{"id":122161,"date":"2020-12-16T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/nintendo_might_be_scraping_the_barrel_with_dr_mario_worlds_latest_character"},"modified":"2020-12-16T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:15:00","slug":"nintendo-might-be-scraping-the-barrel-with-dr-mario-worlds-latest-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/16\/nintendo-might-be-scraping-the-barrel-with-dr-mario-worlds-latest-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Might Be Scraping The Barrel With Dr. Mario World&#8217;s Latest Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b3eea918aa1d1\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b3eea918aa1d1\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b3eea918aa1d1\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed right img-\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Do you remember the off-the-wall reveal of Piranha Plant as a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> fighter? In vintage Nintendo style, a character choice that appeared too silly to be practical soon revealed itself as a fun and complex addition to the roster (and gave way to one of our all-time favourite amiibos, to boot).<\/p>\n<p>Far be it from us to deny sentient flora the opportunity to improve its station in life (hey, if they can scrap and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/fire_piranha_plant_joins_the_mario_tennis_aces_roster_in_june\">play tennis<\/a>, who are we to judge?). However, handing out PhDs to carnivorous plants <em>might<\/em> be taking things a tad too far.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Dr. Piranha Plant M.D. is in the house and shall be practising (presumably herbal) medicine later today when it takes residence on your smartphone in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/dr_mario_world\">Dr. Mario World<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Given the characters already making you cough and say &#8216;arhh&#8217; in Nintendo&#8217;s mobile version of the virus-zapping puzzle game, the promotion of a plant is not exactly a surprise. One might question the credentials of Dr. Mario himself as a healthcare professional, but given the choice between Super Mario or a selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/two_babies_become_qualified_doctors_in_dr_mario_world_later_this_week\">infants<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/dr_mario_worlds_roster_just_keeps_on_giving_-_introducing_dr_dolphin\">dolphin<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/dr_mario_worlds_latest_update_adds_donkey_kong_and_diddy_kong\">ape<\/a>, or \u2014 we kid you not \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/dr_mario_world_continues_to_deliver_with_new_character_dr_goomba_tower\">three goombas in an overcoat<\/a>, we&#8217;d probably take our chances with a moonlighting plumber performing our <em>something<\/em>-ectomy.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be new stages added to the game later today, as per the tweet below from the Dr. Mario World official account:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yellow: &#8220;New stages will be added on Dec. 16 at 10 PM PT! Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but I gotta wonder why Bowser picked such a scary place to live. How does he relax around all those spikes?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DrMarioWorld?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DrMarioWorld<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mpIPL4uzUh\">pic.twitter.com\/mpIPL4uzUh<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Dr. Mario World (@Drmarioworld_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Drmarioworld_EN\/status\/1338687756441186306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Have you been enjoying Dr. Mario World on your mobile device? Does a piece of white material with a picture of a pill on it qualify as proper attire for a medical practitioner? Let us know below if you&#8217;d let a plant with teeth (although, curiously, no eyes) take a look at your tonsils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember the off-the-wall reveal of Piranha Plant as a Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter? In vintage Nintendo style, a character choice that appeared too silly to be practical soon revealed itself as a fun and complex addition to the roster (and gave way to one of our all-time favourite amiibos, to boot). Far be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}