People view him as a hero, but in reality, he is a ruthless killer. Take Yoshi, for example. Mario hits Yoshi so hard that her tongue pops out. Then, he throws her into boiling lava just to make a jump. He stands at the edge, acting like he's crying, as if he wasn't the one who caused Yoshi's demise. That was Mama Yoshi, putting her life on the line, desperate to see her unhatched babies. She had faith in Mario. He even tossed her baby eggs into the lava just to get to a flagpole.

I mean, not everyone agrees, but it's within the majority at best.

I’m sick of starting endless mode only to have to sit through 5 auto levels for every 1 half decent level.

Did anyone else notice that whenever Nintendo made a Mario game around the 2010's that "gave the fans what they asked for", it always seemed to a bit bare-bones? It was like they were saying:

- You want classic Mario Party back without the car? Here, take a poorly curated minigame collection with only one tiny board where everyone moves at the same time! Oh, you meant the traditional, longer party mode? Take this unfinished game with four slightly less tiny boards and restrictive controls! It took a ridiculous number of half-measures for Nintendo to finally give us Jamboree.

- You want Paper Mario to return to turn-based combat? Here's a painfully uninspired game that takes the "paper" name too literally and ruins the old battle format with a poorly thought out gimmick! Oh, that was too bland for you? Fine, we'll sprinkle in a few more original characters and slap on another arts and crafts gimmick. Still not enough? We'll give you slightly more personality. You want the arts and crafts gimmicks gone? Too bad!

It really makes me wonder if someone at Nintendo thought this petty strategy would prove us wrong and force us to prefer their newer ideas. Then again, this could have just been the result of a lower budget or lower effort, rather than an intentional effort to piss us off. Whatever was going on here, I'm glad it seems to have (mostly) stopped. Are there any other examples of this pattern you can think of?

Wouldn’t it be cool if the a future sandbox or open world 3d Mario game or RPG was set in a world where a corrupted bowser won and his minions took over and run things but want the old normal bowser back even if it means him not ruling the world anymore. Like already in Mario 64 there’s hints that whomps are to thank for roads and buildings but imagine if they were literally the workers installing roads etc widespread and it’s not just a funny extra detail but genuinely more of a world building element.

I think Luigi's Mansion 3 was the last game where Charles Martinet did new recordings as Luigi, and it was not a particularly great outing in my opinion.

By this point you could tell that the voice performance had deteriorated, where Luigi sounds weirdly nasally.

Also, I don't recall where it came from, but years ago I heard a clip of Charles doing an extended voice performance as Luigi, and it sounded so, SO bad, agonisingly so. It seems like Charles was losing his Luigi voice pretty hard.

Tried to design a Mario card game. Art by me.

Only two votes, but, The winner un The very retro 2d games is The Super Mario World Castle Theme...

The best of "modern" 2D games?

I wanted to imagine what the Mushroom Kingdom feels like after Mario eats all them dang mushrooms😂
Hand-painted acrylic on canvas. Every little detail was painted by hand, all the way down to the Mushroom Kingdom landscape reflected in his glasses.
I grew up with Mario 64 and still play it regularly to this day, so this one was ridiculously fun to make.

Source: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/dieseldane/luigi-s-escape

Exam tomorrow, but all I can think about is Mario 😭/내일 9모인데 마리오 생각만 처하는 나

So while I've been cleaning out my house, on one of my old flash drives I found some photos from 2015 that was relating to when Nintendo had their 30th Anniversary to Mario that I wanted to share along with my Morton Plushie I brought with me at the time.

This was when Splatoon was fresh hot and also when the Wii U was still new to people before the console of the Switch and so on took over.

I have that Morton Plushie in my house, but I got to clean it up to find him again. XD

I'll find him eventually.

"Okay so i remember this youtube video about Mario in a zombie apocalypse and it started off with Mario and Luigi riding on Yoshi's back until he approached peaches castle where he collapsed and then they tried to get in but the door was stuck, then a bunch of purple Yoshi's approached them and they were infected and their eyes where all white and Yoshi dies and Mario and Luigi continues on but Peach comes from upstairs and is also infected and starts eating Luigi while toad grabs Mario. I think they brought him to DK and he was wearing a black hoodie with an eye patch and threatened to kill him. Well, I'm not sure but i just wanna know the name, thanks for helping."

I was a weird kid and really wanna see if I can rewatch this and see if it's as creepy as I remember