End of Malpractice

Today marks the day Dr Mario World closes its doors for good. So press F to pay respects to a game that was perhaps too quacky for video game healthcare. Like Viridi from Kid Icarus: Uprising said, Dr Mario is a quack. So Nintendo finally pulled the plug on Dr Mario World, and perhaps, this will bring a Mario spin-off that was full of malpractice that had been going unchecked for 31 years since 1990 to an end. Perhaps, such malpractice will be permanently exiled for good...

The End of Dr Mario World

As if 2021 wasn't depressing enough, it turns out that Nintendo announced today that Dr Mario World is closing down on 1st of November, 2021. If insufficient income was not the real reason for the game's closure, then it has to be the microtransactions, which many players disliked the most about the game. If not the microtransactions, then it has to be the awful amount of malpractice involved in this game. Dr Mario's malpractice was also to blame for his absence from the Super Smash Bros Brawl playable character roster. At the end of the day, Nintendo will only have themselves to blame for giving a doctor's licence to babies. Nikki from Swapnote would have been a far better choice for a Dr Mario World playable character than babies, who should not even have a doctor's licence at all.

Update: Dr Mario World did close its doors for good on 1st of November, 2021. Hopefully, this will be the end of malpractice that Nintendo had failed to take note of since 1990.

Rejected Pikmin Treasures

While there are many treasures in the Pikmin games that are based on real life objects, not all treasures based on real life objects made the cut for the final versions of any Pikmin game. Here are five objects that were left out of both Pikmin 2 and Hey! Pikmin.

Striped bikini: Japan's obsession with striped lingerie, in particular, striped panties, may have made striped bikinis popular as well. But Nintendo does not want anything that could give any of their games a "Mature" rating.

Bloomers: In Japan, bloomers looked like panties, which could explain why they're so popular in Japanese pop culture. Similarly to the striped bikini, the bloomers could potentially cause a game to get a "Mature" rating.

Floppy disk: If Olimar and his Pikmin friends could come across Famicom Disk System disks, NES cartridges, Game Boy cartridges, an SD card, a computer mouse, and many other electronics components, why a floppy disk was not included in either Pikmin 2 or Hey! Pikmin, we do not know.

Vitamin jar: Dr Mario is a game where you use coloured megavitamins to eliminate viruses of the same colour. Nintendo could have included an empty jar with the coloured pills label still on it in either Pikmin 2 or Hey! Pikmin, to add a reference to Dr Mario, but they chose not to, probably for reasons why the "Arboreal Frippery" had its colour changed from green to red for the European/Australian version of Pikmin 2.

Axe head: We all know the story of how Elisha caused an axe head to float. Therefore, an axe head should have been one of the treasures in Pikmin 2. But there are many problems with having a treasure based on an axe head. Axe heads are heavy, and would probably need to be carried by Purple Pikmin. If the axe head is in water, only Blue Pikmin can retreive the axe head as they do not drown unlike other coloured Pikmin. Also, axes are sharp, and the blade area would hurt anyone who touches it. With all these problems, the axe head had to be omitted from the final version of Pikmin 2.