A Super Mario variety blog.
Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
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The first area of Paper Mario: Color Splash is called Ruddy Road in the English version of the game. The German version improves upon that name with a pun that seemed to have slipped past the English localization team: the red paper circles on the road look like pepperoni, so the German name is “Papieroni-Pfad”, which translates to “Paperoni Path”.
Idle animations of the Koopalings from Paper Mario: Color Splash.
The Koopalings’ and Bowser’s introduction screens from Paper Mario: Color Splash.
A localization oddity in Paper Mario: Color Splash: the washing machine on Vortex Island in the North American version is top-loading (top picture) while it is changed to a front-loading one in the European version (bottom picture). In order to justify the vortex still pointing upwards, the front-loading washing machine needed to be propped up against something. So the localization team decided to redesign the laundry room into a cave in order to include a rock for the washing machine to lean onto.
Wendy Koopa has been depicted in a pose referencing the painting “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli twice in different media. Top: a painting from the “7 Continents for 7 Koopas” episode of the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon. Bottom: Wendy’s entrance in Paper Mario: Color Splash.
The completely unpainted world map from Paper Mario: Color Splash. It’s impossible to see this in-game since Port Prisma is painted from the beginning of the story.
