#pls love ur local obscure mario pals today

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★ @blcsscmedstars​ asked:  🍵 //Spill it

okay, all the very vicious salt  gets a break for a second while i make a teeny, petty complaint. here’s a nice moment of cooldown that is, at worst, an eye-roll moment.

what is... with nintendo’s silly mandates on the mario series? it’s so ridiculous tbh. the fact of the matter is that nintendo is restrictive on which characters get representation in the ip and how much they should get. a prime example that applies for a more popular character is waluigi. people have been crying out for waluigi to get into a main series game, a wario land/warioware game, or just... something more meaningful for a long time. it makes me almost wonder if nintendo treats him with more disdain because he was made by camelot and not them?? idk.

in fact, a lot of mario characters that aren’t made in-house get heavily sidelined. side characters from spin-offs and mario rpg characters are the ones who get it worst. yeah, i know, ‘geno and mallow and other smrpg characters are owned by square,’ i get that. i’m not exclusively talking about them. what about other fan favorites? waluigi, i already mentioned, but how about other dkc characters? they’re part of the mario series, but a lot of modern dkc was created by rareware. diddy kong hardly gets any love from them, and he’s the biggest deal besides dk himself. what about king k. rool? it took over a decade for them to acknowledge him in anything (smash ultimate), and it was only after a massive amount of fan outcry. this is the main antagonist of the dkc, a mario spinoff, series.

what about the rpg characters outside of smrpg? alphadream’s and intelligent systems’ creations deserve that attention, too. why fill mario kart rosters with more baby clones and metal clones when there are meaningful characters to add instead? fawful is a huge fan favorite from the rpgs, probably the only one that is right up there with geno in terms of popularity and outcry. what about peasley, vivian, parakarry, dimentio (the NERD, ya love to hate him ghdksjgh), bleck, mimi, midbus, the shroobs...? there’s so much potential to be had with all of these whimsical characters. why do they just... not care? again, it’s probably because they’re not in-house characters.

mario? obviously in-house. luigi? same thing. peach and bowser are very in-house, as well. even the more story-heavy rosalina is an in-house creation, and even with miyamoto’s reservations, she’s been getting a lot of attention. toadette was created for the same reason waluigi was: as a spin-off staple. one was made in-house, the other was made by a second party. guess who’s been getting a lot of love in the mainline series while the other has been consistently shafted?

it’s pretty dumb tbh. idk who to blame for this, but whoever at nintendo has been enforcing this just... has the wrong idea. the mario series is so full of life, yet they intentionally stifle it. ridiculous.