Golf Course

The Mario Golf series is one of the most prominent sports titles across the Mario series. It has seen numerous entries starting in the Nintendo 64 era all the way down to the modern day, with the recent Mario Golf: Super Rush. Naturally, a representative stage is all but essential.

The stage will be moderately large, set on a hilly uneven landscape with walk-offs on both sides. A sandtrap will take up one portion of the stage, and another portion will be in the rough and will make it difficult to move around. A flag will stick out of a hole in the stage’s center.

Potential theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7zX1xKyioY

Mr. Blizzard

As Mario, you keep making your way through the paintings inside of Peach’s castle, finishing up Whomp’s Fortress, exploring the water level of Jolly Roger Bay, and finally unlocking an ice world called Cool Cool Mountain. As you traverse the snowy landscape, you find yourself menaced by snowmen that like to pop up out of the snow beneath you, patrol icy bridges, and lob snowballs at you.

These are Mr. Blizzards, who would become the key staples of any good ice world moving forward. Though they don’t move around a lot, they pick up a good assortment of tricks here and there, the final clincher coming from the giant version that acted as the final boss of Mario Golf: Super Rush.

In game, Mr. Blizzards will be a bit on the slow side, but not too badly, with good defense and decent aerials. All around, pretty average. Their moves will come both from their own demonstrated abilities, as well as from the icy Mario worlds they tend to frequent.

Likelihood rating: Probably not

King Bob-Omb

In 1996, things were changing for the video game industry. The secret to making fully 3D games had been uncovered, and every game company was jumping on the bandwagon. Nintendo released the Nintendo 64, a system that could handle the extra processing power, and with it came a full 3D Mario game called Super Mario 64. This time, Peach’s Castle itself had been taken over, its residents trapped inside paintings. In order to free them, Mario had to jump into the paintings himself, each one a portal to a brand-new world. The first of these was Bob-Omb Battlefield, a hectic warzone filled with Bob-Ombs, a mountain in the very center where the Bob-Omb’s ruler watched from on high.

This was King Bob-Omb, the magnanimous ruler of the Bob-Omb race and an ally of Bowser. Though he wouldn’t see much life outside of Super Mario 64 for some time, he often cropped up as small easter eggs or boss battles in the Mario Party games. He finally saw a resurgence in his popularity when he became playable in such games as Mario Kart Tour and Mario Golf: Super Rush.

As a playable fighter, he will play nearly identically to his Bob-Omb minions, acting as an echo fighter for them. Unlike them, however, he will be much heavier and slower, with much higher defense than his underlings. His moveset will mimic the Bob-Ombs, using cannons and explosions for most of his offensive capabilities.

Likelihood rating: Could happen

Chargin' Chuck

Dinosaurs won’t be the only hazards roaming Dinosaur Land. Bowser and his Koopa Troops are here too, fresh with a few brand new variants on the Koopa formula. Most prominent here are big heavyset Koopas dressed in football uniforms who like to charge blindly at you the moment you enter their line of sight.

These are the Chargin’ Chucks. Although charging is their attack strategy of choice, they often prove themselves the truest of sports fans with a number of moves featuring baseballs, footballs, and defensive maneuvers to keep you and Yoshi from reaching the goal line. Expect to see them as regular players across numerous Mario games, finally seeing their playable debut in Mario Golf: Super Rush.

In game, they are heavy and strong, but also quite fast. Charging headlong at opponents is a given here, but their moveset will also pull from their other sports-based moves most prominently seen in their debut game.

Likelihood rating: Piranha Plant clause

Mario Golf: Super Rush

MARIO GOLF: SUPER RUSH

You just couldn't do, could you, Nintendo? You just couldn't let me go without throwing me one last left-field curve ball? No, you just had to give your brand new golf game a story mode with basically a giant Mr. Blizzard as the final boss. Do you think this is funny, Nintendo? (Insert Nintendo saying "Yes" here).

Either way, Mario Golf: Super Rush is a brand new game in the Mario Golf series after seven years since World Tour. The game features a number of ease-of-life changes to the game, like lines showing you where the ball ended up, and other changes that make it a bit more exciting. For instance, speed golf has been added, a mode that lets you run to your ball, racing against your opponents, rather than just taking you directly to the ball. We also have battle golf, taking place in a big arena and everyone playing a big free-for-all.

At the moment, our roster includes Mario and Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Rosalina, and Pauline, Wario and Waluigi, Yoshi, Toad, Donkey Kong, Bowser and Bowser Jr., Boo, King Bob-Omb, and Chargin' Chuck in his playable debut (just want to take the meaningless brownie points of saying "I did it first, na na na na na na!"). Each have special shots and special dashes to help them in speed golf. Mario mostly uses his super star, Luigi uses the ice flower, Peach a gymnastics ribbon and Daisy a twirling baton, Wario uses lightning mostly, Waluigi is flamboyant as usual, Yoshi uses eggs, Toad uses the giant mushroom, Donkey Kong uses punches and rolls, Rosalina mostly uses her Lumas, Pauline sings "Jump Up, Superstar!", Bowser mostly uses fire, Junior uses his Klown Kar and Bullet Bills, Boo mostly uses strings of other Boos, King Bob-Omb uses a cannon and other Bob-Ombs, and Chargin' Chuck just straight up yeets the golf ball like a football (I think he's a little confused).

We also have Miis, who star in the story mode taking after the old RPG story modes where you are a young rookie golfer working their way up through the ranks. About halfway through though, the plot veers off into a story about an evil Snow King taking over Bowser's kingdom and freezing the entire area, and your character being guided to defeat him by a disembodied voice, who grants the character fire and lightning powers (which I think can be used to garnish Plum and Kid's movesets, so there's that). Across the game, you fight three bosses, an Electric Statue that fights you with lightning attacks, the Sacred Flamebeast that fights you with fireballs, and the Snow King, who, while being guarded by Mr. Blizzards all over his course, also throws giant versions of their snowballs at you, uses Freezies, freezes whole areas, and sends off shockwaves. That, along with Mr. Blizzard's own moves like throwing snowballs, bouncing around, whipping up small flurries sometimes, and even Dr. Freezegoods skiing in the Yoshi games . . . yeah, the moveset's there. Nintendo just had to do it. I . . . I . . . I think I'm a little broken right now. I'm going to need a minute.

Anyhoo, as for our stages, we have a Rookie Course to learn the ropes; Bonny Greens, a standard grassland stage; Balmy Dunes, a desert level; Wildweather Woods, a forested area with lots of weather effects; Ridgerock Lake, a rough rocky area with some tornadoes; Bowser Highlands, a combo snow-and-lava world; and the Super Golf Stadium for the battle golf. Apparently a New Donk City-based stage will appear in later DLC.

And that's it for the currently existing games! Only took two years. Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

Mario: handstand, jump, crouch, spin, spin on bar, hammer, spring, key, pick up and throw, giant, float, fly

Cat Mario: glide, swipe, climb, evil cats, throw blocks, butt bash, Giga Cat Mode

Luigi: invisible

Wario: metal, Wario Man

Yoshi: fire breath, tongue

Donkey Kong: punch, barrel, stomp, jack, grow giant, throw enemies

Donkey Kong Jr.: hop, throw switches

Pauline

Birdo: Robirdo

Bowser Jr.: paintbrush, Klown Kar, hammer

All characters appearing in SMB2, SMW, SMW2, and SMB3

All characters appearing in the DKC series

All characters appearing in SM64

Diddy Kong

Dixie Kong

Tiny Kong

Wizpig

Taj

Timber and the other racers

Team Captains: deny, rally, bonus block, play dead, lightning, parry, bob-omb, thwomp, face off, backup, sneak attack, shell strike, aerial, melee, long range

Best Fitness Friends: rubber bands, malatone formula, doppelganger, fire punch, barrel, spin, divebomb, screech, fire, lightning, combine, laser beam, charge, cyclone, mystery box

Poochy: run, bash through objects, spin, Poochy pups, sliding, crouching, biting a hand, eating cake, catching a ball, carrying things, catching a frisbee, pulling on a rubber band, licking things, pushing a button with his tail, rolling.

Kat & Ana

Dribble & Spitz

I8-Volt

Nabbit

Peachette

Funky Kong: surfboard

King Boo

Dry Bones

Inklings

Chargin' Chuck

King Bob-Omb

Pauline

Mr. Blizzard: snowballs, icy breeze, whirlwind, Freezie, freeze everything, shockwave, giant snowball, bounce

Golfer: fire blast, lightning, dash

Bosses:

King Bob-Omb

Goomboss

King Boo

Chief Chilly

Electric Statue

Sacred Flamebeast

Snow King

Stages:

Construction Site

Big City

Forest

Ship

Jungle

Desert

Airplane

Iceberg

Rocky-Valley

All stages appearing in SMB2, SMW, SMW2, and SMB3

All stages appearing in DKC series

Palm Beach

Poison Swamp

Secret Factory

Ice Area

All locations in Diddy Kong Racing

Minions Battlefield

Dribble & Spitz Rally

Kat & Ana's Sky Patrol

Jet 18Volt

World-9 Cloud

Battle Stadium

Sweet Sweet Kingdom

Dragon Palace

Lunar Colony

Wuhu Town

Luigi's Mansion

Battle Course 1

Urchin Underpass

Lake Lapcat

Mount Magmeow

Rookie Course

Bonny Greens

Balmy Dunes

Wildweather Woods

Ridgerock Lake

Bowser Highlands

Super Golf Stadium

New Donk City

Thanks for reading! Now, the brand new four (excuse me) five characters to be added, starting with Cat Mario!