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I picked Golf. I think I like the more laid back approach to the golf series, where instead of it being all action all the time, you are hitting the golf ball. The games are overall quite solid so I think the series still has potential to be better, unlike Dr. Mario (not a sports game) which...

Manual Mates For December 2023's issue, I decided to look at what I notice was an interesting thing with manuals. The decision to have characters exclusively appear there. Noticeably, Nurse Peach only appears in the manual for Dr. Mario, meaning that if you only look at the video game, Dr...

Personally speaking, this image reminded me of when I was a child, I imagined that the computer games from our PC would come out and have a party when I am not looking the room. It's partly why I was afraid of sleeping in the computer room, because of how the characters might come out of the PC...

You know, the mention of Squawks as a companion sort of makes sense now that you brought it up. Given how relatively grounded Donkey Kong as a series is (e.g.: floating platforms are not the norm), Squawks being a small bird makes sense for what the Donkey Kong series is about. It's this trend...

The way you use "mascot" is very different on how I envision what a mascot character is. So while you describe a mascot as a companion character to the hero, in my mind a mascot character is a recognisable character used to sell the games, which is Mario in many cases since he's the titular...

The provocative title aside, I think it speaks of how many people enjoyed the series when this announcement causes a lot of people to sing its praises. When this series was still getting new games, there was a level of discontent of its existence, like how Mario and Sonic are in a crossover...

Interesting choices from a recent Super Mario platformer! But what's up with Anglefish being one of your suggestions? If I may add, I think what's particularly interesting is the amount of Mario enemies that don't fit the scope of being playable. So for example, in Super Mario Odyssey, a lot of...

Yeah, I think that the Super Mario Bros. 1 enemies are worth mining for some playable appearances, as a means to get them out of the way. They've made Goomba a novel playable character (because they have no arms), so maybe those iconic enemies have a chance? I do have a lot of omissions from my...

I've noticed recently that, for the Mario series, it's rare it is to have a playable enemy beyond Super Mario World. I think if we compare to the playable enemies we got in Super Mario games after Super Mario World, the number easily gets dwarfed by the amount of enemies in the first four Super...

I was thinking about Hudson Soft's output the other day, and I thought it was interesting how their biggest success is Mario Party. Yes, they certainly developed and/or published a lot of beloved games like Bomberman and Adventure Island, and Bomberman is a classic series that gets a lot of...

Mario's Malapropisms Transcript: November 2023's issue is about something I've not done for some time, which is doing a single panel. It's also an idea I had after finding out how some people misheard "That's-a so nice" as various phrases, which despite coming from Mario Kart: Double Dash...

Something I've noticed about the roster is how much they stuck with the cast from earlier games. Do you notice how of Bowser's Minions, they all are introduced in the first four Super Mario games, the first, second (aka USA one), third, and fourth (aka World)? Pom Pom is pretty much the only one...

Source: https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/en/history/index.html I was thinking about the Mario Portal's series tab the other day. Some points: The series revealed tends to be based on when new released were released on the Nintendo Switch. So for example Mario Golf: Super Rush was...

Impasse As you are no doubt aware of by now, most cartoons as of late has a bonus panel. It started from this cartoon where I wanted to do a bonus panel because I liked the idea certain comics are doing, such as Fowl Language. I figured that it would spice up the comic with an extra bit of...

Whoa! Somehow that silly (as in, funny) comedic piece I drew a couple of days shot of to become the #4 most upvoted post on the Paper Mario sub-reddit! This is very unexpected because I never gotten posts that got thousands of votes (the most was 1.1k before this). And it's also my first post on...

I agree that while Mario Party 9 might be treated harshly by fans of the series, I still admired the NDcube entries of Mario Party because I feel like they might have a reason to try something new, like how the older Mario Party games got too many games in a short time so they probably wanted to...

With a new Mario & Luigi game, I wonder if this game will have the following that previous games are wont to do: Have a segment of solo Luigi whose role is to rescue a completely unavailable Mario Bowser being the final boss I think the second point is only a matter of time because the series...

It's great to see a remake for older consoles for the Switch. But it somehow feels like they have this in the back burner for a while for when they need a new game to fill the gap. Still though, at least Donkey Kong Country Returns is available yet again. I think that compared to Luigi's...

I hoped that one day the Mario Party series would take a page from Mario Kart where in order to keep up demand for more levels, they would instead reuse older content to beef it up. In this case, it's great that they are reviving old Mario Party boards to increase the board count, and I am here...

It's the latest Super Mario Party game for the Nintendo Switch! Thank you for reading.

Sadly Mario Party is still not acknowledged in the Super Mario platformers. In any case, I wonder if the tune for Super Mario Run being a main Super Mario platformer changed when those characters show up here, since some assume that since this is a mobile game, it doesn't count. Thank you for...

Maybe in this case, Luigi could be "greenie mario scaredycat" or something like that. Or how about Peach, who yells Mario's name, so she could be "peachy MaAaaAriOooOo princess". So if Mario is "funny wahoo man", then Luigi would be "funny wahee man", Wario would be "funny wawahoo man", and...

On the internet, Mario is among other things, known for being a "funny wahoo man" or "bing bing wahoo". I cannot tell if either of these are affectionate especially based on where the latter term came from. Now I'm wonder about the other characters. For example, someone on a chat calls Yoshi...

Blue Shell, like the one in New Super Mario Bros. Whatever they did in Super Mario 3D World isn't the same since it relies on Koopa Troopas to exist to use it and you can't use it outside that. Thank you for reading.

When it comes to Mario Party, I know there are a lot of choices for enemies even though the topic never suggested them. But I think it would be nice to see some friendly guys in the playable spot this time. Maybe like I guess a Shiverian and a Tostarenian? They would normally be relegated to...

I like how the topic creator's post can be read as the creator knowing that Wario is the ugliest, but because he's featured, the topic creator is not willing to outright say it. Thank you for reading.

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...

I am not interested in Princess Peach's Showtime, which is option 6. It basically boils down to being indifferent about the character, which is something I felt about Luigi (which is why I am similarly indifferent to Luigi's Mansion games too). The central draw of the game is sound, where Peach...

Something I don't understand is why Mario(species) is collapsed into the Characters section. I like it when it was originally a prominent section, as otherwise I wouldn't have known about it. When it gets collapsed into a general section, it's not less visible when it's clumped with a long list...

I don't know which one is truly the worst, but the ones that involve your favourite characters sting a lot more compared to the characters you aren't as fond of. Perhaps relatedly, the characters you dislike the most is likely met with schadenfreude in that you can easily point to the worst...

Has Wario ever used the two features on his biker helmet? They come with goggles and head straps, but both of them looks too small for him. The goggles seem to be smaller than his eyes, and the head straps don't seem to go around his head. They always seem decorative to me, but maybe that's...