Tag: super mario
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Nintendo: Do Something About Birdo’s Name, Please
The character known as Birdo in the West is a strange dinosaur-looking creature with a big hole for both mouth and nose which she uses to shoot eggs from. While often referred to as a singular entity, there are apparently multiples of the species with different colorations, as seen in Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA)…
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Sunshine’s Pachinko Level Isn’t That Bad; You’re Just Doing it Wrong
I’ve been slowly but surely been making my way through the Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection. When the time came for Super Mario Sunshine, I was a bit apprehensive. I hadn’t played it since I was a child, and popular consensus on the Internet was not a positive one. I was specifically dreading playing a…
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Could Ethical Vegetarianism Exist In The Mario World?
Ethical vegetarianism stems from multiple philosophies pertaining to the human consumption of food and its morality. It claims that humans, as evolved as we are, do not need to eat animals to survive or to be healthy, and should instead eat plants which, as far as we know, do not contain thought as we know…
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Super Mario Sunshine’s Levels Are A Breath Of Fresh Air Amidst Other Mario Titles
It would appear that Super Mario Sunshine is considered the black sheep of the Super Mario family (at least of the ones Miyamoto was involved with— Super Mario Land 1 & 2 are the real black sheep). It has weird gameplay gimmicks with FLUDD spraying water making the game cleaning up paint and dirt instead…