared to Luigi because of the inherent abilities in play. In this game, Mario has a limited jump despite some acrobatic options like the handstand. Luigi would probably be a high jumper and might break the level's...