The concept vetoed by Miyamoto.
Right back at the start of this year, we discovered that after inventing Waluigi, the team behind Mario Tennis, Camelot Software Planning, was planning another ‘Wa’ variant of Princess Peach. It was a shudder-inducing thought, we’ll admit, and one that was rejected by Shigeru Miyamoto before even looking at the designs. But now, those very designs are seeing the light of day.
Fumihide Aoki, the father of Waluigi and character designer on the Mario Tennis GameCube follow-up, Mario Power Tennis, has today shared his initial sketches of “Walpeach”, an evil inversion of the Mushroom monarch that was left on the cutting room floor.
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