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Time to check in after half a year passed! And man, we really have a slew of announcements on what's to come! If we ignore the 2024 games (that will be for another topic), we have: Super Mario RPG: A new Nintendo Switch game that's a remake of Super Mario RPG for the SNES, and the graphical...

Mario's Power-Up Reversal In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, it is revealed that the fruit that resembles an elephant takes a different approach in powering up Mario. Instead of Mario wearing a suit resembling an animal, he instead turns into a real elephant, which is surprising because it was not...

Rosalina Space In Mario Party, what if like the DK Space, there’s a Rosalina Space instead? In her first introduction, she commanded a majestic demeanour and aura, so it sounds logical that she could be the good counterpart to Bowser, who until now, more or less acts as the villain in the...

Oh yeah, something to note is that the Super Bell is inconsistent. For the playable characters, it gives them cat suits. But for Bowser... yeah, he didn't get a fancy cat suit, but he actually turns into a cat hybrid. Could that be turning point for animal power ups? It would be funny if it's...

Based on my results for some variations for "Mario Mania", only the following has meaningful results: - Luigi Lania: Some professor's name - Daisy Dania: Some author's name - Toadette Tania: (to a lesser extent) Some user from Facebook The others lead to either incoherent results like "Peach...

One rather odd thing about Elephant Mario is how unlike the other animal power-ups he's got, he turns into the specific animal with his clothes on, rather than wearing a onesie of that animal. So Cat Mario isn't Mario being morphed into a cat, or Frog Mario isn't Mario changing his appearance to...

Now obviously, this is NOT confirmation of anything, but someone on Discord brought up an interesting observation... ...in that this game might be developed by NDcube. The cited reason is the general UI for their games, and perhaps the graphical style. I am not sure a comparison might help in...

Drew these shortly after the game's reveal: Thank you for reading.

A new game in the Super Mario series is announced, and it's got more than 5 playable characters! Oh, and Mario gets an elephant power-up. Thank you for reading.

My Bingo sheet! Let's see what's in store in an hour's time. A few notes: Post announcement means that Nintendo have one last thing before the announcement ends, which is something they did not do these days. Non-VG Nintendo-published game is basically like the Hamtaro GBA games and Marvel...

Reminded me of how generally unfair the minigames are in the first Mario Party. The two that comes to mind in terms of extremes are Bash 'n' Cash and Coin Shower Flower. The former is strictly advantageous for the three players, while the latter is advantageous for the single player. Actually...

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Space Puffs For this month's The ? Panel, I took inspiration from my time with the Wario Land games when I edited the Wario Land 3 articles on the wiki. I do think Wario Land 3 is a fascinating game with things I didn't even know about, like how Webbers can be ridden on as platforms. One...

Personally speaking, Mario is typically my first choice even in Super Mario 3D World. I guess I just like the basics. It's also commendable that the developers made everyone balanced so that Mario isn't the inferior one, as in he's not outclassed by any one character so like while Luigi may jump...

We need a new Mario-Doraemon crossover. OK, maybe not everybody needs it, but I would love to see it. Thank you for reading.

Shantario & Rispike Boots These are created just for fun, a sort of crossdressing thing going on. Mario’s not known as one so I decided to draw him doing him as a character that is unexpected for him to dress as. I entertained the thought of Mario dressed in whatever outfit Shantae is...

The term that I am looking for is survivorship bias! To my understanding, any thing that doesn't conform with a certain level of survival, or in this case excellence, are likely to be forgotten. Because of the specific examples used in the poll, it's very likely that the choices are squarely...

I have a bit of fondness of Yooka-Laylee as characters so I think it's nice that there is an attempt to imitate Donkey Kong Country, and the game has some unique ideas likechanging up levels with a natural element (e.g. submerge the level in the overworld with water, and the level is underwater)...

For this, I think I will vote for the neutral option. While I didn't play either the Wario or the Paper Mario inspired games specifically listed in the examples, I admire their ability to capitalise on the vacuum left by Nintendo to achieve success in their wildest dreams. One title that I did...

It's interesting that this is pointed out: the conundrum of how short characters should be portrayed. Of course, one of the signature traits short characters have are, well, they're short. But this is not simply feasible as a mascot costume because not everybody can be short like them. So they...

I feel that the Mario RPGs are merely serviceable in this day and age, unless they make a new Mario RPG that involves one of the other major Mario characters in a significant manner. Original characters are fine, but making a familiar Mario character a major presence in an RPG satisfies fans of...

I will nominate Egg Pawn. Thank you for reading.

I have decided to lay my thoughts on the Mario movie a bit more elaborately. Behind the spoiler are some of my praises for the film... Thank you for reading.

Logical Lookalikes For my fourth strip for the 'Shroom, this is from one of my observations that I have made on Bowser when I did the Mario in Garfield artsyle, which will eventually be submitted in a separate post. What I found out is how much Bowser resembles a bull, which is no doubt...

Something regarding the film... Thank you for reading.

Only three more Mii Suit colours: Orange, Light-Green, and Light-Blue! Also, it appears that the Koopalings are getting their turn, and the next one is likely going to be the other three (and maybe Bowser Jr?). Maybe someday, Daisy and Waluigi would get their turn for Mii costumes... Thank you...

I don't know when the poll started, but in case it ends after the 20th of April, I will pre-emptively vote for the option on planning to see it with anticipation (the 5th option). It looks great and there are several things I love about it from a first look, so if I get a chance to watch it, I...

Anybody has suggested something Mario-related, and was lashed out for it as a result? For me, I was lashed out for suggesting that I would love to see Mario joining Luigi for his ghost-busting endeavours (since Mario lets Luigi joins him in many of his endeavours). Not everybody lash out of...

Given the film is about to be released, I think I better lay out my thoughts on what I like about the film before it releases, and thus might be swept by the inevitable comments on the film. Plus, the film releases here two weeks later compared to most of the world, so I won't be able to check...

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Thinking about the Game & Watch games, a lot of them have silly premises. Many video games are built upon silly premises like driving a jumping car on platforms, but the most important thing to note about Game & Watch is that it was one of the older video games, so it not adhering to what made...

L Is Not Real. Hope Springs Eternal The strip above was not originally the strip I planned to submit for this month's Shroom, but time constraints meant that it is put at the forefront while the one I actually planned to do will be done for the next one. The inspiration for this comic is that...

I guess there might have been high expectations for the supposedly last Mario Kart DS track, but I am very happy to see Mario Circuit (DS) returns because it's got a more complex layout and is one of the rare Star Cup Mario Circuit courses. Plus, those fire-spitting Piranha Plants are fantastic...

I see! They do indeed have their own tutorials that I didn't realise. Thank you for pointing out! Thank you for reading.

Well yeah, that's why I mentioned "fan names", but maybe you can call it unofficial names if it suits them better. I never gotten the impression that they were official anyway, since the first mention for the more popular Bucken-Berry and Ala-Gold came from Destructoid. The 2009 article...

In Wario Land 3, Vampire Wario has his own tutorial segment, and to my knowledge is the only reaction to have it. At least from a bit of checking Fat Wario, Zombie Wario, and Puffy Wario didn't (I'm sure most others do not have them either). It's even viewable from the title screen after you...

Megavitamins being used to call the capsules in Dr. Mario. This term originated from Dr. Mario 64 but it's not explicably used for the capsule pieces (they call those vitamins or vitamin capsules, even in the very same game). Super Smash Bros. Melee uses Megavitamins and because of how much more...

I prefer the fan names for Blue Toad and Yellow Toad as Yvan and Wolley respectively, as opposed to the more popular Bucken-Berry and Ala-Gold respectively. Not only do I learn of the former names first (through IGN), but they are also short and sweet like most Mario character names, compared to...

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There's something I just wondered recently: why is Wario Land II numbered with the roman numeral instead of the normal Arabic numeral? This is something that I think if you think about it, it appears strange in its inconsistency. Wario Land 3 and 4 didn't even retain that. And it's not like...

Benchwarmers For this month's Shroom strip, I have converted an idea that I had wanted to do an article for into a cartoon. The idea for an article I wanted to do was to highlight the various enemies that have only appeared in one Mario game (remakes don't count) and make them wait for their...

These are some very impressive collabs, which takes music from different styles and mesh them into one collage! These are three different Mario-related tracks: My favourite part about them is the tailor-made title cards, like "". Thank you for reading.

In some ways, I can see this. I have always thought that the traditional Mario Party gameplay takes elements from Super Mario 64 which was the most recent Mario platformer, with the focus on collecting stars as a goal, so it could support the case on how Mario Party is based on Super Mario 64...

Multi-Character Variety in the Games For this month, I have decided to change gears and do something completely different from The Shroom, doing cartoons instead of writing for another comic strip. While I didn't run out of material, they are indeed a hassle to write because the amount of...

The real question is: why do you consider those games to be overrated? The best way to start a topic like this is to give your opinion on the matter because of the very open-ended nature of calling something "overrated". All you did is to show games that are lauded for one reason or another...