Super Mario Mon - The Goomba Family Pg. 1 (Patreon)

So here's a nerdy sentence - for a long time I've wondered what a Pokemon / Mario crossover would look like. Originally, I thought about it very much as just Pokemon with a Mario-skin. But what if we implemented the mechanics of the Mario franchise too? I love powering up enemies in Super Mario Maker by giving them items and I thought that could work for a game...

So presenting Super Mario Mon - a monster collect-em-up where you try and beat your opponent with your forces. 

You play as Mario, given a Yoshi Egg by Prof. E. Gadd to help you on a quest to catalogue all the creatures of the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond. Visually, picture it a little like Super Mario 3D World or even Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. As you explore the land, you can even stop on enemies as per usual or capture them with Gadd's Capture Block (like throwing a cap in Super Mario Odyssey). Then they get added to your ranks. 

From there you can power them up with items, changing a Goomba into a Para-Goomba, Chomp into a Flame Chomp, Koopa Troopa into a Hammer Bro into a Sumo Bro, etc and beyond!

However, sometimes you'll meet rivals and other collectors who'll want to battle. And how do battles proceed? By you launching your army of collected monsters into battle based on a pre-determined limit. It's up to you to defeat your opponent's team, taking control of any of your monsters while the others are CPU controlled. And once an enemy is gone, they're gone!

That's the basic premise I'll be elaborating on as we go forward. This is just a weekly silly thing to take my mind off all the crazy projects I have to do for work. (It's super great stuff and I can't wait for you to see).

But here's are introduction to the Ratata of SMM - Goomba! (Including it's own Alolan forms!)