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A signature Salmancer overthinking question. I assume the Shroom requires it's content to be original when published, but can a writer later republish their older Shroom articles separately, like on a personal blog? If so, is there a duration where the article must be Shroom exclusive? On a...

I like the design. If you flash back to the Nintendo Direct introducing it, it notes that it's paired with making DK more comical like the original premise for the character. And it does precisely that through exaggerating the muscles and changing the eye style. In swapping the single ridge over...

The Sonic Racing franchise (I guess we can call it that now?) historically doesn't really pick items from the games its based on, with Team Sonic Racing being the exception for making every item a Wisp and this game splitting the difference between that philosophy and those of the prior games...

Really, is there such a thing as a kart racer that wants to reinvent the wheel on items? The big surprise to me is that there appears to be two different Super Stars on this roster, Monster Truck and Shield. I actually kind of like Dark Chao's concept as a means of preventing hoarding good...

Why does Rabbid Kong's tie read "DK"? He's "Rabbid Kong", initials "RK".

This is a less than great choice for a single option poll given the "I would like to see only some of these racers return." option is kind of meaningless. It could mean anywhere between 2 to 10 options, in any combination. If it has to only allow picking a single option, maybe it could have...

Planes were too complex and boats were somewhat more likely to have physics accidents. I might be able to handle planes now but losing races to physics shenanigans is only funny when it's infrequent. I did like transforming courses. While that's being downplayed a bit because of the whole "warp...

At last! Storm is back on consoles for the first time since Free Riders! It's a Babylon Rogunion! Awful, awful pun aside, I'm probably not up for this one. My memory of the All Stars Transformed demo is that I didn't like it. Then again, it has been over a decade since that game. (Also it was...

I have DKCR3D but I haven't bought Tropical Freeze and don't really have the most interest in more Donkey Kong. If I wanted more of Donkey Kong's brand of blisters I'd buy Tropical Freeze, which given old video game pricing is probably cheaper than DKCRHD is right now. The HD version would need...

Super Mario the series starts at Super Mario Bros. All prior games are backstory to Super Mario Bros. Ya know, like DK Vine's DKU. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is an outright Super Mario game, since you interact more or less entirely with Super Mario concepts in gameplay that is a direct pick...

I deliberately collected 33 Bonus Medals in the last round of Area 333 only to learn that the Area number and number of bonus medals are not on the screen at the same time. So I have nothing to show for the effort except for two screenshots that aren't entertaining even when looked at side by side.

Mario is the title character. Even if the cheat code for Luigi works from game start I'm playing initially as Mario. Even if Luigi has his brand of high jumps and sliding I'd still pick Mario, Luigi's the expert character for later. The thing with Mario in small groups is that as the "balanced"...