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Keep in mind just a few years again when Nintendo welcomed the summer time by naively combining the phrases “Mario” and “Sunshine” over an image of everybody’s favorite plumber having fun with a slice of watermelon? The web was fast to make a psychological leap between the 2 with cries of “Mario Sunshine 2 confirmed!!”, and whereas this 12 months’s submit may not produce fairly the identical response, Nintendo has gone again to the watermelon theme as soon as once more.
Nintendo’s summer time socials submit for 2023 was all the time going to be Tears of the Kingdom-based (come on, Horace the Horse was by no means going to headline the vacation message, was he?) and this one, predictably, sees Hyperlink entrance and centre. Moderately than his pure show of heroism, nevertheless, the picture as an alternative exhibits the Hero of Hyrule kicking again with some refreshing watermelon β therefore why we had been reminded of the previous Mario Sunshine fiasco.
The artwork was not too long ago utilized in Nintendo’s official journal for summer time 2023, however it’s too candy to only use the as soon as, proper?
Even heroes want a summer time vacation! pic.twitter.com/L65rkSI5Q5β Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) July 18, 2023
You’ll be able to take a look at Mario’s 2019 summer time submit beneath β what’s it with all these watermelons?
Even Mario wants a summer time vacation. Hey! Avoid wasting watermelon for us. π pic.twitter.com/i3CLTmR8gxβ Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) August 27, 2019
Because it seems, the common-or-garden watermelon is extra intently associated to summer time actions in Japan than we had assumed. The fruit is utilized in a summer time seaside sport referred to as Suikawari, an exercise just like a piΓ±ata the place blindfolded gamers take turns to attempt to smash open a watermelon with a picket bat (thanks, Wonderland Japan). There we had been questioning why the fruit retains reappearing in Nintendo’s summer time advertising and it seems that it is no coincidence in spite of everything β the extra you already know.
The seemingly shut affiliation between the 2 in Japan would possibly trace at extra watermelon-based summer time posts from Nintendo sooner or later. Which character would be the subsequent to chow down on the summer time snack, we surprise…
Are there some other unusual Nintendo watermelon connections that we now have forgotten about? Tell us within the feedback.
[source twitter.com]
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