Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

Having Tetris blocks about to crush Mario was the obvious thing to do here because, well, what else would they do? A little more difficult was coming up with a way to make them threatening so I crushed Mario’s hand to make the stakes a little more clearer. Also, after my previous Mario fights, it [...]

I thought the Hadouken effect was gonna give me trouble but it turns out it was everything else that did. This isn’t my favorite but I really sank some time on it and I refused to put it down until I was satisfied with what I had, so much so that I added the hobo [...]

Much to say about this one. First of all, if you haven’t heard of The Binding of Isaac, go on Steam and download it for the “we’re giving it away for free” price of 5 bucks (less if you get it during a Steam sale). You’ll get countless hours of fun from the randomly generated [...]

No, this isn’t Mario vs. God. It’s Mario vs. Faith from Mirror’s Edge, the first character of the female persuasion to go up against the ol’ plumber. Mirror’s Edge is a great little game that has left a rather strong lasting impression in me. It isn’t really about combat so I didn’t want to do [...]

So it’s Master Chief with UNSC weapons and Mario with Covenant weapons. That was my main drive behind this one. And, of course, they had to be fighting on Halo. No question about it. I didn’t feel up to the task of rendering the background as realistically as I wanted (to make it fit with [...]

I’ll be honest here, I don’t like Angry Birds. It isn’t so much that I have something against the game itself or casual gaming for that matter, it’s the fact that, for some reason, society has deemed Angry Birds, as mediocre as it is, to be the greatest video game pop culture icon of the [...]

Pretty sure this is the first one to feature a cameo which is something I’ve been thinking about doing since way back when I did Mario vs. Meat Boy (wanted to put Bandage Girl in there somewhere). This also marks the first one of these Mario Versus pieces where I actually did thumbnail layouts before [...]

I really like how this turned out. I’ll be honest, I played Psychonauts a few years back and my memory of it is a bit fuzzy. I do remember that each level was completely unique so I had difficulty in deciding what to use as a background. I ultimately went with the swirly thing because [...]

Confession: I sunk way too much time into the first Disgaea. This came out pretty well, I think. I know that pixelated Mario heads for maps have been done to death in every game with a map editor but it just made too much sense to put it here. It was done in Google SketchUp [...]

This is both one of my least favorites (for reasons I won’t get into right now) and the most unintentionally sexual one in the Mario Versus Series so far. Oh, well. I think the idea of Sackboy furiously ripping out Mario’s moustache to complete the full outfit still has merit though. Next up I’ll do either [...]