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This structure seems kind of complex for Super Mario. Like, Super Mario RPG only has five characters. I'm also self imposing additional rules of "No Bowser team up, No WarioWare" We're also leaving Luigi off this team: without movement mechanics Luigi mostly ends up being Mario. Mario, can't...

The Treehouse stream showed them go through a load zone, then return to the main map with the destruction done in the main map still being saved. This is the kind of thing that sells me on extra processing power. I could see Diddy in co-op being unable to break things but using the Barrel Jet...

If not Diddy Kong, then who's P2 for co-op? I mean, this is assuming there is co-op, but that tends to be a given for Nintendo platformers. Some other Nintendo Direct I suppose? My big concern is how the camera's going to look when we're underground and digging forward. There seems to be stuff...

As The Cutting Room Floor puts it: "For a stout, moustachioed pipe-fitter, Mario's defined more than his fair share of genres over the past couple of decades." I think there has to be at least five picks that should qualify. Here's what I came up with. Super Mario Bros., the platformer that...

Daisy traits: Flowers Athletic Nominal royalty I think one could concoct a plot out of the royalty bit and then use flowers in a gameplay capacity. I'm getting "Princess is a title not a duty so she explores" + "manage flower resources". It's Hey Pikmin 2.

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...