Here's tidbit of info I'll bet you didn't know: The Koopa Kids (or Koopalings, depending on which way you swing) were pegged, at one point, to be the bosses in Super Princess Peach. At least, that's what the guy/gal responsible for Random Hoo Haas has discovered.
Apparently, Wendy O' Koopa (my favorite Koopa Kid) was the original boss of World 6, for instance. "The only obvious attacks I can see from her animation are a jump and her ability to throw one of her bracelets at Peach," says the proprietor/proprietess of the site. "She also has an animation where she points upwards and strikes a pose, and another where she faces the screen and stands with her arms in the air; presumably both were for summoning an attack from something else."Descriptions of the other Koopa Kids' animations and probable attacks can be found here. After you check them out, take a second (or two) to check out the rest of the games highlighted in the "Oh! My God!! Why'd They Change That?" section of Random Hoo Haas. If you're a retro-gaming geek like I am, you won't regret it.
Hm. I wonder why they scrapped them. Who ARE the bosses of that game? I've never played it...
ReplyDeleteI wonder why they scraped them, too. Maybe they were too challenging, or they didn't fit in with the game for some reason--or maybe Nintendo stepped in at some point (since the game was developed by Tose, not in-house) and said, "No, we should save them for the next Mario game."
ReplyDeleteThe bosses that actually appear in the final version are a mix of classic Mario baddies (a Piranha Plant, a Boo) and new baddies that seem to have been created specifically for this title (an owl, an ice dragon). They're nice enough, really, but I would have preferred the Koopa Kids :)
Well yeah, anyone with half a brain can see the Koopa Kids are a no-brainer. And Wendy O. Koopa? My favorite, too.
ReplyDeleteAh! I just noticed that I wrote "scraped" instead of "scrapped" in my last comment. Oh, well ;) Anyway, like you say, the Koopa Kids are a no-brainer :)
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