bogleech
Name: Urban Stingby
Debut: Super Mario Odyssey
Oh my goodness! Oh, joyous day! I don’t even know how to begin this post, I’m just so happy. We’re finally covering Odyssey, ya see! And not only that, with a BUG!
Odyssey is… dang, it’s just the mosquito’s knees. I think it might be the best game I’ve ever played. The creativity of Super Mario Land 2, on a grand 3D scale, and even allowing us to play as weird Mario enemies?! Amazing! Of course, one of the great things about Super Mario Land 2 is all the bugs. And look! Bugs!
(image from the Mario Wikia)
LARVA! I love a larva! And these larvae are simply flawless. Like the simple, featureless blobbiness of a bee larva, now with big, glowy, hypno-eyes, always a wonderful feature! But these are no bees, these are grade A, bona fide maggots. And I feel like that’s something you don’t see enough of in the media. Caterpillars are already the only larvae most people seem to care about, but where’s the respect for the little baby janitors who clean up so much of the nastiness we don’t want?
(image also from the Mario Wikia)
But these maggots don’t just turn into any flies, they turn into big poofy mosquitoes! Real mosquito larvae are actually aquatic and don’t look much like a maggot at all, but that’s okay because here we get two iconic dipteran stages for the price of one. Love those real-deal compound eyes! And that proboscis looks… incredibly painful. I guess they probably made them so puffy to make them less scary, because I have no doubt that this thing could easily kill a human with a bite alone. Do the people of New Donk City just kinda… deal with this? Turn the wrong corner and have to deal with giant death mosquitoes and actual straight-up tanks?
As the name implies, these are a variation of the Stingbies from Super Mario 3D Land. The pointy part being on the face sure does make a lot more sense for a mosquito, huh? Silly Stingby. Real bees wield spears!
Sadly, Urban Stingbies are some of the few non-capturable enemies in the game… but I guess it’s the price to pay for perfection.
Oh yeah, the larvae just poof into adult form instantly. No pupa required! This is the next step in evolution. I’m going to miss pupae, though. I don’t know about you, but my pupal stage was probably the best time of my life.
I could have written this entry and it wouldn’t have been any different except that my immediate thoughts about the urban stingbys were how much I wish they were actually pokemon
phillip-bankss
firekill1015
xeppeli
bidoof
sweet-tweeties
severalowls
keithstack
