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Actually, the shop was updated with new drivers, karts and gliders (that cost a lot more), plus the shop becomes really useful once you max out an item: at that point the item is replaced with level up tickets of the corresponding rarity, allowing you to level up whom or what you want, not just...

I personally prefer when they are treated as individual characters and they try to build on their own traits, like in this case: As you can see in recent material (and even in this animation above, not to talk about the Super Mario Maker 2 sprites), Lemmy doesn’t seem to usually have lazy...

You could also disable tap-to-drift and at that point you could tap and slide to steer. With that mode you need to rely on autodrifting to charge Mini-Turbo and you can’t charge an Ultra Mini-Turbo. Now thankfully you can have both modes in one which is great as I still use tap-to-jump as main...

CUCCIOLO It looks like they’ll give him the spotlight in a second moment, admittedly the return of Baby Wario was too much of a news not to overshadow the addition of Lemmy, so I’m happy with that choice - even a bit surprised, as I’m not even sure how much of a news you can make out of Lemmy...

Dolphin had to study hard as an assistant to become the doctor it is, the University of Mushroom Kingdom won’t give away the title to its frenemy for free. Meritocracy rules in the Mushroom Kingdom and no similar placement in the food chain is ever going to change that.

That is what was called inward drifting bike (now inside drifting, but both terms are incorrect, since they don’t drift to begin with). In theory, they wanted bikes that lean instead of drifting when you hold the drift button, in practice they coded them in a way that as soon as they land, they...

Two precisations: Paper Mario: Color Splash had unique battle rewards in the form of Hammer Scraps, they were indeed an EXP system (with numbered values, too, it wasn’t just aesthetics, as the more glittery the scraps were, the more EXP they gave). Its effect was increasing the maximum...

As spotted by SwampyGator before, these are emergency tours. It looks like the game development was severely impaired by COVID. Plus when people can’t go around the world featuring a world tour might be seen as bad taste as well, since it highlights how they are restrained from traveling.

GCN Dry Dry Desert was in Mario Kart 8 without antigravity, it’s definitely a good candidate, but it must be seen if we’ll have another wait like that of N64 Royal Raceway (funny, only after some time I realized its Japanese name is Peach Circuit, making it an amazing fit for the Peach Tour).

After 9 months of wait, here’s the second track from Mario Kart 8: N64 Royal Raceway!

It just occurred to me that my favorite Mario characters all are turtles with foot pads... and that includes Yoshi! Jokes aside, for me Yoshi’s dino-cute appearance has always been what I find more charming about him; in terms of personality I’m fond also of the tough looking Yoshis like Boshi...

Well, the M&S horses fit Amy Rose, if anything. Sonic games usually feature realistic looking animals, especially orcas and dolphins, so you can expect less cartoonish horses considering that half of the roster. Of course, when it’s only Mario involved, they can go with the Moo Moo like horses.

Since I loved using Toad in Mario Kart; Super Circuit, I find the new voice really grating (on purpose) but also really funny in cases like the kart blowing up in Mario Kart: Double Dash.

It’s the Expert Challenges, I thought they would have been something like “squish three opponents” or “use five Bob-ombs in a single race using a driver with extended tongue”, i.e. nearly impossible if you don’t have the right stuff (Cloud Glider and King Boo (Luigi’s Mansion)), instead they are...

Now that this picture was uploaded from CTTT website: I realize how I definitely want to see Wingo (nicely shown here looking at those gold coins) again, possibly in a cameo outside of CTTT. I find him both beautiful and unique!

Wolf O' Donnell Wait, he's named Leon here? Is he his cousin?

Two thoughts: this seems to be Japanese, since Bowser is drinking from the bottle of water (because it's water since it's blue, right?) this is a neat look at pre-Yoshi's Island Yoshi's four-fingered hand, yup, he was cute even before that game! (after all, it was a bit to be expected that egg...

I don’t even play the game, but this is too much a thing of beauty for it not to be posted here ASAP: The Dolphin finally graduated!

Looking at the fur and the ears, it’s more of a King Bong.

What I can say about MKW Funky Kong is that for him they resused DK's trick animations. A lot of characters in that game have shared trick animations, mind you, the most funny being perhaps Yoshi and Birdo since a lot of Birdo poses make little sense until you see the corresponding Yoshi poses...

Shoehorn Y'all shouting 'n' crappin' on the game because of the two in the foreground, but you know who is the real star

Well, he's around 1/22 of his original self: https://mkwrs.com/mkwii/

Considering how they did the same with the emblems in Mario Kart Tour, it looks like it’s their way to stress how these are variants of characters.

It did, it was merged a few hours ago.

Man, I don’t even play the game and yet am still eagerly waiting for Dr. Dolphin to be a thing.

I mean, race/freerunning along with their appearance doesn’t give much of a doubt about who they are, yet despite them being recognizable characters, they still treat them as just variants of Koopa Troopas, it’s one of those cases in which Nintendo isn’t big about the individuality of their...

The identical emblem, along with the name being character name (name of the variant), is Nintendo’s way of showing the character is a variant of another character. Similarly, colored variants of a species have the species’ emblem recolored, we see that with the Yoshis, Birdos, Builder Toad (who...

I'm sorry @Nastasia but I just couldn't avoid thinking about you when reading this...

My 3 favorite Koopalings? EZ I'm so glad Morton was the character around whom there was the whole turning point of the story of Bowser Jr.'s Journey, they got the memo that he was big and ugly, but also quite cute and so rather than playing on strength and aggressiveness they got with...

A link to a quick translation was posted before, basically it says the type of jump attack that it’s going to be performed, indicating that there will be the possibility of changing it as the game progresses

Much like with the low-fps animations, I guess it’s a callback to the original Paper Mario artstyle:

Well, if anything the battle system looks interesting, beside the return to the two moves (jumps and hammers):

3% chance of getting one of the spotlight items from the first pipe pull, and the pipe-exclusive items are way more than just the spotlights, the coin shop has only offered the “base set” (roughly half of what could be obtained in a pipe of the Tokyo Tour save for the Normal items that have...

There's only one way to be sure to get the spotlight you want from the pipe: getting 450 rubies. I too tried once to get Reindeer Yoshi and failed badly after like, 50-60 pulls. There can always be the case in which the item you want is in the last 10 pulls, it's the same probability as having...

R.O.B is actually the first crossover character of the main Mario Kart games: none of its games involved Mario. This is also the reason why it isn't currently likely to appear, as the other crossover content is missing as well in Mario Kart Tour (which is something I actually like, to be fully...

Now they are similar, up until the Wii era they were distinct, with Rocky Wrench featuring a shell and being more turtle-like. In Super Mario Maker, there is a nod to this different appearance in some styles.

Well, even “cheap” games like this one can still cost millions of dollars due to continuous development and maintenance costs (which rise as the game is kept alive day by day, by the way), and they come from the pockets of the shareholders. I don’t expect everyone of them to be happy in wasting...

Good catch! This also explains why the Boo and little bird friends are missing, they started consistently appearing in every month at the end of 2017.

I too have been playing quite a few mobile games as of late, and regularly play Mario Kart Tour. As in pretty much daily. I genuinely think that the points and combo system is one of the greatest additions to Mario Kart gameplay in recent times. It’s very satisfying to end up 1st with a Nonstop...

Ha, look where is the evilest enemy ever, Winky! After all, my friend always told me he was a Kremling in disguise...

I’d rather not have save data backup cost the price of a 3DS game every two years as well, thanks. I’m pretty sure a decent capacity USB drive that works well with the Wii U costs less than that.

It isn’t in the rewards of the Gold Pass of this tour, datamine revealed that it will be an exclusive of the next driver pack, much like Black Yoshi.

Well, emergency_secondTour added four brand new characters with distinct trick animations and two new course sets (SNES Donut Plains and GBA Bowser Castle 2), so just looking at characters or karts we can't say for sure if it's another emergency tour.

Well, you can export animations to FBX files (Mario Kart Tour runs in Unity), but with Noshi it's just one animation and let's just say that Blender's support of FBX animations is suboptimal in any case, from the properly working frames you can see it's just the stomping animation that...

Well, having Yoshi in Easter only made sense, although the lack of new track sets (only two RT tracks were added) tells me it became some kind of “emergency_thirdTour”...

That isn't meant for the infobox of the wiki at all, lol. Only bind poses there (or the standard pose set in the model file at best, for some reason in Unity they don't always match). I was just wondering if I could display more body features of Noshi while toying with Blender and came out with...

Well... Someone in the development team is a fan of the DS era?

Naaaaah, this is fake news. It’s obvious these are just figures: in no way a Yoshi would be alive in jail in one of your creations. Also, how is Link going to wake up if you put the Yoshi Doll in jail?

As surprising a it sounds, the shell is basically what differentiates the species of Bowser from the other Koopas: These are Boom Boom and Pom Pom, the most similar to Bowser and his species. You can clearly see how the plastron (front part of the shell) is fully attached to the carapace (the...

A new Paper Mario would make sense, Color Splash was a 2016 game, and 4 years for a new game is the proper time needed for it not to be too rushed. If all these games are going to be on the Switch, I don't see too many differences being brought into those, at best they might work on one (e.g...