Nintendo released a demo today for its upcoming soccer game, Mario Strikers: Battle League. How does it play? Is it a worthy sequel to older games? Are you happy? These are questions to which I have no answers. What I can tell you is that in this latest game, Waluigi retains his crown as the king of swagger, with a penchant for odd poses with roses that look completely intact.
Mario Strikers: Battle League is being developed by Next Level Games and launches on June 23 for the Switch. This is the third game in Striker series, and various Mario characters join their fray on the field to play some soccer together, completing special moves and wild animations. But let’s get to the real reason many of you are here: Waluigi’s great winning animation.
First, here’s Waluigi’s incredible swagger after scoring a goal:
I first discovered these amazing animations thanks Twitter user @ElliotDubywho cut them from New demo gameplay footage shared by NintendoLife.
Where does more swagger come from? Here’s what happens when the tall, weird guy from Nintendo wins a match:
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The guy just walks like he owns the world and yes, at that moment, in that field, surrounded by know-it-somethings, I guess he does. world master. He’s king and he’s back, baby.
Oh, and don’t worry. To all of you sick people out there, lovers some sexy Waluigi x rose actionIt’s surprising to Nintendo that you included this alternate scoring animation:
Looks like he’s recreating the infamous (and erotic) “rose pose” rendering came out last year There seems to be no reason at all. It feels like someone deep inside Nintendo made it, hid it, and then on their last day of work uploaded it to the web for all to see. To that person, which I accomplished in this blog, I say thank you. Because now we have Waluigi recreating that wonderful fluidity in a brand new Nintendo game.
You know, all this amazing act of Waluigi just reminds me that it must be a literal crime that the purple prince of eyeball graffiti continue to be left out of what’s going on Smash Bros. Franchising. Look at these animations, that amazing stance, the intense rose action and tell me he shouldn’t be front and center Super Smash Bros.
And don’t give me some crap about the “rules” and how he came out in trophy form or whatever. If the nerd likes Of Minecraft Steve can join Super Smash Bros., so does Waluigi, aka the personification of the person-of-that-noisy-you-do-when-you-on-azit. He played football again, for which I am very grateful. But he should also appear in Nintendo’s big gunfight. He earned it. That’s just fair.
