Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

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 [...]

And here it is finally, the winner of a poll I made on deviantART a while back: Mario vs. Crash Bandicoot. I’d argue that the strongest Crash visual (at least from someone like me who’s never played any of those games) is the spin attack so that was my starting point. To make it even, [...]

My original idea for this was completely different and I realized once I started laying it out that it just wasn’t what I was going after. After some re-thinking, the image of Bomberman shoving a bomb into Mario’s mouth came up and the rest is history as they say. If I could do it again [...]

This one was hell. Everything was fine until I got to the background. I thought the last two of these Mario Versus pieces I did were not as good as some of the earlier ones so I didn’t want to half-ass this one. Needless to say, I spend a good amount of time trying to [...]