Easter Eggs and references

[Trinity of Aces]

The sheer amount of meme easter eggs and references in this game are so lovingly put in.

I've seen several, but seeing that the Water Hills arcade machine is literally block by block a recreation of a Super Mario Sunshine level took me completely off guard! Without having played Mario sunshine so much I'd never have noticed!

this game is crazy! What are some other more niche or specific easter eggs you guys have found?

[Nick K. Paddywhack]

It really is cool!

One thing I noticed: the Ding Dong arcade machine is a lawyer-friendly recreation of Super Mario 64's Tick Tock Clock.

[Nick K. Paddywhack]

A couple of others:
- The Demon King is inspired by the curse boxes from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (also the inspiration for The Snatcher from A Hat in Time)
- One cutscene has Beebz refer to Frezo as a "Big Chungus"
- Various signs around New Neo City have pastiches of Lum from Urusei Yatsura, and a baseball player from Konami's Power Pro series
- One of Mr. Mint's trials descriptions paraphrases the last line from Calvin and Hobbes
- I might be hearing things, but I think the first few notes of Cap'n Damp's initial battle music are awfully similar to the water level theme from Super Mario Bros.

EDIT: and one of the arcade machines is somewhat similar to Super Mario 64's Cool Cool Mountain slide, though that might be a stretch - I wouldn't be surprised if some other platformers have ice slides, and I've just got plumbers on the brain.

[Trinity of Aces]

One of Beebz tags in the main hub near the platform challenges building is the spiderman pointing meme too lol

[arsenicBumpnip]

Originally posted by Nick K. Paddywhack:

EDIT: and one of the arcade machines is somewhat similar to Super Mario 64's Cool Cool Mountain slide, though that might be a stretch - I wouldn't be surprised if some other platformers have ice slides, and I've just got plumbers on the brain.

I'm pretty sure -every- cartridge level is based off of levels from the 3D Mario games:

From 64, Lizard King is Bowser In The Dark World, Ding Dong is Tick-Tock Clock, and Chilly Slider is indeed the Cool Cool Mountain slide.

From Sunshine, Water Hills is The Hillside Cave Secret from Bianco Hills, and Dark Climb is The Shell's Secret from Noki Bay (this one admittedly took me some scrounging on Youtube to figure out exactly which level it was)

From Galaxy, Water Basin is Buoy Base Galaxy's Floating Fortress.

From Galaxy 2, Flip Flop is the Flip-Swap Galaxy.

And from Odyssey, Misty Towers is the Sea of Clouds bonus room from the Mushroom Kingdom (and again, admittedly, I only recognized this one because I played Odyssey for the first time just this year, so it was fresh in my mind lol)