12/24/2023 0 Comments Mario characters![]() Princess ShokoraOne of the lesser-known princesses Mario and crew have ever come across would have to be Shokora, the damsel awaiting rescue at the end of Wario Land Advance. I say mainstream video games need more turbans. But I also feel that if Nintendo hasn’t opted to use them yet, they probably won’t. Still, I feel the characters wouldn’t be out-of-place in a Mario game - brother Imajin and sister Lina in particular. According to Wikipedia, everything in Doki Doki Panic besides the family members themselves was created by Nintendo, and perhaps that’s why we today have Shy Guys, Bob-Ombs and Pokeys causing trouble everywhere. This is likely complicated by the fact that the characters may be owned by Fuji Television, as Imajin and company were created as mascots for the 1987 Yume Kōjō festival, which showed off Fuji’s various wares. ![]() However, I say these four shouldn’t just step aside they should still have a place in the Mario games. This is now common knowledge, even among casual Mario gamers. 2, Imajin’s family ventured through and trounced Wart on their own in Doki Doki Panic. Long before Mario and company ever set foot in Subcon in Super Mario Bros. Given the critical drubbing that the game got, I suppose we’ll have to assume that we’ll never figure out what the deal with this magical umbrella was. What the hell, Nintendo?! Super Princess Peach has its share of problems, to be sure, and the loose end that is Perry’s tragic story is just one of them. Perry wonders if he will ever meet his “grandfather” again, but the game gives no closure. Perry, in his new form, escaped but ended up being sold to Toadsworth, who have Perry to Peach to help her in her quest to fight Bowser. When Perry refused to aid them, the bad guys turned him into an umbrella. At some point, Perry and his adopted grandfather were attacked by an unnamed pair of bad guys wanting to use Perry’s special powers. Through a series of dreams Perry has throughout Super Princess Peach, we learn that this character once had a form other than an umbrella. But the odd thing about this character is that he’s given a mysterious back story that is never resolved in the one game he appears in. As Peach’s guide, ally and weapon throughout the game, Perry is fairly important. Say what you will about Super Princess Peach, it did introduce a new character to the Mario mythos: Perry the sentient parasol. seems like the youngest, but how did he get to be Junior if he’s the eighth born?) Whatever - the important thing is that the eight kids can apparently coexist, and longtimers like me got to relive some fond memories when stomping the initial seven in New Super Mario Bros. (From a few perspectives, it’s more interesting to pit Mario against bosses of all shapes and sizes, rather than seven fairly similarly statured turtle squirts.) But after some false starts - that weird non-speaking appearance in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and that nixed appearance from Super Princess Peach - we finally got to see Larry, Morton, Wendy, Iggy, Roy, Lemmy and Ludwig return to the spotlight, in reckless disregard for the logic of birth order. and their their large number making them difficult to implement in games. But I thought the Koopalings were gone for good, what with their apparent retcontastic replacement by Bowser Jr. ![]() Wii was perhaps the biggest surprise of all - at the height of their popularity, these little brats were way bigger deals than the two characters I’ve previously described. The return of the Koopalings in New Super Mario Bros.
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