Super Mario Bros. Wonder Is The Closest We’ll Ever Get To M-Rated Mario
The series has flirted with the psychedelic since its early days, but with the franchise leans fully into the trippy nature of the acrobatic plumber’s adventures. Simply hearing the premise of the original suggests a nod to drug culture, from an adult perspective, as it involves a pair of blue-collar workers from Brooklyn who leave their mundane lives behind to journey to a magical mushroom land. With the mind-bending changes to reality resulting from Wonder Flowers, it is harder than ever to deny that is a psychedelic series, and embraces that more overtly than any prior entry.
Before its release, some fans believed the new title might bring back the 1986 anime’s strange original character, Prince Haru, who was the prince of the Flower Kingdom in the animated adaptation. The monarch of the Flower Kingdom in is Prince Florian, a Wiggler-like entity, whereas Haru spent most of the anime trapped in the form of a dog. While there are no storyline connections to the anime, the 1986 film was also somewhat hallucinatory in tone, as it sported a similar vibe and style to .
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Unlike the largely mellow experience of the 1980s anime, some of the Wonder Flower sequences in are outright whacky, warping reality in ways ranging from whimsical to terrifying. Some alter the perception of the characters’ bodies, seeing themselves as abnormally tall, but still able to crouch to their standard compact ducking sizes. Mario might find himself transformed into a slime creature, granted a metal body, or even living the life of a Goomba. Several Wonder Flower sequences shift the perspective from a side scrolling platformer to an overhead action game, as Mario appears to
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