Recent content by Larry Koopaling

My only quibble is the Bubble power-up which is identical to Blue Baby Yoshi, but I'll wait to see how they'll integrate it in the game.

Agreed. The bosses of the first NSMB game get a lot of praise but I feel they get very overrated simply for not being Koopalings: sure some of them are great in terms of design (the bosses of worlds 2 and 7 in particular) but others are unremarkable (one is just a large Goomba) and they're all...

Is the complaint that Koopalings are everywhere still legit though? Honestly they haven't been around for quite a while at this point. They've been left out of all the last mainline games from 3D World onward, and were introduced only as a late update in SMM2. Not even spin-offs seem to bother...

My only issue with that Daisy art is how Shy Guys and Ninjis are depicted as her minions.

A group of Yoshis appeared in a trailer.

There are people who dislike it, but that mainly stems from the fact it is often seen in conjunction with the later, 'repetitive' entries. I believe NSMBW is the least derivative NSMB game in the series if compared to its successors (new soundtrack, three new power-ups, the Koopalings, which at...

I loved Galaxy 2 but it admittedly made some really weird design choices. Also, as for unpopular opinions, I think NSMB2 has a level design on par, if not better than NSMBW.

I love Mario Party 9 and it might in fact be my favourite, I understand why it's unpopular but I think it's incredibly funny and enjoyable. Though I have a soft spot for Mario Party DS too.

That's certainly true. But that said, it seems to me that nowadays it's still usually preferred a larger cast of recurring character (and fewer one-off characters), whereas it formerly was the opposite, with a smaller recurring cast and more one-off characters. There are exceptions, of course...

I believe they're trying to keep their cast as small and recognisable as possible nowadays. For marketing, I suppose.

The fact Puzzle Plank Galaxy music never returned in any capacy is a crime.

Some characters are indeed straight up conceived as one-off members of the cast. Others, however, albeit conceived and promoted as fixed members of the Mario family, were later replaced by better designs/characters. Koopa Kids and Donkey Kong Jr. are two examples that come to my mind (and some...

That is really weird. Are Kleptoads the only frog-like things in Mario universe? Or at least the most recognizable? Not counting the actual frogs in Odyssey.

Koopa Kids have seemingly been erased from Mario history altogether. Bowser Jr. certainly made them quite redundant. Also shoutout to the Kleptoad, appearing on a single planet in Super Mario Galaxy 2.

I always understood Mario Sunshine's King Boo as not the real thing, but rather a 'fake' King Boo made out goop - which goes to explain his unusual appearance, and why this design was so unique. Sunshine design could be used as an alt for Mario Kart Tour though.