Remember just a few years again when Nintendo welcomed the summer season 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 publish won’t produce fairly the identical response, Nintendo has gone again to the watermelon theme as soon as once more.
Nintendo’s summer season socials publish 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 Link entrance and centre. Rather than his pure show of heroism, nevertheless, the picture as an alternative reveals the Hero of Hyrule kicking again with some refreshing watermelon — therefore why we had been reminded of the previous Mario Sunshine fiasco.
The artwork was just lately utilized in Nintendo’s official journal for summer season 2023, nevertheless it’s too candy to only use the as soon as, proper?
You can try Mario’s 2019 summer season publish beneath — what’s it with all these watermelons?
As it seems, the common-or-garden watermelon is extra intently associated to summer season actions in Japan than we had assumed. The fruit is utilized in a summer season seaside recreation known as Suikawari, an exercise just like a piñata the place blindfolded gamers take turns to try to smash open a watermelon with a wood bat (thanks, Wonderland Japan). There we had been questioning why the fruit retains reappearing in Nintendo’s summer season advertising and it seems that it is no coincidence in any case — the extra you understand.
The seemingly shut affiliation between the 2 in Japan would possibly trace at extra watermelon-based summer season posts from Nintendo sooner or later. Which character would be the subsequent to chow down on the summer season snack, we surprise…
