#Yoshi's Safari

[nintendometro]

Japanese Cover Artwork 'Yoshi's Safari' Super Famicom

[corruptionasart]

[dummyringbomb]

yoshi takes a minute to look at the scenery and think about things

[wjbs-aus]

Fuck It, I Am Breaking My Silence: a Mario headcanon based on a game that almost everyone has played and one that almost no-one has played.

Warning: this headcanon will

and may leave you

So be warned.

Also all images used in this post are from the Mario wiki. I'm not replaying all of Yoshi's Safari just to make one Tumblr post that it's likely that no-one will end up seeing.

Ok so first we need to talk about Yoshi's Safari.

Yoshi's Safari is. A weird game. I've played it before (using Retroarch, with my mouse and keyboard in lieu of the lightgun). It's an officially-licensed Mario FPS (more specifically a rail-shooter), and it's genuinely kinda fun but also very fucking strange, like there's a light and dark world, and bowser wears a suit of power-armour that never shows up in another game:

None of that is important, however. I want to bring your attention to this character:

This is Prince Pine. He's the prince of Jewellery Land, and the game's main damsel (gender neutral) in distress.

Does he, in any way, look familiar? Let's skip ahead 11 years to 2004, and the release of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. And specifically, to Chapter 5, where we meet the character of all time, Flavio.

Do you notice anything? How about we compare these two side-by-side.

Now, they aren't like. Identical. But they do kinda look similar. Therefore, my hypothesis is thus; Flavio is either A. from Jewellery land, or even B. a member of the royal family.

[satalight]

[supermariobrosfan]

Super Mario / Yoshi Official 2D Art (Yoshi's Safari) 1993

[wispisstillverybored67]

If I had a nickel for every time you fought a group of children individually with their own robots, I'd have 2 nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird since it happened twice.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Mario and Yoshi have had enough.

[viciogame]

🎮 Yoshi's Safari (Super Nintendo)

Complete Gameplay: https://youtu.be/VsdgP6Qjpnw

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[aardwolfpack]

It wasn't always like this.

[nintendometro]

Crescent Beach 'Yoshi's Safari' Super Nintendo Yasushi Tokunaga, Yoshiki Nishimura, Miyuki Uemura Support us on Patreon

[corruptionasart]

[thepipeplaza]

Fact: While Bowser is known for his frequent kidnappings of Princess Peach in the Mushroom Kingdom, he has also captured other individuals from different locations throughout his various invasions, including political leaders, heroes, infantry and civilians.

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Mecha Nokonoko

Debut: Yoshi's Safari

Never before in the Mario franchise has a Koopa Troopa meant business to such a degree! You probably know Yoshi's Safari as the "Mario with a gun" game and little else, if you know about it at all. You are probably not at all surprised to learn now that the Koopalings are all bosses in it. Kind of boring, but they pilot some funny mechs that look like they're from Bomberman or something! The REAL interesting thing, however, comes in the later portion of the game...

The game's setting, Jewelry Land, has been split into a Light and Dark realm. The Light realm is where the Koopalings appear, but after they're all defeated, there are more bosses before Bowser! A Magikoopa, a Big Boo, a Chargin' Chuck, and last, but certainly MOST, a Koopa Troopa. As the penultimate boss of the game! Last bastion before Bowser! A Koopa Troopa!

^ This animal right here!

This was the very first time a Koopa Troopa had ever been a larger threat than a basic enemy, and while we have had notable Koopa Troopas both heroic and villainous since, I still feel like this one means the most Business. Maybe some Paper Mario partner Koopas are pluckier. But do they have as much GUMPTION? I guess they could have as much, to be honest, but it's no reason to downplay THIS Koopa's gumption.

"Mecha Nokonoko" really just means "Mecha Koopa Troopa", and that is indeed what's going on here. This Koopa pilots a massive submarine in its own likeness, armed with a bunch of cannons. And I don't really care about the gameplay to be honest I just think this is so so cool! If a regular ol' Koopa Troopa tries hard enough and believes in itself, it can be the second to last boss in a game, trusted by Bowser to be almost his second in command. Wow!

You know how Zelda has a "the hero is defeated" timeline? Mario could have one of those, and it could be right here. Mario and Yoshi are defeated by Mecha Nokonoko, and this specific Koopa Troopa is celebrated in the Koopa Kingdom as a champion, having defeated he who which even Bowser never could for long. And it would become the new leader of the Koopa Troop, as Bowser retires, and Koopa Troopa would realize it's just been following orders this time, and isn't actually into kidnapping and conquest like Bowser was. It just wants to have fun in life, and keep expressing its interest in operating machinery. And then it goes on to become the Koopa Troopa who is playable in Mario Kart (ignore that Super Mario Kart released a year before Yoshi's Safari)! Who knew Yoshi's Safari had so much lore! It's actually awesome!

[supermariobrosfan]

Enemies Official 2D Art (Yoshi's Safari) 1993

[lizardbytheriver]

He was gunning down motherf*ckers in Yoshi's Safari in 1993. Lets not pretend this is a big mystery. Lets not pretend Mario isn't a war criminal.