Who is tumblr's favourite Paper Mario partner?
Hello everyone! Yes, this is another poll bracket blog, and this one concerns a specific group of characters: Mario's battle partners from the early Paper Mario games. (I'll probably do something with the few Origami King partners, and maybe the Pixls later, but first of all the main bracket will be Paper Mario 1 and Thousand Year Door partners.)
However, I have a problem! The convention with these poll brackets is to tag other polls in the introduction post to get visibility, but this is such a niche, single-fandom poll that I don't think that would really help - except for @janmisali 's Koopaling Bracket (Iggy was robbed!), I don't think there's been any other mario-specific polls to steal the audience of. So I'm going to rely purely on fandom tags and you guys to spread this poll around the Paper Mario community. Please reblog this if you see it - it will be such a help!
And I also need help with something else - the permanent partners from the first two games add up to 15, leaving one free slot. So this is a preliminary poll to kick things off:
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The next characters I'm showing for Super Mario Spikers are ones that are pretty special. For the first week or so when I was starting to post these on Twitter, I kept what kind of characters I would be adding secret, sticking only to mainstays for a bit. And then, out of nowhere, I drop all seven of the partners from The Thousand-Year Door! I think this marked a bit of a turning point for the project, where it got gradually more popular (well popular as far as small artists go) and more eyes consistently on it.
I... unfortunately don't have the same effect here on tumblr because I already showed Vivian for the initial announcement. But I still wanted to do a big post with all of them! I love how each of the came out, all the partners have a special place in my heart and it was a blast bringing them to the forefront. I'm going to have a LOT to say when I eventually tackle them individually, but for now, let's go over some things that apply to all of them!
Firstly, some of the partners were given a bit of a redesign. I figure that if they were ever to be put in a sports game like this, it'd be best to take them out of the Paper Mario artstyle to make them fit better with characters like Donkey Kong or Wario. I understand that might not jive well with some of the purists out there, but the reception has been real positive. Some changes are minimal, like giving Bobbery legs or giving Goombella more curved eyebrows, and others are more extreme, like the entirety of Vivian. I'll be talking more about changes like this when I break down each character, but I'm pretty satisfied with how all these alterations came out.
They also got some snazzy icons! For every character that doesn't appear in Mario Kart or something else that gives them an emblem, I had to make one of my own. I already showed these particular icons off back a few days ago, and again, they were fun to make. I'm working towards making high-res versions of every custom icon I've done, including many characters I've yet to show off.
I think these characters were the perfect introduction to what this roster is going to be like. Pretty much everyone who played Thousand-Year Door loves the partners, and by having them in this game, it really just blows down the doors for any possible limitations. There will be a LOT more picks from other sub-series, and I can't wait to geek out about them!
Also, all their Super Spikes correlate to one of the seven Crystal Stars. I thought that was a very nice touch
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IM CRYITNG ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY why did i make this
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